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1. Sheila Ryan on May 17th, 2011 at 6:30 pm

   Phil, this scene feels cinematic. That’s what struck me several days ago when I first saw it on your blog and on Flickr. Something about the POV, I think, suggests a still from a “moving picture.”

   Maybe a “Twilight Zone” episode. A stranger pulls off the road at a deserted gas station, thinking to check his map and plot a route to the nearest populated town. It turns out the gas station ain’t deserted . . . .

   And the stranger can’t get his car to restart.

   Worst of all: NO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ALLOWED.

2. Joel Bernstein on May 17th, 2011 at 6:42 pm

   Also, the gas station is an alien spaceship. From the past.

3. Sheila Ryan on May 17th, 2011 at 7:07 pm

   Right, Joel! I forgot the alien angle. And the “from the past” angle.

4. Sheila Ryan on May 17th, 2011 at 7:09 pm

   Wait. Aliens. From the past. No booze.

   Sounds kind of like some of Phil’s accounts of his travels in the States.

5. Phil Bebbington on May 18th, 2011 at 4:42 am

   Those dry counties still confuse me!

   Sheila, you still need to do that App! That is a money maker for sure.

6. Sheila Ryan on May 18th, 2011 at 6:55 am

   Oh, right! An iPhone app for the perplexed traveler. The skinny on local liquor laws throughout the US, with special emphasis on Texas.

7. Phil Bebbington on May 18th, 2011 at 6:58 am

   You have a money maker there!

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