Chapter 1
The fiftieth-anniversary edition of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. A huge bowl of buttery popcorn. A warm blanket—spring is unusually chilly this year—a comfy couch, and the newest issue of my favorite science magazine for backup, what better way is there to spend a Friday evening? There isn’t, at least not for me, homebody extraordinaire, old Western movie lover, science teacher Thom Novak.
I’ve even foregone the beer tonight and instead settled for a giant glass of ice-cold soda.
“You’re such a party animal, Tommy-boy,” says Lee, my roommate and best friend since birth thirty-one years ago as he’s getting ready to leave for his date with his current and somewhat lengthy—at least for him—girlfriend, Debora. He’s dressed up: a nice black—instead of his usual plaid—button-up s
