MAS o Menos

This page was first assembled in 1999.
From March 1994 to August 1998, I lived in the Tampa Bay area. This is my collection of Ybor City overviews and memorabilia.

This story has been moved around my different web sites since 1997. The introduction was written in 2000.
Do you have a story that you tell that is so unreal that as the years go by, even you start to doubt whether or not it ever took place? Whenever I think [...]

About two years after my car chase with Hulk Hogan, Golds Gym opened a new location in South Tampa. As part of the grand opening they had Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage show up to sign autographs. Of course I had to go.
It was a zoo. Wrestling is huge in Florida. The Hulk [...]

It must have been July or August of 1994. I had just moved to Tampa Bay from Columbus in June. For a few days I had two friends down from Ohio. Being the host the of a new town, I took them for a drive of the area. Ryan was in the front seat and [...]

Here is another scan from 1994. One evening in Clearwater, Florida I bumped into Deney Terrio of TV’s disco show Dance Fever and got his autograph.

In an earlier post I mentioned my career of the early 1990s. I delivered for Pizza Hut. It was the best job I ever had that didn’t require a resume. And better than most of the jobs I’ve had since that did require one.
My first tour of duty was delivering pizzas in Columbus. My delivery [...]

I just learned that Tampa talk radio legend Bob Lassiter died last October. When I lived in the Tampa Bay area I listened to his show frequently. Bob was the greatest storyteller radio has ever known.
It may have been late 1996. Bob had been hinting for a week that he might do a show for [...]

Friday I’ll be heading out to Tampa, Florida for the weekend. It’s the last Saturday of October. That means it’s Guavaween. This year The TailGunner and myself will be repeating our 2004 costume and going as The Blues Brothers.

In March 1992 I went to Spring Break in Panama City, Florida. While there I paid $45 to bungee jump from a cage-lifted cage 180 feet in the air.

Bungee Jump - March 1992 - Panama City, FL

Guavaween will be on Saturday, October 28th this year. It is held in the Ybor City district of Tampa, Florida. Of course I’ll be there. So far The TailGunner and I are coming. We will arrive Friday afternoon and leave on Sunday. If you wish to attend this year, get your hotel reservation now. [...]