"The art scene in Miami, and just my experiences running around with my friends being the youngest of the crew, was the dawn of the spontaneous realm that spawned my crazy life," he says.
As a kid we caught snook to 30 pounds all the time, and one day when the snappers were spawning my friend and I caught 140, averaging 10 pounds.
(Though at least the crisis spawned my favourite quote of the year: Rolling Stone's description of Goldman Sachs as the "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money").
As a wannabe writer and aspiring musician, I was chasing that mythic community of hipster artists and oddballs that spawned my favorite band, TV on the Radio.
After such horrific events from the past 15 years that have spawned my generation to think nothing of shoeless airport lines and body pat-downs at concerts, thank goodness there is still a place where suburban folks can wander to their front lawns, bake cookies, and hand out lemonade, no matter how prestigious the event.
I am working towards completing my Pokédex, which is getting more difficult as the remaining Pokémon I need do not spawn near my home or work, resulting in nice Poké-trips with family and friends.
"Frogs have been known to spawn in my throat while I'm waiting," Mr. Finley said recently from the English village of Mark Cross in East Sussex, where he lives with his second wife, Heulwen Finley, a manager of pop acts, and his two sons from his first marriage.
Some of these early stories even spawned into my first novel, The Carpet People.
It also has spawned the My Disney Girls Perfectly Princess Tea Party at the Grand Floridian hotel in Walt Disney World where a child and adult are served brunch, hear music and get a doll and tiara for a royal sum of $200.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 5 — Last year, when accounts of the killing of 24 Iraqis in Haditha by a group of marines came to light, it seemed that the Iraq war had produced its defining atrocity, just as the conflict in Vietnam had spawned the My Lai massacre a generation ago.
