I was born in Michigan in 1958 in the year of The Blob, when a sticky drive-in movie alien engulfed everything in its path. On the way to the hospital on the day of my birth, there were no brakes o...ver maisI was born in Michigan in 1958 in the year of The Blob, when a sticky drive-in movie alien engulfed everything in its path. On the way to the hospital on the day of my birth, there were no brakes on my teen parents’ car. Did my dad stop the car Fred Flintstone style with his feet, throw an anchor out the window, or simply crash into a snow bank? I’ll never know, but at any rate I entered the world with no brakes, like an alien juggernaut.ver menos