Get your iPod. What if you could take a collection of memories, weird and otherwise, and put them on your device? Then people could scroll through and play them back at their leisure. Would some play in loop mode?

Nick Belardes iPod Memory List:

Child screams for a purple balloon. As mom drives at 45 mph a purple balloon flies into car.

Driving through parking lot a bird flies in a car window and gets tangled in woman's hair.

Downtown Las Vegas midget Charlie Chaplain twirls his cane while an Elvis impersonator slams on his brakes, nearly running over a hapless pedestrian.

Transexual threatens writer after the trannie's mother tries to find a ghost writer.

Bum says he likes a man's hair.

Black widow lunges.

Man scores game-winning hockey goal.

Sean Penn dirty look at journalist with camera.

Discussion on waterbed on Standard Hotel roof.

Dog chases kid on bike.

Bucket of water off roof onto unsuspecting writer.

Ghost crabs run over kid's foot, who cries.

Lightning storm, New Mexico desert, car breaks down.

Woman on bus taps on her peg leg like a drum set.

Punk rocker dad dresses like an alien outside a hockey rink.

Bobcat catches jackrabbit.

Hamster runs into squirrel hole.

Gum thrown off 40-foot ledge, swishes in tiny trash can.

Block tower falls.

TAGS: Bakersfield writer, brain enhancements, California memories, Central Valley Writer, childhood memories, iPod, memory inventions, Nick Belardes, strange news, weird

NICK BELARDES is the author of Random Obsessions (2009) a book of oddities where you will learn that Mothman might be your big brother, Napoleon had stomach aches, and Thomas Jefferson's grandson was an ax murderer. In 2005 he released the dark novel Lords: Part One a fictional account of the mysterious "Lords of Bakersfield." A writer, poet and author, Belardes turned TV/online journalist overnight after blogging his way to success on Bakersfield issues. His articles and essays have appeared on the homepage of CNN.com and other news sites across America. Lately, he has started to write less journalism in order to focus more on writing books and performing activist poetry that might wake up some of the lethargic brains of California's Great Central Valley. He lives in Bakersfield, which is in the valley's southern end. You can find Nick on Facebook and Twitter.

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