Blotter
This is a busy month for me and I don’t have quite as much time for free writing as usual. Here are a couple of things that bear a quick mention. Fiance shot? Pick...
Category: Carolinas
The voice behind the Charity Worley 911 call
Linda Casey is in agony. She’s been that way for nearly a month and she can’t bear to listen to her own pain. She’s tried so many times, but has made it all the...
911 calls and the media
Updated to include comments from WSPA news director Charity Worley told her family she was going outside to warm up her car. It was 6:30 in the morning in the North Carolina mountains around...
Deconstructing the deconstructed
I’ve recently been in communication with someone who knows somebody I used to know. Yeah, that’s vague, but I don’t see any reason to further beat somebody while he’s down, so there’s no reason...
Dale Fetner
The air got cold a few days ago. It felt like the beginning of winter. It felt like impending holidays. It felt like the times I’d have to scrounge for my gloves to go...
Yonder firsts
It’s 1:36am. I just saw Yonder Mountain String Band play for the first time. That was not the only first of the night. Forgive me if I take a few minutes to list some...
Jerry Buck Inman guilty
A little more than two years ago, this community became the focus of sensational media coverage centered around a Clemson University student who had reportedly been strangled to death with her own bikini. If...
The G-woman did it
I know that there were several of you who were interested in the case of the vacationing FBI agent who was robbed by a couple of out-of-state thugs. Well, there is finally something that...
Wherein I squeal like a pig
Along Highway 76, better known as Longcreek Highway, there sits a bridge that goes nowhere. It’s covered in kudzu and branches out from the main asphalt in such a way that even a first-time...
Finding the bridge
I woke to my boy’s face smiling proudly. He held a box as big as his head. Inside was a new, fancy Garmin GPS system. Breakfast was ready and the only thing standing between...
Honey, Google stopped by
So, yesterday, I spent a couple of hours tooling around with the Windows Live Writer program and its map function. This morning, I woke up to read Random Connections and discovered my little burg...
Living in not-so-High Cotton
Special to local readers who will acctually give a damn I usually listen to people I respect, especially when it comes to food. This time I didn’t. Because I’m an idiot. My wife and...
Owen Wilson married, and I’m the only pap
This afternoon, my wife and I took the boy on an afternoon drive through the mountains. Along the way, we happened by the place where we got married eight years ago next week. The...
Jesus made me do it
Here on Mt. Otis, we are some of the worst excuse makers around. Ask my kid why he did something bad, and he’ll respond, “Because I did.” Ask the wife why she’s acting like...