That’s a wrap
It’s been a long road. I watched Barack Obama get elected from Costa Rica. I watched Mexican federales raid us on the Pacific coast. I followed some dude named Pablo in Chile. I threw...
Author: Brad Willis
Wherein I regain my optimism
(Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport)–Obviously yesterday did not go as planned. A combination of bad weather, a broken plane, and Delta Airlines being Delta airlines meant I never left the ground yesterday. Rather, I spent about...
The Argentina gamble
(Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport)–I’ve been known to make a bet. In the past three months, I’ve bet on the toss of a lime, the next commercial to come on television, a rickshaw race, a game...
Ghosts
We didn’t go to Cabo for Spring Break. Daytona Beach never made the list. If somebody had mentioned Cancun, we probably would’ve yawned. Why, I can’t say for sure. We were surely as drunk...
The coolest thing you’ll see today
This has been going around for a couple weeks, but I just found it, courtesy of my snarky buddy Iggy. I’ve seen nothing cooler this week. If you’re like me, the type to get...
Much atwitter about nothing
Twitter is the Keanu Reeves of the internet. I imagine a big budget film in 1994. It has big guns, big names, the perfect script, and Oscar written all over it. Spielberg already has...
If you don’t want an answer…
Journalism is at its roots a practice in asking questions. The more questions you ask, the more answers you stand to get, the more you can do your job of informing the public. Sometimes-and...
On cocaine
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine mentioned something about how many writers snorted coke. My friend is a writer and he had a good point. Cocaine lets you work forever and...
Rapid Eye ephemera
It may be that I’m working a lot, not sleeping a lot, or becoming naturally concerned with the all-too-soon birth of the boy we call Dos. Regardless, I haven’t written yet in the month...
Charity Worley case goes online
If you are a frequent reader here, you know I occasionally take an interest in unsolved crimes in the area. One recent case nags at me more than I’d like, simply because it makes...
Seth Rogen and the Eddie Murphy Dilemma
It was a rainy Friday night and I hadn’t spent the mortgage money on a feature film in a few weeks. The wife wasn’t feeling well and the boy was itching for something to...
The firefighter’s tangled web
After all the confusion regarding the story of the allegedly kidnapped Greenville County firefighter earlier this week, this news just broke. Michael Polston, the man who said he was kidnapped at knife point, has...
Bad idea Friday
This is all I have time for today. If there is a Top Ten catch phrase in my family, it’s “bad idea jeans.” My brother just found this older SNL video on Hulu and...
Councilwoman Diane Smock has not been kidnapped
After botching the call on last night’s kidnapping, I feel like I need to redeem myself with a sure thing. Thus, I offer you this fact: Greenville City Council member Diane Smock is not...