Of best chances redux
“We’re not voting for inspirational-speaker-in-chief.” –CJ, in the comments to Of best chances The people who don’t want Barack Obama to be President of the United States are united in their message: He has...
Author: Brad Willis
Of best chances
I do not talk about a lot of things with people I care about. I avoid confrontation at most times and it takes a lot to push me to the point at which I...
The bon temps
“I don’t want this to sound as morbid as it will,” I said to my wife. We were one of less than a dozen people in a bar as a long-haired country singer named...
Dateline: New Orleans
I couldn’t get comfortable. Something was wrong. We crossed Lake Pochatrain and my wife pointed out how bad the railraod bridge looked. I was dealing with spitting rain, bad traffic, and a bad case...
Deep South Run: The Live Blog
Scroll down for updates. ANDERSON COUNTY, SC–Interstate 85, the major artery that runs from Atlanta, GA, through Upstate, South Carolina, and into to the northern reaches of the Southeast is a wet mess today....
Prosecutors set to unveil evidence in Devon Epps case
It’s been nearly three months since Greenville County’s top lawman said what most people already suspected: “Amanda Smith is responsible for the death of her son.” With those words, Sheriff Steve Loftis prepared the...
Gary Michael Hilton and Jason Knapp
The arrest of Gary Michael Hilton for the alleged murder of Georgia hiker Meredith Emerson should not have brought back any memories for me. However, now that investigators are connecting Hilton to the murder...
Tom Cruise Scientology Indoctrination Video transcript
The following is a transcript of the Tom Cruise Scientology Indoctrination Video that circulated on You Tube and various blogs this week. Reports say the Church of Scientology issued takedown orders to sites that...
First Bar
Pardon the moment of fiction… Rocky’s ass hurt. He realized this at irregular intervals between drinking beer in big gulps and chain smoking the cheap cigarettes he bought at the bodega on Second Street....
Despite it all…
I’ll admit, my first and final post from the Bahamas was a bit bleak. It was one of those times when I should’ve just hit delete and waited until I got home. However, I...
Death of the Arcade
My buddy T is one hell of a photographer. I think I’ve said that before. A few weeks ago, T invited me to join him at a video game auction a couple of minutes...
Bahamian nightdream
It’s nearly 2am in Nassau. I’m sitting in a room full of poker players. Fifty yards away, poker’s version of soccer hooligans are chanting. They’re fueled by a multi-rum drink and the local beer,...
Best of Rapid Eye Reality 2007
I struggled with whether to do a retrospective, a best-of, or a “State of the Otis” post to end the year. Because I’ve already written a 2500-word retrospective for another site and I’m feeling...
Sleigh bells ring…
I was a good daddy. I only drank three beers while assembling the Thomas the Tank Engine Trundle Table. I was in bed by 11:30 and asleep by 12:30. Still, the boy’s early rising...