What’s that knocking? When I lived in Jackson, Mississippi, I endured the 18 longest, lonliest months of my life. I lived in a one-bedroom, third-floor apartment. Bowel-challenged geese cluttered the sidewalk outside. The only...
BAR: Otis If I’d pinched L’il Otis, the little scream couldn’t have come at a better time. I was on Tryon Street in Charlotte, in a Methodist church. The preacher was getting the ceremony...
Bradoween 5 No time for a big details-filled announcement. Just a heads-up for those who want to make travel plans. Bradoween 5 (aka Bradoween V), will be August 20th, 2005, on Mt. Willis. For...
Wrinkled in Europe I was sitting outside an Irish pub in Monte Carlo. The bouncer had made me poor my Guinness from the nice pint glass into a plastic cup. There was a chill...
Perspective and perspectives from Vienna Lufthansas’ planes don’t have little TV screens in the seatbacks. I didn’t mind so much. The movie was “Finding Neverland” and, though I didn’t know it at the time,...
Anyone remember the time… …I drank a bottle of gin and ran screaming from the back door of 1931 Juniper Circle? As I recall, I made some incoherent declaration about the size of my...
An afternoon in Miami I love flat-rate cab rides. There’s no worry that the cabbie is going to drive you around town, pick up his dry cleaning and bag of meth, then drop you...
My own personal burglar I stood tried to figure out who had switched my looking glass for a bay window. Standing outside was a 30-something guy who looked like he hadn’t shaved in a...
Walking in Deauville I smelled salt in the air and thought for a moment. Sure, the English Channel is made up of saltwater, but I never really thought of it as so. Waves crashed...
I guess it had to happen My desk here at work is a mess of memories and the mundane. Pictures dating back five years line the little cube. There’s one of me and JB...
Rapid Eye Real Life If you’re arriving here by some other means than a click-over from Up For Poker, I’d suggest you read this first. It will make this post make a lot more...
A Presidential Parade, briefly The Presidential Caddy Batmobile is getting more coverage today than the nation’s leader. I can’t help but wonder why the PCB didn’t give the innaugural address. I haven’t seen such...
Leftovers I disappointed my wife, I think, by being on the poker machine when she got home from work Friday night. I hadn’t intended to be, although my reasoning was a bit shortsighted. I’d...
