Category: 2001-2007

Bradoween–The Fallout Party lasts until 5AM–Shot Count Still Uncertain (Greenville, SC) Authorities are still trying to piece together the events of June 29th and 30th. What police are calling Bradoween kept neighbors awake until...

Bradoween Eve I don’t love myself. In fact, I find my demeanor generally unpleasant. That notwithstanding, I created a holiday for myself. Given, I had a little help from a good buddy of mine....

Much to say But no time to say it. Hopefully I will soon blog on the following subjects: *A New Southern Republican? *The Pledge of In God We Trust *All My Rowdy Friends *Puking...

Ah…damn it If you haven’t heard yet about the St. Louis Cardinals pitcher who died this past weekend…he was 33 and supposedly in pretty darned good health. He died in the same hotel I...

Missing: Reason Sixth grade could barely hold me and my parents had to feel lucky we only lived a block from my elementary school. I was an adventured-minded skinny kid and probably should’ve gotten...

The bottle let me down It was 3AM and the LED indicator at my bedside was starting to giggle a little bit. It doesn’t get much attention on normal nights. Much like my dog...

A PhD, a reporter, and a rodeo clown I was not the best looking. Nor was I the most likely to succeed. My only distinction: I was the high school senior male with the...

Braves WIN! Team Nissan (an Xterra-van of two vehicles and ten people) had a mission. A two hour trip for a three hour game in a city that prides itself as much on being...

If politicians were purple… …I’d be in the middle of a Jimi Hendrix acid trip. Good gamblers, hard drinkers, and hard-line truck drivers know the feeling in my head very well. It is a...

Southern politics You don’t have to be a southerner to understand southern politics, but it helps if you have lived below the Mason-Dixon line for a few years. I have lived in the South...

The morality of mauling I just watched terrorists saw off Daniel Pearl’s head. A Boston alternative ‘zine decided to run the whole fucking video. Daniel Pearl talking. Daniel Pearl being attacked. Daniel Pearl’s head...

Freon, fear, a faux-pimps Heat exhaustion took on a new meaning last night. I stripped to my boxers, collapsed on top of the sheets, and begged a higher power to knock me unconcious. Three...

Summer fruit and the dust bowl children Sometime around the time John Belushi was finding a way to make himself a tragic hero, I sweating my pre-pubescent balls off. In the early years, we...

The Accidental Tourist It would’ve been very easy for my anniversary gift to my wife to end up in fatal failure. I bought her a plane ticket for a very short trip to Chicago...