There’s an app for that
When the wife went into labor with the boy nearly five years ago, we sat looking at a clock. We held a pen and paper in our hands and recorded each contraction like the...
Category: Recreation
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There’s a very important class that famous people take. You probably don’t know about it because you have to be famous before you’re allowed in the Circle of Lust. I only know about it...
Twitter, Facebook, and biscuits
My grandparents live on a county road in southwest Missouri. My great uncle lives just behind them, just across a dirt road. My mom’s cousin lives a couple of places down. When we buried...
The superpancho
Our lungs had not yet been fully coated with the smoke of 500 chain smoking, leather-faced Argentinian gamblers. The middle aged women looked like their makeovers came courtesy of Rawlings after the catchers mitts...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The party at the end of the world
Punta del Este, Uruguay–The cabbie drove a straight path through s-shaped curves at 120 kilometers per hour. When the olive-skinned Uruguayan was a child, there no doubt his crayons ran outside the lines. The...
Uruguay? That’s random!
The girl who cuts my hair knows I keep an odd travel schedule. She looked at me in the mirror last week and asked, “Got any trips planned?” “Going to Uruguay on Sunday,” I...
Camouflage and podcasts
My son is fascinated with the military. A few weeks back, we pulled into Aunt Sue’s, a country meat and three in Pickens County. A convoy of soldiers pulled in behind us. They ate...