The marriage bed
My wife and I have a problem in the bedroom. I’ve slept in more places than I can count–from five-star hotels to hammocks, I’ve seen it all. I’ve woken up on the best mattress...
Category: Suburban warrior
Super Tuesday Live Blog
12:42am–Of course, Blogger sticks it to me in the waning moments… 12:27am–CNN gives Missouri to McCain. President McCain…still getting used to that one. 12:25am–CNN gives California to Clinton and McCain. That’s not how I...
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....
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...
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...
Winter’s nap on Mt. Otis
Let’s be honest with ourselves here. I’ve woken up in a really ugly mood for the last few days and had no real excuse for it. Today, I woke up at 7:45am when my...
Holiday trickery
It’s downtown Greenville on a cold December afternoon. A magician has worked up a sweat, torn off his coat, and is working the crowd to a wash of smiles and belly-laughs. It looks like...
Afflicted
I am afflicted. I have tinnitus. It’s only in my right ear. Despite its constant manifestation, it doesn’t bother me that much. I’m to blame for it, almost certainly. Countless live shows, too much...
An introduction to Rapid Eye Reality
Rapid Eye Reality is the personal blog of Brad Willis, a semi-pro blogger and freelance writer who is sometimes known as “Otis.” Any questions not answered below can be e-mailed to [email protected]. Who is...