September 1, 2010 Earl the Pearl Thinking about my friends in Nag’s Head, old Earl is heading that way. This little curl of a storm came around one afternoon we…
August 29, 2010 Buzzzzzzz! New hero: Buzz Bissinger. Okay, not a hero–I barely know anything about him but he wrote “Friday Night Lights,” the book, not the tv…
August 29, 2010 What I Came Away With When I woke up Sunday morn and happened upon local Fox News’ airing of the Fox News Sunday program (tv was left on that…
August 13, 2010 Summerpalooza A sangria, a Stella, a Trumer Pils and a…mystery draft. I was drinking the Trumer. Dunlays on the Square, summertime good times, all the…
August 9, 2010 Lil’palooza Well, no great Lollapalooza recap here, not like years past, only some last-minute half day Sunday coverage this time. It was difficult to be…
August 6, 2010 Sinners, Ye Must Drink or Be Drunk Look at the positives: football season is nearly upon us. In other positive news, Prop 8 was declared unconstitutional despite the president’s undeclared support,…
August 3, 2010 No Redemption, No Glory What else could we do? A weekend in Denver and two Cubs games that defined their entire history, plus a whirlwind of biking, music…
July 28, 2010 NYC Ghosts & Flowers Look, I don’t like churches any more than the next guy, but that doesn’t mean I’m against anyone building them, even when I know…
July 26, 2010 Speaking of Balls Andrew Sullivan on “The Unwinnable War: When one weighs the extra terror risk from remaining in Afghanistan, the absurdity of our chief alleged ally…