“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” - Thomas Jefferson
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 5th, 2007
The Wife and I went to the fireworks in Albany last night.
Why Albany? You remember that we have a friend playing on the Anderson Joes baseball team, right? Well, Brandon Carter and the rest of the Joes had a series in Albany against the South Coast League leaders, the South Georgia Peanuts. So, to Albany [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 3rd, 2007
Way back when I was a young news director at a small radio station in a small southeast Georgia town, I had some … interesting adventures.
Most occurred when I had the opportunity to ride along with the local police some evenings.
You ever see Everybody Loves Raymond where Ray rides along with Robert and Robert foils [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14th, 2007
I’ve always liked chewing gum. The noun and the action.
When I was young, my favorite was Wrigley’s Spearmint gum. I’m not sure why. But it was may favorite.
When the four of us — my three sisters and me — went to our grandparents’ house, there was chewing gum there.
Now, I’m talking about our mother’s parents. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 19th, 2006
Did you ever play paper football at school?
You know, you’d take a sheet of notebook paper, fold it length-ways twice, then start in the corner, folding the corner up, then repeating the fold over and over until you had just a little piece to tuck in. Then you’d have your paper football.
We used to do [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 18th, 2006
Yesterday, I repeated a story about eating Pizza Hut pizza at the Pyramids. Well, there’s a follow up:
We were in Egypt, and like I said, I had no clue where anything was in relationship to anything else. We had toured the Cairo Museum (it was great!) … and we were going over to the Pyramids.
Let [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2006
Excuse me while I retell a story I told a while back. In case you missed my earlier telling, this led to my membership in an exclusive club.
When I was in the Army, I got sent to places I otherwise never would have gone. One of those places was Egypt. You’ve heard of Egypt, right? [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 10th, 2006
Quick. Name the first college football team to go 15-0.
Wrong.
It’s the 1989 Georgia Southern team. The Eagles, playing in Division 1-AA’s Southern Conference, went 11-0 during the regular season, then swept through the playoffs, winning the national championship game in Statesboro, beating Steven F. Austin, 37-34. I was at that game.
That was the last game [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2006
I mentioned earlier about the Chief’s (my Big Sister’s husband) birthday party. And when people stood up to salute him, they also ribbed him about a couple of things. Including his driving.
Now, the Chief hasn’t always been Chief. He used to be Sergeant. When I met him … long before my Big Sister met him [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2006
Tuesday, Ipso Facto had a cartoon regarding black & white movies. He hit on the fact that many see a black & white movie and skip right past it.
Not me. I’ll watch an “old movie.” There are many great ones. But there’s one in particular I want to talk about: Casablanca.
It’s my favorite movie. Of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2006
After 24 last night, the news came on the local Fox station. And the lead story had to do with the Post Office not taking credit cards or debit cards unless there’s a signature on the back.
You know that white strip across the back of the card? It probably has background writing on it or [...]
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