We made it to West Virginia and back. There were no complications, but it was still fairly excruciating. It's just such a loooong drive. By the time you reach hour seven or eight, it feels like you're about to lose your goddamn mind. It's … [Continue reading]
I'm typing this at our dining room table on Saturday afternoon, but... as you're reading it, I'm very likely in West Virginia. Probably sitting in my parents' living room, watching something hosted by Steve Harvey. And he'll be doing this. It's some … [Continue reading]
I’m going to do another guerilla-strike visit to my parents’ house in West Virginia this weekend. I’m leaving on Sunday, returning on Tuesday. I need to visit them on a regular basis, and don’t have a great track record with it. It’s in the top five … [Continue reading]
Tom Petty is one of those guys I've always liked, but on a fairly casual basis. I mean, I have his greatest hits album on CD, which sounds sensational in a car, and picked up a handful of his latter-day albums when I worked at WEA. But, for whatever … [Continue reading]
When I was in fourth grade I had a teacher who was the size of Larry Csonka. Her name was Mrs. Hill. She looked like she should've been in a ladies' prison, and called "Big Maude." It was just a wall of humanity, large but surprisingly fleet of foot. … [Continue reading]
