Mullet Love Affair Part 1 This weekend is the Swansboro Mullet Festival, where you can get jumping mullet fried whole, their little bones soft like canned sardines (which I I love). It's also the start of mullet fishing season along Bogue Banks, and unfortunately, it could be the end of it as well. This Thursday, … Continue reading Mullet Love Affair Part 1
Trailer Park Date I've seen paradise, and it's a trailer park. I remember, years ago, driving through a mobile home community around Varnamtown, NC, and suspecting I'd stumbled into heaven. It bordered the Intracoastal Waterway near the NC/SC line - I could hear the ocean's waves; sailboats drifted by with the seasons. The land was … Continue reading Trailer Park Date
Handmade World You'd recognize it at a glance, even if you don't subscribe, don't read it, or don't even like it (How is that possible?) The magazine with the yellow border - the one with the naked people, the one from your childhood. National Geographic, may it never go out of print. I've been a … Continue reading Handmade World
Tobacco Barns I was born in 1982, or as my seven-year-old calls it, the "nineteen hundred and eighties." No, you may not call it that. It wasn't that long ago. It was just the other day. It was "the eighties" - we can all agree to that, can't we? The eighties were the last decade … Continue reading Tobacco Barns
Adults Only I like my insurance agent. He gives that personal touch - you know, like I'm his only client, his only concern. He looks me in the eye. He knows my name. He asks about the kids. He never scolds me or rolls his eyes when I ask redundant questions or need it all … Continue reading Adults Only
Conspiracy Beeries I know someone who likes conspiracy theories. It's all of us. We all like conspiracy theories. We're wired to link disparate events and people, finding hidden connections and uncovering the meaning we so desperately crave. It gives us the advantage over our less sentient co-animals, but it can lead to some pretty crazy … Continue reading Conspiracy Beeries
A Hairy Subject Warning: This post is 99% tasteless jokes, 1% serious writing. I tried to do better. You see, I wanted to write a smart and sensitive post about eunuchs, but I didn't have the balls. I warned you. The pun all began with a quote from an article in this month's Smithsonian (Jan/Feb … Continue reading A Hairy Subject
Holocaust Books "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” ~ George R.R. Martin Thanks, Game of Thrones. I can almost hear the TV show's theme song playing in my head right now. The experience of walking in another person's shoes is one of the primary … Continue reading Holocaust Books
Trash Talk My friend watches a YouTube channel, Northern Mudlarks, featuring a Scottish mother-daughter team who hunt for (dubious) treasure along riverbanks and other shores. They find mud, reliably, and tiny pieces of the past that they analyze for value and meaning. Could that pot shard be from a moonshine jug? Could that pipe have … Continue reading Trash talk
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