The Hunt Washington was lucky that day in Birmingham, they had a witness who happened into a fortuitous position, and my truck was identified. I knew something was amiss based upon the early reports coming out of Birmingham so I prepared to make a move as i debated within myself whether or not to run or fight them in court.[Read More…]
In my earlier post Eric Ruolph post (see link below), I said all our questions about him and his motivations would probably never be answered. His guilty pleas today assure this. There will be no long, drawn out trials. No studied defense. We’ll have to glean what we can from some soft Diane Sawyer interview (if she gets it) and[Read More…]
Britney is knocked up. We all saw the magazine pictures. It was only a matter of time before she admitted it. Now she has. Now she has I guess the question now will be – will Brit make a good mom? She parties in Vegas. She smokes. She dances with snakes. Her image is so sexed up that people[Read More…]
Breaking news: The local TV station’s version of Ken and Barbie, are now married. We know this because the local TV station actually aired tape of said nuptials on two (count ’em, two) newscasts. Candace Little and Scott Wickersham will now likely breed. This is a scary thought. Candace is a former Miss Georgia who, according to the Georgia state House of[Read More…]
I’ve been conspicuously absent lately in writing about the Tar Heels. I just couldn’t bring myself to do anything during the NCAAs for fear of jinxing them. Now that it’s over, and the mighty Tar Heels have won their fourth National Championship, hear me roar. There’s no doubt that it takes a little luck to string together six big wins[Read More…]
I am selling my first item on e-bay. The Beer Guy says it’s “the devil’s work.” But I can’t help it – the lure of easy money, the thrill of the chase, the rush when the transaction is made, the exhausted, satisfied feeling once the deal is done. I’m a whore on the information superhighway. So far, I’m surviving. I’ve[Read More…]
Ok, ok. I know I’ve been gone a week or so. So sue me. They pulled the tube on Terry. The pope petered out. And Rudolph got rooked into pleading guilty. I’ve been busy. But I’m back. So here goes. The Schiavo situation was a travesty. The government got involved, she was starved to death and died a tabloid death.[Read More…]
Our local TV news had a story tonight about Maggie Valley’s porn star opening up a panty shop in town, and the “outrage” it was creating. The outrage was supplied by one overweight redneck who said “We don’t need that kind of stuff here in Maggie Valley. That’s not what we’re about.” The porn star’s name, by the way, is[Read More…]
There’s big breaking news in Ashvegas – police have arrested a Fairview man for placing a $250,000 bounty on the head of Michael Schiavo and a $50,000 bounty on the head of one of the judges who ruled in the case. The Citizen-Times has the story here. From the press release, it sounds like the threat was made in an[Read More…]
Responding to my earlier post speculating about who might be the next the High Sheriff of Buncombe County (click Ashvegas politics link at bottom to read it), apparently this guy wants to be sheriff. J.B. Howard is a Dem, former Highway Patrolman and a private investigator. For a quick recap: it’s an open secret that the High Sheriff’s health is[Read More…]
God bless Hunter S. Thompson. This sounds an awful like lot like some of the Ashvegas hippie literati. Every place you see the word “Aspen,” think Ashvegas: TENTATIVE PLATFORM Thompson for Sheriff Aspen, Colorado, 1970 1) Sod the streets at once. Rip up all the streets with jack hammers and use the junk asphalt (after melting) to create a huge[Read More…]
The Beer Guy told this story the other night at the Westville: Well, I’ve seen Johnny Cash in concert. Let me tell you my Johnny Cash story. Johnny was playing a concert in Bristol, Tennessee. I think it was1978 or ’79 or something like that. They’d set this concert up as a fundraiser for a country music museum they wanted[Read More…]
As you can see from below, I am only barely half normal. Which I think is good. Clink on the link to see how normal you are. You Are 55% Normal (Somewhat Normal) While some of your behavior is quite normal… Other things you do are downright strange You’ve got a little of your freak going on But you mostly[Read More…]
I love Sophia’s joy. You see it here, in the pure unmitigated happiness of flight, or at least the closest thing to flight a child can find. You hear it in her giggles at playing the PlayStation video game. She has no clue what she’s doing, but she’s having a blast. That was then. This is later. She’s growing up.[Read More…]
They sound familiar. The coppery tones of the Go-Gos. The chirpy rap of Blondie. Funky strains of the B-52s. It’s all there, mixed up in 13 Stories, an Atlanta Band I saw play Saturday night at the Westville Pub in West Ashvegas. It’s the first time they’ve played in Ashvegas. (btw, the Westville Pub celebrates its third birthday next month,[Read More…]
Each year about this time, the Eastabunny comes out to play. It started a couple of years ago as just a fleeting glimpse, illuminated by bright headlights. There’s a startled rush, and he’s off. Then he started surprising me, jumping up out of the garden to rip off on a midday scamper. Lately, it’s been a standoff. I see him,[Read More…]
I can’t believe Baretta is walking a free man tonight. Does anyone really believe that he DIDN’t do it? Dominic Dunn had it right, though – Bonnie Lee is the only victim in recently memory that absolutley nobody cared about. Compare that to the way the Scott Peterson trial has been covered. The constant Laci photo, shown over and over,[Read More…]
Predicting the weather in the mountains is much like what I imagine being a political pundit is like – you just say whatever you want and hope it’s true. Take today’s weather gurus. The Citizen-Times trumpets, using a wire report from the weather service, that a hard snow is going to fall. Great, just what we need. All this takes[Read More…]
It’s that time of year again. Time for the madness of the march to the Final Four – the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The pairings are out. The brackets are filled in. Now it’s time to dance. Several of the so-called experts are picking Carolina to go all the way, to cut down the nets in St. Louis. I love[Read More…]
There’s nothing I like better than watching a rat gnawing its own leg off to try to get out of the trap it stupidly set up in the first place. The Rat Take the latest flap over the humor column in Dook University’s college paper. The “Monday, Monday” column was yanked recently after somebody finally said enough is enough. That[Read More…]
Hot breaking music news in Ashvegas – the big Bele Chere lineup for ’05: Susan Tedeschi Derek Trucks Band Karl Denson Sam Bush Dirty Dozen Brass Band Drew Emmitt Dottie Peoples Drive-by Truckers Grease Factor Porter, Batiste and Stoltz Larry Keel Xavier Rudd Tinsley Ellis Bonerama The Codetalkers featuring Col. Bruce Hampton Corey Harris The Greyhounds Tishamingo Blueground Undergrass Lil’[Read More…]
If you haven’t been keeping track of the water wars, you need to check out this story of the e-mail war of words between Ashvegas City Council and Buncombe County commissioners. I know most of these folks, at least as an aquaintance, so it’s kind of sad to see them calling each other “pea-brain” and threatening to take each other[Read More…]
DaisyI know the weather is going to be rainy and cold this week, but at least I’ll have the memory of today to get me through. What an awesome day! It was beautiful, and I was jonesin’ to get to work in the yard. Pretty pansy Me and Melissa went to Lowe’s after brunch at Tupelo Honey to start stocking.[Read More…]
My friend Tom has always wanted to put together a coffeetable book of those snappy church signs that are so clever they’re sure to save a few souls. I don’t know if Tom has collected any of said photos, so I’m starting. Here’s the first installment. If you see any good church signs, let me know. Tom, this one’s for[Read More…]