A lot of people spent the last eight Sunday Nights watching Ryan Murphy’s TV series, Feud, and I think I know why. First, it was a quality product: well-written, acted, edited and produced. It was also an intriguing story about well-known people in a fascinating industry. My mom, with her collection of books on the Golden Age of Hollywood, would have raved about this series, either praising or vilifying it to High...
One Angry Turtle I’ll tell you: Humans are Dumb. Yes, most of the world moves faster than we southern turtles, but, when it comes to missing the obvious, people take the prize. Y’all are ridiculous, and I can prove it. Take what happened to me last Saturday morning. There I was, moving at my own pace across one of your roads, (which, by the way, are too many, to begin with, and far too wide for the rest of c...
For the last two years, popular culture has been increasingly influenced by the musical, Hamilton. First, at the Public, then the Richard Rodgers Theatres in New York and now on its first national tour, Hamilton has garnered more acclaim, and awards than any show in recent memory (I think the last show to pick up the Pulitzer, as well as the Tony and the Grammy for Best Musical was How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying). ...
Looks warm but this was a 45degree morning! One of the local jokes is, “If you don’t like this weather, just wait five minutes. It’s due to change.” In April, that isn’t a joke, it’s the damn truth. Days when the mercury touches 85, are followed by fronts containing frost warnings. Gardners, who put in plants weeks ago, get chilblains covering up seedlings and cursing the cold snap that ju...
How to talk about a story with the improbable title of The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society? That question’s been baffling me for days. I have to talk about it because it’s the best book I’ve picked up in recent memory, and it has not one but several stories worth telling. I want to talk about it because it refers to may subjects I hold dear. But, more than anything, I want to say this is one book ...