Recorded comedy bits have been around for a long time, before the turn of the last century. A vaudevillian named Cal Stewart was doing jokes as “Uncle Josh” Weathersby back in 1897, according to an excerpt on a PBS site. And if you can’t trust public broadcasting … Uncle Josh was a rube from New… Read More Funny, not funny
A few years ago I started getting mail — like mail in the mailbox out in front of the house mail — from AARP. I knew what it was from the envelope, so I didn’t open it. None of it. Let me say this up front: I’m not voluntarily checking into some old folks’ club… Read More Back the heck off
Mary Jo tells me that, ever since I stopped driving downtown every day, I’m not quite as — how does she put this? — “grumpy.” All I have to say to that is, you spend an hour or an hour and a half (or more!) in Atlanta traffic every day. You fight through rush hour.… Read More Grumpy rules of the road
A couple weeks ago, I spent two or three days tracking down the directors of a Netflix documentary (trailer below) for an article I wrote for the HowStuffWorks website. Not two or three full days, of course. That’d be stupid. If I did that, my freelance efficiency rating (in the language of advanced metrics they use… Read More Scribe stealing
I like to think that I’m not cheap. Or not that cheap, anyway. I’m not the guy that taps my pockets when the bill comes. I don’t throw down $10 when, you know, my share is probably closer to $15. I don’t break out the calculator to make sure the bill is divided correctly. But,… Read More A list about $
In the five or six or seven years that my friend Lloyd and I played basketball together, we covered each other, by my ultra-conservative count, 500 times. At least once on each day we played, which was usually twice a week, most weeks of the year. Inside, outside, on the blacktop courts at the middle… Read More Lloyd
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