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Category Archives: Just Sayin’
How I spent my spring break
Dear readers: Forgive the long gap between posts: It’s been a really eventful couple of months, with lots of things to write about but, conversely, no time to write about it. Okay, that’s not technically true: as a newly minted … Continue reading →
Saying goodbye
A little bit of housekeeping today: Since there’s no digital copy of it elsewhere on the Internet, posted below is my very last column as Editor in Chief of The Sunday Paper, which ran in its current and final issue, … Continue reading →
Ch-ch-changes
Change is in the air: I woke up this morning without anywhere to be, unemployed for the first time in almost seven years. I got up and got dressed, just as I always do, had breakfast, grabbed the morning paper, … Continue reading →
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gets it right
I don’t usually pay much attention to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The whole idea just seems absurd, frankly. When I was a teenager staring up at pictures of KISS, Def Leppard and Judas Priest, I never once … Continue reading →
A life lesson learned over beignets
We’re programmed to rage against the dying of the light. You can see it in the older man quietly appreciating a lithe young woman old enough to be his granddaughter because his primal coding to procreate doesn’t come with an … Continue reading →
The case against the human body
A couple of days ago, I promised to outline my reasons for filing a class-action lawsuit against the makers of the human body. Well, you all know what happened next. My next post was on a completely different topic. Immediately, … Continue reading →
‘Tis the season
For me, the span between Thanksgiving and Christmas is hands-down the most unpleasant time of the year. What burns me most isn’t the cloying Christmas music, the inedible fruitcake or even the fact that I have to kick and scratch … Continue reading →
Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Fair is fair. If professional athletes are going to give credit to God when their team wins, it’s only right that they point the finger at Him when they lose. Enter Buffalo Bills receiver Steven Johnson, who missed the game-winning … Continue reading →
Time stand still
When last we left our intrepid would-be time traveler, he—that is, I—was reuniting with his/my childhood friends Jason and Keith, who had come to Atlanta for a Rush concert on the band’s 2010 “Time Machine Tour.” Jason and I hadn’t … Continue reading →
If I could wave my magic wand…
When I was in grade school, way back in the Cambrian era, my dad and I—OK, mostly my dad—built a time machine. My memories of its origins are hazy, but the inspiration for its construction was a book or series … Continue reading →