A friend of mine and myself were talking about serial killers and the people they hunted, and as she was living in Texas, we were kicking around the women the police had found, and couldn’t identify. One of them, whose body was found in 1979, was only known as “Orange Socks” because of the color … Read more
You’d have to be an Old Timer, like me, to remember Crocodile Dundee, and his adventures in the city. One of the more memorable scenes is… here this guy is, fresh out of the Outback, and he encounters a bidet. The most memorable scene might be, “This is a knife!” and certainly none of us … Read more
By the time the sixties ended, my childhood was ending with it. Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were gunned down. Protestors were murdered in Ohio. The war was not only not being won, it was turning into the longest war the United States had even fought. Richard Nixon was a couple of years from … Read more
The Time of Plague has made for some very strange personal experiences. I’m working with people who aren’t from this area, and they’ve never seen gnats before, and they’ve never seen yellow flies. Gnats don’t sting but they do swarm around your head, getting into your eyes, ears, and mouth. Constantly. The newcomers use a … Read more
It’s hard to believe that in the Time of Plague, someone went to a lot of trouble to find me, and offer me a job. There are some things I have that few people have, certifications that are esoteric to the industry I spent twenty-seven years in, and there was Echols County. It’s not easy … Read more
One of the dates I’m pretty sure everyone missed this week was 19 April. It was on that day in 1775, the British Army marched in two towns in Massachusetts, those being Lexington and Concord. A lot of history was created in just a few days, the first being the legend of the ride of … Read more
I once wrote a short story about a woman who, once a year, was allowed to come back to earth and stay for two weeks. During that time, she would be given the body of her choice. She meets the protagonist and asks him who he would like to sleep with, any woman from the … Read more
Back in 1978, my friend Bobby Joe, who had saved all his money for all his life, for the event, purchased a brand new, white with blue trim, Z28. He was sixteen years old, and his parents did help him, muchly, but Bobby Joe worked hard and played even harder. Bobby Joe also played the … Read more
I grew up in a time where a man went to work, every day the doors opened, and short of there being a seven-foot-long rattlesnake attached to one of his legs, he was expected to do his job. His family came second, at best, and it was only through the cash flow from the company … Read more
OxyContin was a drug I had the chance to try, back in 2013, when my friend Curt had cancer. He told me it was as good as morphine but the visuals he got from it were a hell of a lot better. He offered to give me one of the pills, and I declined. I … Read more