The Illusionist and Bar Tricks

Orlando 2008 Orlando is a town were most everything is make-believe, an escape from reality in a family way.  Murphy Arms an English Pub off International Drive, hard living, escape and illusion came together one night.  Murphy Arms is a working man’s pub for British tourists, and local construction workers, nothing fancy, dark even on [...]

Welcome to the machine.

Nashville Tn 2001 Music City USA “You could make a platinum selling album and still owe the damn record company money. Once they got you in their tentacles they don’t let go.” Nashville is music city USA. I have been in a Waffle House at 2 am on a Tuesday and a concert has broken [...]

The famous guy I never heard of.

The Roman Empire spanned from Britannia to Germany down the Iberian Peninsula over to Gaul across to Persia and most of Northern Africa. When the conquering legions came back from a triumphant campaign they were feted to a celebration parade. Their generals rode in a grand chariot through the streets of Rome. On the chariot [...]

The Signs are in the head!

The signs are in the head. Or how nature help wean the baby and plant my maters. Rockmart GA. Spring 1998 Not all of my conversations take place in a glass, brass, oak, red naugahyde bars. Occasionally I eat. I have found that even in the remote coziness of a country meat and three café [...]

The Victim’s Family. Life

Life in prison only means a life sentence for the victims. Savannah Ga Winter 2010 “The Coldest Beer and Hottest Juke Box in Town.” Sounds like my kind of place. The Warehouse on River Street in historic Savannah Ga. Savannah is a port city with converted and re-converted buildings dating back to colonial America. One [...]

The Serial Monogamist.

I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do…..the serial monogomist. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Those of you who took Western Civ in college know this little ditty was the best way to remember the fate of the 6 wives of Henry the Eighth. Plus this was the only way [...]

The Sweet Science

The Sweet Science Knoxville TN Summer 2009 Go to your refrigerator, grab two 12 oz beers. Now hold them in your hands, outstretched shoulder level. That’s right out in front of you, shoulder level, two 12 oz beers, how hard can that be. Now do it for three minutes, just three minutes. Have one of [...]

Conversation with a Crack-head

Conversation with a Crack-head Bristol TN/VA Winter 99 Bristol TN/VA is a town divided. Divided right down the middle of Main Street, where the border between Bristol Tennessee and Bristol Virginia runs “smack dab” through. At 1 am on a Saturday when the bars close on the Virginia side you walk across the street to [...]

The Enron Lawyer and Transperancy

As the economy collapses and families struggle through difficult times, I went back to where it all began, the first of the, “Two Big To Fail” corporations. Early Fall 2001 Washington DC The Enron Lawyer Washington DC and lawyers, I don’t want to say the city is infested with them because I will get sued [...]

“Don’t slip and fall on a penis” or ladies night out.

Summer 1999 Birmingham Alabama Birmingham Alabama the birth place of the Civil Rights Movement, it is here that Dr Martin Luther King Jr. first preached his non-violent approach to social change.  Social changes that created a turbulent past as Birmingham moved from division to diversity.   Modern Birmingham  like many southern cities  saw a renaissance [...]