I’d only been 16 a couple of months when I loaded up my trunk with water balloons and my back seat with fellow high school juniors to go attack the freshmen’s homecoming float worksite. We sped along Johnny Cash Parkway towards Gallatin, when a voice from the back told me […]
I learned today that at one’s 100th post, he is supposed to reveal 100 truths about himself. This is Number 101, but here goes: 1- I can’t write without music, a couple cocktails , or running. I prefer all 3, as I have done tonight. 2- Mute Math, Makers, and […]
From February 24-26, 2008–46 glorious hours–this Muskrat greeted the world with a porn star mustache. Here is his story. Since puberty, the Muskrat has wanted desperately to have a beard. He wanted to conceal a not-so-great complexion in his youth, and he wanted to stop getting asked how recently he’d […]
We just drove by the 8-month construction project that is the I-75/I-85 (they’re the same road for a few miles) repaving project bisecting downtown and midtown Atlanta. There was a cop on the side of the road, or at least, someone dressed like a cop with flashing blue lights on […]
Pretty Bride and I were talking about punishment recently and how I thought “time out” was for pussies. She says The Literature says that spanking is not really the best way to teach children right from wrong. This got me to thinking about my childhood and the many, many whippings […]
