Fruit Cobblers
I’m not much for sweets, but it’s hard to beat a fresh fruit cobbler when the peaches and blueberries start coming in. I’ve tried several cobbler recipes over the years and they’ve all come up short – producin[…]

Local vegetable gardens are high-maintenance right now. In the cool of the morning, it’s picking time: today might be the butterbeans and the corn, tomorrow the rattlesnake beans and the purple hull peas, then back to the beginning with the cor[…]

Have the national sports media really only now gotten around to the concept of Cow-Patty Bingo?
“Gee whiz Martha, what will they think of next? Donkey basketball?”[…]

That hairy seed-pod we all know and love
I was in Memphis last week for the Tortoise concert (they kicked ass, thanks for asking) and George* and I started off with dinner at our favorite Vietnamese restaurant, Pho Saigon. Before our food came out I […]

Online Scrabble vs. Literati
There’s no doubt that Scrabble’s the better game ‘ having the same hundred tiles in the bag at the beginning of the game instills and enforces a bit of discipline. Literati, a Scrabble knockoff at Yahoo […]

Amory (Mississippi) Railroad Festival, April 15th-18th
1. Barbecue sandwich, Working for my Lord Ministries: well-smoked meat pre-mixed with too much store-bought sauce. Not enough slaw.
2. Chicken fillet plate, First United Methodist: Terrible chic[…]

Though it’s only one week into a six-month season, watching the Mets-Braves game last night made me feel a little better about the Braves losing two big run-producers during the off-season. I can’t imagine Javy Lopez will ever have anothe[…]

June 8th. JUNE 8TH!!
That’s the release date for the first home-video release in any format of SCTV, the classic Canadian comedy series that originally ran from 1976 to 1984. The show never got a VHS release because the producers, not anticipat[…]

New every Tuesday and this week’s is esp. hilarious. Don’t read the archived strips at work or the boss will ask you what all the howling’s about.[…]

Here’s my vote for Lost in Translation as the A Hard Day’s Night for a younger generation. (Whether Bill Murray’s generation or Scarlett Johanssen’s generation is still up in the air.) Impressionistic, nearly plotless, both tr[…]