It is the simplest things, the ones others might see as insignificant, that I shall miss the most. I will miss sitting in our living room with my wife, watching […]

Disclaimer: What follows might be depressing. It might be boring, and it will definitely be long. I’m disabling comments too. This is something I need to write, and need to […]

Sick.  Sick with a cold, sick with sadness, just miserable. I may not write much here for a while. That is all.

As Karl Wirz sat in his hotel room, he reckoned that he had never been in such a desolate place in his whole life.  As a newspaper photographer, he’d been […]

We lost a little friend on Friday.  He will be badly missed. Bandit was never meant to be … he was the result of hasty, unplanned sex that took place […]

[WARNING: This will be a longish blog, because I’m including some quotes and snips that I think are important … if you hate long blogs, and don’t have time to […]

The young woman you see to the right was a journalism student at Emerson College. She was a Boston Red Sox fan. She was bright, attractive, and by all accounts […]

Yesterday was an interesting day.  My big blue and gold macaw, Sammy, came to the office with me so we could more conveniently get him to an afternoon grooming appointment. […]

There’s been a recent flurry of stories in our blogring about teachers, and ways of gently but hilariously tweaking them. I’ve felt the need to participate, but most of my […]

Very quickly and by way of explanation, I offer the following first paragraph. My wife and I had some problems in the last few weeks. There has been no betrayal […]

In our office, the shipping and receiving guy, Mike, is the local junk food entrepreneur. An entire shelving unit in his office is filled with snack items which run the […]

Borrowed from the terrific a capella vocal group, “Da Vinci’s Notebook”. I wish I were a bird, ‘Cause if I were a bird Then I could take wing high above […]

I am still alive. It has been a long, lonely, upsetting weekend. If you’ve ever had a car accident, you’re familiar with that feeling you get when you see the […]

My last entry was about the Flora-Bama lounge, a place that was special in my heart because of a good time that was once spent there, and a memory rooted […]

From the Mobile (Alabama) Register newspaper: Legendary Flora-Bama belted, buried, standing Portions of bar’s walls, roof damaged Friday, September 17, 2004 By JOE DANBORN Staff Reporter The Flora-Bama lives. In […]

Yesterday, the Tampa Tribune story mentioned the Flora-Bama Lounge: The Flora-Bama Lounge remained resolute. “Open until we float away,” read an attached sign. The roadhouse, which Tampa author Tim Dorsey […]

I remember an evening, a year or two past, when I was in the Crescent City of New Orleans for a convention of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB).  We […]

It looks as though we’re once again in hurricane watch mode, and this one’s a real humdinger. Hurricane Ivan, which we’ve had in the back of our minds for a […]

Yesterday’s “Atlanta Journal-Constitution” carried a story that left me gaping at the complete stupidity that local governments seem not only to suffer from, but to celebrate.  Goat-ropes like this are […]

Since yesterday morning, Tito Puente, the late King of Latin Music, has come back to life, and is practicing for his next concert tour inside my head. I somehow got […]