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One last post 5 May 2012 | 04:44 am
This is the 300th, and final, post on this blog. I've had a ball doing it. If you missed the announcement the first time around, I'm leaving the Observer, and today is my last day. I'll have one last...
Well... I have an announcement 24 Apr 2012 | 07:24 am
I've written somewhere around 1,700 columns for the Charlotte Observer. This is the hardest one. I'm leaving the paper and taking a new job. I'll be writing about sports for a new website. It's part...
Virginia Tech, five years later 17 Apr 2012 | 04:08 am
Today is the fifth anniversary of the shootings at Virginia Tech. I was at lunch uptown that day when my editor called. He said I probably needed to get up to Blacksburg. Why? I asked. All I'd heard a...
My NCAA picks, and a few thoughts about brackets 15 Mar 2012 | 05:14 am
My friend Michael Kruse, a Davidson grad who wrote a great book on the Wildcats' 2008 run to the Final Eight, isn't fond of March Madness brackets. "The thing is the thing. Your brackets are not," he ...
The Bookshelf Project: Drew Magary's "The Postmortal" 9 Mar 2012 | 04:43 am
So I started this Bookshelf Project thing this year to force me to read some of the good books I bought and then set aside over the past year or two. I picked out 25 books, which comes out to a little...
President Obama in Mount Holly (or, The Fainting Economy) 8 Mar 2012 | 01:35 pm
MOUNT HOLLY -- The woman had waited for President Obama too long. The workers invited to see the president here at the Daimler truck plant got herded in early because of security. They’d been standin...
Two appearances at the library 6 Mar 2012 | 06:45 am
I've got a couple of events coming up at Charlotte-Mecklenburg libraries, if you're interested: -- This Saturday (March 10), my pal John Grooms and I are co-hosting a showing of "Page One," a really ...
The Monkees and Jimi Hendrix in Charlotte 2 Mar 2012 | 05:04 am
The death of Monkees singer Davy Jones on Wednesday reminded me again of one of the bizarre and wonderful moments in Charlotte history. On July 11, 1967, the Monkees played at the Charlotte Coliseum ...
The Bookshelf Project 17 Feb 2012 | 05:19 am
I bring home books like a cat lady brings home strays. Most, I read. Some, I give up on after a chapter or two. (I used to suffer through books I hated, but the great Nick Hornby wrote an essay convin...
The Valentine's line of love 15 Feb 2012 | 11:36 am
It's 3 p.m. on Valentine's Day. There are 17 of us in line at the flower stand at Third and Tryon. The wind is freezing. But we are men. Romantic men. We are willing to suffer for love. Yes, women wa...
