I can’t repeat it enough. North Carolina is the strangest and most remarkable state I’ve ever lived in. Those western mountains, the eastern flat coast, and every crevice in between, is charged with fascinating and unusual things that confirm this. These things aren’t the lions, tigers, and bears from the Wizard of Oz. Oh my!…
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It took Jonathan Frakes and the Biltmore House for me to watch a Hallmark Channel movie
It’s the summer of 1997. You’re watching your favorite new show, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. The theme song starts. The narrator says, “Beyond belief, fact or fiction, hosted by Jonathan Frakes.” Then, the narrator says more about a world of truth or deception. The song eventually fades out. Frakes emerges from the hallway of…
A Hike, Burrito, and Beer in Hendersonville, North Carolina
The office was closed, so I headed to Hendersonville in the North Carolina mountains. My soul needed some elevation, along with a hike, a burrito, and a beer. SUMMARY -Dupont State Recreational Forest is very rich in waterfalls. -Mary’s Burrito is a scrumptious spot. -D9 Brewing might no longer manufacture Into the White beer. Let’s…
I’m either 297 days early or 68 days late for Bad Poetry Day
I wrote a poem. I call it “I’m a lousy poet, and this poem knows it.”
There’s no other way to put it but gout sucks
Telling someone I got tested for gout sounds shameful or humiliating. Right? Gout sounds like one of those STDs that your doctor would throw some penicillin your way to treat. Well, it’s not clear, or I wouldn’t be writing this post. I’ve recently experienced several gout flare-ups, and let me tell you how absolutely horrific…
Wu-Tang Clan Marvel variants are something to blank with
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has had the super ability to place variants of our favorite characters in their movies and shows since the Multiverse set up in the first Doctor Strange movie but ultimately explored in the first season of Loki, arguably. Since then, the Multiverse has had significant roles in Spider-Man: No Way…
Were any of the SYFY Channel original programming actually filmed in the USA?
In a few weeks, the Science Fiction Channel, now SYFY, will be broadcasting movies and TV programs from this Channel’s namesake genre for over thirty years since its September 24, 1992 debut. Back when SYFY got set into motion with 300 movies, which included Star Wars, Star Trek, and various classic monster movies. And showed…
Two Waterfalls, a Pub, and Ice Cream Scoops in the Blowing Rock Area
My girlfriend and I were looking for something to do in our state of North Carolina over the long Labor Day weekend. So we decided to head to the mountains after seeing Blowing Rock’s great weather report for Monday. You can’t beat blue skies, sunny conditions, low eighties, and elevation. We figured out where to…
The Demon Joke
“Turn right onto East Brooklyn Village Avenue, and your destination will be on your right,” the Map App navigation voice instructs Jim Fields and Edith Cruz toward the Westin Charlotte. Jim is driving his truck and disdains using the Map App. Because of that time, Map App accidentally directed him to a Lake Norman prostitution…
Once Upon a Middle School Bus Stop
So here we are again. It is another year of waiting after school for our favorite yellow school bus (Lucky #57) to transport us home from Barnaby Middle School. Tom, Gavin, Henry, Nicholas Dixon, and I are standing beside the gymnasium on the hot asphalt parking lot that’s called the blacktop. There’s no shade around….