06/17/08 - It's hard to believe that it was only a year ago that I went to a family reunion on the Florabama coast – aka the Red Neck Riviera – also known as that gaudy stretch of water parks, bars, condos and restuarants saddling the state line between Florida and Alabama. Only it doesn't exactly saddle the state line, it sidles on the Alabama side and only leaves a toe in...

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05/25/08 - I can't read this. It's giving me painful flashbacks to grad school when I used to spend hours at the kitchen table, bobbing my head up and down like a cleric muttering over some holy book, desperately trying to convince myself that the high-brow crap I was reading was not just good but the manna of the gods. It wasn't. And so far as I can tell this book...

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05/11/08 - As said every Sunday in the Catholic Mass, sin is not just what we have done but also what we have failed to do. And by these terms we are all complicit in Rachel Hoffman's murder. Maybe not so much as the men who actually killed her, or the Tallahassee Police Department who set her up as an informant even though her knowledge on the subject was as flimsy as what can be...

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04/17/08 - Interstate-10 can be a pretty scary place. Out there on the interstate doddering old rust blue pickups mosey along at 50 mph in the same lanes as SUV's screaming down the road at 85 mph. People eat behind the wheel, talk on their cellphones, juggle their laptops. Kids watch movies in the back seat and nearly rock the minivans with noise. Everyone is being tailgated by...

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04/16/08 - I hate short stories. Tonight, instead of drawing I decided to scribble out something of a short story I've had bouncing around in my head for at least two weeks. It's another Karen Underwood story called Lil' Fuzzy and here's the intro....

Up on stage Karen was spinning her nipple tassels like Bruce Lee with a pair of nunchucks, knocking back and knocking...

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