It was Saturday. I stopped off at the local coffee bar for a cup of my favorite brew. I wasn't looking to meet anybody. I didn't. Well, at least not at first. I was at my favorite table in the very back of the place, the one against the wall facing the front, a good … Continue reading Bing and Nuttiness
Month: February 2014
Hilarity Clinton: My Discovery of Usenet in the 90s
Before Facebook, Twitter, Google, and even the vast Web itself, there was Usenet, where anyone, anywhere, could post whatever was on his or her mind, and millions around the globe had the option of reading it or forever blocking the person posting. It was in this free-wheeling environment where I once again found a sense … Continue reading Hilarity Clinton: My Discovery of Usenet in the 90s
The Lupos and Shakespeare
Note: This article has been updated and expanded in my essay collection Words Words Words available in print from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. My earliest known ancestor, Ambrose Lupo, was brought to England as part of an ensemble of string players around May of 1540 by Henry VIII. Some scholars believe this was in … Continue reading The Lupos and Shakespeare
Excerpt from “Crazy Like the Foxes”
This is an excerpt from my novel The Long-Timer Chronicles: Crazy Like the Foxes, available in print and Kindle format at Amazon.com.Background: Charles and Renee Fox, a couple who've been married for more than eleven hundred years, are the main protagonists of Crazy Like the Foxes.Roland Fox had every opportunity to make something of his … Continue reading Excerpt from “Crazy Like the Foxes”
Excerpt from “A Tale of Two Sisters”
This is an excerpt from my novel The Long-Timer Chronicles: A Tale of Two Sisters, available in print and Kindle format from Amazon.com.Background: Victoria Wells, one of the lead characters of the novel, meets another Long-Timer, a black woman who calls herself Maxi, in early 20th century New York. Victoria wants to bring Maxi to … Continue reading Excerpt from “A Tale of Two Sisters”
John Wilkes Booth: Assassin or Patsy?
Did Booth act alone or was there a second gunman?
The Carvings on Stone Mountain
Anyone walking up the trail to the top of Stone Mountain is familiar with the various carvings people have made over the years, some more than a century old. I decided to do some research on Ancestry to see what information I could dig up on some of the more interesting ones. All photos were … Continue reading The Carvings on Stone Mountain
The Keys to Success
For the first time in his life, Scott Brown doesn't know where his keys are. Actually he does know where they are; they're in his car but he doesn't know where his car is. He'd left the bar in Buckhead where he and his friends had been hanging out and had just unlocked the door … Continue reading The Keys to Success
Double Fault
Glenn Harmon was a tennis fan who had developed an unhealthy obsession with Serena Williams and had even gone so far as to look up her e-mail address on the Internet. Unfortunately, the Serena Williams whose address he found was not the world-class tennis player, but a college sophomore at FSU, from Columbus, GA. To … Continue reading Double Fault