Day 70: Taking The Grand Tour – Uppercrust Or Bust

originally published March 10, 2012 I try to avoid too much repetition on this site. A couple days ago I took a meandering trip around northern New Zealand since, let’s face it, I’ll probably never do that in real life. So why am I travelling again today? Well, this ain’t your usual road trip. This […]

Day 52: Forgotten Sports – From Finger Jousting To Chessboxing

originally published February 21, 2012 Sometimes we as a society allow ourselves to become complacent, inviting certain repeated activities into our lives almost rut-like, ignoring fresh ideas and innovation. I’m talking about the sports world today. We see enough hockey, enough baseball, enough football… we see some curling, and that’s more than enough. What about […]

Day 46: A Tale Of Two Sonny Boys

originally published February 15, 2012 So who is Sonny Boy Williamson? You’ll have to be more specific. John Lee Curtis Williamson, born near Nashville in 1914, became one of the pioneers of blues harmonica, or ‘blues harp’ (which is an expression that will only hold up until someone figures out how to successfully incorporate an […]

Day 26: Wager’s Action Was A Gamble

originally published January 26, 2012 One of my favorite genres of kilograph prose in this little project is the war story. Some of the war stories I find are painfully dull (and there are only so many pooping-on-a-submarine jokes out there), but every once in a while I come across a story that can be […]