This is one day I hope that the children of America make their way to this here blog. Why? Because since the right-wing Texas State Board of Education didn’t see fit to include him in their textbook offerings BECAUSE NOBODY…
No. 10
There’s a scene in Vision Quest when the dude that Louden Swain works with at the hotel room-service kitchen talks about how he was reduced to tears watching Pele back in the day, how the world seemed to just stop…
Hit-and-Run America XXVIII
An ongoing collection of unsolved hit-and-run cases, with a focus on car/pedestrian incidents, from across the country since Jan. ‘010. If you know something about any of these incidents, or one that I’ve missed, do the right thing and call…
Random Photo from Vegas II
This is what I saw of the tournament bracket from the outdoor roulette table at the Hard Rock. (Our suite in the new HRH tower was along the bottom left corner, too. Hell if I know how I figured that…
Tuesday Reading Roundup (And How Edition)
Clearly, I didn’t read the funnies on Sunday, as I was out in the Nevada desert. But I’m committed to the print cause, so me read ’em on Tuesday. Ergo, the temporary post-title change. Ta-da. And, thank Jebus I did,…
This Week’s Metro Column
Couldn’t find a link yet, again, so I’ll cut-and-paste the draft right here. In return, I insist you either send me $3 million, or hit metro.us even if just for a moment. Right thing to do, y’know? Gol! Gol! Gol!…
I’m a crybaby
Two things have made me tear up in the past 24 hours. The first: Jeff Buckley’s Hallejuah randomly popping onto my near-battery-dead iPod over Virginia yesterday as I gazed out the windows at a cloudsky. The second: This … The…
Random Photo from Vegas
There was a three- or four-day pool party at the Hard Rock Casino in Vegas this past Thurs-Sun weekend. Here’s one thing I saw there …
The column I would’ve written hadn’t I been in Vegas
I met Dolores Roberto while covering a recent hit-and-run-legislation hearing up in NE Philly for PW. Her story left me thinking I hadn’t been through anything comparable to: having a 12-year-old son (Peter Roberto Jr.) killed by a hit-and-run driver…