Reflections Of A Gasbag

So I went to a funeral Sunday with my brother. My cousin Lindsay Pettus passed away. Lindsay was a big deal in Indian Land SC and Lindsay was also a big deal in Lancaster County SC which is where Indian Land is located. Lindsay was not one of those people that if you Google his…

The “Dump Months” are typically the months when Hollywood lowers commercial and critical expectations for most new releases. Audiences are smaller, the so called Christmas blockbusters are out so this is the time of year you get the movies that in screen testing didn’t fare so well. Although with the crap they release these days…

Not only are we welcoming a new year but also a new decade. 2019 is behind us and 2020 is in front of us. 2020…….Let’s marinate on that for awhile. My first reaction to the start of this new decade is am I going to live through this one. I’m not a young man. Me…

As I sit here in my office on this morning, full from the turkey, dressing, broccoli casserole and various other things that I stuffed in my mouth over Thanksgiving I realize it is time to turn the page. Christmas now is upon us. The decorations have started going up, nasty fruitcake is being baked and…

Thanksgiving is here. I feel bad for Thanksgiving because it slowly but surely being nudged and squeezed out of the holiday traditions. The end of October, it is all about Halloween. People dress up and put orange lights out in their yards with pumpkin’s everywhere, drinking the most God awful pumpkin spice concoction being put…

Pressure On President Trump To Testify….. Nope Kaepernick Pisses Off Jay-Z? uh,uh Kanye Takes Osteen To Church…… Really? No One Believes Anything….. Great NY Times Headline These are the headlines that matter on November 18, 2019. That is until the biggest news broke about one hour ago. Faced with a insurmountable storm of pressure from…

“I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It’s mood medicine. It’s pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.” ― Hoda Kotb For those who know me, they know that I truly love music. I cannot play any instrument…

Its vacation time. I always like to take vacations in the fall so I can get away from the summer heat. I find as I get older heat really sucks. So we went to Texas. You know Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Brenham, LaGrange, Wimberly, San Marcos, New Braunfels, Gruene, Dallas, Fort Worth. Lovely fall destinations.…

Pumpkin spice is a combination of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and ginger- if you’re lucky, you might actually get real pumpkin, too. Starbucks began serving pumpkin spice latte’s back in 2003. Speaking of Starbucks’ PSL, it was only until recently that they added “real pumpkin” to their lattes; but don’t jump for joy yet… it’ still…

July 31st 1999 was the hottest day ever recorded in Greenville SC. It was 104 degrees that day. It was so hot I had to put ice in my Scotch. I remember that day very well because it was the day I got married. People always thought it would be a “cold day in hell”…