Category: Off the Wall
Found Objects
He came in late one afternoon hot from football practice and raided the Kappa Alpha icebox. He also ate a dozen bananas and washed ’em down with a pint of whiskey. An hour later he was dead. It wasn’t sad at all. - From Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee This week we...
Excerpt from “A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear”
... The pretty girl at the Princeton-Dartmouth rugby game. She wandered up and down behind the crowd that was ranged along the foul line. She seemed to have no date, no particular companion but to be known to everyone. Everyone called her name, everyone was happy to...
Annie in Wonderland
In which we learn that the grass is not always greener on the other side. The trouble started when I left my jacket in the car. Or maybe it started when the plane touched down in Denver. Or maybe it started in 1975... If you attended college in the 70's, you smoked...
Scenes from the Pavilion
On a very rainy Houston night, Diann Marie and I ventured out into the soggy suburbs to take in Matt Nathanson, The Fray, and Train at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. A quick summary: all three acts were good, but Matt Nathanson is the only one that I will go out...
More Songs from The Food Guy’s Twitter Followers
Welcome back cats, kittens, lovers and other strangers. It’s me again. The cat. You may remember me from my reviews of Oisin and Malachy, eric + erica, and Newglads. And you may have read my friend Fluffy the Idiot Cat’s review of “Autumn Time,” a song by a kitten...
Scenes from the Reject Drawer
Welcome back cats, kittens, lovers and other strangers. You are probably asking, “Where have you been?” What, you weren't asking? OK then I won’t tell you. Let’s just say that I finally got my television repaired – the power supply blew in a lightning storm last Fall...
Songs for a Monday Evening
Welcome back, cats, kittens, lovers and other strangers. Tonight let us cast our nets upon the waters in hopes of reaping a bountiful musical harvest. And drawing forth our seine we find the gunwales awash with a plethora of delectable tracks suitable for your aural...
Cyrene’s Song: Requiem for a Relationship
Are you looking for Cyrene's Song? Sorry. I got tired of looking at it, and no one was reading it anyway. Instead, please enjoy the mellifluous sound of a cat howling. Since 2013, Reverb Raccoon has featured the best music from unknown and independent musicians. His...
Songs From The Food Guy’s Twitter Followers
Welcome back cats, kittens, lovers and other strangers. It’s me again. The cat. You may have noticed that The Food Guy is not exactly a prolific blogger these days. He’s in one of his moods again. He hasn't been listening to new music. He just sits around and listens...
Songs For Sunday Night
OK, cats, kittens, lovers and other strangers. Let's see if we can use Bandcamp's New Arrivals to stitch together a mood. What mood should we dial in tonight? Let's crank up the Wayback Machine and set the controls to Nostalgia and the bittersweet longing for that...
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Shoeless Miller, Greensboro’s Green Recruit
Frank Doyle, manager of the Greensboro Patriots, had a new recruit. His name was Miller and somebody had dug him up down in South Carolina. A couple of weeks before, pitching for a team in Greer, he’d struck out 13 of the big mill workers from Easely. Someone said...
Spartanburg’s Unique Carolina Association Ballpark
Spartanburg, South Carolina, is sited on the Piedmont Plateau between the more crowded civilizations of Charlotte and Greenville. Thomas Wolfe, in Look Homeward, Angel, described Spartanburg as a "sleepy junction" within a "hot baked autumnal land, rolling piedmont...
The Glorious Life of a Class D Ballplayer in 1909
Excerpts from the in-progress biography of Jack Corbett entitled The Book About Jack Corbett and a Lot of Other Stuff. Corbett began the 1909 season playing for the Charleston Sea Gulls of the Class C South Atlantic League. A good infielder who was outmatched by Class...
Robbery in the Park and the Attack on Umpire Bailey
The following is an excerpt from the in-progress biography of Jack Corbett entitled, The Book About Jack Corbett and a Lot of Other Stuff. The incident occurred in Columbia, South Carolina, on the afternoon of June 11, 1909, following a minor league baseball game...
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