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Entries from October 2005
October 28, 2005
Show yourselves!
October 28, 2005
Sips Column: Bourbon at Hemingway’s
All bourbon is whiskey but not all whiskey is bourbon. And not all bourbon is Knob Creek – the number one premium bourbon in the world.
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Full Sips column and something on meeting Fred Booker Noe, the grandson of Jim Beam and the mind behind Knob Creek premium bourbon.
October 27, 2005
I CAN’T BELIEVE I: Drank Moonshine
I CAN’T BELIEVE I: Drank MoonshineJoe KillianThe Carolinian10/25/05
There’s no way to explain, exactly, what possesses someone to stare down at a glass of moonshine – pure corn liquor made in an illegal still – and decide to put it in his body. But, two years ago, I did just that for the first time.
A friend [...]
October 27, 2005
OUT OF MY HEAD
LOOKING SHARPBeing a Man means never having to apologize for your tieJoe KillianThe Carolinian10/25/05
The second year I was an Community Advisor, over at Mary Foust Hall, they put on a semi-formal. At around 5 p.m. there was a knock at my door. It was a kid down the hall, asking if he could borrow a [...]
October 27, 2005
Fox News Throughout History.
This was too good.
I couldn’t resist linking.
Click here to laugh and cringe.
October 25, 2005
Sweet, sweet music
Am sitting in the office trying to write two stories at once while listening to The Zombies’ “Odessey and Oracle.”
And it gives me an idea.
Everyone who’s reading this…take ten minutes and give me a ten title track listing for a mixed-tape you’d like me to hear. No genre rules as long as the tracks are [...]
October 24, 2005
One step forward, two steps back
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Every day inside an unassuming building on the outskirts of Oklahoma City, thousands of hamburgers are run through metal detectors on their way to becoming Big Macs and Quarter Pounders.
The detectors, along with hourly tasting tests of burger and sausage patties made at the plant and five-hour-long nightly cleanups, are [...]
October 24, 2005
R.I.P. ABC
So it seems Alan Moore’s transcendent line of pop comics, “America’s Best Comics” is coming to an end.
Over the few years it existed the imprint – now owned by DC – put out some really terrific and award winning comics including The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Promethea, Top 10 and, the title that was best [...]
October 23, 2005
Talking about writing
The podcast I did for GoRadio in which I talked about interviewing Buddy Guy and we hear a bit of “The Price You Gotta Pay” from his new album, Bring ‘Em In, is now up online.
Has been for days actually but I’ve been neck deep in feature stories, bar reviews and columns…so I’m just getting [...]
October 23, 2005
Dumb Fellas. Un-Wise Guys
PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) — Italian carabinieri military police on Sunday arrested a major Sicilian Mafia boss who had been on the run for five years, police said.
They said Umberto Di Fazio, 42, considered to be the leader of the Cosa Nostra’s notorious Santapaola clan, was captured near Enna, a mountaintop town in the center of [...]
October 22, 2005
When the bird flu thins our numbers…the Rats will rule the Earth!
LONDON, England (Reuters) — A rat released on a deserted island off New Zealand outsmarted scientists and evaded traps, baits and sniffer dogs before being captured four months later on a neighboring island, researchers have said.
Scientists from the University of Auckland in New Zealand released the Norway rat on the 23.5-acre island of Motuhoropapa to [...]
October 21, 2005
Elbow room
Finally have my own desk at the News and Record.
They’ve been shuffling things around, throwing out the old government-style metal desks and filing cabinets and putting in these stylish, much more ergonomic hard plastic work stations. And now I have one of my own. This is going to make it much, much easier to [...]
October 21, 2005
Another on the long list of people who should be choked with their own mutilated genitals
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Judd Gregg won $853,492 from the Powerball lottery after matching five of six numbers in Wednesday’s drawing, adding to his already sizable wealth.
“Even senators can be lucky,” he told reporters outside the D.C. Lottery claims center, where he picked up his check.
The Republican from New Hampshire — who chairs the Budget [...]
October 20, 2005
Dooming my liver so you don’t have to
My regular bar column, Sips, is up at GoTriad’s website today.
You can read it here.
It’s going to be appearing weekly, and I’ll link it from here as it’s published. Next week’s is going to be a doozy…
October 20, 2005
I love a mystery
Hey – if I know you and I loaned you my VHS copy of “The Thin Man” starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, please let me know. I’ve told someone else they can borrow it but find I never got it back from the last person, whoever you are.
Also, it seems my copy of the [...]
October 19, 2005
Shooting dogs for fun and profit
N&R Opinion editor Allen Johnson is talking about his trouble jogging through neighborhoods full of people who can’t or won’t control their dogs.
I’ll go him one better: I think I should be able to shoot dogs whose owners won’t leash or clean up after them.
Not with an actual bullet. Maybe just a tranquilizer.
I should then [...]
October 18, 2005
Creepy lesson of the day
This is a cilice (SILL-iss), a spiked metal belt or chain worn strapped tight around the upper thigh.
The term cilice, from the Latin cilicium (a cover made of goat’s hair) is traditionally used to refer to any device or piece of clothing (like a hair-shirt made of coarse hair or containing barbs) used for mortification [...]
October 18, 2005
Knee deep in PR
Why is it I get so many press releases that are just bloody awful? Bad grammar, spelling errors, run on sentences and sentence fragments – you name it.
I mean…I usually see PR as sort of the dark side, a profession glutted with people who went to school for journalism and then thought better of it. [...]
October 17, 2005
Sipping the Water of Life
What am I doing tomorrow night?
What am I getting paid to do tomorrow night?
I’m glad you asked…
HEMINGWAY’S DOWNTOWN
And
KNOB CREEEK BOURBON
cordially invite you to a private, ultra-premium bourbon and cigar tasting.
Enjoy four ultra-premium bourbons –Booker’s, Baker’s, Knob Creek and Basil Hayden’s– in a tasting led by Frederick Booker Noe III, Great-Grandson of Jim Beam.
October 18, 2005 [...]
October 17, 2005
The proof’s in the pudding
The News and Record, the paper for which I work, has what it would not be unfair to characterize as an “affirmative action” hiring policy.
Over the years they’ve gotten a lot of flak for it – and the implication is usually that the paper would rather hire less qualified black writers and editors than more [...]
