Posts from December, 2002

  • 29
    Dec    1

    Homeboy
    I’m scared that I may be growing up. When I visit Lexington for the holidays I expect to see old friends, go to the same familiar places, and experience a city unchanged from how I remember it. Of course, old friends are now married (some with kids) or have moved away. Familiar places are [...]
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  • 21
    Dec    1

    You Know You’re an Interstate Yuppie If…
    Tonight’s entry proudly sponsored by The Map Room, a neat little spot in downtown Memphis next to a trolley stop. 1. You bring your own ground coffee, press pot, and stop in gas stations for hot water. 2. The towering Starbucks sign, a beacon of hope and light–not for coffee, but for a New York [...]
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  • 19
    Dec    0

    Dillo Daydreams
    I started to begin this entry with “When it rains, it pours…” See, I don’t have a computer right now and the car was dropped off at Hi-Tech Automotive (probably the only auto garage in the US with a sticker on the wall that says “Air Hugger”). I had to take the Dillo to campus [...]
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  • 17
    Dec    1

    Google and Stuff
    Sarah and I are magazine junkies. We subscribe to rags like PC Mag and Cooking Light and go to Book People at least once a week. They probably tossed that comfy couch because of freeloaders like us. Anyway, we get Newsweek and I just scanned the Dec. 16 issue last night. Google fanatics might want [...]
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  • 13
    Dec    0

    Not a Lott to Love
    Trent Lott’s extolling the virtues of Strom Thurmond’s segregationist presidential platform are now infamous. “And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years either…” What exactly did he mean? We now have examples of similar comments made in years past. Time Magazine reported that [...]
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