Two teenagers in the band parking lot took turns juggling three, small, tri-colored balls. Their juggling tools were so new that they smelled like fresh paint. I rolled down the car window and offered them a set of clubs so that they wouldn’t need to take turns. They mumbled that they didn’t know what to […]
Since High School Tour 2009 will be published Tuesday morning, here is some of the stuff that won’t be included in the print or online versions of the tour. While I sat in the school office, woman number one pulled out her cell phone to call someone and get copies of paperwork needed to complete […]
One dimensional people are perfect. They must be perfect, because aside from the results of their “What Muppet character are you” Facebook quiz, the way they present themselves in public is more filtered and phony than the SEC could ever dream of becoming. One dimensional people never talk about what a married couple does when […]
As my tour of Knox County high schools took me through all kinds of rural East TN, I inevitably asked the principal guiding my tour about the “farms” that surrounded several of the schools. Some of them looked confused and flatly said that there were no farms. Others would snicker at my city-fied reaction to […]
After several years of watching the school custodian smoking in the same area that students practice flag routines and drums, I have a proposal for him. I will personally coordinate a campaign to keep him stocked in chewing gum, if he will take smoke breaks inside his car, with all the windows rolled up tightly. […]
Last week, I started touring all of Knox County’s high schools and meeting the principals. It is the focus of my energies this week and my children are taking advantage of my time away to destroy the house. The end result is that I am scattered in too many directions until next week. Although I […]
One of the side effects of being poor is that you don’t blog about the bargains from your non-existent shopping excursions or the cool new gadgets that you don’t have. I experience the thrill of finding the perfect purse vicariously on others’ blogs. What I don’t enjoy, are the blogs that post “foreclosure” finds. They […]
Watch the rest of “We’re Back: A Dinosaur’s Story” with the voice talent of Walter Cronkite as Captain Neweyes and multiple Jurassic Park references – part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 and the conclusion.
It’s time for yet another installment of: “Things Knoxvillians need to quit putting in their recycling cans.” food – Your garden can recycle it, but the waste collectors can’t. adult or infant diapers – Yuck! syringes, needles, sharps and anything that has been used to penetrate skin – I know your doctor taught you how […]
In random bullet form, because: Midnight movies are fun, but I fall two days behind every time I do an all-nighter anything. HBP doesn’t suffer from the “trying too hard” to be dark, funny or normal that previous installments had. This movie has an inevitable destiny feel that makes each of the characters more interesting […]