Christmas movies

There are three movies I traditionally watch every Christmas, and none of them is A Christmas Story: Mixed Nuts was one of the first dates my wife and I ever went on. It’s also one of the only movies I’ve ever been to where significant numbers of people were actually leaving the theater during the … Read more

Alabama fires Shula

Mike Shula was fired today after amassing a 26-23 record in four years at the Capstone. I was sure this wasn’t going to happen, and I don’t think it was the right call. I would have preferred a 2007 in which Shula remained, but had substantially changed his offensive staff and relinquished play-calling responsibilities. “But … Read more

Remembering Diane

When I was in the tenth grade at Oxford High School, a girl I’ll call Diane liked me. I was vaguely aware of it, though never gave it much linear thought. On what must have been my 15th birthday, she decorated my locker with balloons and a card. And I was relentlessly apathetic about it. … Read more

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