Stand-up comic Norm Macdonald died today. He was 61. I keep seeing him identified primarily as an anchor on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, so I suppose that has superseded stand-up comic as a primary identifier for him. But I deliberately chose to use it because he was so naturally funny and gifted with a … Read more
As I type the remnants of Hurricane Ida are mostly beyond us here at BoWilliams.com world headquarters. It seems to have been an event of little consequence in northern Alabama. The Paint Rock River is going to flood, but that happens every year or two with or without a tropical cyclone. The only novelties I … Read more
The IndyCar community—indeed, the auto racing community at large—has lost one of its greatest friends. Robin Miller has succumbed to his leukemia. There is a fantastic recap of his life at racer.com, and I won’t attempt to summarize it here. I will say Robin endeared himself to so many people because he was genuine. Plainspoken, … Read more