Thursday miscellanea #318

Please note: there is no N in restaurateur. There are two Ms in accommodate. There is no X in asterisk. Ryan Parris, a senior and long snapper at James Clemens, is a committed walk-on at Alabama. He’s also the grandson of my fourth-grade Alabama history teacher (1979), and the son of an Oxford High School … Read more

Thursday miscellanea #317

When I had lunch with Saintseester this week, she was actually hoping the worst of the winter was over already. (It’s still January. I laughed at her.) Jay Leno is headlining this year’s Huntsville Hospital Foundation fundraiser. This is a good land for this organization, and he always was a talented comic. But I still … Read more

Thursday miscellanea #316

Rolex 24 at Daytona is this weekend! Bring on the motorsports. I didn’t care for how the football ended. I read today that European folklore often depicts vampires as having arithmomania—a strong urge to count things. It’s an expression of OCD. You scattered a lot of seeds on either side of a suspected vampire’s grave, … Read more

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