“My name is Lucifer! Please take my hand!” So sang Ronnie James Dio as I dug Black Sabbath’s Live Evil on my commute recently. I got to thinking about the anti-rock crusaders of my childhood railing against the devil in heavy metal music, and considered that a Black Sabbath album was a place that you … Read more
Driving over the hill into Jones Valley the other day, I chuckled remembering that in high school, Charles and I used to call the section of road I was on “Hell.” We named it that because we drove down there one night when it was really foggy. You couldn’t see anything but the streetlights, and … Read more
Well, Duke won the NCAA basketball title. I might remember that two whole months. Maybe this bullet will make it three. Week one back with red meat and beer has gone mostly well. I’ve built sustainable lunch and evening habits that I’m mostly keeping, so that’s good. Longtime actor James Best, certainly best known as … Read more