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Let’s not rush the fun times

January 18, 2012

Do you remember Chocolate Thunder? The In-Your-Face-Disgrace, Dr. Dunkenstien, Sir Slam, Rim Wrecker? That’s Darryl Dawkins, ladies and gentleman. The next Wilt Chamberlain and the reason that the NBA introduced break away rims. Powerful, fast and so big that his high school teachers called him “Mr. Dawkins.” You have to recognize a mast of the [...]

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Two new videos to fuel your per annual introspective inventory

December 29, 2011

The Mad Tea: Rain Remember from The Mad Tea: Krekel & Ami on Vimeo. “Multiply” – Official Music Video from Stephanie Morgan on Vimeo.

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Show your local love for Accent on Books

November 22, 2011

When Tallulah was 5 or less, my Sweet Lady went out of town for one reason or another. Tallulah was pretty upset about this, but she got over it when I promised we could do something really special. I mean, really special. We would go to Mr. Lewis’s bookstore, and she could pick out any [...]

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Your tricks with fruit was kinda cute (wherein I discuss the new Stephanie’s Id record)

September 17, 2011

I have a small white dog. He is known as Thunder, the wonder dog. Also, he is known as The Seven Pound Mound of Hound. He was, at one point, my Sweet Lady’s dog. Now he is our dog. Thunder the wonder dog is pushing 70 in the people years. Our marriage is pushing 77 [...]

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Drool a little drool on it

August 18, 2011

My bathroom is magic. More specifically, it contains magic. This magic is held within the cotton swab container. This container spontaneously refills itself every time it nears emptying out. I am grateful for this because the swabs themselves are magic. When I was a child, the doctor said not to stick anything smaller than my [...]

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Opportunity Knocks, and it’s C.O.D.

February 9, 2011

(Editor’s note: This is a review of Angi West’s new CD, Opportunity Cost. West is a local musician and accountant, a frequent collaborator with band of Horses’ Tyler Ramsey and Floating Action’s Seth Kaufman. Her 30th birthday party/CD release party is Saturday Feb. 12 at the Grey Eagle, with a killer backup band and after-concert [...]

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Three local acts take on growing up and such

January 6, 2011

The following was published in the Mountain Xpress a few weeks back.  In honor of their publishing another review I wrote this week, I thought I’d post this old one here.  NNNNNNNjoy! Melissa Godfrey* was a cool girl.  Despite being a cheerleader and one of the best looking girls at Northside Junior High, she was always [...]

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Does the F Train go to Woodfin?

November 24, 2010

Ever since Lee surrendered at Appomattox, we of the South have been somewhat nervous about folks coming down from the North with an apparent intention to stick around.  More often than not, their arrival was been accompanied by a “let us show you how it is done” affect.  Truth be told, we needed some help [...]

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Do You Need The Service? wants to kick your Asheville

November 18, 2010

To be quite honest with you, Pink Floyd always scared me a little bit.  Maybe it is because my older brother would go see Pink Floyd laser light shows at the planetarium and my older brother scared me a little bit.  Plus that thing with the mouth and the wall and all of that.  All [...]

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Jar-E has boundary issues

November 1, 2010

There was a rumor floating around that Jar-E had dumped all of his possessions in the French Broad, skipped out of his gig commitments, and gotten a title loan on the car he left idling in the parking lot as he hopped the number 6 bus to the airport just in time to make the first leg of [...]

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