Want to know what a human life is worth in autoAmerica these days? Three years ago, Clarence Barton III was…
Bob and Jimmy and me
This past Friday I set out from GNV for a five-plus hour slog to Broward County. It actually ended up…
Cedar Key’s clam farmers facing climate change challenges
I wrote this piece for the Gainesville Sun. Here’s my blog version. Trucking Georgia clams to Cedar Key is rather…
A day in the GNV life
Just another GNV Saturday. When I left the house on my bike Saturday morning it was still in the mid-40s.…
John, Ron and John
Naturally when I heard that The Great DeSanitizer had bowed out of the race (conceding with a fake Winston Churchill…
To self-censor or not to self-censor?
“You must be out of your goddamn mind.” Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Listen, Miranda’s “Hamilton” has become an American cultural…
Name that year, GNV
Oh please! You think it was cold this morning? Listen, back in my day we used to sunbath in this…
It was a dark and stormy night..
…but still we persisted. Listen, friends and neighbors. The problem with reserving Florida State Park camp sites several months in…
What’s on GNV stages this month
I wrote this advance on upcoming plays for The Gainesville Sun. One big ape, four little women, bipolar rock and…
When the Hipp’s classic lift goes on the fritz
This is a piece I wrote for the Gainesville Sun about the Hippodrome’s now inoperable 113-year old elevator. On Sunday,…
