The wall

For most of this year I’ve been cycling around Gainesville and taking photos of murals. Downtown murals. Pleasant Street murals.…

Didja ever notice?

Random things I noticed on my Thanksgiving morning ride through Gainesville. Hey! Remember that cute little Martian from the Bugs…

That time in Scotland

Continuing our armchair traveling adventures during this time of Covid, we recall a few summers ago when Jill and I…

The art of sounding off

Listen, Old Joe never was much of a conversation starter. Yes, we jawed endlessly over the confederate memorial that sat…

GNV antidepressant

I woke up depressed and listless Wednesday morning. Hardly slept at all. It wasn’t so much the suspense that was…

Our last chance

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. So opined William Butler Yeats as we slouched toward Bethlehem. And as we’ve…

The new jaywalking

I’m riding in my car. I turn on the radio. And then, before I can even lip-sync “Fire,” there is…

Our dumbest stroad

This is the NW 8th Avenue Stroad, between NW 6th Street and Main. It is quite possibly the dumbest Stroad…

The truth will finally out

Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it. Jonathan Swift Turns out that falsehoods also have a longer shelf…