Mindcraft
Kids say the darndest — and most damning — things. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Since we’d burned through the back catalog of…
culture club
Yeah, I really do think
We all know Alanis Morissette didn’t know jack about irony. It’s a tired, well-documented joke at this point. So I hesitate to call it…
Still the one
In one of the opening scenes of a documentary on moonshiner Popcorn Sutton, the scrawny old fella in overalls is scoping out creeks to…
Happy (wild) turkey day
My buddy Jeff talks about how he used to host an “orphans” Thanksgiving dinner for all his coworkers who couldn’t make it to their…
Trip to ‘Bountiful’
My standard for judging the worth of a cookbook has been all about the kohlrabi. Which is to say, I’m less swayed by the…
‘Hoochennany
It’s possible to enjoy the new whitewater course in Columbus without understanding how it came about. But if the makergeek in you wants to…
(D)evolution
I can’t tell you exactly what turned Chuck Klosterman into one of my heroes. Was it the article he wrote about taking the rock…
Stumped! (Part 2)
I’d been wrestling a tangle of trees from the ground like a beggar wrestles a hamburger. It was me versus half a dozen of…
Cold hands, warm hearts
With so much heavy talk lately about meat slaughtering and ant killing, it seemed appropriate to use tonight’s Monday Night at the Movies to…