He sat the next tube over in the old Daily O newsroom, decades ago, before it was made over, then downsized, then abandoned. Pretty much every day, one or the other of us, John Dodge or I, would ask, roundabout the time it should have happened: "Did we publish?" Someday, sooner than we … [Read more...]
A most unusual week
We used to watch Tiger Woods and admire, respect and marvel, and we couldn't take our eyes off him. But did we like him? We've written here more than once that Woods is not a nice guy, and I for one have been okay with that. The aura was the man, the man was the aura. It wasn't like I would … [Read more...]
Rookie golfer of the year
SNOQUALMIE, Wash. -- Near to the home precincts of Grey Goatee Nation this week we have the Boeing Classic, a stop on the Champions Tour for old fuckers who still got game. Jerry Kelly is the defending champion at The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge -- last year, as a senior circuit rookie, he got a … [Read more...]
Northern Ports postscript
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- First, we need to correct a misimpression we might have left you with. The Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival is many things -- a week full of workshopping and jamming among teacher-musicians and earnest students, performances by really good players on multiple stages … [Read more...]
Day Three: Zen, and Then …
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- There are no judgments, my brothers and sisters, on the journey. That is, there is only what is, and what is, is. Our scorecard we forgot to remember, which is to say it and we achieved pure being and nothingness as we walked through Port Townsend Golf Club in tranquil … [Read more...]
Day Two: Wherein we discover
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- The front nine at Discovery Bay Golf Course looks like a couple guys got together, took a walk through the land and laid down a golf course. It was the early 1920s, and they weren't professional architects, and they did a damn good job. The back looks different. It … [Read more...]
Day One: The Ludlow leg
PORT LUDLOW, Wash. – The amenities are top-shelf, the on-course constructions – the cart paths and tee boxes and practice areas -- are well-thought-out and well-tended. And even with that, the word that comes to mind at Port Ludlow Golf Course is “rough.” Rough, as in nature in all its unruliness … [Read more...]
The Northern Ports Tour
... with a side of blues PORT HADLOCK, Wash. -- Rhythm is key in the golf swing, we hear, and it sure is for good blues musicians, but maybe not so much for appreciators of the art form, especially when they're drunk, which means the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival on Saturday, its … [Read more...]
Easy choices
NEW ORLEANS, Monday – If you want full honesty on up in here, I was looking for Coop’s Place when I came to Gallier’s, and even after walking in I wasn’t set on staying. But I did, and when the grilled oyster appetizer arrived I regretted I wasn’t with at least one other human to share the heaping … [Read more...]
The Grey Gazette
I won't say Jarrod Ramos was hearing the Supreme Leader's voice in his head, the one that says the press is the enemy of the people, when he shot up the Capital Gazette. Ramos's grudge seemed more personal. But who will say some other slackjaw, somebody who has let Drumpf's hatespeak echo off the … [Read more...]
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