I googled my mother’s mother’s father’s father tonight on a lark and found his obituary in the Red Bank (NJ) Register, of 22 October 1924: Veteran Mustered Out. Thomas Jennings Wise Answers The Last Call Red Bank Lost Another War Hero by His Death Friday Night at Dr. Hazard’s Hospital at Long Branch – His [...]
So I was shopping at the Wal-Mart in south Richmond tonight. I love Wal-Mart. I didn’t really have access to one when I lived in the New York area, and I appreciate the density of Wal-Marts in the south. I was there to pick up a bottle of wine, some blue corn chips and salsa [...]
I’m a big fan of James Lileks, a writer for the Star Tribune of Minneapolis/St.Paul. I’d like to say I became familiar with Lileks during time I spent in Minneapolis in the mid-90s setting up online stock trading for American Express Financial Services, but I didn’t. I actually learned about him after the Blog Explosion [...]
