I just learned the sad news today that a friend and fraternity brother of mine has died tragically. Guy Moran, known to everybody as “Bugsy”, was mountain biking in California and got separated from his group. Although we never attended college at the same time, Bugsy was the reason I became a brother of Alpha [...]
Patty found an old slide of her and Lore with their mother, Sharon, circa 1973 or 1974. Now which one is Patty?
Before driving back to Charlotte we made a stop at Boone Hall Plantation. The drive up had the mile-long row of big, hundred-year-old oak trees just like you expect on a typical plantation in the deep-south. We toured the main house which was very nice and interesting but we were a bit disappointed to find [...]
Today was our only full day in Charleston. Almost everything is closed on a Sunday morning in “The Holy City” but luckily we were able to take an early guided tour of the city. We got to see all the historic houses and sites like The Battery, Rainbow Row and more. Kudos to an excellent [...]
We left early this morning for a mini-vacation to Charleston, South Carolina, a city with well over 300 years of history. My mother flew in from New York City and my sister flew in from Washington, D.C. to join us. Our first stop was Fort Sumter, sight of the first shots of the Civil War [...]
We got our bikes a couple of weeks ago but we were pretty limited on where we could ride. Our neighborhood isn’t very big and it’s all dead ends. And all the roads leading to other neighborhoods are too dangerous to ride on. We needed a bike rack so we could get our bikes someplace [...]
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby came out on Friday. As I’ve mentioned before, I had a non-speaking role as Tony the convenience store clerk in a 1976 backstory scene. You can see me in the official movie trailer. In any case, I finally saw the film today. My scene is in the first [...]
Alpha Sigma Phi National Fraternity is holding it’s bi-annual national convention right here in Charlotte this weekend. Part of the convention featured a minor league baseball game at the Charlotte Knights. Since I’m an Alpha Sig alumnus (Delta Xi ’91), I like baseball, and Knight’s Castle is just a few miles away it was a [...]
Today is WAXN-TV’s 10th birthday. The station officially signed-on air on August 4th, 1996. Happy Birthday! For the record this isn’t technically the birthday of “Action 64” because that branding line wasn’t introduced used until September 2nd, 1996.