We’ve got a billboard on the interstate down here that tells us how long we would have to wait if we were in the hospital emergency room right then. It’s a great marketing idea, except that I – and people like me – see it not so much as an accomplishment in speed and […]
Kentucky
It’s My Time for Michelle Paper Dolls
It’s time for me to get the Michelle Obama paper dolls. I’ve been waiting 45 years to get to the top of the seniority list to put paper clothes on a First Lady and, by god, I think this might be my year. When I was really small, my dad used to go on […]
Derby Derby Doo
Before I start in on the Derby party I went to last Saturday, let me get this right out in the public eye: The whole time we lived in Lexington, Kentucky, self-proclaimed Horse Capital of the World, I never went to the Kentucky Derby, even though it was a mere hour’s drive and I […]
KFC and the C Stands for Cool
Just when I thought I had life all figured out, a fast food chicken related dilemma has reared its scrawny head. It seems that KFC – aka Kentucky Fried Chicken, aka arch enemy of animal rights organizations, aka sellers of bucket-o-heart disease, aka the Thing That Makes Kentucky Marginally Better Known Than Tennessee – […]
Cornhole, Schmornhole, It’s Bean Bag Toss To Me
I was reading in the paper yesterday that State Rep. Bill Farmer wants to designate cornhole as the official Kentucky state game. Alrighty, then. For a long time, I thought I was the only one who had heard the term ‘cornhole’ as it referred to something else. Something you wouldn’t play at a picnic, […]