(A true story, by Bob Carlton) NOTE: Bob wrote this column for The Birmingham News August 6, 1999 . If you asked me, it’s still just as good 12 years later. I have seen the Blair Witch. It was right outside my tent. But first some background: Last week, I interrupted my annual baseball vacation … Read More
If you asked me, Pete Townshend’s classic line has a lot more to do with attitude than age. First, make no mistake: When it comes to lifestyle, nobody’s older for his age than me. At 25, I married the perfect excuse to stop going out on weeknights. Six years later, we gave birth to the … Read More
A simple (but effective!) sales piece for one of the internet’s genuine success stories. Last year, while working with our good friends Zane Tarence and Frank Dixon on an electronic sales presentation for LakeHomes.com, we had the great pleasure of meeting Shane Pike. A former Director of Online Marketing & Business Development at CareerBuilder.com, Shane … Read More
On Sunday August 7, Bill Hay gave his last sermon as the Senior Pastor of Covenant Presbyterian, the church he founded in 1978. Bill has been my pastor since our family joined his first church, Edgewood Presbyterian, in 1972. With the possible exception of my Snotty-Teen years (much of which I have happily erased from … Read More
Shortly after my June B-Metro column remembering Birmingham hot dog legend Gus Koutralakis was published, I received an email entitled “Pete’s Famous” from Andreas Anastassakis—which read, “I am Jimmy and Nicky Koikos’ cousin from the Bright Star Restaurant. We read the great article you wrote on our cousin Gus. “Jimmy has asked me to contact you, … Read More
Just this morning, Martha put Erin on a plane for the Great American Truck Show in Dallas. She’s really been looking forward to it—since James Hudson (one of our many good friends at Randall-Reilly) was kind enough to send her a snapshot of a Time And Temperature display indicating that the outdoor temperature was exactly 100º. … Read More
Voilà a few raisons why I-yam hooked on Le Tour. I used to hate July. With fall practice still a month away, and national signing day a distant memory, July represents the low point of the year for people who (like me, once upon a time) have no life outside college football. That was Before … Read More
It’s the ever-popular SEC Helmet Schedule. ( Special Thanks To CrimsonAudio.net ) ENJOY!
(Photo by The Birmingham News) It’s taken me some time, but I can now honestly say I miss City Stages. Not the City Stages I skipped from 2004 to 2008—and regretted attending in 2009—but the festival which, at its best, was as good a thing as my hometown has ever done for itself. I’m talking about … Read More
Our latest ad features Baggett’s Traffic Manager, David Crommelin. He’s the guy who determines each driver’s pay on a weekly basis. Needless to say, nobody exemplifies the way a company treats its drivers quite like the Traffic Manager. And boy-oh-boy, in our interviews with Baggett drivers, we heard plenty of salty comments about the way … Read More
