Jack Lail posted this photo of me speaking at the Public Conversation on Web Journalism at the University of Tennessee on Wednesday.
— Coverage in UT’s student paper, the Daily Beacon.
— The event was hosted by an awesome student-run website, Tennessee Journalist.
The alpha crawfish, shortly before his roiling demise on Saturday night. He somehow managed to escape while the dogs and I were down at the dock, and Gilligan was duly terrified of him when he found the giant mudbug scuttling along the kitchen floor.
But then who am I to be critical of poor Gilligan. I’m holding that killer mudbug with a pair of tongs in this photo …
We did the full boil, complete with corn and red potatoes, hush puppies and catfish. Then Herb, Glenbot and I retreated to the basement for a zombie night that was invaded by vampires and capped with the ultimate zombie epic, Cemetery Man.
Somehow, ripping the heads of crawfish seemed the perfect prelude to zombie night …
What a great idea. And I know that being a fair and non-vindictive sort, West Virginia lawmaker Craig Blair will also start demanding drug testing for everyone who receives government handouts — from tax breaks to bailouts to states that take more from the federal tax system than they contribute to it.
And while we’re at it, maybe the members of the West Virginia legislature will all submit to a drug test before enacting this law. Just to show that if welfare recipients who get handouts for doing nothing must be drug-free then politicians who get handouts for doing nothing also must be drug-free.
