Interstate 40 runs a long way across the United States and it bisects Tennessee from west to east, from Memphis on one end to Knoxville on the other. The distance between those two cities is roughly 380 miles, and Nashville sits in between, the Vanderbilt radius to the Volunteer diameter. There are many signs as …
The idea of stomping on the terra is new for the old guard, and the kids who have started to climb the masts and run the boats have the look of new cops at a riot. They are hungry for violence and feel the rhythm of a yet-begun protracted battle thrumming in their veins.
Early May in New York state my father on the edge of forgetting himself and I, so sick I couldn’t see did not understand where we were A silver diner in the middle of no-where two open-faced roast beef sandwiches he talked about Rohack’s and his life as a child and I, with muted ears, …
IMG_0684 Originally uploaded by jberthume I was On The Road last week, going to Obama’s inauguration and writing a story for the Quorum Report. You have to subscribe to read it, but after the run is over I will reproduce it here. This is a picture of what used to be Marine One but wasn’t …
This is incredible. America has met in Washington and history is here, in the fluid present. I hear accents from all over the world. So check that, I suppose. The world has met in Washington.
In east Texas, a dead horse in a yard. At a Pilot gas station/Arby’s, Ray Parker Jr. on the radio, singing “Ghostbusters.”
I. In Grapevine at a big resort they had Christmas lights on public display, and a show about Ice you could pay $30 to see. We took pictures and saw the lights and then we drove home. Then I stood in the kitchen and I looked in my freezer all for free. (USA! USA! USA!) …