His generational self-awareness was an odd dichotomy: a young man, well-read and cognizant of current events, aware of what is expected of people his age and content to deliver no more than that with notes of a detached, disaffected regret.
Things have been light here because I was working on this column for Fort Worth Weekly about censorship and hometown regression.
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 you [...]
In east Texas, a dead horse in a yard. At a Pilot gas station/Arby’s, Ray Parker Jr. on the radio, singing “Ghostbusters.”