Doc_Charles
@tampaguy15
Historian/Teacher/Writer, West Tampa, FSU3X, USAF, Beisbol
Hardcore Troubadour: The Life And Near Death of Steve Earle by Lauren St John
"Somebody has to be tireless, or the fast-buck operators would asphalt the entire coast...and slay every living thing capable of carrying a wallet." -- John D. MacDonald "Where is Janice Gantry?"
La Máxima - Junior Caminero. 39 HRs and 94 rbis with a week to go in August and he's barely 22-years old. I can't believe he plays for our team. @RaysBaseball #LaMaxima
Move to Tallahassee and find out where Summer lives. Hot shit in hell's anteroom. Dank haze draped from the trees. Where even a breeze is held for rich folks on the coast. Snakes, gators, mosquitoes, and ticks. Keep your dogs inside. Come get some. 😆
Thinking of this guy today, my "fucking major professor," the late eminent historian James Pickett Jones, Jr. Dr. Jones would have railed against Trump's sorry ass every moment of this term, just as he did during the first and until his final breath in June 2020. He was a beauty. #OldSchool
Having not read as much literary fiction, at least recently, as I should, John Williams's "Stoner" satisfied. It is brilliantly written, sad, uplifting, and sorrowful. How I went this long without reading it is beyond me. Don't let it happen to you.
Actor Walter Goggins may have recently found deserved heightened popularity - SNL, White Lotus, Righteous Gemstones - but to me, he remains Harlan County's elusive bomb-throwing chameleon, Boyd Crowder. #Justified
I read David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew a year ago and was moved. The author's recent appeal on Instagram has reinforced the impression. It is prescient and timely, taken during an era when we are told to ignore the truth and turn from history. It hits! Read it soon. @davidjoy.bsky.social
@gabino.bsky.social What's everyone reading today? Smoke Kings is the shit. Get on it. @jahmalmayfield.bsky.social
The best thing in this life is having children, and trump and his ilk are so fucking things up for them. Rise up!
Soul for days, Roberta Flack had a voice from beyond, one that could move you to tears, then awaken a smile. The Closer I Get To You, her silky duet with the late Donny Hathaway, was played at our wedding. Time just seems to fly. RIP, sweet sister.