Author Archive for Skunk Moses

Weathermen will tell you a hurricane hit the coast of North Carolina in 1876, but the people in the small town of Swanquarter say it was a blessing from God.

Swanquarter lies on the coast of the Tarheel State. It’s so small it’s unincorporated - the only unincorporated county seat in America. Swanquarter’s people have fished the waters of the Pamlico Sound for hundreds of years. But the waters, and God, never played a more dramatic role than they did on September 16th and 17th, 1876.

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I’ve just interviewed a Romanian man who has been in the United States since the early 80s. We got onto the subject of religion. He’s a baptized member of the Greek Orthodox faith, and he talked about how his grandparents took him to church. He said that if you didn’t have grandparents [...]

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Today is the birthday of two of my favorites - author/sometimes singer Amy Tan, and singer/songwriter Smokey Robinson.
Here’s an interview with Amy

And video of her singing with the Rock Bottom Remainders

Then there’s Smokey

We wish them well.
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Here’s a post on the 2008 Edgar Award nominees.
I have a three-shelf, three-foot wide bookcase filled with books to read. I think I need a bigger shelf.
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The Courier Mail from Australia reports on a record setting occurrence. The report says an American woman, Terri Comer, of Oregon has blown the highest blood alcohol level ever recorded.
A WOMAN found in a car in a snowdrift with the engine running had a blood alcohol level of .72 per cent, nine times greater than [...]

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