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Letter #10: Doug Jones

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I don’t know how much this is really like Rey extending Luke’s lightsaber to him at the end of The Force Awakens, but that’s what I thought of.

A military parade is an offensive and un-American travesty

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(Longtime readers—back to the BoWilliams.com days—may detect some blatant self-plagiarism here. As always, if you are ever unhappy with your IThinkThatWasBo.com experience, your full purchase price will be cheerfully refunded.) I am a lifelong supporter of the U.S. military. I deeply appreciate its fine people and the freedom they secure with their sacrifices. I further … Read more

Wear your fitness watch on your ankle!

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Early in the fitness tracker revolution, the pill/token form factor enjoyed some brief popularity. In most cases you could wear them like watches. But the tracker would also be easily removable from the band, and you could slip it in the watch pocket of your jeans (or even your wallet). I liked this a lot, … Read more

Review: Popeyes blackened tenders

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I had an unfortunate Popeyes habit several years ago. I’d get the five-piece tenders combo four or five times a month at the drive-through and sit in the parking lot and snarf it like an addict. “Gee, Dr. Sommerset, no idea why I can’t lose any weight…” I saw my friend Amanda last week, and … Read more

How do you like your live music?

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My good friend Beth and I went to a couple of concerts last year—a group with her husband and my son Aaron to Extreme w/s/g Living Colour at Mars Music Hall in the spring, and then just the two of us to P!nk in Birmingham right before Thanksgiving. So on the way down we started … Read more

Back to Del Taco after a 39-year hiatus

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Del Taco was much bigger than Taco Bell when I was growing up in Anniston and Oxford. Our favorite babysitter Danette took Jenny and me there a lot. Plus, Oxford High School let out at 3 and band practice started at 3:30, so lots of band kids jaywalked across Highway 78 to Del Taco in … Read more

Review: Impossible Bratwurst

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BLUF:  the Impossible Foods bratwurst isn’t awful, but it’s a pretty solid miss. This is the first Impossible Foods product I’ve tried since the burger (in the forms of an Impossible Whopper and the Impossible taco salad at CHOP N FRESH). The burger is an analog of surprisingly high fidelity. The bratwurst is not, and … Read more

Letter #9: Dale Strong, take two

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This is actually my third letter to Dale Strong. I didn’t make a post out of the one I hand-delivered to his Huntsville office last month. The reply I received from Strong was polite and safe, of course. He’s clearly giving no consideration whatsoever to a real town hall, nor would he dare speak out … Read more

A dream of two bananas

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One morning last week I had a particularly vivid dream right before I woke up for the day. We had two bananas left. One was a day or so away from being fully ripe, with a tiny hint of green near the top of the peel. The other wasn’t quite to banana bread stage, but … Read more

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