Ace Frehley dead at 74
Founding Kiss lead guitarist Ace Frehley died last night. He was 74. This is much more personal to me than most celebrity deaths. Ace has been an important part of …
The “political difference” of hating transgender people
I don’t write about my transgender daughter much—not because she is a secret, but because she just mostly wants to live her life. She just started graduate school after earning …
Letter #11: Dale Strong, take three
Dale Strong almost (?) met with the public last week.
Cracker Barrel should probably double down, not retool
My esteem for Cracker Barrel is modest. I liked it a bit more when there were fewer good breakfast anytime options. It’s fairly easy to paste Cracker Barrel now in …
Leave a tender moment alone
In what must have been the spring of 1986, so just before we moved to the Huntsville area, the Oxford (AL) High School concert band played a Billy Joel medley …
Sigh. Hello, Apple.
My relationship with Apple is long, dating to just a couple of years after it was founded (and only about seven after I was founded). Said relationship has also known …
Henry the carpenter ant
When I was in grammar school, one of my classmates lived a little out of town on a lot of land. There was a creek, and trails, and a lot …
This Independence Day, considering when bad actors hijack good symbols
You could be forgiven for not knowing that the swastika has been a positive symbol of divinity and prosperity for far longer than it has represented the Third Reich (and …
Letter #10: Doug Jones
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
(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.) …