By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Monday had a weird morning. About two weeks ago, a thunderstorm knocked out the electricity for a while, and later that night when I went to bed, I discovered that my CPAP went out. For the time being, I went out and bought some Breathe Rite bandages and did some …
Category: Humor
Doing nothing is cheap
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Time stands still. I do a lot of thinking. And reading. And watching old movies. And playing my guitar. I had big plans for today. As it turned out, I never left the house. It’s been a moribund day. TCM ran a series of Tab Hunter movies. The Red Sox …
‘Ain’t no place for no poor boy like me’
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. No wonder the kids are pissed off. For at least two generations, the politicians who run this country have paid cruel lip service to the notion that it’s important to pass down to the young a world worth living in. Old folks like me aren’t going to pay for trillions …
… And I feel like it’s time to travel on
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. As the curtain falls on “Blue, Green, Purple & Red,” I wanted to express my appreciation to everyone who has supported the site. It’s hard to keep up with technology. I thought I was ahead of the curve when I was behind it. What I hoped to do was fill …
Things can get so out of hand
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I always think of this when times are like this in America. In other words, I think about this a lot. Back in the NASCAR years, Nate Ryan and I took road trips from Fort Worth, Texas, to Phoenix, Ariz., because the races were back-to-back. We took various routes, but …
Weird doings on the diamond
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I spent a lot of time Friday watching NCAA baseball playoff games, mainly because I’m presently too broke to do much else.. I had the usual South Carolinian’s interest in Clemson, and some underdog’s affection for USC Upstate, which won the Big South Tournament out of which Presbyterian quickly retired. …
The town loves its team
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) The sun was behind the visiting side of Wilder Stadium, hanging over the 20-yard line, and all the football players loose from baseball had golden coronas encircling their heads. The springtime celebration of the Class 2A state championship took just about as long as the game a little over …
Here ‘n’ there, this ‘n’ that
By MONTE DUTTON Many things in life are predictable. When a major golf tournament is on TV, and coverage shifts to a player who is out of contention, the shot is going in. They don’t have to mention all the “possible side effects” of prescription drugs. It’s obvious from the commercials that almost all of …
A story that wasn’t told
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Sometimes the stars come together. Sometimes they line up. Sometimes they fall. There’s an old Randy Travis song that notes that the ocean’s salty and the stars sometimes fall. The name of the song is “Deeper Than the Holler.” I wouldn’t call Clinton High School’s baseball field …
It wasn’t a simple football scrimmage
By MONTE DUTTON Carter Szydlowski takes a fumble to the house (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. In all honesty, I could make neither hide nor hair of Presbyterian College’s spring football scrimmage at Bailey Memorial Stadium on Friday evening. Following the theme of honesty, I was sitting in the front row of the stands, and …
Nightrider's Lament 