Tag: Virginia

Everyone Who Smokes Virginia Slims Is Dead Except Me. Apparently.

I can’t say I’ve ever had my finger on the pulse of “cool.” For example, I have owned multiple leather jackets and not a single motorcycle; I got frosted tips six months after NSYNC broke up; the only commentary I have on an MMA fight is, “Why can’t I have arms...

Everyone Who Smokes Virginia Slims Is Dead Except Me. Apparently.

I can’t say I’ve ever had my finger on the pulse of “cool.” For example, I have owned multiple leather jackets and not a single motorcycle; I got frosted tips six months after NSYNC broke up; the only commentary I have on an MMA fight is, “Why can’t I have arms...

Everyone Who Smokes Virginia Slims Is Dead Except Me. Apparently.

I can’t say I’ve ever had my finger on the pulse of “cool.” For example, I have owned multiple leather jackets and not a single motorcycle; I got frosted tips six months after NSYNC broke up; the only commentary I have on an MMA fight is, “Why can’t I have arms...

Virginia Outdoor Adventures Podcast review: Bird is the Word

The Virginia Outdoor Adventures podcast is an amazing resource for hiking, camping, kayaking, and more. This is a long overdue review of one of my favorite podcast episodes. There are a lot of reasons to listen to this amazing podcast. The podcast host Jessica Bowser is a genuine and wo...

10 Wild Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Virginia Opossums

In early November 2023, the internet was taken by storm by an incredible video of an opossum being dragged away off the field at the start of the second quarter of a college football game. The video quickly became memed by social media, celebrating the absolutely silly moment that had just aired on ...

‘To The Lighthouse’ (1927) by Virginia Woolf

It has taken me 59 years and 6 months to reach this point where I have finally read Mrs Dalloway and now To The Lighthouse. It is of course nearly a hundred years since these two were published. And I have finally caught up with Virginia. I thought Mrs Dalloway was a tour...

The burning of Eve in Virginia

In1746, in Orange County in central Virginia, a female slave named Eve was burned at the stake, by order of the Orange County Court, for poisoning to death with a glass of milk her owner, Peter Montague. While reports are murky, it appears this is one of only a few judicially legal burnings offic...

How did West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey Become “Pain Pill Pat”?

West Virginia AG Patrick Morrisey took office in 2013 as West Virginia worked to address the opioid crisis that resulted in thousands of lives lost in the state and in the middle of a lawsuit against several drug distributors for their role in exacerbating the deadly crisis. In a state ...