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Complete catastrophe

Carrie Frye, reporting from Asheville

occasionally taking a break to work at the airport

Why Dusty Hill Spent ZZ Top's '70s Hiatus Working at an Airport

During the time between 'Tejas' and 'Deguello,' ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill worked at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

Big thanks to Bright Flash Literary Review for publishing my flash essay "Heat Index," a memory of horseback riding and those muggy, glorious days at summer camp.

Heat Index

Creative Non-fiction By Marla Lepore Summer camp, Mississippi. Muggy torpor. Once again, my parents have checked the permission box on my application in case I want to take horseback riding. I do n…

Interesting deep dive on "Restoring Promise" and other Europe-inspired efforts at prison improvement

Can the U.S. Make Prisons More Rehabilitative? Here’s a Major Test Case

Inspired by Germany, South Carolina let prisoners design their own units, write house rules and settle their own disputes. Then came politics.

I’ve been gone for a few hours and I’m just so happy to see this thread continues

Gonna do a little thread of info sources for WNC people and interested parties. Here’s WLOS, the ABC affiliate everyone in Buncombe County uses: wlos.com

Unfathomable that he died without a will.

I started with Alison Weir’s “Wars of the Roses,” then backtracked to Charles Spencer’s “The White Ship” and Dan Jones (all good!)

Dan Jones’ “The Plantagenets” is a good one too

Just started “I Am Not Sidney Poitier” by Percival Everett