Recent content by tarheelgamecock

I live in Raleigh and spend half my week working in Durham so I can chip in some on what’s there now. There is a lot of really good food downtown, and if you don’t mind driving, there are some excellent places in downtown Raleigh and in Chapel Hill. I’m not wild about Cookout. Plus, it’s all...

Wouldn't be surprised if this is it. When I was in sixth grade, 25 years ago, a guy walked into an elementary school a few miles from my house and started shooting. Guy was 19. Killed two little girls. He was schizophrenic.

The latest, from tomorrow's print edition... UNC's Naval Weapons Systems class attracted basketball players http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/10/02/2386415/naval-weapons-systems-class-at.html

It's true. Fractured wrist. No comment until after seeing hand specialist. If he's out, UNC's in big trouble. The backup PG can shoot the 3, but he's a 6'0" freshman. He'd never see the floor if Strickland and McDonald weren't injured.

Here's the trailer: . It broke my heart when I saw it. NPR ran a story on it yesterday: http://www.npr.org/2012/03/13/148540633/new-film-takes-an-intimate-look-at-school-bullying. I found it interesting that the bullies didn't seem to care that the cameras were there. And the reactions of the...

This stuff doesn't surprise me much. What did surprise me was the financial info that was part of Zooey Deschanel's divorce filings. Pretty impressive, if you ask me. Would like to think I would approach my money the same way if I were a celebrity...

A few NC State baseball players kept a blog last season. While it wasn't Club Trillion, it was pretty entertaining. Not sure if it's still live.

James Fallows wrote about him on his Atlantic blog. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/john-p-wheeler-iii/68755/

My wife and I belong to the church where the funeral will be held, and we were married there. It'll be weird seeing them there after watching their lunacy on the news for the last few years. I think there's a counter protest in the works, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of people turn...

She was in Hot Tub Time Machine. She was the girl Daryl from The Office "cheated" with.

A concern I've heard from here is that the University of North Carolina (which oversees the 16-school system that includes UNC-Chapel Hill, Charlotte, NCSU, ECU, UNC-A, UNC-G, etc.) might try to place restrictions on all its schools in response to what's going on at UNC-CH. Of course that's...

She's not only an astronaut, she's a Scientologist.

Jon Hamm is on the Comedy Death Ray podcast every once in a while. He has a great sense of humor -- very un-Draper like -- and apparently hangs out with a lot of comedians. I could see him being tight with Rudd.

The New Yorker talked about this some in 1999. It was in an article on the extremism being bred in Pakistani madrassas (and I think it might have even been one of the first articles I remember mentioning Osama bin Laden). I recall being shocked, probably like some of the commentors mentioned in...

I shopped exclusively at TJ's for a couple of months a few years back. Mostly because of the quality I got for the cost. Then I realized a lot of the food I was buying there came from China. I think other people realized the same thing at about the same time ... TJ changed suppliers soon after...