Author: Erik Williams

Canes lose both their goalies to injury and the emergency backup goalie who is a maintenance worker and Zamboni driver with the Marlies comes into the game in relief. #90 David Ayres stands tall and shakes off two early goals against to stone the Leafs in the third and win his first NHL game at the tender age of 42. Unbelievable! A new Canes legend has been born 40 years to the day from the…

To those that would say that us Southerners can’t appreciate modern art, I would suggest their idea is utter bollocks! This bit of artwork comes after soon after our latest SnowpocalypseTM !

I was in need of a decent song to lift my mood a bit so I can work through some tasks this morning whilst the virtual schooling is going on and WFOX once again came through: Amy Grant's "Find a Way" WFOX. Plays only music that I like, always open to requests, and NO COMMERCIAL INTERRUPTIONS…EVER!!! :)

Fifty years ago today, Fayetteville and Fort Bragg would be shocked to their core by the murders of Jeffrey MacDonald's pregnant wife Colette and their daughters Kimberley and Kristen in their home on Castle Drive. Not surprisingly given the notoriety of this case, the Fayetteville Observer ran a retrospective story (linked below) and one picture in particular took my breath away. The officer standing behind Jeff MacDonald as he's getting into the car is my…

Back in the day, the laundromat in the old hood was THE place to hang out and socialise. Lots of good memories and this one even has the obligatory billiards table! :) Especially when there are towels full o’ sewage from the latest main line clean out I’d rather wreck their machines with rather than mine. One heavy bleach cycle and one hot rinse cycle later…I think we should be good to return these utility…

No, that isn’t a scorpion but rather the head of a plumbing snake my neighbour and I lost in my main sewer clean out last April when we tried to clear a clog that a professional plumber didn’t completely clear. The plumbers who came today to clear yet another nasty clog (after having the hot water heater die a couple of weeks ago…plumbing curse!) saw the snake head on the video scope and managed to…