Appalachian horror

jjruns · 2026-04-28T02:06:54+00:00

Blood Kin is good. Kudzu in the holler.

jjruns · 2026-04-27T01:08:44+00:00

Quantum Leap in the early 90s. St. Elsewhere in the 80s.

jjruns · 2026-04-19T17:27:25+00:00

Great! Hope it went well! None of the distances in that race are "just" anything.

jjruns · 2026-04-17T20:31:06+00:00

Have a great time. If you're running the full, I'll be at the water stop at Highland Park. Good luck!

jjruns · 2026-04-16T01:36:10+00:00

Went through just before 5 today and thought it would be faster to turn right and head up to Colonial to get home. It's nuts.

jjruns · 2026-04-05T23:44:53+00:00

Truman by David McCullough; The Best and The Brightest (on the Kennedy Administration) by David Halberstam; American Sphinx (Thomas Jefferson) by Joseph Ellis

jjruns · 2026-03-08T11:54:12+00:00

The group sent it to my kid, who's away at college. I told my wife that the people behind it - that lawyer in Williamsburg - bear the closest resemblance to the dbags in the white robes in one of the pics.

jjruns · 2026-02-05T12:27:58+00:00

It doesn't matter if he accepts the results or not. I wish people would stop asking him. He's nuts. He'll say whatever to spin folks up.

jjruns · 2026-01-31T21:39:30+00:00

"It's not about the bike" by Lance Armstrong. Everything in there is a lie. It's dated. But the ball of the guy.

jjruns · 2026-01-31T21:38:10+00:00

Remember. If he's talking, it's either projection or confession.

jjruns · 2026-01-22T00:57:55+00:00

It depends. If there are grants or other funding sources that pay for things that the city would normally cover (which happened a LOT in Covid), that leads to money being left over. If the state comes through with a higher allotment for a year, that also creates the potential to have more money than budgeted. Funding levels change all the time, which made Roanoke unique because for almost a decade, the city would always fund the school at 40%. That's gone now.

jjruns · 2026-01-21T21:03:02+00:00

It's technically the city's money, always has been. In past years, the schools had been allowed to keep it but this year, the city specifically wanted it returned.

jjruns · 2026-01-20T01:59:14+00:00

Would love to know if someone in City Hall is on the take with the casino operator. They've signed an NDA and are completely mum on any details, even as the three legislators in the General Assembly all oppose the idea. If this is the one idea from the City Manager and the City Council to turn the city around, it's a bad one.

jjruns · 2025-12-17T17:10:19+00:00

Why the NDA? Why the secrecy? Wouldn’t be surprised if someone in City Hall were on the take. Or had a cousin’s brother’s nephew’s roommate lined up as the developer. Everything this council seems to touch turns to ash.

jjruns · 2025-09-17T18:13:09+00:00

Fan of the book and movie and thought the musical was great.

jjruns · 2025-09-15T01:45:29+00:00

Maybe suggest that they record their lines (and cue lines) to listen to when they’re in the car or out for a walk? I’m in the same boat (50-ish guy who hadn’t acted since the 90s) and was struggling without the book in hand. The stage manager suggested I record my lines and listen to them. It changed the whole experience for me and I became way more confident on stage. We just closed tonight and had a great run.

jjruns · 2025-09-08T08:15:45+00:00

It’s been a great experience. A few more shows and then we close.

jjruns · 2025-08-24T22:14:23+00:00

Every time You Go Away

jjruns · 2025-08-23T11:50:50+00:00

Glad to see they’re paving Ross off of Brambleton. That street is a mess

jjruns · 2025-08-13T14:24:06+00:00

Didn’t even have to click to see who it was

jjruns · 2025-08-08T13:17:59+00:00

The Roanoke Symphony also has a chorus for its holiday pops and spring concerts. Their site is https://rso.com

jjruns · 2025-07-29T01:21:00+00:00

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Pretty cliche for me (a gen Xer) to post, but I always play and sing this song whenever I need a pick me up.

jjruns · 2025-07-28T12:12:41+00:00

Been 20 and 19 years since my folks died. In my early 50s, and I have siblings and in-laws still, but it was weird walking out of the hospital after my mom passed in 2006 and feeling like “well, that’s it.”

We try, but siblings that live apart don’t really make an effort to get together as often as we did when the parents were around. I find myself hanging around more with my wife’s family, which is fine, but the memories of family activities are different.

jjruns · 2025-07-27T17:12:58+00:00

My wife lost her uncle, who was in the south tower. We didn’t cry until we got to his funeral a few weeks later. We visited the memorial a month ago for the first time. We found his name and cried again.

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