Tommy Tomlinson

Gardens, guns and flytraps

Garden & Gun is not a magazine for people with split personalities. It’s named after a legendary bar in Charleston, S.C., and published down there (in Charleston, not in the

Wake up, make tea, write songs, repeat

Last night I used an iTunes card I got for my birthday (thanks, Katie and Elizabeth!) to watch the first half of the documentary on the Eagles. It’s really good.

Guided by (a cappella) voices

When we got up here I quickly settled on WERS from Emerson College as my favorite radio station. I’m scrolling through a playlist right now and there’s Sly Stone, Wilco,

Guest post

My brilliant sportswriter friend Joe Posnanski (author of the best blog in the history of the Internet) asked me to write something for his other blog, on the future of

A little makeover

I’ve never been quite satisfied with how this blog looks, so I’m playing with the design again — this WordPress theme is called Newsworthy. If you’ve seen another theme you

Marshall Crenshaw, The Evening Muse, Charlotte, NC, 9/25/10

Marshall Crenshaw writes top-10 hits for a radio station that doesn’t exist anymore. It’s the station with loud guitars but sweet melodies, complex chords but sing-along hooks, performed by singer-songwriters

Bourdain on writing with no time to think

Like a lot of you, I’m guessing, I binged on Anthony Bourdain over the weekend after hearing of his suicide on Friday. I Netflixed a few episodes of his show

Poetry man

This is Harvard: Today I stood in line to get tickets to a poetry reading. The guy in front of me had driven an hour from the suburbs. By the

Wendell Scott, Hall of Famer

On stats alone, Wendell Scott would never make it into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. He was a good driver in NASCAR, which makes him an insanely great driver compared

Paperback Book Tour 2020!

These beauties showed up at the house yesterday, which means it’s time to announce the official dates for the paperback book tour for “The Elephant in the Room.” So here