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Dirk Cotton is a retired executive of a Fortune 500 Internet company who loves to spend time with his family, fly fish, shoot sporting clays, attend college baseball games, sail, follow the Wildcats, and write. Everything else he does is just for fun. A computer programmer-cum-marketing executive-cum-financial planner who now wants to be a writer, he apparently can't decide what he wants to be when he grows up. He and his family moved to The Southern Part of Heaven in 2005 and couldn't be happier with that decision.
contributor
member since 6.17.09
chapel hill, nc
dob:
12.21.52
personal site: being southern and below the line
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it’s hard to find a bad biscuit
1.20.12
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It’s hard to find a bad biscuit in Chapel Hill, though I’ll admit I’m not sure why anyone would try. I told my lifelong friend Terry this and he said, “You’re a very lucky man.”
Terry appreciates a good biscuit.
Cars line up in the late morning at Sunrise Biscuits, just down the hill from my house, to buy biscuit sandwiches with ham, or sausage or bacon. Northbound traffic backs up into the right lane while they await their turn at the drive-in window and they back up in the center turn lane when they come from the direction of downtown.
I’ve seen a number of minor accidents caused by people pulling out of Sunrise into traffic, and more when people try to turn left in front of oncoming traffic from the center turn lane after waiting impatiently for someone to let them pull in front of the northbound line of waiting cars. Still others occasionally rear-end the line of cars in the right turn lane when they don’t expect stopped traffic right there after...
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positive feedback
the norbert wiener story
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rockin' facebook posthumously
a little love for my friend, lennie jo
10.8.11
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sum-sum-summatime
7.22.11
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re: it’s hard to find a bad biscuit
So well crafted. Really enjoyed every unexpected twist and turn. Left me pining for a good biscuit!
re: closing the borders
I really liked this. The loss of bookstores is probably mostly a nostalgic issue, rather than a question of actual inconvenience, but it's sad to see nonetheless.
re: reunion
Stellar bit of reverie. Congrats on being "true to your school," as the Beach Boys sang, and celebrating such good days.
re: migraines
classic
re: everybody loves raymonds
Informative article about the 'collision' of 'customs','languages' and 'cultures'...
re: i don't know. third base!
I love your writing style, so free and easy and conversational, just the right pitch for that southern wit. Such a joy.
re: i don't know. third base!
As a southerner, this made me laugh my butt off!
re: fall back
That was truly beautiful!
re: fall back
This is hysterical - and I live in Hawaii - we don't even DO daylight savings time. This style of humor reminds me of Will Rogers. Excellent. Thanks for the laughs!
re: ten reasons to ignore lists
Hey Dirk: appreciate your great sense of humor; and the lists thing: recently, trying to cure myself of expecting the worst (while not completly a nay sayer, I do have a tendency to think good things happen to other people, unless I do them myself); I decided to do a daily "Ten Good Things!" list. The first day, I actually surpassed myself, and went to a dozen. By the end of the week, I had one "good:" I've decided to abandon this list, as being a Pollyanna is not healthy for a writer! Cheers!
Check me out if you like: On Intrepid as CJ Carroll, on Lulu, my 13 books: http://lulu.com/cjcarrollbooks
Keep on writing!
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