Good news for Cuban sandwich enthusiasts in Savannah.

I submitted summer semester grades today, so I decided to go on vacation. It lasted about 20 minutes.

I haven’t seen BACKROOMS yet, but my wife has. She’s told me so much about it that when I went to campus yesterday to do some grading and realized I was the only person in the building — it felt like a huge liminal space — I got creeped out and came home.

Had I been in charge, I would have scheduled one afternoon thunderstorm yesterday and one today, instead of doing them both yesterday. As I mentioned earlier, people selling thrills in Savannah are probably doing big business in this heat. 🥵

I don’t eat at Chic-fil-A, but if you do and want to avoid the lines, try going on Sunday. From my observation they seem less busy.

Saw a sign on 37th Street today advertising "thrills for sale." It’s a Savannah thing, if you are not familiar. Definitely thrill weather out there today. 🥵

No, grown man tempting a seagull to take a Cheeto from your outstretched hand while more and more birds descend on the scene with each passing moment, you are not Dr. Doolittle. You are the villain of the beach. Everyone nearby despises you. #TybeeTips

I am sad to report that the former Krispy Kreme location on Skidaway Road in Savannah is being demolished. The site was purchased by Fifth Third Bank. I naively hoped they might repurpose the building, but no. A fantastic midcentury building erased in a matter of days.

If you like songs about forbidden islands, haunted seas, enchanted coves, and similar subjects, Beyond the Reef is on the air now. I’ve added some new music since last week. Listen here: wruu.org.

I was down by the river earlier and saw this interesting ship at the Port of Savannah Liberty Terminal. More info: www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai...

🚲 + ☕ + 🥯 = Friday!

Looking forward to attending this open house tonight. More info here: savphoto.org 🎞️ #FilmPhotography

That shingles vaccination will make your arm sore I tell you what. Still, I much prefer this to having shingles.

Back in my Thursday evening natural habitat at @wruu.bsky.social. On air and online at wruu.org until 7 p.m.

I should be grading, but I’m looking at a painting of people on a boat.

Renowned historian Gordon Wood was walking across a supermarket parking lot when a car driver struck and killed him. Federal officials claim that crashes in parking lots and driveways don't count as traffic fatalities. As a result, they're uncounted and often ignored. Me, in Bloomberg (gift link)

Savannah’s Haitian Monument honors one of the largest units of men of African descent to fight in the American Revolutionary War. These soldiers played a vital role in the Siege of Savannah in 1779, supporting the fight for American independence.

If you are walking onto the beach and the young dude in front of you is carrying a Bluetooth speaker the size of a microwave oven, watch which way he’s headed, then go as far in the other direction as you can. Otherwise, you’ll be subjected to the worst bro country music you can imagine. #TybeeTips

Is this the expired film that will finally get me banned from the local photo lab? Many are saying so. 🎞️ #FilmPhotography

As we are now in the holy season of online retail, I am here to tell you I stopped my Prime subscription more than a year ago and suffered no ill effects. Instead I: 1. Stopped ordering a bunch of junk that I really didn’t need. 2. Became more likely to shop locally for things I did need.

As I mentioned earlier, the workers rehabbing the house across the street from me pull their tools from their battered compact cars when they arrive each morning. The house flipper who hired them? He rolls up in a giant $85,000 luxury pickup carrying just him and one tool: his laptop.

I live about a mile from a Home Depot, but I prefer to shop at local stores, so I drove into the car-centric sprawl that is Southside Savannah. I saw so many people using e-bikes to get where they need to go. Sadly, they are having to do so on some of the city’s most dangerous streets. 🚲

Look at this place. I’m glad John Margolies was out there on the road with his camera.

I’m watching the Marlins vs. Rangers game and LoanDepot Park in Miami is packed with World Cup fans who seem to be cheering for the home team. This is the loudest Marlins game I’ve ever seen. The moment I tuned in, I knew something exciting was happening. ⚽ + ⚾ = fun! Scene before the game:

Today I saw a Toyota 4Runner with a bunch of plastic ducks on the dashboard, so I started screaming “STOLEN VALOR!” at the driver.

Scenes from my morning walk around the neighborhood. Not pictured: Mississippi kites swooping and diving overhead.

I spotted a new business on a recent visit to my hometown. Do you have a favorite bulk chicken shop where you live?

I made one for the team that sometimes plays down the street from my house.

I went to a wedding this afternoon. Two of the guests were wearing cowboy hats. This concludes my report.

Here’s Jerry Reed in 1973 singing about the financial and other burdens of car ownership. An early soldier in the War on Cars? I played this song on the radio last night, so it’s been on my mind.

🚲 + ☕ + 🥯 = Friday!

My friend Tom wrote about the little neighborhood supermarket, which is where I do most of my grocery shopping these days.

georgiarecorder.com/2026/06/18/o... So what really made GOP lawmakers balk at redistricting? #gapol via @georgiarecorder.com via Jeff Amy (I've seen enough slapdash redistricting to know it's not the stated reason: that redistricting requires facts, public input and meaningful discussion)

It’s Thursday so I’m back at the controls at @wruu.bsky.social until 8 p.m. Streaming via wruu.org.

Saw an unusual looking vessel on the horizon this morning. As it got closer, I remembered NOAA Ship Nancy Foster is in town this weekend.

A scene from this afternoon’s two-hour vacation.

Savannah folks, if you are wondering why there’s fiberglass insulation blowing all over Highway 80 and into the marsh between Tybee Island and Wilmington Island, it came from a truck hauling an improperly covered dumpster, apparently full of demolition debris. 😡

A rare sight these days, observed on my morning walk around the neighborhood. 🗞️👀

Here’s a world-historically new sentence: I have known the Georgia Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor basically since he was born because we both went to the same illegal home daycare run by a Florida fan called Miss Donna and her two mean dachshunds

I heard a song from my youth on @wfmu.bsky.social during my morning walk around the neighborhood. The first time I heard it, I was the same age Bragg claims in the song. I guess that’s why I can’t help but sing along all these decades later.

They couldn't make I Love Lucy today. Mainly because the cast is dead.

I observed a noteworthy automobile in the neighborhood.

If you are a fan of thunderstorms, Savannah, Georgia is a good place to be tonight. 🎶 I feel like it’s rainin’ all over the world. 🎶

When I first read this novel 34 years ago, I immediately started imagining who would be cast in the movie. Really amazing that it’s never been adapted. I think I’m going to reread it.

📷: LomoApparat 🎞: LomoChrome Color '92 #FilmPhotography

I’ve said this before, but one of the things I enjoyed most about the Knicks was watching them on broadcast television. Long live terrestrial broadcasting! 🏀 📺 📻

One of the things I think is interesting about Mamdani is just the optics of a mayor who so thoroughly appears to be of and in the city at all times, you know? Like, what New York is doing, he is doing. It’s really different.

I ❤️ NY.

Walking through the Publix parking lot, looking at the Mississippi kites flying overhead, and hoping other people will see me and look up, too. 🪶

I observed a noteworthy automobile in the neighborhood.