

James BigBoy Medlin
- Aug 5, 2020
- 2 min
WHY NOT? / What is Real?
Editor's Note: Due to a software glitch, this piece will appear both here, as a stand alone article and also as a part of the Coronavirus...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Aug 3, 2020
- 4 min
WHY NOT? / Movie and a Pizza
I think the last movie I saw in a theater was ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. Loved it. Since then, thousands of people have asked me...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Jun 29, 2020
- 3 min
WHY NOT? / Nothing Happening, So Much Going On
(not a poem, just a prattle) ~ with apologies to Bob Wills and Asleep at the Wheel ~ Who's that guy with the red tie on? Some folks call...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Apr 8, 2020
- 9 min
WHY NOT? / BigBoy's All Something or Another Baseball Team
As of this writing, we have no baseball season. No one knows when, or if, the season will start. The ritual, distraction and meditative...


James BigBoy Medlin / Art by Dan Hubig
- Mar 23, 2020
- 8 min
The Florida Years / Chapter III & Virus Vexation
When I lived in Texas, no one ever cut my throat — although I was twice threatened with such action. My throat was completely off-limits...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Feb 26, 2020
- 9 min
Flickers
— or A Salute to Character Actors — or How Hollywood Screwed Up My Life Before I Even Got There On November 20, 1944, the whole world...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Oct 28, 2019
- 8 min
The Florida Years, Chapter II
When moving to a foreign country (in this case Florida), adjustments must be made. First up — getting one’s papers in order. The local...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Aug 9, 2019
- 14 min
Vietnam: Getting In / Getting Out
A Three-Part Account of My Experience Part III: A Grenade, A Chicken, and The Bird Home On June 7, 1969, I woke up at 5 AM and made sure...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Aug 2, 2019
- 13 min
VIETNAM: GETTING IN/GETTING OUT
A Three-Part Account of My Experience PART II: Hello Vietnam, I Really Must Be Going At the completion of Advanced Infantry Training,...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Jul 26, 2019
- 16 min
Vietnam: Getting In / Getting Out
A Three-Part Account of My Experience PART I: Dreams, Schemes and the End of Innocence 1969 was a year of contrasts and contradictions....


James 'BigBoy' Medlin / Photo: Dan Hubig
- Jul 1, 2019
- 2 min
WHY NOT? / Hell to the Chief
He who calls me THE ugliest of writers shall have not his name spoken. Nor of the publication nor broadcast nor streaming service failing...


James BigBoy Medlin / Art by Dan Hubig
- Feb 23, 2019
- 3 min
WHY NOT? / National Emergencies?
If George Washington had declared a National Emergency he might have abolished political parties. In his farewell address he called...


James BigBoy Medlin / Art Dan Hubig
- Jan 10, 2019
- 2 min
WHY NOT? / Wall to Wall Nuttiness
By the time you read this the “Wall” controversy may have changed. Trump may have declared a National Emergency in order to detract from...