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
- 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 / 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 Medlin / Art: Dan Hubig
- May 15, 2019
- 8 min
'WHY NOT?' / The Path to the Florida Years
From the Writer Formerly Known as "BigBoy" Yes, I was born on a mountaintop (no longer there) in Santa Anna, Texas. No, I was not ridden...
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...
James BigBoy Medlin
- Dec 24, 2018
- 2 min
WHY NOT? / Breaking News
It’s been hard to keep up with the fast-breaking stories at year’s end. I may have confused a few events, but here’s a capsule review....
James BigBoy Medlin / Art Dan Hubig
- Dec 20, 2018
- 8 min
WHY NOT? / The Brain Trust (Early Days)
On an unseasonably warm (is warm ever “unseasonable” any more?) day in mid-October 2015, Travis Redfish headed North in his orange 1970...
James 'BigBoy' Medlin
- Aug 22, 2018
- 8 min
WHY NOT? / Et Tu Ted: End of the Trump Era
As loath as I am to relate stories that may be lacking in veracity, I feel compelled to share this narrative. Very recently, an...