Meet Buster the nicotine-addicted wrestling chimp - and his college friends.

Marvel at shameless old men without pants - or inhibitions, apparently.

Share a song with your dad and Smokey Robinson - and some watermelon.

And feel the pain of true and endless loss.

There's no rhyme or reason in this collection of thoughts and observations from a slightly off-center, aging child of the South. Just sit back and enjoy quick trips into a different place and time that you just may recognize.