Making others feel at home on the shooting range
“I’m 81, but I can outshoot most people,” says certified 81-year-old revolver, rifle, shotgun and automatic handgun safety instructor John Poynter of Cypress. And then, just so we don’t get the wrong idea and play this one all John Wayne, the United States Navy veteran throws a [...]

RIDE HORSES! DRIVE ATVS! DO STUFF WITH ROPE!

It’s Like Spring Break, but with more drugs and guns!
 
I love advertisements, they make me laugh, especially when I make up little stories in my head about them. And thus begins the possibly-one-time-only blog-column AdWatch!
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And am I excused because I’d been drinking and smoking crack when I did it, back on the night when 1986 turned into 1987, standing on the side porch of a Long Beach home a few blocks south of Willow and Magnolia, with my friend Raymond Lewis, the former Verbum Dei star of the early [...]

Our picks for holiday gifts, from $0 to $4,200

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
Every year the holidays show who we really are: people who love our families, cherish our friends and yearn for peace. Also, we’re big honking liars. That’s because at this time of year when so much is about gift-giving we say this time of [...]