Tangents Stories

Well ... damn!

This letter originally appeared in the December 2016 edition of Tangents. When highfaluting people look back on 2016, they will describe this year as Charlotte’s Annus Horribilis. The Queen City’s horrible year, and the year that our big city aspirations came crashing down. For the rest of of us, 2016 will be Charlotte’s great year of all around suckdom. This year sucked so bad in Charlotte, people all over the world looked at us and said, “Damn, that sucks.” CNN came through and said, “They

What the hell, 2016?

This column originally appeared in the February 2017 edition of Tangents. If you are reading this, you lived through 2016. Congratulations. If you made it through this past year, especially if you’re a musician, you are totally allowed to feel like Katniss at the end of “The Hunger Games.” 2016 was the year that went on forever and took nearly everyone along with it. Even Tolstoy called and said, “Damn, this year went on forever and was depressing as heck.” Unfortunately for those of us left

It’s in print, so it must be true

Wow. Just when I thought that the news is America couldn’t get any weirder, I read through this new issue. Trump as a swimsuit model, 90-foot tall Double Door Inn destroys CPCC, McCrory still has his head up his ass. I mean, I suspected that all of this was true. Or at least, I wanted to believe that it was true. But there it is, in print and online. So it’s all true now, right? Satire in 2017 is a tough bake sale, kiddies. In the good old days, let’s say, last year, satire was merely a skewed