by Jeremy Markovich | Jul 4, 2024 | Jeremy Markovich, North Carolina
The time in 1994 when Dennis Anderson and the Grave Digger crossed a body of water. At precisely 10:28 a.m on July 4, 1994, Dennis Anderson drove up to the Poplar Branch Landing boat ramp in Currituck County to attempt something that hadn’t been tried before or since....
by Jeremy Markovich | Jun 13, 2024 | Jeremy Markovich, North Carolina
This place is not nearly as great, dismal, or swampy as it once was. In 1763, long before he became president, George Washington became an investor in the Dismal Swamp Company. The goal? Cut down trees, sell the logs, drain the swamp, turn it into farmland, and grow...
by Jeremy Markovich | Feb 16, 2024 | Elections, Jeremy Markovich
Folks, there is not a lot of innovation in the “I voted” sticker space. And yet, against all odds, we got an absolute gem from a Wake County student: Shannon Fisher’s winning design for Wake County’s early voting stickers. Look, I’m no art critic, but that thing...
by Jeremy Markovich | Oct 24, 2023 | Jeremy Markovich, North Carolina
There are at least two statues of Dale Earnhardt (that we know of). The first sits outside of the Daytona International Speedway, where he died in a crash in 2001. The second sits in a little plaza in downtown Kannapolis, surrounded by bricks and trees. It’s a bit...
by Jeremy Markovich | Dec 7, 2022 | Jeremy Markovich, Uncategorized
The sticker you are looking at is NC State’s beloved Mr. Wuf FEASTING UPON THE CARCASS OF A DEAD RAMESES. I’m really weirded out by a wolf in a sweater feasting upon the bones of a ram in a UNC sailor hat. It’s… a lot. It turns out that this is not the only...