Wales

Some of you may be aware that I have just returned from two weeks in Wales, my ancestral home, and the place most of my aunts, uncles and cousins live. While I…

Cadair Idris is one of the Welsh 'three peaks,' a distinctive and iconic mountain at the base of Snowdonia National Park. The summit is a hard, steep two-hour…

TCI Friday works best when you weigh in. Read, respond, relax. As you read these words, I am sitting in a small bungalow in tiny Welsh village drinking a…

TCI Friday works best when you participate. Read. Think. Respond. Stir the pot. Taste the stew. This is the first summer in a long time that I had no real…

There's an ad on the television machine of late. It features a guy who got famous by playing an irascible heroin addict. The company and guy are not important.…

We were rolling along, me perched near the front of the banana seat, him running beside, one hand on the back of the seat, the other on the handlebars, and…

Regular readers will know that I am an unabashed promoter of the place my father was born and most of my family still lives, Wales. It's a wild, magical place…

Let us dispense with pretense. I am Welsh. Though I grew up in the States most of my family live in the green, hilly central part of Wales that the English…

Robot and Stevil talk about going places by bike, all the good places, the weird places. Messengering. Seizures. Playing Tempest at the K-Mart arcade.…

This week Robot follows up on threads from several previous episodes. He'd like us to believe he's a short, bad human. We know that's not true; he's a…