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New book DOGLAND, on the Westminster Dog Show, out in April '24. Preorder now! Host of SOUTHBOUND podcast @wfae. Proud spouse of @alixfelsing.
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Doing the wave - SouthPark Magazine

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By Tommy Tomlinson
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Photograph by Richard Israel by Tommy Tomlinson Summer comes in waves. Many years ago, I went through a rough stretch, mostly of my own making, and ended up needing to clear my head for a while. I drove to the Outer Banks, traveling alone. I took the ferry from Swan Quarter to Ocracoke, piddled around in the village for a couple of hours, then aimed the car for Hatteras. Ocracoke tapers to a thin strand that can be secluded even in high season.
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State of Mind | O.Henry Magazine

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By Tommy Tomlinson
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My wife and I had our first date at a Hickory Crawdads game. Well, OK, I already need to backtrack. Alix says to this day that it was not a date. At the time I didn’t think it was a date, either. But somewhere between the first inning and the ninth, I started to feel that tug of attraction. A little more than a year after that night, we got married. Nearly 28 years of marriage later, we’re still together. The point here is not to settle the question of whether it was or was not a date.
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The Inside Story of the Athens Music Scene

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By Tommy Tomlinson
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Many of those bands—all the way back to the beginning—played on one another’s records and at one another’s shows. Kate Pierson of the B-52s sang backup on R.E.M.’s hit “Shiny Happy People.” Widespread Panic wrote a song called “Love Tractor,” and Love Tractor wrote a song called “Antarctica (Widespread Panic).” And Elf Power released an album with singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt called Dark Developments. Chesnutt had been partially paralyzed in a drinking-and-driving accident when he was eighteen.
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