Lightweight, brother

Country boy, I love you! Let's be real here… hunting and fishing are pretty fun activities. I have yet to go hunting, but I was known to brandish a fishing pole when I was a kid. My grandpa's buddy had a lake in his backyard and I had a blast reeling in fish. Ever since I became a city boy, I've been dying to do it again. Hunting and fishing aren't those activities like ice skating or rock climbing that can be done in urban areas indoors as well as in the wilderness. You really have to get dirt…

Everybody gets addicted to saying specific little phrases. 80% of my vocabulary comprises the words “werk” and “gorg.” It's so easy to fall back on cute little slang terms that they can come to define you. My friend Zack is addicted to saying the phrase “dudes rock.” He interjects it whenever he doesn't know how to respond to someone, especially when that someone is a dude. “Dudes rock” is a central tenant of this man's philosophy, and I cannot begrudge that. I don't say “dudes rock” often, but…