good morning, it's acc tournament day ncrabbithole.com/p/acc-tourname…

A quick primer on the Durham Accent, which does not exist ncrabbithole.com/p/no-such-thin…

Marshall Rauch died today at age 102. The factory he owned in Gastonia was once the largest manufacturer of Christmas ornaments in the world. The kicker? Rauch was Jewish. I loved interviewing him for this podcast back when he was a spry 93-year-old: open.spotify.com/episode/1MHCMI…

Many places in North Carolina are incredible. Many other places are *slightly* disappointing. This mountain is one of those places: ncrabbithole.com/p/slightly-dis…

Is it a good thing to name an appropriations bill after Ric Flair? Isn’t that tempting fate? Isn’t every Ric Flair promo, at its core, about misappropriation of funds? ncrabbithole.com/p/nc-bills-tha…

A quick overview of the stuff that North Carolina gives to and gets from other countries ncrabbithole.com/p/how-much-doe…

Figured out what Frank Reich was doing at the Greensboro Costco (don't say shopping, I know he was shopping) ncrabbithole.com/p/frank-reich-…

Okay, so let's say a North Carolina supreme court candidate succeeds in disqualifying thousands of voters who followed all of the rules they were given. How would you even be able to go back and find their ballots to see how they voted? Here's how: ncrabbithole.com/p/nc-supreme-c…

This week's newsletter: QUICKSAND ncrabbithole.com/p/i-found-actu…

Thanks to the folks at WUNC for having me on the latest episode of The Broadside to talk about the lack of basements in the South (and for humoring me as I went off on a tangent about the Pittsburgh Toilet). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wha…

Last month, I saw a Redditor ask where he could dig a big hole in Durham. I suggested he go up to an emerald mine in Hiddenite instead. Turns out the guy was Jacob Geller and now there's a 28-minute-long video about it on YouTube: ncrabbithole.com/p/digging-big-…

Answering a North Carolina Rabbit Hole reader question: Would the SS Edmund Fitzgerald (strums guitar) have run aground trying to make it up the Cape Fear River to Wilmington? ncrabbithole.com/p/edmund-fitzg…

A short story about writing on bathroom walls, the effects of being too online, and there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos, it'll be a home run, and so that'll make it a 4–0 ballgame. ncrabbithole.com/p/internet-com…

In non-pope news, the Duck-Rabbit brewery has closed, and I had many thoughts about it: ncrabbithole.com/p/goodbye-to-t…

New newsletter: We know what long-term recovery looked like around Asheville after the Flood of 1916. What can that teach us about what long-term recovery after Hurricane Helene? ncrabbithole.com/p/hurricane-he…

Wrote about Winston-Salem’s hottest new trend: People gathering at midnight to watch the lights turn off on an extremely phallic skyscraper. ncrabbithole.com/p/winston-sale…