by sumac | Jan 8, 2016 | Media Apologies
I write from a place thronged with icebergs. Little, big, massive icebergs. Grand, silly. Beautiful, peculiar. Sometimes adorned with wildlife. It’s a place where there’s an iceberg rule: don’t approach closer than three times the height of the...
by sumac | Dec 30, 2015 | Religious Apologies
I came across an apology from 2011, and back-tracked to try to figure out what happened. This took place on fivedoves.com, a website started by John Tng, Jim Bramlett, and three like-minded people in 1997, to “proclaim… the soon return of the Lord Jesus.”...
by sumac | Dec 26, 2015 | True Crime Apologies
There’s this host of an Outdoor Channel show, who also does shooting tips for a shotgun company. While on a bear-hunting trip for the show, the star messed up in a big way, shot too many bears, and cooked up a scheme with the guides to make it look like it never...
by sumac | Dec 18, 2015 | Artistic apologies, Celebrity Apologies
At a Deerhunter concert at the Orange Peel in early December, lead singer/guitarist Bradford Cox told a long rambling story about the first time Deerhunter appeared at the Peel in 2007. Smashing Pumpkins had a week-long run there, and then-obscure Deerhunter opened...
by sumac | Dec 11, 2015 | Personal Apologies
Sumac’s still in Antarctica, where people are awfully damned nice. They say sorry a lot, but not because they’ve done anything worth mentioning. Then when they secretly zip-tie a person’s leg to a chair leg, they just laugh. Sumac used the satellite...
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