LARGETONY Blog

This is probably the third or fourth post where underwear has figured into the theme. You all are likely to start thinking I have an underwear fetish or something. I don’t. In fact, if I could have it my way, I would never wear underwear. But, wearing underwear is a necessary evil. You need it [...]

Every Friday afternoon, me and a handful of my co-workers spend our last fifteen minutes or so of our week together, standing line at the bank to take care of our paychecks. Some Fridays it goes faster than others, but we all tend to shoot the shit with the guy in front or behind (and [...]

For the longest time I had no idea that the phrase “Friend of Dorothy” meant that someone is gay. Not sure when I figured it out. And I’m not completely sure how the phrase came about. I guess it must have something to do with the rainbow flag and “Somewhere Over The Rainbow.” Anyway, I [...]

After people get to know me, they often tell me that their first impression was that I appeared intimidating. But that’s all it really is. Appearance. I’m dark and pretty tall and don’t tend to smile much so people think I am some tough SOB.
On some level, I guess I am tough. My friend “J” [...]

Thirty days from today will be the season opener for the Vols. For those of you who do not follow college football, “Vol” is short for Volunteer. The Volunteers is the nickname for the University of Tennessee sports teams (like USC Trojans or Iowa Hawkeyes…you know, Tennessee Volunteers). They are not called the Volunteers because [...]