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Lot of Kismet rolling around in the Kosmos these days.

A few days ago, someone sent me a link to a very cool site, called boonvilleusa.com, which is the work of a NY photographer/artist type named Tim Briner. The basic concept is that he is spending a month at each of the six Boonvilles in the U.S., and only those with one E. No Boonevilles need apply. The goal is to explore community and interaction across this great land. There’s a lot of really crappy multimedia and the like in the Interland. This is the rare exception, and the section on Boonville, NC, just down NC 67 is really good. And that got me thinking about the old days at the Journal, 20 years ago, when my best friend here was a fellow reporter covering Yadkin and Davie counties, and occasionally we would sneak out to Boonville to have lunch at this restaurant called Betty’s. They had frog legs, among other delicious things.

My friend, Steve Mills, left, but he’s still my close friend, and he is a heckuva reporter and has probably done more groundbreaking work on police and prosecutorial misconduct than any journalist working today. Here’s the second part of his series on officer-involved shootings that appears today in the Chicago Tribune.

Irony factor: Last night, as we were working on the story about Jim Grobe becoming the next coach of Arkansas, an email rolled into my inbox from WFU. It’s entitled What’s New @ WFU. Here are the top items:

Wake Forest accepts bid to Meineke Car Care Bowl December 29; purchase tickets and register for Wake Forest bowl events
Law, medical schools receive $7 million gift; scholarships created
Wake Forest is backup site for Presidential Debate

Of course, this is produced well before the time it’s sent, but still ...