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The Movie Star & The Cannibal www.quillbilly.com/the-movie-st...
The Movie Star & The Cannibal
Did you know that Hollywood’s greatest leading man, an Academy Award winner and heartthrob of a generation, once served as a pallbearer for one of America’s most infamous cannibals? Even stranger: it ...
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September 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Point / Counterpoint: Tylenol and Autism www.quillbilly.com/point-counte...
Point / Counterpoint: Tylenol and Autism
The Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers: “Bring on the Tylenol” Look, we’ll level with you. We need autistic people. Always have. Who the hell else is going to memorize a 400-page timetable, show up on...
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September 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Waffle House Unveils New Logo www.quillbilly.com/waffle-house...
Waffle House Unveils New Logo
ATLANTA—Fresh off Cracker Barrel’s much-debated branding shakeup, another Southern institution has announced a rebrand that may finally align its public image with the reality inside its dining rooms....
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August 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Unveils New Trump-Approved Exhibit: Kanye

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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Unveils New Trump-Approved Exhibit: Kanye
QUILLBILLY NEWS WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a sweeping redesign praised by former President Donald Trump, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture announced Tuesday that it...
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August 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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The Boy Fiend & The Blame Game www.quillbilly.com/the-boy-fien...

America's first serial killer, America's first cowboy hero, and a lasting tendency to try to blame evil on everything but evil.
The Boy Fiend & The Blame Game
In March of 1874, Bostoners began whispering about a missing girl. Her name was Katie Mary Curran, just ten years old, daughter of John and Mary. She'd left home one morning to buy a school notebook a...
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August 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Coming Soon To A Bookstore Near You (August 19, 2025) www.quillbilly.com/coming-soon-...
Coming Soon To A Bookstore Near You (August 19, 2025)
All book descriptions provided by the publisher. Pig Latin: A Seriously Funny True Story of a Former Police Officer By Eric Tansey and Nick Palmisciano Atria Books Available in Hardcover,...
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August 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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A Succulent Chinese Meal www.quillbilly.com/a-succulent-...
A Succulent Chinese Meal
The other day a new restaurant opened in Chattanooga. Ox2 Buns & Noodles. It’s wedged between Best Buy, Hamilton Liquor, and Fresh Market, out near Hamilton Place. I’d eaten there back when it was on...
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August 17, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Will Rogers Was America(n) www.quillbilly.com/will-rogers-...
Will Rogers Was America(n)
Will Rogers, who died on this day in 1935, was the very definition of American. Born to a Cherokee Nation family in Oologah, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), Rogers joked that though his ancestors di...
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August 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Scandal? What Scandal? www.quillbilly.com/scandal-what...
Scandal? What Scandal?
Scandal: a circumstance or action that offends propriety or established moral conceptions or disgraces those associated with it. -Merriam Webster Dictionary Prior to the modern era, Presidential sca...
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August 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Book Excerpt: MARINOVICH: Outside the Lines in Football, Art, and Addiction www.quillbilly.com/book-excerpt...
Book Excerpt: MARINOVICH: Outside the Lines in Football, Art, and Addiction
MARINOVICH: Outside the Lines in Football, Art, and Addiction By Todd Marinovich with Lizzy Wright Published by Matt Holt Books/BenBella Books Hardcover Prologue If you could be anyone...
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August 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Coming Soon To A Bookstore Near You (August 12, 2025) www.quillbilly.com/coming-soon-...
Coming Soon To A Bookstore Near You (August 12, 2025)
All book descriptions provided by the publisher. Anonymous Male: A Life Among Spies By Christopher Whitcomb Random House Available in Hardcover, ebook, audiobook In September 2001, Christo...
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August 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Albums I Like — Sophisticated Giant by Dexter Gordon www.quillbilly.com/albums-i-lik...
Albums I Like — Sophisticated Giant by Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon had been gone for a long time—14 years in Europe, mostly in Copenhagen and Paris. So when he finally came back to the States in the mid-1970s, it wasn’t just a return—it was a homecoming...
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August 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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I'm Fine, How Are You? www.quillbilly.com/im-fine-how-...
I'm Fine, How Are You?
Letters are now emails. Phone calls are now texts. Snark is the new smile. You are now more likely to sue your neighbor in court than you are to talk to them over the shared fence. Plenty of socio...
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August 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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A Little Thing Happened In Bledsoe County www.quillbilly.com/a-little-thi...
A Little Thing Happened In Bledsoe County
If you don’t live in Southeast Tennessee, maybe this sounds like one of those “only in the South” deals—part county fair, part spectacle, part mystery as to how exactly we all ended up here. But if yo...
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August 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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The Ballad of James Killingsworth www.quillbilly.com/the-ballad-o...
The Ballad of James Killingsworth
Back in the early Aughts, I worked for a company called ARS, and Brad York was my right-hand man. Brad and I sat across from each other with four or five other people in a dingy little office that had...
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August 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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For Your TBR Stack (Aug 5, 2025) www.quillbilly.com/for-your-tbr...
For Your TBR Stack (Aug 5, 2025)
This week’s suggestions include the FBI looking for crooks at McDonalds, the inside story of the making of a classic rock album, and the untold story of the true relationship between Elvis Presley and...
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August 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Prologue / The Sperm Hits Egg www.quillbilly.com/prologue-the...
Prologue / The Sperm Hits Egg
Ike Turner wasn’t sure about the crazy white man on the other side of the glass.  He sat on his piano stool, a lit Chesterfield loose between his long fingers, and studied the crazy white man, Sam Ph...
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August 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Baseball Doesn't Love Me Back www.quillbilly.com/baseball-doe...
Baseball Doesn't Love Me Back
When I was ten-years-old, just after the dinosaurs had disappeared, it was still a normal thing in the summer for neighborhood kids to get together and play baseball.  The neighbors directly across th...
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August 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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NO TUNA. CHEESEBURGER? www.quillbilly.com/no-tuna-chee...
NO TUNA. CHEESEBURGER?
I am not a foodie; not even close. But living on the road as I do, I no longer have a kitchen of my own, so I eat out a lot.  And I have noticed some new trends in restaurants that I do not like very ...
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August 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Bison & Cougars & Bears! (And Lies) www.quillbilly.com/bion-cougars...
Bison & Cougars & Bears! (And Lies)
You may have seen the picture. The road leading away from Yellowstone National Park is impassable, crowded with grizzly bears fleeing the area. Accompanying the picture is an explanation that park off...
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August 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The Man Who Made The West Wild www.quillbilly.com/the-man-who-...
The Man Who Made The West Wild
149 years ago, on August 2nd, 1876, Jack McCall walked into Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood, drew his Colt Single Action, yelled "Damn you! Take that!", and shot James Butler Hickok in the b...
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August 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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See ‘Em While You Can www.quillbilly.com/see-em-while...
See ‘Em While You Can
I was around twelve when Elvis passed. While young, I had several older cousins who were huge fans of the guy and remember the profound shock many experienced. I’d seen more than a few of his movies a...
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August 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Mama, I’m Coming Home www.quillbilly.com/mama-im-comi...
Mama, I’m Coming Home
Mama, I’m Coming Home Years ago, a thirteen-year old kid with a serious jones for The Beatles, Buck Owens and 60s jangle bands was hanging out with a slightly older friend.  “You should listen to th...
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August 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Standing for Nothing www.quillbilly.com/standing-for...
Standing for Nothing
A lot of us have asked ourselves when it started. This slow slide into whatever the hell version of reality we’re trapped in now. If you’re an adherent to “the worst timeline” type thing, it’s easy t...
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July 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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What We Stand to Lose at Dinosaur www.quillbilly.com/what-we-stan...
What We Stand to Lose at Dinosaur
There’s a photo in a family photo album, from way back when you took a thing called film to a place called a photomat, where they did a thing called developing said film, and you put a physical copy o...
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July 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM