Pasco Personalities With Geoff Fox http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/community/ en Feedback@tbo.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-01T21:53:49+00:00 Terry Speegle Answers Internal Call http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/community/comments/terry-speegle-answers-internal-call1/ Despite his anger, Terry Speegle found inspiration in news reports about the two Tampa police officers shot to death during a traffic stop early Tuesday.

Speegle wasn’t friends with Tampa officers David Curtis and Jeffrey Kocab, but he has known Michael Braswell for years. Braswell was one of two Polk…]]> Pasco Personalities With Geoff Fox 2010-07-02T21:50:44+00:00 Terry Speegle Answers Internal Call http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/community/comments/terry-speegle-answers-internal-call/ Despite his anger, Terry Speegle found inspiration in news reports about the two Tampa police officers shot to death during a traffic stop early Tuesday.

Speegle wasn’t friends with Tampa officers David Curtis and Jeffrey Kocab, but he has known Michael Braswell for years. Braswell was one of two Polk…]]> Pasco Personalities With Geoff Fox 2010-07-02T21:50:39+00:00 Flopping In The Streets Of Wesley Chapel; Or, Dude, You Don’t Have To Run Over The Corn Snake http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/community/comments/flopping-in-the-streets-of-wesley-chapel-or-dude-you-dont-have-to-run-over-/ I was walking the other night. It had been raining for hours and water was flowing down the side of the street toward a sewer.

In the distance, on the ground to my left, I saw something flopping. Since I had passed a 4-foot long corn snake on someone’s driveway…]]> Pasco Personalities With Geoff Fox 2010-04-28T22:10:46+00:00 Clifton’s Aspirations Expand http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/community/comments/cliftons-aspirations-expand/ Creating his own music has been Greg Clifton’s lifelong pursuit.

Now, he wants to help others produce theirs.

“It’s more lucrative that way,” said Clifton, a psychedelic Christian musician and longtime employee at Sounds Great CD store on Gall Boulevard.

A Dade City resident, Clifton, 29, recently formed JClif Productions…]]> Pasco Personalities With Geoff Fox 2010-04-16T18:20:12+00:00 Maine-ly Good Food http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/community/comments/maine-ly-good-food/ I’ve passed the place literally hundreds of times, and every time the parking lot is full.

Based on the countless, unsolicited testimonials from snowbirds and natives alike, I had always meant to eat at Maine-ly New England, the seafood restaurant on First Street in Zephyrhills.

I finally had the opportunity…]]> Pasco Personalities With Geoff Fox 2010-04-06T20:26:44+00:00 Blurg http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/community/comments/blurg/ Somewhere around the third round of his legendary bout with Buster Douglas, Mike Tyson must have realized he was unprepared.

It’s an ugly feeling.

He was eating jabs, taking hooks to the body and being challenged in a way he didn’t expect.

I wasn’t eating punches at the Pasco County…]]> Pasco Personalities With Geoff Fox 2010-02-18T21:10:08+00:00 News Cycle Comes Full Circle http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/community/comments/news-cycle-comes-full-circle/ From the beginning, witnesses talked about the stolen PlayStation.

Eddie Stoddard was so furious that his had been stolen, they said, that he shot Doug Abrams Jr. to death on April 23, 2008, because he was convinced his 26-year-old neighbor had taken the video-game system, as well as a TV…]]> Pasco Personalities With Geoff Fox 2010-02-02T21:06:42+00:00 MLK Day Resonates In Lacoochee http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/community/comments/mlk-day-resonates-in-lacoochee/ I was at the Boys & Girls Club of Lacoochee earlier today, where a group of Saint Leo University students helped many of the club’s young members clean up the blighted community’s landmark.

While I was there with photographer Andy Jones, club leader McNair Charles directed the children, as they…]]> Pasco Personalities With Geoff Fox 2010-01-18T21:57:39+00:00 Happy New Year http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/community/comments/happy-new-year/ It’s been a while since we’ve updated ye ol’ Everyday People blog.

And it’s not like nothing has happened in the last six weeks.

For starters, “Tiger” Edmonds caught a docile raccoon in his trap, possibly one I helped load. Alas, the video camera got fouled in attempting to film…]]> Pasco Personalities With Geoff Fox 2009-12-31T18:14:49+00:00 Thug Robs The Book Shack A Week After Store’s Anniversary http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/community/comments/thug-robs-the-book-shack-a-week-after-stores-anniversary/ It requires no bravery or mental agility to walk into a book store with a gun, level it at the proprietor and make off with practically nothing.

Such an act could get you a pretty stiff prison sentence if you get caught, though, especially if you’re a convicted felon.

Anyone…]]> Pasco Personalities With Geoff Fox 2009-10-16T21:55:36+00:00