Greenville to Brooklyn

Counselor Joe's grand-dog Wylie, who actually belongs to D.C. Niecie, stopped sniffing for squirrels long enough to pose with him and his sister The Great Ducknik. Plot and Duck spent a wonderful three days in a pretty little corner of South Carolina with Counselor Joe and his Dodger fan wife, The Great Pat-Nik. They couldn't be more gracious people.

True, she prefers the Atlanta Braves, and the University of South Carolina Gamecocks even more, but put a Dodger cap on the girl and she blends right in.

 Five pounds of shrimp feeds four hungry people. But nobody used the barbecue sauces seen below.

Now it is true that politics in the Carolinas comes in a different color than back home in Shmalifornia.

True, Plotnik believes those numbers you see are just a telephone number and a wrong one at that.

But he also thinks that family, which is the most important thing there is, trumps politics, which in the end is just about shuffling the deck every four years to deal out the same old cards.

At this moment Plot and Duck have made it up to Brooklyn, New Yawk, and it's wonderful to be here. Everyone is a sight for sore eyes.