The Upstate Under Your Nose

ACT I: Weekends are rarely as relaxing as we would like. Housework, yardwork, baseball and soccer games, birthday parties, etcetera de...

I honestly do not know who declared that today is National IPA Day. I could probably look around the interwebs for a bit and find out if t...

May 1? I am a little embarrassed that it has been this long since our last post. What the hell? Has Brett been too busy drinking be...

Did you ever wish you could be three places at once? This has been a growing problem for me as there just seems like there is too m...

This Looks Like A Great Idea! Anybody that read our opinion of the food truck debate might have picked up some clues that I am a rab...

Picture courtesy of Asadarestaurant.com I am tempted to tear into a rant on how corrupt our government is at every level. I could sure...

A year ago we lived in Anderson but I was spending a lot of time wandering around Greenville while my son was down the street getting...

I was in middle school when I started giving up on “mainstream” sources of new music.   It was then that I realized that every radio s...

Our last post was a good damn while ago and that is pretty slack. Here's to more timely blog posts moving forward and something to bridg...

George Throop What is the most physically and mentally demanding thing you have ever done? I have hiked 15-plus miles a day o...

A week ago I had shoulder surgery. A "minor procedure" turned into an unexpected repair of a torn rotator cuff and a torn bicep.  ...

A few weeks ago we ranted about, I mean, reviewed The Upstate Be’s Best of the Upstate Reader’s Choice Awards. The winners of this surv...

One of the best things about my “jobs” is the variety of people I meet.  Customers in the construction industry are always unique, the sta...

For a couple of people that have a blog about all the cool stuff there is to find in the Upstate, we really do not get out enough.  Half our...

Every couple of months Chris builds up enough overtime during the week to get kicked out of work on Friday.  Sometimes this penny pinching a...

I barely sat down and my butt had not even started to warm up my seat when our friend Debi asked me “what are you going to write about tonig...

The Avett Brothers Saturday night Chris, Ivan and I celebrated the turning of the calendar at The Bi-Lo Center with The Avett Brothers . ...

New Year’s Eve is a time for celebration. Generally we eat and drink in excess so we can make sure we wake up on New Year’s Day feeling suff...

<NOTE: It would have made sense to post this days ago when it was written and Christmas was not already upon us but I got busy. I think t...

About a month ago I posted a story about the days I spend at Spill The Beans .  As you may recall, my “Ivan Weeks” are heavily focused on wo...