Ike Morgan

"Jaws" hit theaters 47 years ago today -- on June 20, 1975. It's hard to imagine a pop culture before "Jaws" was in it. Particularly if you're a coastal sort, the iconic film has influenced more than a little of the imagery around you. (Go ahead and get you that shark-tooth shoelace necklace at Alvin's Island. People will know you're livin' the "Salt Life" if you wear it to work on Monday.) Supposedly "Jaws" is what gave humans the heebie-jeebies about sharks. I say that's self-important entertainment-industry hogwash. Admittedly, I'm too young to remember life before "Jaws," but I'm pretty sure sharks have always given people the heebie-jeebies. My most recent run-in with a shark on his turf happened a couple years ago. I was wading in murky water, waist-deep, with a cast net, looking for a mullet supper. He was swimming along the bottom looking for a sexy pair of ankles to chomp down on. He passed on mi...

I once owned ikemorgan.com. And then, suddenly, I didn't. Probably because I stopped checking the email account that I opened in 1941 and did not see the "YOU MUST RENEW YOUR ACCOUNT YESTERDAY" notices. The domain seller I bought it from eventually gave up on hoping that I would buy it back at a higher rate (and it no longer needed my money to forward to Danica Patrick) so it let ikemorgan.com go. And now I've re-purchased it. Also, I've decided to use the URL to crank up this blog. My staff -- my agent, my executive producer, my crew chief and my wife's pool boy -- will have it cooking by Monday week. And then I'll have a URL and a blog. This first post is mostly so I can see what a post looks like on my URL and blog. Two goals here: (1) To stop myself from losing, deleting or discarding the more self-indulgent crap that I write; and (2) to make enough money -- a half penny at a time -- to buy a pool.