My Great Deer Hunt airs this weekend on KET; watch me shoot and kill

Me (top) and a 170-pound eight-point buck (bottom).

The photo to the right probably gives away the ending, but if you’re curious how I evolved from never having shot at a living creature to the slayer of this beautiful eight-point buck in just a few hours, my hunt will be aired on Kentucky Afield this weekend:

• Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EST on KET
• Sunday, 4:00 p.m. EST on KET
• Monday–Friday, 11:30 p.m. EST on Lexington’s CW-KYT

For those of you not fortunate enough to live in Kentucky, clips should be on YouTube shortly.

My article on the experience is now slated for the February 2012 issue of Louisville Magazine.

November 2011 posts for Louisville.com

Check below the jump for my Louisville.com articles from November 2011.

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Thanksgiving 2011 menu at my home: one turkey, four pies, and seven Chinese journalists

Happy Thanksgiving 2011 from the Eversons—and guests.

A 23-month-old + a pregnant wife in third trimester + vacationed with my parents in September + seeing my folks at Christmas = 2011 was going to be the first of my 35 Thanksgivings that I wouldn’t spend with my parents. Instead, my wife, daughter, and I were going to celebrate at home in Louisville, just the three of us.

As is often the case though, a Thanksgiving dinner picks up some stragglers. In our case, it was seven Chinese journalists and their two interpreters.

The group came to our area through the  World Affairs Council of Kentucky/Southern Indiana (I’ve met with other groups it sponsored). In addition to Louisville, the  journalists were visiting New York City; Washington, DC; Minneapolis; and San Francisco.

Representing Chinese media outlets like Time Weekly, Chongqing Sina, Shenyang Evening News, China Daily, and Chengdu.cn, they photographed and jotted notes about how my wife prepared Thanksgiving dinner. I informed them that while many American men help prepare the meal, I’m not one of them (although I let them know I’d be cleaning up afterwards).

Visiting a local home is often a highlight on my travels; hopefully they found their experience here likewise. One journalist fell asleep on the couch during our Thanksgiving—so clearly they had no problem getting acclimated with the traditions of this North American holiday.

Drinking Jocktails at Breeders’ Cup for BlackBook

Earlier this month BlackBook dispatched me to cover both the Jocktails party, part of the run-up to the 2011 Breeders’ Cup, and preview Downs After Dark, the sole night race of Churchill Downs 2011 fall meet:

“Two Breeders Cup-Inspired Jocktails to Down During Friday Night’s Downs After Dark Horse Race”

I didn’t follow the new wagering strategy I laid out in the article. As I failed to cash a single ticket though, perhaps I should have. Or perhaps I should stop wagering (down $467.17 for the year) and just roll up $20 bills and smoke them.

I brave the Paula Deen Buffet for Louisville Magazine

Weary of reviews of the same kinds of restaurants—exposed brick! farm to table! artisan cheeses!—Louisville Magazine dispatched me to check out the Paula Deen Buffet in Southern Indiana’s Horseshoe Casino. My article about the experience ran in the November issue:

• Download a .pdf of the article here
• Read the article on Louisville.com here

I was really hoping that the food would be decent. Alas, apparently it doesn’t matter whose name is attached to it: a downmarket casino buffet is a downmarket casino buffet. None of the other diners seemed to mine though (well, except for my daughter who passed on one of her favorite meals, mac n’ cheese, to instead lick ketchup off of her fingers).