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  • Mad Mechanics: The Funbar Disaster – Buzz’d, Bling’d & Burned Out*Written by: Emmitt Owens**Narrated by: Waylon* Waylon: “Well now, folks, let me tell you about the day a social media app called Funbar turned the Mad Mechanics shop into something resembling a teenage sleepover, complete with constant phone checking, mysterious notifications, and grown men arguing Read more

  • Unbreakable Spirits, Robin Songs, and Childhood Fears    The clock had just struck ten on this Friday night at Chill n’Fill, and the weekend energy was already crackling through the air like electricity before a storm. Behind me, tonight’s painting had appeared as Norman Rockwell’s “Saying Grace” from 1951, that tender scene of a grandmother Read more

  • Bob’s Great Hot Dog Roller Caper    I arrived for my Tuesday shift at Chill n’Fill to find Bob crouched behind the counter like a surgeon preparing for the operation of a lifetime, surrounded by what appeared to be the dismantled remains of our hot dog roller. Tools I’d never seen before were spread across Read more

  • Smoke Signals, Artistic Rebellion, and Hypocritical Hearts    Saturday night at Chill n’Fill had that restless energy of a weekend in full swing, where people emerged from their weekly routines ready to embrace whatever chaos the night might offer. Behind me, tonight’s painting had appeared as Jackson Pollock’s “Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)”—all those wild, Read more