2017 ~ Rational To A Fault

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Butt of a Cosmic Joke

Life is weird. So is dying. Yeah, I’m talking about cancer again. Not that there isn’t plenty else to talk about. With the country tearing itself apart over racism, nuclear war being threatened, and the county closing trash sites last week, I felt like all I had ever...

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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Overview of the Tara Grinstead Mystery

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Overview of the Tara Grinstead Mystery by Dusty Vassey The Tara Grinstead Mystery began more than 11 years ago, but even after two arrests in the case, questions remain. This is an edited reprint of a series of articles I wrote for The Ocilla Star from June 7, June...

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Sunday, August 13, 2017

The Brutal Savagery

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The Brutal Savagery You may need to twist your sense of humor some to enjoy this story, so if you're incapable of doing so, you might want to quit reading. Saturday, I was visited by some of my best friends and also some guy named Jonathan. Everyone says "You can...

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Friday, August 11, 2017

A Funny Story About Cancer

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A Funny Story About Cancer This is, I hope, proof that you can make a funny story out of anything. I'm going to start in a weird place, as I often do with these stories, and that's with my pants. I've lost about 35 pounds in the past several months, for reasons which...

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Thursday, August 3, 2017

It'll All Be Clear

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'It'll All Be Clear' Today, August 3, I got a notice on Facebook that it was a year ago exactly that I discovered someone named Payne Lindsey was planning a podcast about the disappearance of Tara Grinstead. It feels like that was many years ago. Seriously. I thought...

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Sunday, June 18, 2017

The Beach!

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A Salty Review of The Beach! There are a lot of things I don’t understand the fascination with. Fidget spinners. Horse racing. NASCAR racing. Drag racing. Watching golf. Nose rings. Lip rings. Indoor pets. Designer sunglasses. Jam bands. Wallet chains. Having children. But...

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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

The Unsolvable Mystery

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Pictured is a recent photo of the home where Tara Grinstead lived in 2005. The Unsolvable Mystery We're never going to know what happened to Tara Grinstead. If you're reading this, you're probably one of the thousands of people who are intensely interested in solving...

2017 / Bo Dukes / Georgia / Irwin County / Ocilla / Payne Lindsey / Rational to a Fault / Tara Grinstead / Up and Vanished

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About

Hey y'all. My name is Dusty Vassey. I'm a reporter, blogger, humorist, composer, song writer, cartoonist and general disaster of a human being from Irwinville, Georgia. I'm the staff writer for The Ocilla Star newspaper in Ocilla, Georgia, and one day, while debating my editor about some subject or other, I said, "I'm just trying to be rational" or some such. She responded, "I think you're rational to a fault." The blog is a place where I can post opinion pieces and humorous stories that are too long for the paper or have previously appeared in the paper. Many of the posts are also fact-filled opinion pieces or speculative reports about news stories, particularly the disappearance of Tara Grinstead, a famous mystery I've covered from the week she first went missing. I have been a regular guest on the podcast about the case, Up and Vanished, and I use the screen name ocillareporter on the UAV Discussion Board. I'm also known around my hometown as the "Irwinvillain" after my song of the same name, and I have a channel of music videos on YouTube if you're tired of enjoying pleasant sounds.

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