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July 5, 2008

When God teaches patience, or, Job never went to the 8th Avenue Kroger

I suppose I have many faults. Probably a few I can’t name, but ones my family could probably recite in their sleep. I’m often quick to anger, but in my heart of hearts, I’ve gotta believe that lack of patience is my top-of-the-charts, slow burning, double-grinding-stomach-churning crime of gnashin’.
To teach me and my [...]

July 4, 2008

Why I love baseball part 285

Foul play!

more about "Why I love baseball part 285", posted with vodpod

June 8, 2008

Ting ting, uh, attention please..I’d like to interrupt this prolonged blogging hiatus

by proclaiming that the best summer song of many seasons is ‘That’s Not my Name’ by the fabulous ‘The Ting Tings‘.  I’m not kidding.  It starts out a little like ‘Hey Mickey’, but it quickly moves into infectious compulsory-dance mode after a minute or two.  The last two minutes of the song just kills me.
You [...]

April 1, 2008

5:46 seconds of late-night zen

Sigur Ros…mmmmmm
from www.youtube.com posted with vodpod

March 17, 2008

Lima or bust, or, Don´t EVER travel with me

We made it to Lima late last night, unbelievably.
If you are ever tempted to request me as a partner for The Amazing Race, don´t.  The same luck I regularly bring to the Predators (attended 9 games this year, coinciding with 9 losses), I bring to travel.
Earlier this year,  I missed the Super Bowl after being [...]

March 2, 2008

I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Kinagrannis

A little late night zen..I like these sister harmonies.
from youtube.com posted with vodpod

January 15, 2008

Once a month…

I’m wrong.  Just wanted to acknowledge my mistake and move on…you know, like professional athletes and politicians do..say I was wrong and ask the nation to move along.

January 15, 2008

Damn, I had January 4th*…

And, in other Titan news, Pacman allegedly punched a lawyer at a strip club down in way-too-hot ‘lanta on January 3rd. Happyhappy New Year. Good to see the Pac is still making it rain…
*joke stolen entirely from Vic Bowker

December 24, 2007

Peace, y’all


October 18, 2007

They’ll stone you when you’re trying to be good, or Following the Brooksian logic to its logical end

A woman walks across Bicentennial Mall late at night. Some guy had asked her for a light sometime earlier that evening on 5th Avenue. When she walks past the bandshell area of the mall, that same man rapes her.
Kay Brooks says:
She should not have been walking through the park alone and late at night.
No, that [...]

July 21, 2007

Were they waiting for their visas to be processed?

Seven Mexican kangaroos die in four weeks..

July 11, 2007

Sista goes to college..

And has a VERY special message for her old junior high school counselor.
I”m sure that most of us had positive encouragement from teachers and counselors back in junior high and high school, but if you are like me, you may remember some of the positive stuff, but the criticism and negativity is still up there [...]

June 1, 2007

Next contestant - Mr. Steve Gill, or, nodding off during the Spelling Bee..

I was attempting to watch the National Spelling Bell last night, but I made the mistake of approaching the viewing in a recumbent position. The sleep elves go into action when I assume this position, therefore what I actually see on TV and what I think I see are occasionally at odds.
Our next contestant [...]

May 31, 2007

Is putting this on your license plate all that smart?


April 24, 2007

David Halberstam, R.I.P.

I was guzzling coffee this morning at our friend’s house in Sarasota after experiencing a tough Yankee’s loss last night to the lowly Devil Rays.  I was wishing I was less than a complete idiot regarding sunscreen and the amount of time I spent on the beach yesterday and I was thinking how much fun [...]

April 1, 2007

Governor Bredesen sells naming rights to Bicentennial Mall

The smallest state park in Tennessee, formerly known as the Bicentennial Mall will soon be known as ‘Nissan Mall’.
Bredesen explained:
‘We already have a Centennial Park in Nashville. Nobody really understands the ‘Bi’ prefix anyway. Nissan offered to fund my pre-K program for three years as long as the kids were taught Japanese [...]

March 28, 2007

If you’re ever laying around too weak to get off the couch or switch the channel, and this movie called London comes on, and you think,….oh, Jessica Biel…don’t bother.

Everyone knows that your standard of acceptable TV watching dips into the sub-Maury levels when you are on your not-quite-spinning sick bed. Food and drink do not tempt, but the TeeVee gapes…I’m only typing this as a warning to all you youngsters out there..I don’t care if you do drugs or drop out of [...]

March 24, 2007

Going to Ashland City tonight…More cowbell with Slartibartfast

I’m heeding the call Were heading up to Ashland City to hear Slarti’s band (X-Alt) play tonight at the GBH Coffeehouse, right smack dab in downtown Ashland City. Slarti is promising that he’ll be snging more lead tonight..Slarti has a ROCK n’ ROLL voice. The band is actually loaded with great voices, but [...]

March 15, 2007

Who did George Washington think they were playing today?…

The Commodores just rolled George Washington today. It was almost college against high school. I really did wonder if somebody sent GW the wrong game films for Vanderbilt considering that they left the Vandy 3-point shooters wide and wider open during most of the game.
After doing a little investigative reporting, I discovered that [...]

March 14, 2007

I ‘get’ PI with a little help from my friends..

Do you know why today (March 14) is PI day?   It took me way too long to figure this out.
ht: Phil Arnold