My friend Michael forwarded this...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Terence Moore: Vick's blind loyalists are just wrong
This column comes from the AJC, and Terence Moore has a new fan.
By the way...if you are seriously in need of a Role Model type...try out the Falcon's Warrick Dunn
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Minor League team to host "Michael Vick Animal Awareness Day" - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
(Uh, no, that's not my dog...)
You guys who know me, know I love my dogs. Frank is a flat coated retriever I found on the side of the road one afternoon coming home from work. (He's named after the restaurant here at Jackson Lake, he was in their driveway, you know, like the book and movie, "Because of Winn Dixie.") I met Jesse two Januarys ago at the Newton County Animal Shelter. She wasn't more than 10 weeks old, I guess, and had those webby lab feet, and I thought that was what I was getting. Later, as she developed the neck and shoulders and tenacious demeanor of a pit bull, did I realize I had a mostly pit bull.
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I love these dogs dearly. They love each other, and me and Andy the cat. They took care of a black snake in the kitchen, and a mouse somewhere in the house this weekend. They just want me to come home, and play with them, and love them, and feed them whatever I'm eating. If you knew how foolishly I acted around mice, you'd say that was a small price to pay.
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Anyway...my friend Matt sent me this link and I thought I'd share it with you. Everybody knows, dogs like ball games!
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July 23, 2007
LONG BEACH, California (Ticker) - A minor league baseball [team] has announced that on Sunday they will host "Michael Vick Animal Awareness Day."
The Long Beach Armada of Los Angeles of California of the United States of North America including Barrow, Alaska in the Independent Golden League are holding the event on the heels of Vick - the quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons - being indicted on federal dogfighting charges.
Fans are invited to bring their dogs and sit in a special section at Blair Field.
Also, any fan who trades in a Michael Vick jersey will receive free admission to the game. The Armada also will destroy all Vick jerseys in protest to the inhumane treatment of animals. --Updated on Monday, Jul 23, 2007 4:13 pm, EDT
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Nina Katchadourian
Nina Katchadourian has put together the "Sorted Books Project" with lots of pictures.
An interesting place to linger and read book spines...
Also look around in her other portfolios, great concepts, wonderful results.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Sunday Shopping
A little tongue in cheek, or rather in the toilet, for your Sunday, from this wonderful site. Peace.
and while you're there...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Amazing things: May 2007
Click on the link for an incredible time...Amazing things: May 2007
Amazing? Yes! I've gotten pieces of this blogsite in email forwards.
What a great site, and what wonderful photographs. This is where I've spent the afternoon, looking at the archives.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Flannery O'Connor
Yesterday, at Emory University's Woodruff Library in Atlanta, a collection of letters written to Elizabeth Hester by Flannery O'Connor, were unsealed and made available to the public.
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"... a man who appears frequently and unflatteringly in the correspondence of Georgia author Flannery O'Connor, showed up to take his medicine.
" "I was young then, in my 20s," said William Sessions, "and it's something to see myself written up by a master. Marvelous phrasing รข€” with a stiletto." "
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From Wikipedia...
"An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer in the vein of William Faulkner, often writing in a Southern Gothic style and relying heavily on regional settings and -- it is regularly said -- grotesque characters. However, she remarked "anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic" (Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose 40). Her texts often take place in the South and revolve around morally flawed characters, while the issue of race looms in the background. One of her trademarks is unsubtle foreshadowing, giving a reader an idea of what will happen far before it happens. Finally, she brands each work with a disturbing and ironic conclusion."
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Milledgeville isn't too far from here, only a couple of counties away, and I'm familiar with her homeplace in Baldwin County. There is a website for the The Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation, Inc., with information about the farm.
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My favorite short story and a good story to read just to get a feel for O'Connor's style, is "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."
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