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Science Tuesday: Black Dogs
2007-12-05 00:00:00 "All I ask for when I pray, Steady rollin woman gonna come my way. Need a woman gonna hold my hand And tell me no lies, make me a happy man." - Led Zeppelin - "Black Dog" I knew as soon as I saw this paper in Science this week that I wouldn't be able ... More About: Dogs , Tuesday
Top 10 Albums of 2007: No. 9 Modest Mouse - ?We Were Dead Before the Ship E
2007-12-05 00:00:00 "Couldn't quite seem to escape myself Far enough, far enough Far from Florida We were all drowning in cruise control Far enough, far enough Wasn't far enough..." -Modest Mouse - "Florida" Just a reminder of where we are in the countdown: 10. M.I.A. - "Kala" If you had asked me early in the year to make a guess as ... More About: Albums , Dead
Top 10 Albums of 2007: No. 10 M.I.A. - ?Kala?
2007-12-04 00:00:00 I am kind of an obsessive top 10 lister - I won't get into it too much as I'd like to keep this brief. But let's just say that since I started this site one of the blogging joys I've been looking forward to is end of year top 10 ... More About: Albums , Kala
Zach?s Music Monday: Mixing Science & Pleasure
2007-12-03 00:00:00 "Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down I went right home and I went to bed I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head..." -Johnny Cash - "Cocaine Blues" Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line" was one of Zach's favorite antenatal songs. ... More About: Science , Music , Monday , Pleasure
MP3 of the Week: The Felice Brothers - ?Roll On Arte? & ?Rockefeller Drugla
2007-12-03 00:00:00 Aha! I'm getting the timing down for reviewing new music - early in the morning while Zach is still sleeping. This means being hunched over my computer at six on a Sunday morning listening to headphones, but nobody said it was going to be easy. More About: Brothers , Arte , Roll , Week , Rockefeller
Clusterf**k to New Orleans *
2007-12-02 00:00:00 Well, as I slept the night away peacefully blissfully unaware in Blighty - the whole BCS system fell to pieces. Missouri saw its National Championship coach turn into a pumpkin in San Antonio with a beating down by the Sooners. All college football fans should be grateful to the Pitt ... More About: New Orleans , Orleans
New Look
2007-12-02 00:00:00 If you're a regular visitor to this site, you may have noticed that I'm making some changes to the template. With the college football season all but over, I decided to move away from Georgia red & black to a simpler and cleaner template. Please let me know what you ... More About: New Look
And the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day
2007-12-01 00:00:00 "It was Christmas Eve, babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me, Won't see another one..." Thanksgiving is in the books and leftovers gone where leftovers go. We've flipped the calendars over to December and the decorations and trees are up in earnest. Nearly every ad on the TV is trying ... More About: Were , Christmas Day
Rematch!
2007-11-30 00:00:00 By the time the dust settles in places like San Antonio, Morgantown and Jacksonville on Saturday night we'll know who will be playing for the NCAA football National Championship. For the first time since I have been an alum of any school, one of my alma maters has a shot ...
Being There
2007-11-30 00:00:00 "had a dad big and strong turned around found my daddy gone he was the one made me what I am today its up to me now my daddy has gone away..." -Jane's Addiction - "Had A Dad" It has been a rough week around the ranch this week. I realized that my Thanksgiving turkey was undercooked after ...
Science Tuesday: Baby Morality and Worm Longevity
2007-11-28 00:00:00 This week in Science Tuesday we'll focus on research with implications on the beginnings and the ends of human life. First, a study from Yale looking at the morality of infants and second, a paper from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Seattle suggesting that a certain class of anti-depressant ... More About: Baby , Longevity , Worm , Morality
Stem Cells: Clean Your Own Side of the Street
2007-11-28 00:00:00 My friend and fellow scientist Jason has been hassling me to write a post about the recent stem cell breakthroughs that have been all over the news for the last week. Two research groups, one led by Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University and the other by James Thomson at the ... More About: Clean , Street , Stem Cells , Side , Stem
The Objective Media?
2007-11-27 00:00:00 Oh, come on. On my My Yahoo home page, leading the Reuters U.S. National News this morning was this headline: Walmart.com offering online holiday deals all week How, exactly, is this the most important U.S. news story of the day? How is this news at all? Has Reuters been purchased by ... More About: Media
Zach?s Music Monday: I?m From Barcelona - ?Let Me Introduce My Friends?
2007-11-27 00:00:00 "Please press my rec and play 'cause I want to save this moment This will be my favourite song This will be my favourite album..." -I'm From Barcelona - "Rec & Play" I find most "kids" music tooth-achingly annoying. It tends to be oversimplified versions of traditional or classic top 40 songs performed by sub-par ... More About: Music , Friends , Monday
Missouri 36, Kansas 28
2007-11-25 00:00:00 Today was a good day. In my last college football related post of the weekend, Chase Daniel and the Missouri Tigers had a great night in Kansas City with a decisive win over Kansas. Daniel connected on more than 80% of his passes for over 361 yards and three touchdowns ... More About: Ansa
I?m backing Barack
2007-11-25 00:00:00 I have been following the election melodrama in the States pretty closely - I'm a sucker for political theater. While some people bemoan the extended schedule for next year's presidential election, I'm thrilled by it - the expanded schedule means months and months of debates and polls and baby kissing ... More About: Barack , Backing
Game Day: My Old School(s)
2007-11-25 00:00:00 "It was still September When your daddy was quite surprised To find you with the working girls In the county jail I was smoking with the boys upstairs When I heard about the whole affair I said oh no William and Mary wont do..." What a year in college football! Both of my alma maters (or is it ... More About: School , Game , Old School , Game Day
Tennesee 52, Kentucky 50
2007-11-25 00:00:00 Grudging congratulations to the Tennessee Volunteers, who knocked off Kentucky after four overtime periods to clinch their spot in the SEC Championship game. Damn. Well at least maybe the Bulldogs can start paying attention to these pesky Yellow Jackets and put them away!
Georgia 31, Georgia Tech 17
2007-11-25 00:00:00 Seven in a row over the North Avenue Trade School. It was a wild and weird game - as Georgia - Georgia Tech usually is - but a solid win for the Bulldogs. Senior tailback Thomas Brown was the Big Dawg of the day with 139 yards rushing and one ... More About: Georgia Tech
Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate
2007-11-23 00:00:00 Thanksgiving weekend is one of the best for college football. It's rivalry week - when passions are high and anything can happen on the field. It's all about in-state and neighboring state rivalries - Texas vs. Texas A & M, Virginia vs. Virginia Tech, Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State, Florida vs ... More About: Hate , Clean , Old Fashioned , Fash
Talkin? Trash: Big 12 Edition
2007-11-22 00:00:00 I focus most of my sports blogging on my beloved Georgia Bulldogs my undergraduate alma mater. However, an academic like myself usually has more than one school under his belt and the University of Missouri granted me a Ph.D. a few years back. For various reasons, the Mizzou sports teams ... More About: Edition , Trash , Big 12
Are you sh*tting me?
2007-11-22 00:00:00 "Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he "profoundly regrets" the loss of 25 million child benefit records. The Revenue and Customs data on the two missing discs includes names, dates of birth, bank and address details." I wish I could vote in Britain, because Labour would have just lost my vote ...
The Alice?s Restaurant Anti-Massacreed Movement
2007-11-22 00:00:00 After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie said he was going to putus in the cell. Said, "Kid, I'm going to put you in the cell, I want yourwallet and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can understand you wanting my wallet so ... More About: Restaurant , Anti , Alice
Science Tuesday: Mother Knows Best?
2007-11-21 00:00:00 When things get nasty in a particular environment, organisms that call it home have got to come up with ways to cope. Animals are mobile and tend to migrate to an environment where the proverbial grass is greener. However, if you are a sedentary organism - a plant ... More About: Science , Mother , Tuesday
My First Award - You Make Me Smile
2007-11-19 00:00:00 Busy Dad Mumbles has honored me with my first ever blogging award! The much esteemed and sought after "You Make Me Smile Award ". I've always thought that these blog awards were a little bit cheesy, but now I realize that was just jealousy and bitterness. My heart is swelling ...
MP3 of the Week: Malcolm Yelvington & The Star Rhythm Boys - ?Drinkin? Wine
2007-11-19 00:00:00 " Mr. Phillips never said anything behind nobody's back Like 'Dammit Elvis, don't he know, he ain't no Johnny Cash' " -Drive-by Truckers - "Carl Perkins' Cadillac" Zach's choice again this week. We were dancing around to keep him smiling this morning to some of the great rock n' roll songs of the ... More About: Wine , Star , Rhythm , Week , Boys
Zach?s Music Monday: Van Morrison - ?Astral Weeks?
2007-11-19 00:00:00 "There you go, Takin' good care of your boy Seein' that he's got clean clothes Puttin' on his little red shoes I see you know he's got clean clothes A-puttin' on his little red shoes Standing in your sad arrest Trying to do my very best..." Zach was in a particularly foul temper this weekend, so I pulled ... More About: Music , Van Morrison , Monday , Astral , Astra
Georgia 24, Kentucky 13
2007-11-18 00:00:00 It wasn't pretty, but in November you take a win where you can get one. The Vols know something about ugly wins as well and continue to stand in the way of a much deserved trip to the Georgia Dome for the Bulldogs. I guess we'll see what happens in ... More About: Kentucky
Game Day: UK vs. UGA - Live on the Internet!
2007-11-17 00:00:00 Zach is looking skeptical about the possibility of the Kentucky Wildcats pulling an upset on "the most dangerous team in the SEC". However, he wasn't even conceived last November when the Wildcats took Georgia to town in Lexington. However, we're both looking forward to being able to watch our ... More About: Internet , Live , Game , The Internet , Live O
Would you like a strip search with that?
More articles from this author:2007-11-17 00:00:00 One of the music blogs I read regularly recently veered away from form and posted a story called "America the Unfriendly" that got my mind whirling. However, I've got to space out my posts that cast aspersions on American government policies lest readers think I'm one of Bill O'Reilly's "America ... More About: Search , Strip 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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