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Cats Vs. Dawgs
2007-11-15 00:00:00 Georgia finishes up their SEC schedule on Saturday in Athens against the Kentucky Wildcats. The Dawgs are coming in on a roll while the 'Cats peaked a little early, but all good Georgia fans - and hopefully players - will remember this scene from Lexington last November as Kentucky fans ...
Belly
2007-11-14 00:00:00 "Heal me by a river. Man retires his wife says, But she was so sad and sick. His heart breaks in the mud. Thought I'd leave this world by twenty-one." -Belly - "Slow Dog" I'm fairly certain that I'm dying. I've woken up the last two morning with my throat swollen shut, rendered wordless not only ...
Science Tuesday: The Superbug?s Superpower
2007-11-13 00:00:00 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) now causes more deaths per year in the U.S. than AIDS. MRSA's tendency to resist treatment by common antibiotics has predictably earned it the nickname "Superbug" in the lay press. But beyond the press hype is the foundation of a true epidemic. Staphylococcus species of bacteria ... More About: Science , Tuesday , The Super
Zach?s Music Monday: R.E.M. - ?Reconstruction of the Fables?
2007-11-13 00:00:00 "Somewhere near the end it said "You can't do this", I said "I can too" Shift sway rivers shift, oceans fall and mountains drift It's a Man Ray kind of sky Let me show you what I can do with it..." -R.E.M. - "Feeling Gravity's Pull" The best thing about sharing your favorite music with someone ... More About: Music , Monday , Reconstruction , Fables
MP3 of the Week: Wes Montgomery - ?Four on Six?
2007-11-12 00:00:00 This feature is supposed to highlight a new single by a relative musical newcomer. This is a task that is becoming increasingly difficult on the weekends. Seems that my 8 week old son is covetous of my attentions except on the rare occasions when he is asleep. So, my weekends ... More About: Week , Mont
Inconvenient truths?
2007-11-12 00:00:00 Since James Watson's fall from grace a couple of weeks ago, I've been trying to establish in my own head the appropriate response to his statements. A couple of media stories this weekend helped me to to at least phrase the appropriate question: What if scientific inquiry yields results that ... More About: Ruth
Game Day: Auburn at Georgia
2007-11-11 00:00:00 Zach and I are looking forward to some smash mouth SEC football tonight in Athens. Hopefully he won't need kisses of comfort from his Mama after this old school Southern football clash. Zach and I have been dancing around all day to the Ray Charles version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" all ... More About: Game , Auburn , Game Day , Burn
You and me and the devil makes three?
2007-11-11 00:00:00 Zach fights sleep. Once he's off he'll stay asleep for hours at a time, but the battle to get him down can be a long and frustrating one. Dr. O'Connell has her way that, as far as I can tell, involves sitting still and quiet in the dark until exhaustion ... More About: Devil , The Devil
First you learn a native custom?
2007-11-09 00:00:00 "Some of them go for the sailing Brought by the lure of the sea Tryin' to find what is ailing Living in the land of the free..." -Jimmy Buffett - "Banana Republics" OK, this post may permanently ruin my indie-rock credibility, but one can not control what iTunes spits at you when you give the ... More About: Learn , Custom , Native
The Deep South?s Oldest Rivalry
2007-11-09 00:00:00 I imagine that every good Georgia Bulldog fan has seen this photo of Uga V trying to take a chunk out of Auburn WR Robert Baker's midriff thousands of times. That's just one (of the best) moments in this South ern college football rivalry that started in 1892. These two teams ... More About: Deep , Deep South
Wordless Wednesday: I?ll Be Your Mirror
2007-11-07 00:00:00 More About Wordless Wednesday More About: Mirror
Science Tuesday: Drunk Flies Tell Tall Tales About Alcoholism
2007-11-07 00:00:00 "I love you more than I did the week before I discovered alcohol O Alcohol, would you please forgive me? For while I cannot love myself I'll use something else..." -Barenaked Ladies - "Alcohol" Alcoholism is a disease with major world health implications. There are over 15 million people in the U.S. suffering from alcoholism resulting ... More About: Science , Drunk , Tall , Tales , Flies
Breastfeeding Brighter Babies?
2007-11-07 00:00:00 There was an article that came out yesterday in BBC News citing a study that claims that breast fed children with a certain allele (variant) of a gene involved in fatty acid metabolism scored seven points higher in IQ tests than formula fed babies. This is one of those studies ... More About: Babies , Breastfeeding
Zach?s Music Monday: Arcade Fire - ?Neon Bible?
2007-11-06 00:00:00 "In an ocean of noise I first heard your voice Ringing like a bell As if I had a choice, oh well!" -Arcade Fire - "Ocean of Noise" Zach and I have been focusing on the classics thus far in our musical journey. There is certainly nothing wrong with that - it's good for Zach ... More About: Music , Bible , Neon Bible , Arcade Fire
MP3 of the Week: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - ?Killing The Blues?
2007-11-05 00:00:00 There is a history of strange bedfellows collaborating in popular music. Sometimes these collaborations work out really well - Jack White and Loretta Lynn, for example - and sometimes not so well - Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney. With the recent release of their collaboration, "Raising Sand", bluegrass diva Alison ... More About: Blues , Robert Plant , Alison Krauss , Week , Robert
Political Friday: The End of Political Friday?
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Nels Cline has been playing guitar with Wilco since 2004, but has had his own career as a jazz guitarist since the late 70's. I'm actually a pretty big jazz fan, though my tastes tend toward the cool jazz of the 40's and 50's - Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Cannonball ... More About: Political , Friday , Politic
Game Day: Homecoming
2007-11-03 00:00:00 The Bulldogs get a welcome break from SEC play this week for their homecoming game against the Troy Trojans. Unfortunately for the Dawgs, however, the Trojans are no pushover. Troy is 6 - 2, with the two losses coming in the first two weeks of the season at the hands ... More About: Game , Game Day , Meco
Link Love - 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera
2007-11-02 00:00:00 For nearly the first time since I started this site I've got nothing to say today, no music to share and no pictures to show off. I think this is a temporary writer's block brought on by trying to balance being a fledgling parent and a full time job. But ... More About: Love , Camera , Link , Monkeys
The Be Good Tanyas
2007-10-31 00:00:00 I just realized that I've used songs from The Be Good Tanyas for two of the last three Wordless Wednesday posts. It seems only fair to talk a little about this wonderful band. I use music with a lot of my posts for two reasons, one is to give people ...
Science Tuesday: Chatty Redheads or Dirty Hands?
2007-10-31 00:00:00 Neanderthals are our hominid relatives with whom we shared the Mediterranean region for several thousand years before began to be supplanted by modern man around 45,000 years ago and became extinct shortly thereafter. There are a number of questions regarding their fate, the biggest being why modern humans were ultimately ... More About: Science , Dirty , Hands , Tuesday
Zach?s Music Monday: Bob Dylan - ?Highway 61 Revisited?
2007-10-30 00:00:00 "When you're lost in the rain in Juarez And it's Eastertime too And your gravity fails And negativity don't pull you through..." Bob Dylan - "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blue's" Every week that Zach and I spend an hour or so listening to an album together I get a little bit more out of it. ... More About: Music , Monday , Highway
How ?bout them Dawgs!
2007-10-28 01:00:00 That is what I call showing up! Usually I'm pretty happy to listen to the games on the internet, but last night was the first time I really would have liked to be able to watch it on the TV. Even better would have been to be in the stands ...
Game Day: The World?s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party
2007-10-28 01:00:00 Well, Zach and I would like to talk some trash today, but that's a hard thing to do as a Georgia Bulldog fan when you've lost 15 of the last 17 to the Florida Gators. That is a source of shame and frustration to all self respecting Dawg fans. There ... More About: Party , World , Game , Cocktail , The World
Apolitical Friday: Workingman?s Blues
2007-10-28 01:00:00 "Meet me at the bottom, don't lag behind Bring me my boots and shoes You can hang back or fight your best on the front line Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues..." -Bob Dylan - "Workin gman's Blues No. 2" A couple of friends warned me that my political fervor would start to cool ... More About: Friday , Apolitical , Politic
The Pharyngula mutating genre meme
2007-10-28 01:00:00 I've been a blogger now for a few months and in that time I've discovered that the blogosphere is a strange and wonderful place - full of all sorts of things I never understood nor felt the need to know about. One of those was memes. I had only heard ... More About: Meme , Genre
Another date with the dreaded orange?
2007-10-28 01:00:00 ...this week with more blue. Yes, it is that time of year again. The last weekend in October, a date that Georgia Bulldogs' fans look forward to each year with a mixture of hope (we could get them this year) and dread (they've beat us 15 of the last 17 times). ... More About: Orange
Zach?s New Music Monday: Bruce Springsteen - ?Magic?
More articles from this author:2007-10-24 00:00:00 "And the girls in their summer clothes In the cool of the evening light The girls in their summer clothes Pass me by..." -Bruce Springsteen - "Girls In Their Summer Clothes" The other day I was playing with Zach and listening to Bruce Springsteen 's new album "Magic ". It occurred to me that most of the ... More About: Music , Monday 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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