https://sabr.org/authors/kurt-blumenau/
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.
"smokey stevenson"
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not afraid to challenge his listeners and voice a controversial opinion, Jim Hurt
The buffet is behind you, mes amis
Oh, he was just in the group chat
Two women talking in an adjoining cube and one says to the other, “what’s her name?,” and I fight off the urge to say “Virginia Plain”
Reading about a high school lacrosse team that forfeited a playoff game after several players were shown on social media smoking cigars (not tobacco-filled, they claim.)
This is only of interest to me because…
@magnoliamer.bsky.social as a scent aficionado I thought you would enjoy these
The Lipscomb College Bisons, who had won the tournament two years earlier, were offered Grand Canyon’s spot - in part b/c Lipscomb is in Nashville, where the tournament was being played.
Of course, Lipscomb won it.
suddenly imagining the words to Hot Rod Lincoln set to the music of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and vice versa … and Lord, I think I have sinned enough against humanity for one day.
… there’s a baseball equivalent:
In 1979, Grand Canyon College, a Baptist school with rules against alcohol use by students, gave up its spot in the NAIA World Series after news photos appeared of the players celebrating with champagne.
(they claimed they only showered in it, didn’t drink it.)
this week, @sg-marshall.bsky.social & i present a heavy episode of the grateful deadcast that we’ve been building to for a while, in which the hells angels put ex-label president ron rakow on trial in 1976 for taking $225,000 from the grateful dead. www.dead.net/deadcast/ste... /1
