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Sep 30 2007
Pony Party: Sunday music retrospective
Sep 30 2007
Pony Party: Obscure Sport Edition
The whole world is full of sport, competition, and bored people who can turn any kind of competition into a sport.
It does seem as we become less physically active as a society, we put more energy in cherishing our our passive past times of watching other people who are in shape do fascinating things.
Sep 29 2007
Pony Party: Local Grub Edition
In Memphis, pork is king. Not a friendly place to be a vegan although it is possible.
Memphians believe that they have the best barbecue and there are several places from which to chose and impress visitors. My personal favorites are
Neely’s a family owned and operated joint and the Bar-B-Que Shop also a family owned joint. I think the slaw is slightly better at Neely’s and the beans are slightly better at the Bar-B-Que shop. Both places routinely win best of when the local paper does food surveys. In Memphis, you put the slaw on the sandwich.
Sep 29 2007
Pony Party: No Talent Edition
As I take a deep and sweeping inventory of myself in the prime middle of life I have come to realize there is an astonishingly long list of talents I lack.
Some deficiencies bother me more than others.
Despite being in the kitchen with my 85 year old grandmother many, many, times my roast beef still does not turn out as well as hers. It is good but not quite there yet. Heck, I even took notes once.
Sep 28 2007
Pony Party, the Help Desk(s)
this vid purports to have been made in response to the ‘medieval help desk’ vid below…
poetry help desk…
Sep 28 2007
Pony Party: One Mistake Edition
In the same spirt as this morning’s Pony Party…more great American art!
Remember…not that you’d be tempted anyway, in this case…
Please don’t rec the pony parties…another will be galluping along soon…
Sep 27 2007
Pony Party: What’s Right With America (Opera Edition)
Thought that title would get your attention. It’s easy to see the cruelty and injustice of American power, at home and abroad, to feel the country is in the hands of…er…let’s not go there. This is about what’s right with America! What’s beautiful and laudable and grand.
Please don’t rec the pony parties! Another one will be along soon…
Sep 27 2007
Pony Party, Happy (belated) Birthday Sam!!
Believed to be born on September 26, 1722 (though other sources use Sept 16th), Samuel Adams lived his entire life in Boston, Massachusetts. He died on October 2, 1803, in a state and a country which he helped to create.
Samuel Adams is one of your ‘Founding Fathers’. Leader, activist, brewer.
“Without the character of Samuel Adams, the true history of the American Revolution can never be written. For fifty years his pen, his tongue, his activity, were constantly exerted for his country without fee or reward.”~ John Adams
Sep 27 2007
Pony Party, Spoiler Alert
Oh, so you’ve braved the ‘Spoiler Alert’ and peeked inside to see what I’m spoiling…
Well, according to The New York Post’s page six, an extra has revealed some of the previously top-secret details of the upcoming “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”.
Dare we explore??
Sep 26 2007
Pony Party, Morning Metal
Heavy Metal in Baghdad is the title of a movie premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. The YouTube description as well as the website (linked above) for the film and band describe their struggle to survive as a heavy metal band, having suffered from an oppressive regime, having a glimmer of hope for freedom after Hussein’s fall, and then feeling ‘trapped’ between an occupying army and the ‘terrorists’ (word used by band member in trailer) now.
The band is called Acrassicauda, here they perform: