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Seven Songs for a More Colorful Tuesday
In the opening moments of my college crystallography class, an ancient professor named Kaupp stood before us and intoned: Goethe said, 'Symmetry is rhythm standing still.' After this promising opening, Herr Professor proceeded to disabuse me of any notion that the...
Guest Post by Fluffy: The Scratch-Offs – Shit Attitude
Hi, it's me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes when the Food Guy is busy he lets me write his log post and put it on the Winternet. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to get his Bordetella shot and then complain about his arm being sore. Which will be a...
Guest Post by Travis Carroll: Bomethius – Seasons of Limbo
Seasons of Limbo is, as the name suggests, a collection of stories of liminal spaces. The first half of the record focuses on Earthly liminality: rubbernecking along the highway, trying to make things work with our mother on the cusp of independence, enduring a...
Guest Post by Fluffy: Wild Daydream – Another Sunny Day
Hi, it's me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes when the Food Guy is busy he lets me write his log post and put it on the Winternet. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to touch up the paint on the outside of the house and then complain about his sore back,...
Guest Post by Fluffy: Yeti Set Go – Ginger Cat
Hi, it's me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes when the Food Guy is busy he lets me write his log post and put it on the Winternet. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to find a dead rat that is smelling up the attic, after which he will complain about his...
Guest Post by Fluffy the Cat: David Woodard – May the Road Rise Up
Hi it’s me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes when the Food Guy is busy he lets me write his log post and put it on the Winternet. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to lie on the couch and watch television, after which he will complain about his back being...
Guest Post by Fluffy the Cat: The Red Pants – Starlight Arboretum (The Way I Feel)
Hi, it’s me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes when the Food Guy is busy he lets me write his log post and put it on the Winternet. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to injure his back by digging a hole in the yard, so I will write his log post. I am going...
Guest Post by Fluffy the Cat: Three Songs Involving Greg Jarrow
Hi, it's me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes when the Food Guy is busy he lets me write his log post and put it on the Winternet. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to mulch a garden bed. Last Monday he announced a Master Plan to weed and mulch one bed...
Guest Post by Fluffy: Rachel Baldwin – Spirit
Hi, it's me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes when the Food Guy is busy, he lets me write his log post and put it on the Winternet. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to rake the leaves. The Food Guy hates raking leaves because it is boring. He said,...
Guest Post by Fluffy: Rainsticks – Cut the Corners
Hi, it's me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes when the Food Guy is busy he lets me write his log post and then he puts it on the Winternet. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to help the Food Lady clean up her office and sort out all of her computer...
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Trials of a Minor League Umpire in 1909
Are you blind? Where do you think you are? In a cow-pasture?-- Thomas Wolfe, A Portrait of Bascom Hawke The cash-poor lower leagues of the South assigned a single umpire to each game. Most worked behind the plate until a runner reached base, then took a position...
Charles Durmeyer, the Cotton States Baby
Charles Philip Durmeyer, Jr. was born in New Orleans on August 29, 1889. His father, Charles Durmeyer, Sr., was a butcher with a few seasons of minor league ball to his credit. Charles Sr. gave up the professional game when his son was born but continued to play...
The South
And is there anything that can tell more about an American summer than, say, the smell of the wooden bleachers in a small-town baseball park, that resinous, sultry, and exciting smell of old dry wood.– Thomas Wolfe, letter to Arthur Mann, 1938 Captain W.T. Crawford...
The Book About Jack Corbett and a Lot of Other Stuff – Part 1
Table of Contents (click chapter title to view post) ForewordThe Name on the Base The Jack Corbett Hollywood Base appears today on every Major League Baseball diamond. Does a player ever look down at a base and think, “Jack Corbett? Who the heck was Jack Corbett?”...
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