What are you afraid of? Students…be fearless.
The Plastics Revolution - Invasion
Check out this amazing stop-motion video created using Instagram photos.
Dwight Yoakam shakin’ it. (Taken with GifBoom)
"It doesn’t bother you when you start out telling lies, you know, you’re just grateful to be able to get through them without fainting up here. But when you become as accomplished a liar as I am, then you’re troubled by inaccuracies in your lies. Because see the reason that you tell lies about a wonderful place is that you believe that if you get every detail right, absolutely right, and every character in that story has exactly as many hairs ON HIS OR HER HEAD as she’s supposed to have. That if you get it absolutely perfect, that you will be lifted up out of this life and set down in that wonderful place that you’ve told lies about. And all your lies become true."
— Garrison Keillor
If you liked that last version of We’re Not the Jet Set, you’ll enjoy this version by Iris Dement and John Prine.
Bobby Braddock scored his first #1 country hit with Tammy Wynette singing D-I-V-O-R-C-E in 1968. His most recent song to top the charts was Billy Currington’s People Are Crazy. That was in 2009. In between he helped write several of George Jones’ best loved songs, including He Stopped Loving Her Today, which has been declared by many to be the greatest country song ever written. Braddock also helped introduce the world to Blake Shelton. In 2011, Braddock was inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame. One of my favorite Bobby Braddock tunes is this one which has been covered by John Prine and Iris Dement, and here by Tammy Wynette and George Jones.
The March Madness of Marshall Henderson
March Madness is here and what an appropriate description for a time of year that the 90% of the world that never watched college basketball during the regular season turns on their TVs, tune in to cable channels they’ve never heard of, and drops out of work for a couple of weeks to soak in the glory that is sports entertainment at it’s finest. The madness is the excitement of throwing $10 into an office pool with Joe from accounting who actually graduated from Belmont and truly believes that they can be a Final Four team. It’s the fun of matching wits with your college roommates who are all still convinced they know more than Tony Kornheiser when it comes to basketball. For me, the true madness lives in fact that my one submitted bracket this March suggests an SEC rematch of epic proportions. The idea that the University of Florida can advance to the biggest game in college basketball isn’t all that far fetched. They were hands down the best team in the SEC this year despite the fact that they fell in the final game of the conference tournament, so it seems reasonable that they could pull this off for me. The more unlikely prediction comes from the left side of my bracket where I’m counting on the Rebels of Ole Miss to advance past the likes of Gonzaga and Louisville to get to their eventual destination. Maybe I’m upset that the SEC only fielded 3 teams in the tournament and I’m hoping to make a point. Or maybe I think that Ole Miss oddball Marshall Henderson is some kind of child of destiny who will lead his unlikely army to the promised land. When I was in college my favorite pro basketball player was Dennis Rodman. Back then the most dangerous carousing Rodman did was with Carmen Electra, not a Communist leader with nuclear arsenals, but I digress. I admired Rodman for a couple of reasons. One, his favorite band was Pearl Jam. So was mine. Second, he only cared about one thing when he played…rebounding. That was inspirational for a guy like me who never could shoot and for years thought that relegated me to the bench for a lifetime. For a brief window of time I was more than a witness because I could concentrate on defense and let somebody else do the scoring. It was ok, because I was the Worm of Tennessee Tech Intramural Athletics. Sure, I was still stuck on a third string team nicknamed The Clumsy White Boys, but I had a role and I embraced it. I see some of a modern day Rodman in the body of Henderson. He is unpredictable and in my estimation that will lead to one of two things: an early exit or a redneck Cinderella story. Maybe he’s more Eminem than Eddie Vedder, but the kid could be the story of this tournament. I can guarantee as long as he sticks around, this thing will be interesting. But the question is, can he? Did I mention who beat Florida to win the SEC? You guessed it.
Ole Miss tips off against The University of Wisconsin at 12:40 ET on Friday, March 22.
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