Mon Feb 08, 2010
CARTHAGO DELETA EST
Sharon Patterson Is (Almost) Gone
Sharon Patterson Is (Almost) Gone
Sharon Patterson will no longer grace the the Bibb County Board of Education after February, 28th.
Her situation was finalized in a special BOE meeting which ended about two hours ago.
The first T’GRAPH article on the subject can be read here: http://www.macon.com/149/story/1015421.html
Comments, mostly by the great unwashed, can be read at the end of the article. There will be lots and lots of them on the morrow.
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(a fake smile hiding malicious intent)
OBAMA'S ICONOGRAPHY
and
Three Letter Ricicule
OBAMA'S ICONOGRAPHY
and
Three Letter Ricicule
Herer is a truly must see video. It was sent in by a friend and deserves a viewing by every intelligent voter in the United States:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdtqtfXdR-c&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Morons can go on to the next reality show.
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Sun Feb 07, 2010
Playin’ Hooky
This is the weekend I am suppose to edit our shooting club’s monthly newsletter, a task I was recently volunteered for.
Awoke bright and early Saturday (yesterday) morning ready to begin the edit and re-write, when the phone rang. It was barely 5:00 and the coffee was still filtering.
“I’ll pick you up at 8:30 sharp,” came the familiar voice on the other end of the line.
“Whoa, pick me up for what?”
“Don’t you remember, idiot, we’re heading to Gwinnett to the largest gunshow in the state.”
“Day-am”, like most Georgians I incline to make two sounds out of monosyllabic cuss words, ‘shee-it’, for example. Not that I approve of language inappropriate.
I had forgotten. Today was the day we were slated to drive to Gwinnet County to enjoy a leisurely busman’s holiday at Matt Eastman’s biggest and most extensive gun and knife show in the State’s history of these things.
I was dressed and ready to go at 8:30…..editing anything the furthest thing from my mind. It is exhilarating to be eleven or twelve again if just for a few hours.
The scale of the show was beyond any preconceived expectation. After paying my eight bucks and getting my hand stamped so that I could go out and get a breath of chilly air and a sandwich later on, I looked into the vast cavern that was the exhibition hall and gasped, never in all my seventy-one years had I ever seen an arms related playground so vast, so enormous, so tempting.
Somebody shoved me from behind, hard. Apparently yours truly had held up the line gawking, fully expecting a heavenly choir burst into sacred music.
The show didn’t disappoint. The displays and vendors were many and varied…everything from politicians trying to gain favor with us devotees of the shooting sports, to an unimaginably large display of firearms of all types and origin, accessories, clothing, books, children’s toys, and something for the several pistol packin’ grandmas encountered amid the narrow isles.
What a way to spend six solid hours!!!! Who needed that sandwich.
Macon’s show next weekend won’t be as large, of course, but it will display the same level of diversity and value. My companion got a great deal on a 9mm. Pistol. I purchased some much needed (?) accessories and paraphernalia. Toys for grown up boys.
The place was packed to the hilt despite some lousy weather. Got a glimpse of snow and sleet in the area. Folks came from all over….not only the Atlanta area, but north Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina to judge from the license plates in the parking lot. And, from an unofficial sampling of attendees and vendors, everybody was having as much fun as was I.
We shall return. Playing hooky is a hoot, especially when you don't have to worry about a trip to the Principal's office upon return.
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Sat Feb 06, 2010
EASTMAN GUN AND KNIFE SHOW
Only One Week Away
Macon Centreplex
February 13-14
Only One Week Away
Macon Centreplex
February 13-14
The Countdown to Matt Eastman’s huge Gun Show continues apace.
One week to go.
Come to the:
February 13-14th.
Saturday 9:00 to 5:oo; Sunday: 10:00 to 5:00
Admission $8.00 at the door
(Kids under 12 get in free)
Matt’s shows are family friendly. Come on down and bring the rugrats. It’s a great way to spend a quality day with your kids and be an instant hero in their eyes just by answering their numerous questions. Kids raised in an outdoor-minded family have a positive head start in life.
Vendors from all over Georgia will be on hand with a huge assortment of firearms, knives, accessories, clothing, and just plain what-not. Bargains abound. Sometimes you can even get into an old-fashioned haggle with these delightful folks.
See you there.
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Fri Feb 05, 2010
Reducing Raw Violence
in
FOOTBALL
in
FOOTBALL
That I have never (and I mean ‘never’) watched a ‘Superbowl’ football game is well known in these parts. In a football crazy town that’s a real compliment.
There is something truly special about the relationship between our fellow Southerners and the panoply that is football on all levels, beginning with teams made up of boys mostly, and girls who are still wetting their beds, and continuing to the steroid laced goons who wreck havoc on the ‘professional’ level.
I love football. Played it as a kid, attended hundreds of games hard fought by legions of boys representing the schools on whose faculty I served, even coached it for a couple of years in the early sixties. During my hallowed college days in Upstate New York, I loved the home games where the excitement of a match cum hoopla under the autumn sky was enhanced by oranges……each laced with a couple of shots of vodka which is how we kids got around the institution’s strong prohibition against alcohol at athletic contests.
But I do not like what the game has become, especially on the large college and professional levels. And so enters an excellent Op-Ed piece by Ed Corson found in today’s MACON T’GRAPH. It is titled “FIGHTING ‘VIOLENCE PORN’ IN MIAMI’ and can be accessed directly at: http://www.macon.com/203/story/1011057.html
Mr. Corson takes a strong stand against the unwarranted, senseless violence that has become part and parcel of the game’s professional level, which, of course, filters down to the pee-wee ranks. Violence for its own sake, the unnecessarily punishing hit instead of the ballet-like subtlety of a brilliant play, the pile-on, the intrusion of street-level thuggery into the sport have all increased the incidence of major injury, concussion, and death. We are maiming and killing high school and college kids who do their damnest to ape a few professional heroes, copying the latters’ moves and attitudes down to swagger, footwear and cologne, and the chip atop their shoulders.
Corson is right. We need to protect those playing football on several levels. Equipment must be made safer, fines for players and coaches guilty of extreme roughness, a toning down of attitude lest, in the fullness of time, players will just prior to a game chant as did Roman gladiators of old, “Morituri Te Salutamus’, “We who are about to die salute you”.
Before then, the passion of so many for the violence of the modern game of American Football, will have to undergo a lot of change.
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KUBAN COSSACK CHORUS
I have been engaged in my spare time with a project that might be of interest to some. It concerns a pet notion that, during World War 2, the music of the Russian People, largely propagandist, better motivated the citizens of the U.S.S.R. than did the mainly martial strains that worked their way into the brain cells of the German army and her citizenry. Just a thought, but one worth pursuing.
We are talking about a small corner of the larger subject of war time propaganda…limited here to the two major antagonists: Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics. My thesis is simple: Soviet music of the age tended to reach all socio-economic and ethnic levels of a people at war. The Russian populace were largely able to put aside the horrific purges of the 1930’s to defeat the common enemy. Stalin’s appeal to “Mother Russia” was successful. The music became no small part of his psychology of inclusion no matter how many of your relatives he had sent to slow death in Siberia.
The Cossacks were a fierce, proud, and independent ethnic entity from far within the Soviet landmass. They formed the backbone of the Arch Duke’s WW 1 cavalry and were systematically murdered and driven out of their homeland during much of the 1920’s. They dared, you see, resist the rush to communistic collectivism popular with both Lenin, and Uncle Joe and his henchmen. But, given the urgency of the fierce Teutonic invasion in 1941, the Cossacks, as well as other ethnic groups were rehabilitated so that their men could join the Soviet army.
Cossack culture and custom slowly came back to life. In the 1970’s an outfit called the Kuban Cossack Chorus was formed to promote Cossack Music and dance. It has enjoyed wide popularity inside modern Russia and several foreign lands. It would be well to bring them to the US in a cultural exchange.
The Cossack Chorus has a children’s adjunct, Junior Cossacks, I guess, thoroughly professional, engaging, and delightful. Here are three examples of their work all found on You Tube. The poise of these kids, their total command of their surroundings. The joy they project is absolutely astounding. Theirs is a significant portion of the art which makes the Russian/Soviet culture one of the great experiences in history. As you watch focus on the children, sure, but also study the delightful reaction of the audience.
1. You and Me Are Kossacks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbDw_W-_n7g&NR=1
2. Katjusha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22SNB2p34HU&NR=1
3. Title Unknown http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-4gwf_9wA&NR=1
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Thu Feb 04, 2010
Ron Fraiser Is Well and Doing Brilliantly in Pensacola
Got a delightful post on my b’log from Ron Fraiser today, he late of WMAC morning talk radio, and currently tearing up the airwaves down in Pensacola, Florida.
Middle Georgians will remember Ron. After Kenny B. and Jami. G. departed from WMAC a year and a half ago, Cumulus hired Ron and a kid named Shane McBryde. The latter had an unfortunate incident with a certain controlled substance and Ron went solo.
Cumulus then hired Chris Krok who doesn’t like to share the studio microphone with anybody except Councilwoman Elaine Lucas. So Cumulus moved Ron to sister station WCOA, 1370 AM in Pensacola. That stations website can be viewed here: http://www.wcoapensacola.com/default.asp?pid=4444 You will notice Ron’s picture center, top.
We Ronfans can listen to the guy any morning we wish simply by clicking on the LISTEN NOW link on the upper left corner of the web page.
And yours truly will do exactly that on the morrow. There is one day a year I refuse to listen to Kenny B. and his sidekick Charles E (or R). On the Friday before the Superbowel, the entire show is devoted to taking calls from listeners who wish to predict the score. Last year they had, according to Mr. Richardson, almost a hundred of the damn things. Good ratings for them, but B O R I N G to this old man who has never watched a super-bowl (see, I can spell it) in his entire life. So I shall listen to Krok until the name ‘Lucas’ surfaces, then it’s over to Ron Fraiser in Pensacola. There is a time change, might have to endure WMAC for an hour, that or listen to my favorite opera singers on You Tube. Maybe read the paper online.
Might even call in to Ron’s station and say hello, not interrupting any important news, of course. I see fun ahead if the incoming bad weather doesn'’ knock my computer off the air, which it sometimes does.
This is THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE and I am Don Brunel.
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Great Video Freom Our Friend
RIVERSIDE RED
RIVERSIDE RED
There is nothing funny about a heart attack, right? Ya think?
If not funny, how about 'warm and fuzzy'.
Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDARfDJw80s to listen to the 911 call of a little girl, age five, calling the emergency line for her father who was having chest pains.
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Wed Feb 03, 2010
Confessions of a Technophobe
There are days I simply don’t like being on line.
The rest of the time I absolutely hate time spent on the internet. It is becoming to many a virtual prison.
Today was no exception.
A late morning call asking whether I wanted to spend the afternoon at our rifle and pistol club got a one word response, “YEAH”!!!
Won’t bore you with the details but I shot the heck out of two pistols trying to decide which to compete with this weekend. Three hundred rounds later, can't decide.
I know that I am your basic technophobe….just don’t trust nor do I wish to rely extensively on the technology available to each and every one of us. It seems to alienate man from his fellow…it is too easy to hide behind our online identity, pretending to be something we are not.
There is an element dishonest behind the whole thing.
Technology marches on. I’m slowly dropping out.
Yours truly would rather interact with real people and can live without the flood of information that is overwhelming us.
G’night.
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Tue Feb 02, 2010
YESTERDAY WE RAN SOME LINKS ABOUT THE MESS AT THE TOP OF BIBB COUNTY’S SCHOOLS……..
…….Today we list a caveat.
If you read any of the articles linked yesterday to the online edition of the MACON T’GRAPH. You will find that each of them comes complete with a series of comments, hundreds of comments in toto from readers of Macon’s only daily.
And these comments are largely self-serving, juvenile, and just plain stupid.
To read them, to wallow in the abject ignorance that many of them exude, is to catch a glimpse of just how far education in Bibb County, Georgia has degenerated.
It is little wonder that our county’s school system is one of the worst in the entire nation.
There is also within these posts a kind of ‘pile on’ factor, where teachers, parents, and administrators use the veil of nom-de-plume anonymity to attack and destroy the reputations of members of the school community, slashing left and right at folks they imagine have wronged them or their offspring.
Be careful if you read any of the comments. I took much of the day to wade through them all. Glad I did, but never will again waste my time enwrapped in the ignorance our schools have generated.
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