February 2011
4 posts
The Academy Awards (or My 2011 Oscar Predictions)
This year, I saw six best picture nominees, which I figure to be my personal best since I can’t recall seeing that many in 2010. The overwhelming theme of this year’s class seems to be creativity in familiarity. That is, many of these stories have been told or, at least, we have a certain level of expectation with what we are about to see. The element that earns awards is in the...
Stop Apologizing (or So. Central Rain)
My blog post the evening of the “incident” received a lot of attention. It turned what we had intended on being my first (hopefully of many) visit to The Mountain to talk about the @bhamboxset blog (and all of the great music I have recently seen) into a conversation about trees. But that was going to happen, inevitably. The sports talk format is where I earned my international...
It Was Just A Tree (But it Was More Than That)
For some reason contrary to definition, “Tradition” at The University of Alabama means “National Championships.” (See also: winning a bunch)
But everywhere else in the Southeastern Conference, “Tradition” has its own unique definition: The Grove at Ole Miss, “Mr. Two Bits” at Florida,” UGA (the dog) at Georgia, the Vol Navy at Tennessee,...
Ranking the Coaches: Saban Tops Them All.
For a month, I have locked myself away - refusing to speak about an unbearable tragedy forced upon Deep South list lovers. Because, friends, when Paul Finebaum removed the “Press” pass from the band of his fedora, when he rested his feather quill pen in its ink dipper - well, that was the day deadlines ceased.
The coaches of college football’s finest, and most powerful,...
