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 I probably wouldn’t be so fired-up ANGRY about this if I hadn’t been a swimmer in high school…

Above you see a photo of Emma Weyant.  She’s been a swimmer on University of Virginia’s team.  She also earned silver as an individual during the Olympics.  And in a sane world she SHOULD be recognized as the top women’s swimmer in America.

Instead that recognition goes to someone who was ranked 500-something last year in men’s swimming.  And then “Lia Thomas” (real name William Thomas) decided that he was a woman.  Even more so, that he was eligible to compete in women’s swimming.  And the University of Pennsylvania decided to indulge him that fantasy.

“Lia” proceeded to blast all competition out of the water (almost literally speaking).  With the musculature and endurance of a male biology, no woman has been able to compete with Thomas.  It has been as lopsided a ...

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Oleksii Kyrychenko of Kiev, Ukraine took this photo of his nine-year old daughter.  He titled it “Girl with Candy”:

A few days before the Russian invasion he took this photo:

Let us pray that Kyrychenko’s daughter, and all of the children of Ukraine, can be brought through this present madness.  Of all the things that are lost in war, childhood innocence must be among the most tragic.

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Today… I ain’t got nothing.  Just too wiped out already from the proverbial “day at the office”.  And my mini dachshund Tammy is in my lap and REFUSES to let me get any real blogging done.

Maybe I’ll have something tomorrow.

In the meantime, hot dogs for dinner!  Don’t y’all worry, Tammy gets a share too 🙂

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It’s been awhile since I really followed college basketball.  It’s still the sport dearest to my heart, mostly because I remember cheering on the ’83 “Cardiac Pack” team at North Carolina State as they won the national championship under coach Jim Valvano.  And on the twenty-fifth anniversary of that game, I paid a visit to Valvano’s grave to leave flowers.  In high school I thrilled to watching Duke win back to back national titles after so many tries by Mike Krzyzewski (hey, I finally spelled his name right!!).  One of these days maybe I’ll get to see my alma mater Elon University go to “the Big Dance”.  And then everyone will be asking “Elon?  Where’s THAT?” just like we did with Gonzaga.

One person who knows basketball… and I mean REALLY knows it… is my lifelong best friend Chad Austin.  He’s been finding some good stuff lately and sharing ...

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There was a fairly fun post I was going to compose tonight for day’s “blogging during Lent”.  But as it is, I haven’t slept since waking up yesterday morning.  It’s now 6:48 pm EST and I haven’t eaten anything either.  So I’m going to take care of those two bodily functions (among others) and will put something more substantive up tomorrow.  Until then, behave y’all 🙂...

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I’m beginning to believe that I’ll get through Lent having made a blog post for each day.  Even if on some days there’s nothing to blog about.

That’s what today has been.  Just a fairly typical Monday.  But I had a good weekend.  I ended up writing the first short story that I’ve composed in almost four years.  It was me hunched over the iPad Pro and a keyboard.  All that was missing from the scene were cigarettes and a bottle of Jack Daniels.

(Like I really smoke or drink.  But it took a long time to get to the place where I could author fiction again so the tortured writer image still applies…)

I need a change, or something.  That’s what I told my dog Tammy earlier.  Almost six years ago I said the same thing and the two of us ended up driving across America.  Do I need ...

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A few years ago a movie, or whatever, started popping up in Facebook ads.  Something called The Chosen.  I looked into it.  Turns out that The Chosen is a streaming series about the life of Jesus Christ as seen through the eyes of the disciples.  Intriguingly, the entire show has been completely crowdfunded.  Season one aired in 2019 and this past year saw the release of season two.  More seasons are planned.  A few months ago saw the release of a Christmas special in theaters, and it apparently did quite well.

This past week, for a number of reasons, my curiosity got the best of me and I decided that it was finally time to check out The Chosen and see what the hype was about.  I finished season one last night.

What did I think?  In a word: WOWSERS!!

 

Let’s talk about the cinematography first.  The Chosen...

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No getting around it: this past week, from last Saturday on, was pretty craptacular.

How bad?  Something happened that has prevented me from driving for the most part, until further notice.  No, not a speeding ticket or anything like that.  I haven’t had a ticket in… wow.  Over ten years now.  Not since I racked up those three in less than a month and a half (with two of them in Virginia on consecutive weekends… hey I was eager to see my girlfriend what can I say? :-).

I like… I like… to believe that things are getting better though.  Why do I say that?

My cooking skills leave much to be desired.  It’s not that I’m a BAD cook per se, it’s more like… well, I’m intimidated by the kitchen.  It all goes back to that Boy Scout Jamboree, and my night to cook for our troop.  I ...

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Longtime friend of this blog Doug Smith found something around Christmas that, I’ve been looking for a reason to share.  Nothing much going on today so for your culinary enjoyment, courtesy of BBQ Pit Boys, here is their video on YouTube depicting the brewing of a fine batch of Brunswick stew!

Brunswick stew is practically a staple food of the rural South where I come from (north-central North Carolina) during the autumn and winter months.  Many groups like churches and Boy Scout troops make stew to sell as fundraiser, and lots of people enjoy inviting others over for stew that they’ve made in pots like this one (or even much bigger).  A big stew is an all night affair, with cooking starting as early as 6 p.m. and going on through til 7 the next morning.  It’s also a communal event, with people slicing onions and potatoes to ...

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