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About travellinbaen

I'm a 40 year old lawyer living in Ridgeland, Mississippi. I'm several years and a couple hundred miles removed from most of my old running buddies so I started the blog to provide an outlet for many of the observations and ideas that used to be the subjects of our late night/happy hour/halftime conversations and arguments.

Modern Man

Quote of the Day: “Can you help me occupy my brain?”     –Black Sabbath, Paranoid, released October, 1970 Contemplating the at once ascendant and yet deteriorating state of the world we live in and TB’s ten-twenty on the celestial spectrum … Continue reading

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TB Goes to Memphis in May

Quote of the Day: “I’m a rompin’, stompin’, piano playing son of a bitch. A mean son of a bitch.”     —Jerry Lee Lewis A few observations and some grainy iphone snapshots of TB’s Saturday at Tom Lee Park … Continue reading

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Reflecting Upon a Bloated Carcass

Quote of the Day: And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda. Even as we … Continue reading

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Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (this is what we’ve come to, America)

Quote of the Day: “Here we are in the land of the free and I can’t even talk to a child about what he eats everyday. …As Americans, that should make you furious.”     —Jamie Oliver, at the conclusion … Continue reading

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A Story About Smily, Sort Of

Quote of the Day: “Back when I was in the Navy they paid us once a month. First weekend, Jack Daniels. Second weekend, Budweiser, man. Third weekend, Pabst Blue Ribbon. Fourth weekend, Mad Dog. Then we’d get paid again and … Continue reading

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TB’s a Rebel, Really

Quote of the Day: “I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.” Jim Jarmusch, independent filmmaker (Coffee and Cigarettes and others) TB don’t wear no helmet. I am an outlaw bicycler. The other riders twitch their heads, do … Continue reading

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There Once Was a Man From Nantucket…

Quote of the Day: “The shamrock is a religious symbol. St. Patrick said the leaves represented the trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. That’s why four leaf clovers are so lucky, you get a bonus Jesus.” –Stephen … Continue reading

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Ode to Biscuits

Quote of the Day: “We ain’t one at a timin’ here, we mass-communicatin’!” –Pappy O’Daniel, O’ Brother, Where Art Thou? Oh, Hardees…..if fast food joints could marry, and if I weren’t already taken, and if I was a fast food … Continue reading

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A Satisfied Mind

Quote of the Day: “How many times have you heard someone say, if I had his money I’d do things my way, But little they know it’s so hard to find, one rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.” … Continue reading

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The Soundtrack of TB’s Life (The Early Years)

Quote of the Day: “At Haggerty’s and Swami’s Pacific Palisades San Onofre and Sunset Redondo Beach, L.A. All over La Jolla At Waiamea Bay, Everybody’s gone surfin’, Surfin’ USA….” –the Beach Boys In TB’s recent plea for help in the … Continue reading

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