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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.

Thursday Pickin Season II Week 13

Quote of the Day: (to be determined) Happy actual Thanksgiving Day everyone. TB’s livin it up in Key West, family style. We’re getting ready to take a “Power Adventure Cruise”–full details later this weekend or when I get back home. … Continue reading

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Happy Thanksgiving, Universe

Quote of the Day: “Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don’t eat has been proved to be indispensable for life.  But I go marching on.” George Bernard … Continue reading

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Thursday Pickin Season II, Week 12

Quote of the Day: “I got two cases and a 30 pack plus a gallon of vodka and a bottle of Jagar. Probably pick up another case on the way just in case.” –Feidt’s Follies, official Gentleman of Leisure of … Continue reading

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Party Planning For Third Week

Quote of the Day: “I never did like to work and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh–anything but work.” –Abraham Lincoln TB hears all the time, “TB, I love Third Week. I’m spreading … Continue reading

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The Traditional Media’s War on Third Week

Quote of the Day: “When you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time–a … Continue reading

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Thursday Pickin Season II Week 11

Quote of the Day: “The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.” –Sir Francis Bacon Here’s a little Friday the 13th trivia: The word for fear of Friday the 13th … Continue reading

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Mardi Gras 1995 (Anatomy of a Hangover)

–BASED on a true story– Quote of the Day: “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” Ernest Hemingway It all started out so innocently. Sweet came out of his … Continue reading

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Greatness In The Mist

Quote of the Day: Then move the trees, the copses nod, Wings flutter, voices hover clear: “O just and faithful knight of God! Ride on! the prize is near.” So pass I hostel, hall, and grange; By bridge and ford, … Continue reading

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Thursday Pickin Season II, Week 10

Quote of the Day: “This is for FF, when the power rears its evil head around 2:00 Saturday.” –Coach TeaJay As you may have guessed, FF won his POTW again, now 8-0 on the season. Known far and wide as … Continue reading

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The Free State of Jones

Quote of the Day: “I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, … Continue reading

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