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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.

Third Week Thursday Pickin

Quote of the Day     “My baby makes me proud. Lord, don’t she make me proud.”  “My baby makes me smile. Lord,don’t she make me smile.”      — Charlie Rich, from Behind Closed Doors, Smily’s song of the Week, as … Continue reading

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Sanctions For Joe Lieberman

Since the Dems are having trouble coming up with something appropriate, here’s a few sanctions my asshole runnin buddies put on one another through the years. Continue reading

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Travellinbaen’s New Holiday Discovery

Quote of the Day:     “If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.”     —William Shakespeare, Henry IV Many of you upon reading this will have just dragged yourself in … Continue reading

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Thursday Pickin XII

Quote of the Week     “As shadows fall, I pass a small cafe where we would dance at night; And I can’t help recalling how it how it felt to kiss and hold you tight; Well, how can I forget you, … Continue reading

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Did I Mention How I Really Feel About Alabama?

Quote of the Day:     “We got em beat. We finally got the bastards beat.”     Travellinbaen, to Greekson, and the World at large, at the MSU-Alabama game in Starkville in 1992 Alabama went undefeated during the 1992 football … Continue reading

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MSU 6 Alabama 3

Quote of the Day:      Click here  to hear the Great Jack Cristal TB was ten years old the last time Mississippi State played number one Alabama. I wasn’t in Jackson that day, unfortunately. But I remember exactly where I … Continue reading

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Randal

TB went to see Zack and Miri Make a Porno this week. It’s damn funny. I wasn’t clued in to Kevin Smith’s View Askew universe until a few years ago. But I think he’s freakin hilarious. I even like Dogma and Jay … Continue reading

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Thursday Pickin XI

Quote of the Day     “Black people, do the Humpty Hump, do the Humpty Hump; White people, do the Humpty Hump, do the Humpty Hump; Puerto Ricans, do the Humpty Hump, do the Humpty Hump; Samoans do the Humpty Hump, do … Continue reading

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Obama Wins, TB’s Ten-Cent Analysis

Quote of the Day     “And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world – our stories are singular, but our … Continue reading

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Election Day Pickin

Quote of the Day     “For the love of God, do whatever in the hell you wanna do about President or Senator, but please vote for Oliver Diaz or Jim Kitchens for Mississippi Supreme Court if they are on your … Continue reading

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