Category Archives: Life

Octo-outrage

Posted on February 17, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day:     “Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. … Continue reading →

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Pascagoula and the Golden Age of Sports

Posted on February 11, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day:     “Friday night at the stateline bar, where the waterfront people dwell; I better watch my step, if the floor caves in, I’ll go right straight to hell.”     –Jimmy Buffett, The Pascagoula Run Link of … Continue reading →

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In Memoriam, Johnny Smith

Posted on February 9, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day:     “I am a part of all that I have met.”     –Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses A Goula boy, Johnny Smith, PHS Class of 1988, Pascagoula Gulf League champion 1981, trumpet player, Marine, childhood friend … Continue reading →

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TB’s Guide to Interesting Party Conversation

Posted on February 9, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day:     “Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.”     –William Shakespeare TB just got back from a whirlwind 1500 mile round trip drive to Folly … Continue reading →

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The Greatest (gambling) Story Ever Told

Posted on February 3, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day     “so why don’t you shut up? You’re just a bitter old man.”     –TB’s first and only words to the old coot to my right in this story Old stories, more appropriate for telling over … Continue reading →

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I Aspire to Write Like This Guy

Posted on January 29, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day     “There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”     –Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s too long to cut and paste, so I’m linking a great article by a Mississippi writer that appeared in “Lost” … Continue reading →

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Stuff You Just Know If You Were Raised Right

Posted on January 28, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day:     “Everyone should just be quiet and uncomfortable. Avoid eye contact. Look pensive. Don’t trap me in your stupid convo where you say “I’m in the elevator so I might lose you.””     –Aubrey Leigh Goodwin, … Continue reading →

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The Job Market–I Gotta Get a Good One

Posted on January 23, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day     “All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”     –Aristotle Times are tough. Big corporations and hometown shops are losing money and shedding workers at an alarming pace. Keeping up with the latest bleak … Continue reading →

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What y’all doin for New Year’s?

Posted on December 28, 2008 by travellinbaen

Have you asked or been asked yet? “What are y’all doin for New Year’s?” It is no simple, innocent question; to the contrary it is a query fraught with uncertainty, tinged with suspicion, steeped in desperation. Continue reading →

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Travellinbaen’s Wanderin Agaen

Posted on December 17, 2008 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day     “I was trying to daydream but my mind kept wandering.”     –Stephen Wright TB Recommends: I was introduced to Stephen Wright’s humor in Coffee and Cigarettes a few years ago. TB recommends this movie highly. … Continue reading →

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