Tag Archives: Blank Stares

TB’s High Wealth Spending Consulting Service Strikes Again

Posted on June 3, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day:     “The moment is long overdue for us to become moral and worthy ancestors.”     –Peter Peterson, billionaire co-founder of Blackstone Group who cashed in his chips at the high water mark of Wall … Continue reading →

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The Walk of Shame

Posted on May 25, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day:     “The only shame is to have none.”     –Blaise Pascal TB always gets good blog material on my frequent trips to Oxford. Sunday morning I was in charge of breakfast so I drove … Continue reading →

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Pastoral Mississippi

Posted on May 22, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day:     “He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.”     –Willie Morris No, its not the name of a town, but if TB decides to write a novel … Continue reading →

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Travellinbaen and the Wanderlust

Posted on May 20, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day:     “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch … Continue reading →

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REBRANDING! It’s the Latest Party Craze

Posted on May 14, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day:     “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”     –George Orwell The Michael Steele helmed GOP is a blank stare creating machine. Politico reported yesterday (May 13, 2009) … Continue reading →

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Can I (Hurl) Right Now?

Posted on May 12, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day:     “The media’s the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” … Continue reading →

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Travellinbaen Named Top Candidate for Obama’s First Supreme Court Nomination

Posted on May 3, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day:     —“The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.”      –Oliver Wendell Holmes According to a source who must remain … Continue reading →

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TB, REK, Double Decker and the Limelight

Posted on April 27, 2009 by travellinbaen

TB, as has been said before, ain’t no music critic. But I do like Robert Earl Keen and it just so happened he was playing a show at The Lyric in Oxford Friday night, so I went to watch it. … Continue reading →

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SECESSION!

Posted on April 22, 2009 by travellinbaen

Conversation/Legend of the Day: Southern Belle (with parasol twirling, at the outset of the Civil War)–General Beauregard, do you think we can whup them yankees? General Beauregard (resplendent in grey Confederate finery)– Honey child, don’t you worry your pretty little … Continue reading →

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TB, the Sucker

Posted on April 20, 2009 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day (vol. ii):     “Every crowd has a silver lining.”     –P.T. Barnum When one undertakes to maintain a blog of conversation, observation and instigation, an unspoken underlying assumption must be present in the writer’s mind … Continue reading →

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