Tag Archives: Sweet

Travellinbaen Travellin’ Agaen

Quote of the Day: What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.      —Gabriel Garcia Marquez It seems to lean the direction of gluttony to be packin’ up … Continue reading

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The Last Eccentric

Quote of the Day: Sweet:  “…..I had to go chase down Henry first and then…” TB:  “wait a minute, who’s Henry?” Sweet:  “I didn’t tell you about Henry? That’s my dog.” TB:  “What kind of dog did you get?” Sweet: … Continue reading

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Hag, the Russians, and a Spot of Tea

Quote of the Day: The video ain’t much, but it’s a new release so I was happy to find this tune at all. Haggard’s still got it friends. I’ve been wondering when a musician would capture a sense of the … Continue reading

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Bowl Pickin Season II, The TBCS Featurin’ Sweet and RockStarRambler

Quote of the Day: Cledus Snow: Hey Bandit. Me an’ Fred got a question. Bandit: What you an’ Fred want? Cledus Snow: How come we’s doin’ this? By now you all know the Regular Season title in Thursday Pickin was … Continue reading

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Loose Ends

Quote of the Day: “It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.” –Zelda Fitzgerald End Zones Five times Saturday the Mississippi State Bulldogs scored touchdowns against Ole Miss (along with a couple of field goals) in route to … 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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Gumbo

Quote of the Day: “A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” –Jane Austen The perfect recipe for a great Monday morning: the Bulldogs won this weekend, Halloween and the smiles it brought my little … Continue reading

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Memories of Summer Nights

Quote of the Day:     “Hold on a minute. Don’t get out. I’ve got a feelin its about to come on.”     –Larry to TB, having a psychic moment circa 1986 correctly anticipating his favorite “Fort” song being … Continue reading

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Bradford Gets the Heisman, TB Reacts

Ok, no blog newbies are gonna get any of this, so please click on some of the other posts to get a sense of the TB site. For most of the rest of you, these are my thoughts on that … Continue reading

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Horn Island

Quote of the Day         — Walter Anderson, “Rowing His Boat” c. 1955 Sweet and TF took TB, CCW and BW Buzz out to Horn Island Saturday afternoon.  It’s been six or seven years since I’ve been … Continue reading

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