This website chronicles human foolishness. Finding topics is hardly on par with Jason looking for The Golden Fleece. Juicy choices present themselves every day. Rarely is a choice so obvious as The Hiring of Eugene C. Chizik.
AgentPierce and I played Rock – Paper – Scissors. My rock smashed his scissors so I get this one. AP already got in his $.02 licks on this subject on Friday (LINK).
On Friday last, a high-profile fellow named “John” declared the actions of his organization “was not political”. Everyone giggled and snorted. What’s news about that you say? N&O Editor JOHN Drescher always claims his organization is “NOT Political”….. giggle, snort.
Whoa. This was another “John” – UNC Board of Governors Chairman JOHN Fennebresque. The occasion was the Lame Ducking of Tom Ross…… giggle, snort.
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I’ve been holding back on TGU Updates because (1) it’s all so yucky…. (2) The Grand Chizikian Vett is, apparently, still “being debated internally” (burp, snort). More dribs and drabs continue to drip so discourse upon it I must.
The smartest guy I know in the media biz has a credo: IF The Media “makes you”; It’s guaranteed that one day that same media will “break you”. Via The Media the American public is forever anointing heroes / heroines de jour, declaring each latest incarnation to be “The Best Ever”.
An Email From: Nip ?? Another mysterious gal who “… saw your profile and wants to meet” ? …. or, maybe that Nigerian banker needing my assistance moving that money? No, wait; I do know “a Nip”. At least I did 45 years ago.
94.8% of all human activity on Planet Earth is on hold awaiting “The Chizik Vetting” and whatever Chapter 157 of The Great Unpleasantness will be; there is another perplexing issue for the Jury of Public Opinion to resolve. Do you think Bill Cosby is a serial sexual predator?
ALERT: This is another of those insufferably syrupy “BobLee’s Home Town Memories” columns…. If you grew up in a small town around the 60s you surely had “a George Denmark”. How could a small town exist without “a George Denmark”. Everybody knew “George” even if they didn’t know him personally.
We started it 7-8 years ago – the “Celebrities Always Die in Three’s” game. Celebrities DO indeed “die in 3’s”. No one knows why. Sometimes, of course, more than 3…. Sometimes less than 3 at a time. Sometime 3.
HAPPY FREAKIN’ FOOTBALL NEW YEAR! An Absolutely Amazing Day in College Football. Both actual games in the CFP Semis were Incredible Football Theater, each in a very different way PLUS….. in a remote section of America, once known as Tobacco Road, there was a TSUNAMIC KABOOOOM. Lord Knows at BLSays we do LOVE a KABOOOOM!
Trying to describe yesterday is akin to that Okeefeenokee swamp boy who fell into a vat of molasses. Rolling his eyes heavenward, he simply asked The Good Lord to “give me a mouth to fit the occasion”.
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“You probably don’t remember Jimmy Gautier; but he…… ” so began the recent e-missive from P. Coleman Buck, longtime “of Counsel” for BobLee Global LLC. Not remember Jimmy Gautier ?? Everybody remembers a “Jimmy Gautier” by various names.
Ahhh, the glorious potential of a New Year. A pristine canvas awaiting clever brushstrokes culminating in endless exclamations of “I Told You So”. As in centuries of pristine canvases past, humanity shall persist in its quest to reinvent wheels and cram square pegs into round holes.
One of our favorite shows is Shark Tank. With Shark Tank the signature line is “… and for those reasons, I’m Out”. When he/she does not want to invest in the whizbang business opportunity. “I’m Out”…. of the Fedora Fan Club.
Our local bowling teams are back home. Winners & Losers settle in for a long winter of boasting, bloviating, blaming and bellyaching. WuffWorld is euphoric. Conversely, BitterBlueZoners are in a hizzy fit. Gotta Luv it!
My special on-line Christmas Gift to You. “The Littlest Angel” and his special box of stuff …….
Regular commenter “Yogi” beseeched “bring back Rimshots” which I was planning to do anyway. Another commenter noted “if you don’t write about TGU (and “sports crap”) you will lose a large % of viewers.” Not a viewers segment I care about.