What’s the latest greatest?
About The Author
BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
What’s the latest greatest?
That my new Chicago Bears hoodie sweatshirt came today. Sunday night game was enough to give an old gal a nervous breakdown. I will take sloppy wins anyday though. How are you doing Booman? Coming out of the depression a bit?
Hey, speaking of football, how ’bout them Seahawks?
Yet another last minute heart-stopping victory to put them two up in the West, with Hasselbeck and Alexander coming back on Sunday. I don’t want to jinx them, but it’s lookin’ good.
Been looking for you. What’s the name of the Blues man you mentioned when I was complaining about white guys’ covers that stomped the soul out of songs?
That would be Tony Jo White. You may remember him as the guy who had a minor hit back in the late sixties with “Polk Salad Annie” (assuming you’re old enough).
Thanks! Sure I remember “Polk Salad Annie.” I was a ’50s baby, by the skin of my teeth. I want to track him down. I can’t remember if I mentioned this guy to you South Side Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. He grew up with Springsteen and Little Stevie Van Zandt. They play with him on some of his stuff.
Oh, you sad, sad Yankees (including the guy who wrote the song.) The plant is a poke berry. The salad is poke salad. We have one growing in our back yard right now (T313 has not weeded recently). Polk sounds like polka, yah sure, notrelated to real, decent poke salad.
It is really really hard to dwell among Yankees sometimes!
Whereas living with a Southern Gal has made my life an endless ride on the Bliss Train.
Something tells me you’d better be saying that.
Ahem. I don’t think the guy who wrote the song would take kindly to being called a Yankee, since he hails from Louisiana and lives and works in Nashville.
By the way, I had no idea until I looked him up just recently that he wrote Brook Benton’s hit Rainy Night In Georgia. I love that song.
He’s still rong. He might rite poplar mewzik, but he caint spel rite.
Just bought Polk/Poke/Pork/Pope/Probe/Prole Salad Annie. Thanks for the memory jog.
Glad to help. I don’t think I ever had any idea how “polk salad” was spelled when I was a kid, or whether it was poke salad or what. I grew up just about as far away from the deep South as you can get and not be in some foreign country or Alaska.
To some, anywhere outside the Deep South is a foreign country.
Tell me about it. I did time in Texas. Now that is a foreign country.
hey, I resemble that remark. ;(
which should look even better — though SF’s on a two-game winning streak and have guaranteed themselves a record no worse than last year’s…
Actually, I’m not completely into football — hockey has more of my focus. I’m pissed off at Randy Moss, for various obvious reasons…perhaps the Raiders should leave a few zeroes off his next paycheck, then say they were depressed and lost focus…
Basically, I’m just marking time till January when the fun really begins… 🙂
I’m not really a pro football fan, but when the Seahawks are on a roll you can’t help but get caught up in it. Ain’t nothin’ else to do in Seattle in the fall.
Speaking of NFL football, how bout them Lio… , who do you like in the OSU-UM game this Saturday. 😉
Bucks, of course!
“Your” team and coach are very good, they have to be favored going into the contest. I hope “we” can play to our potential and give you a run for your money.
I’m out of this one. My BA is from Iowa.
Even Lio….. is too much to bear. And Speaking of a real football team, how bout da Bears?
So, ej. Are you folks still communicating exclusively with gestures and signs at Ann Arbor, or have you begun using words yet?
The words started right about .13 seconds after the end of the Indiana game.
I really don’t know who is going to win this weekend, but it will be a hell of a game.
Since there’s no clear #3 right now, I propose that the winner of the game play the Detroit Lions in the national championship game.
The Lions lost the right to play when they lost to SF at home. There BCS rating is just below Fordham’s.
Remember, an election recount in Columbus is being delayed until the day following the big game!
Hey, it’s not Buckeyes and Wolverines, but this weekend is Washington’s big intrastate rivalry, the Apple Cup, pitting the mighty Washington State Cougars (6-5 overall, 4-4 conference) against the powerful Washington Huskies (4-7 overall, 2-6 conference).
Basically, this is what both teams play for in the years when they aren’t going to major bowls (there seem to be a lot of those).
Actually it’s what they play for in bowl years too, it’s just that most years of late this is their bowl.
it is a Big Ten Weekend. No sissy west coast stuff this Saturday.
It’s a good thing I can’t find my glasses right now or I would so troll rate you for that.
Not that anyone cares what anyone out here on the West Coast does until USC kicks their butts.
sitting in the bar at Ivar’s Acres of Clams and watching the Apple Cup on TV — they were playing in Pullman and it was snowing there as I recall.
I have distant connections with U-Dub; the spouse’s parents both graduated from there back in the 1950s. And I would like to thank the University of Washington football team for giving the Stanford Cardinals their lone win (so far) this season… 🙂
We aim to please. The headline in the paper the day after that game was, “Huskies Hit Bottom.” The football gods have not smiled on the Purple and Gold this year.
one helluva game; I may have to send the spouse out to play so I can scream at the TV without interruption.
Cal still has an outside chance at the Rose Bowl if they can beat USC (and they’ll have to play a lot better than they did against Arizona) — they haven’t played in Pasadena since the Eisenhower Administration…
Good luck, but I wouldn’t count on it. The Beavers managed to beat them by two, and I don’t think the Trojans are going to let that happen again.
But I wouldn’t cry if it did. I’m not much of a Trojan fan.
I caught mention of Booman’s brother in a really creepy, yet fascinating article, posted today on Alternet. Link
The article is about a group of hardcore evangelical women called the “Quiverfulls” who firmly believe that their bodies belong to God and thus, they should offer them to produce God’s new army. Shiver.
and they call me kinky!
The two aren’t mutually exclusive. 🙂
Go ahead, Christians baby machines, the jokes on you. Wait until those “Christian soldier” babies grow up. Rebellion against their parents will send a large number of the offspring exiting stage far left. How many of you, dear readers, have the same political views as your parents? My father voted for Nixon three times only because he couldn’t vote him four times.
in this week’s The Nation — haven’t read it yet…
If you’ve ever seen the Dugar family (the one with 16 biological kids) on Discovery Health, they are Quiverfulls. Its never mentioned in the show though.
Pax
A little fun for all the “hug” freaks in the pond.
I thought was just toooo funny in a serious way, anyhow.
Heh – makes me want to run out and find this James Coburn flick from 1967 to watch one more time.