http://www.priorworks.com/blog The Complete and Unabridged PriorBlog Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:45:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My house smells pretty good now, thank you very much. Only the dog carries with him, at close range, some residual skunk smell. Lots of candles and small glasses containing cider vinegar seem to have done the trick. And as the smell dissipates so too do my memories of ... http://www.priorworks.com/blog/2008/07/21/it-doesnt-smell-as-bad/ Every night before I go to bed, I take the dogs out back for a quick pee. This is an easy enough thing to do. It's not like a full scale walk, in which I need to have them harnessed and have my pockets filled with plastic bags. ... http://www.priorworks.com/blog/2008/07/17/dog-meets-skunk/ Clinton last night in her not a concession speech: You are the nurse on the second shift, the worker on the line, the waitress on her feet, the small business owner, the farmer, the teacher, the miner, the trucker, the soldier, the veteran, the student, the hard working men and women ... http://www.priorworks.com/blog/2008/06/04/what-we-look-for-in-a-president/ So, I don't know what has come over me. I always liked Elliott Smith, at some points more than others, but now I feel like I am going through an Elliott Smith renaissance.  Of sorts.  It all started the other night. I was listening to the iPod and one of ... http://www.priorworks.com/blog/2008/05/21/going-to-elliott-smith-shows/ So this dude David McCullough shows up at Boston College and delivers a commencement address.  And you know how these things go, it's all about go out and change the world, getting a B was the easy part.  I dunno though, if I was sitting there in Alumni Stadium today ... http://www.priorworks.com/blog/2008/05/19/make-the-world-a-better-place/ One of the things that I know without looking up is that Ted Williams had a .344 lifetime batting average with 521 home runs. I know this because Ted Williams was my dad's favorite baseball player to the point where there was more than one occasion during my childhood ... http://www.priorworks.com/blog/2008/04/01/an-awkward-moment-with-the-valet-of-my-dads-hero/ A few years ago when my friend Kirsten died I took solace in googling her name over and over trying to find people sharing memories of her, and it is in that vein that I thought I would share a few memories of Tim Haslett, who I wasn't super close ... http://www.priorworks.com/blog/2008/03/19/tim-haslett-rip/ The other night while watching the UNC-NC State game, I opened up the internet and started typing here about college basketball. I did this a lot last year, but haven't been doing it too much this year because my team isn't doing so hot. In the post, I ... http://www.priorworks.com/blog/2008/02/23/embarrassing-myself-left-and-right/ ESPN's halftime show had a "special guest," who turned out to be Bill Walton. Based on the way the discussion with Walton went, he is not so big a college hoops fan since his sons graduated. He mostly talked about the pros. Steve Lavin started bringing up ... http://www.priorworks.com/blog/2008/02/20/wednesday-night-hoops/ So I ordered a bunch of copies of my book, The Yoke of the Horde, that I could sell from home or whatever, because on Amazon and Createspace, I have to sell the book for twelve bucks, which I personally think is a little prohibitive. I don't want to ... http://www.priorworks.com/blog/2008/02/19/yoke-of-the-mistake/