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Since childhood, my favorite movie has been The Bishop’s...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:05:00 -0500

Since childhood, my favorite movie has been The Bishop’s Wife. So when Whitney Houston signed on with Courtney B. Vance & Denzel Washington to do the remake The Preacher’s Wife, my Mom took me to the theater on opening night.

Whitney sang numerous times throughout the film, but the song that’s never left me is her performance with the Georgia Mass Choir in “I Love The Lord.” And she did, deeply. The last song she sang publicly before leaving this world was her own rendition of “Jesus Loves Me.” How apropos. I like to think she’s sitting at the feet of Christ today singing & worshiping Him. Hallelujah.

“I will sing unto the Lord because He hath dwelt bountifully with me.” Psalms 13:6

Rest in peace, Whitney Houston.

Bloody Brilliant! Love this Downton Abbey vs Super Bowl mashup:...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:30:00 -0500

Bloody Brilliant! Love this Downton Abbey vs Super Bowl mashup: “The Super-Proper Bowl.” Ha!

spencerlewis: The Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:37:27 -0500

spencerlewis:

The Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, documents, studies, and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the changing American South. (To learn more about our work, visit southernfoodways.org.)

Over the last decade, the SFA has collected more than 500 oral histories and produced more than 30 films. We have trained our lenses on North Carolina pitmasters and Louisiana bartenders. We’ve captured the stories of Alabama shrimpers and Arkansas caviar fishermen. We’ve chronicled the work of Georgia cattlemen and Tennessee fried chicken cooks.

We have not, however, made a long-form documentary, aimed at chronicling the depth and breadth of Southern food culture. Until now. Directed by Joe York and produced by John T. Edge and Andy Harper, PRIDE & JOY is that film.

In this hour-long, ready-to-air documentary, we focus on the tradition-bearers of Southern food culture. We present intimate portraits of people and places while asking important questions about our common culture:

* What do foodways tell us about who we are as Southerners?

* How and why do traditional foodways endure?

* As the South’s ethnic and racial makeup shifts, how do regional foodways change?

PRIDE & JOY stands not as the final word on Southern food, but as an introduction to the ways in foodways offers insights on the region’s complex history and bright future.

{ SFA }

Glory Glory to Ole Georgia… uga: Everybody loves the...

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:55:05 -0500

Glory Glory to Ole Georgia…

uga:

Everybody loves the Dawgs.

bangerangvargas:

The Muppets’ Secret Elevator Tapes|| Battle Hymn of the Elevator

Perspective from America’s finest to America’s...

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:34:47 -0500

Perspective from America’s finest to America’s loony, self-entitled, lazy liberals…

Amen!

Absolutely superb highlight video from the Georgia-Auburn game...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:02:59 -0500

Absolutely superb highlight video from the Georgia-Auburn game last week. Without the $180,000 QB, Auburn is back to losing on the regular :)

Auburn stats: only 9 first downs, 3-11 on 3rd down, only 51 yds on the ground (oh my!), and 3 turnovers.

How ‘Bout Them Dawgs!!

How ‘Bout Them Dawgs!! Georgia wins a thriller 24-20 and...

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:31:43 -0400

How ‘Bout Them Dawgs!!

Georgia wins a thriller 24-20 and still owns the series 48-40-2

And Will Muschamp STILL hasn’t won a Cocktail Party :)

Go Dawgs!!

The infamous UGA / Florida Game at The World’s Largest...

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:31:25 -0400

The infamous UGA / Florida Game at The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, 1980 - the perfect season. ”Lindsay Scott! Lindsay Scott! Lindsay Scott!” Larry Munson

This incredible footage and interviews of the 1980 team is from the new documentary 1980 Dawgs. (h/t Get The Picture)

New Hyundai Sonata commercial featuring UGA football and our...

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:24:48 -0400

New Hyundai Sonata commercial featuring UGA football and our famous Hedges. It’s pretty awesome! How ‘bout them Dawgs indeed.

GATA Dawgs! Beat the Bizzaro pups!!

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:59:55 -0400

GATA Dawgs! Beat the Bizzaro pups!!

uga: Aaaand Garden & Gun’s Athens Spotlight: Of course...

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:34:20 -0400

uga:

Aaaand Garden & Gun’s Athens Spotlight:

Of course there’s more to Athens than music; there’s also that little college called the University of Georgia. The gorgeous redbrick buildings of North Campus spill into the funky downtown, which is mostly blissfully free of chain stores (Starbucks, be damned!). The campus rolls down the hill to the east of Lumpkin Street, becoming more of a mishmash of architecture in South Campus, until the Himalayan-size decks of the 92,000-seat Sanford Stadium loom before you. Ah, the Bulldogs.

Photo

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:18:36 -0400

The Bulldog Barn on Hwy 15 in Georgia has it’s new season...

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:19:00 -0400

The Bulldog Barn on Hwy 15 in Georgia has it’s new season message up! (h/t Bulldawg Illustrated) Go Dawgs!!

UGA Welcome Week 2011 for incoming freshman, class of 2015....

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:14:00 -0400

UGA Welcome Week 2011 for incoming freshman, class of 2015. Amazing video of the new students forming the Georgia ‘G’ in Sanford Stadium.

So. Completely. Awesome!! Welcome to UGA class of 2015. I hope your years in Athens are as life-changing & marvelous as mine were.

GO DAWGS!!!!

Glory Glory To 'Ole Georgia

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:32:00 -0400

Glory Glory To 'Ole Georgia:

uga:

(photo via Red and Black)

Traditions Monday: Why I Go Back To Athens

I’ll admit it: I am a lifelong Georgia Bulldog fan. I graduated from our state’s flagship university in 1984.

My wife and oldest son are also UGA graduates, and my youngest son is a student there. Attending Georgia football games in the fall has been a Murphy family tradition since the Herschel Walker years. The team has seen its ups and downs and has hit a bit of a dry spell the past couple of seasons.

I was in Athens earlier this fall and had to endure yet another disappointing loss - this time to Arkansas. So why do I do this to myself?

Why do I make the four-hour trek down I-16 and Ga. 15 five or six weekends a year to immerse myself in frustration and regret?

It came to me when I was running at 7 a.m. on the day after the game. I ran past North Campus, down through the J-school and Reed Quad, past the Tate Center and on to Myers Quad, where I lived as a freshman. I then circled up past the Science Library, my left knee aching a bit as I hit the incline up Ag Hill, before heading back down past BioSciences and Chemistry and Physics/Astronomy.

“I love this place,” I thought.

And that was it - my little epiphany. It’s not about the game. Never has been.

I ran past a row of maple trees outside of the Chemistry building. I carved my wife’s initials in one of them when we were dating back in the day. They were mere saplings then; they are 50 feet tall now. I paused a moment to run my fingers over those rough letters.

I gazed upon the giant ground sloth skeleton in the Science Library - first found on Skidaway Island, it became a curious touchstone for me when I was homesick as a freshman. I jogged through Myers Quad, where I saw R.E.M. perform when we were all still students, and first thought, “Hey, they’re actually pretty good!”

I peered up at the silver dome gleaming above Park Hall, where I took graduate-level English classes with the one-of-a-kind Dr. Bufkin. The J-School plaza was where I called my mom from a pay phone one bright and sunny afternoon to get my MCAT scores and exclaimed after hearing them, “I just got into med school!”

It was at the University of Georgia that I saw “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” one Saturday night after midnight and debated health care reform (even then!) at the Demosthenian Literary Society.

We drank sangria and played video games on Fridays at the Dawg House, engaged in campus-wide snowball fights when classes were cancelled due to blizzards, club-hopped, road-tripped and watched a few years of great Georgia football featuring guys named Herschel, Buck and Lindsay and Freddie.

As I completed my run - a full 30 years after my freshman year on the beautiful UGA campus - the sun came up over the horizon, the birds sang and I thought, “This could be 1980 all over again.”

Except that it wasn’t. A generation and a half of UGA students have come and gone since then.

I saw a young coed in skinny jeans, her long hair pulled back into a ponytail, struggling up the steps to the Science Library with an over-stuffed backpack, and I wanted to stop her. I wanted to tell her that life was too short, that she should revel in this moment, that she should enjoy every second of college because she’s going to spend the rest of her life trying to get back to this point, right here. And she’ll fail, because once it’s over, it’s over. Everything else is an imitation, a sham, a mirage.

I didn’t speak to her. She probably would have sprayed me with mace, or, at bare minimum, called campus security about the creepy old 40-something dude in running shorts who accosted her.

But she made me realize why I come to Athens.

It’s not the football.

It’s the memories - of a time when the whole world lay before us, when the possibilities were endless, when we pushed the envelope of what we thought we were capable of and ruptured it egregiously. It’s a reminder of the carefree nature of youth, of the ability to lose oneself in the collective delirium of a brilliant football play in Sanford Stadium, of the hedonistic pleasures of a simple glass of wine with a good meal and good friends while the young and the beautiful cavort mindlessly about, unconcerned about tomorrow because of the limitless possibilities of tonight.

A pilgrimage to Athens unearths recollections of the intellectual and personal discoveries that made me the man I am today.

I go to Athens because it reminds me of why we are alive.

And it makes me grateful for the blessings I have been granted in this great country, and through my wonderful alma mater.

God bless you, Athens. Because of you, for a few weekends a year, I am young again.

Mark E. Murphy, M.D., is a Savannah physician and writer.

Published on Savannahnow.com

fatqueernerd: Lucille Ball Quotes: I have an everyday religion...

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:43:09 -0400

fatqueernerd:

Lucille Ball Quotes:

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’ t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

The more things you do, the more you can do.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

UGA opens Fall camp! Just 29 days ‘til Kickoff...

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:44:47 -0400

UGA opens Fall camp! Just 29 days ‘til Kickoff y’all.

Go Dawgs!

*Note: Video courtesy of Bulldawg Illustrated

georgiatheatre: Mission Accomplished

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:50:24 -0400

georgiatheatre:

Mission Accomplished

The Georgia Theatre reopens tonight in the Classic...

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:16:38 -0400

The Georgia Theatre reopens tonight in the Classic City!!!

*image courtesy of Guide 2 Athens

Athens' SchoolKids Records to close Aug. 20

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:15:12 -0400

Athens' SchoolKids Records to close Aug. 20:

athensmusicandarts:

:((((