My yoga workshop weekend, Day One: I got better in crow and learned some tweaks with my hands and arms that will help as I move toward other arm balances. My core needs to be stronger. Practicing with my teachers is inspiring — they are strong and fearless — and reassuring — they struggle with… Read More a learning experience.
It seems that I write at least one post every year explaining just how ugly that season’s AUCNFFC (BTYBB) has turned out. But this year, the Eleventh Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Bocktown) seems to be, uh, extra special. How special? Only one of us — one, of the… Read More blutarskies, with distinction.
The hoopage — and the Eleventh Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Bocktown) — resumes tonight, so this is a good time to take a quick look at how we’re all doing. And how are we doing? Overall, not as bad as it probably felt last weekend, as we watched… Read More crashed and burned.
I had a good run with the Grateful Dead. But by 1994, my expectations were diminished. I started seeing the band in the mid-1980s, during a pocket of high energy, powerful tours that peaked, for me, at Riverbend in 1985 (otherwise known as the show when I “got it” for the first time). Garcia’s diabetic… Read More the last time.
It’s only March, but I’m pretty sure that, as always, this will work out to be the longest Uncle Crappy post of 2016. And “this,” of course, is the annual roundup of entries in the Eleventh Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Bocktown). And, as usual, we start with me.… Read More eaucnffc (btybb) tipoff.
If you’re playing in the Eleventh Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Bocktown), the time to enter is now. If I have your picks by noon today, you’ll be eligible to win our $50 Bocktown gift card. And if you don’t? I’ll think of you when I’m eating my delicious… Read More countdown.
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