Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
April 29, 2008

Percival Lowell & David Strauss

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

Go read The Man Who Invented Mars.
I blog about this for two simple reasons: First, out of respect for Professor David Strauss. I took a class (American History II) from him at Kalamazoo College back in (IIRC) Spring Quarter 1989. He wasn’t my advisor as a History major (my guy was Dr. David Barclay), [...]


January 8, 2008

Hey, bigsis…

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

Here’s a joke for you to pass along to my #1 Goddaughter (and, let the reader understand, tOSU grad):
How do you make Ohio State cookies?
Put them in a big bowl and beat them for 3 hours.
Bwahahahahahahaha!
At least your alma mater knows how to beat a SEC team…
-bbb


November 16, 2007

UofM vs tOSU

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : zeitgeist

It’s the third weekend in November, which means one thing: the renewal of the best rivalry in college football - Michigan vs. Ohio State!
Funny thing is that my blog traffic bears this out, as I’ve seen an uptick in the amount of traffic. Traffic, it seems, that is being driven by search engines spitting [...]


October 9, 2007

Michigan football memories

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

I think that I’ve mentioned before that I’m a Michigan football fan. I came of age during the Bo Schembechler years, and became the type of true-believer that only a pre-teenaged boy can be. I lived & died with what Bo’s boys did on the gridiron, rooting for them with a white-hot passion. (That my [...]