Some notes on commenting policy 27 Aug 2013 | 08:41 am

I only rarely refuse to let comments through from new readers.  Occasionally, it’s been because of an obviously fake email address.  Other times, it has been apparent that one of a very few users whos...

Al Green show cancels 27 Aug 2013 | 01:24 am

Just got this email from the Lyric Theater in Oxford: We regret to inform you that the show:  Cannon Motor Company Presents Al Green with Jackie Wilson Martin has been cancelled.  A full refund will ...

Cold beer comes to Oxford: Julio Cortazar on lost gestures like spinning a beer in ice 26 Aug 2013 | 10:17 am

The reactions to the coming of cold-beer-to-Oxford had lots folks describing how they’d learned to chill beers, spinning them in a sink or cooler filled with ice and salt.  These reactions had a certa...

Albert Murray, who died this week at 97, wrote a poem about William Faulkner 22 Aug 2013 | 08:34 am

The writer Albert Murray, who went to Tuskegee at the same time as Ralph Ellison, died this week.  There’s a nice Slate piece about him, where I learned that Murray wrote a poem about William Faulkner...

The Hogs Have Arrived 20 Aug 2013 | 12:45 am

Bloomberg reports on the decision in Faulkner vs. Woody Allen 20 Aug 2013 | 12:32 am

Click here to view the embedded video. The decision was July 18th, so I suppose a notice of appeal would be due today, if there were to be one.  Nothing has turned up on the docket as of this writing...

Al Green to perform at the Lyric in Oxford Friday, October 18th 19 Aug 2013 | 07:21 pm

Al Green will be performing at the Lyric in Oxford on Friday, October 18th, brought by Cannon Motor Company.  Tickets go on sale Friday, August 23rd.  The date is the Friday before the LSU football ga...

Roasting New Mexico Hatch Chilies in New Orleans! 19 Aug 2013 | 04:24 am

My daughter went to her local Rouse’s grocery store (the one on Tchoupitoulas a block or so up from Napoleon) and out in the front they were roasting chili peppers.  I asked if they were Hatch chilies...

I have been puzzling with this one for days… 18 Aug 2013 | 11:58 pm

Shouldn’t that verb be “set” or “pour?” (on South Lamar in Oxford)

“With the blood from my body I could start my own still” Country Music has the drinking-didn’t-solve-the-problem thing covered. Some examples. 14 Aug 2013 | 01:23 pm

Anderson sought some country songs that alcohol brought you down, but the drugs that brought you up were illegal.  With the not-complete answer of “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” I noted that country ha...