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Who The Hell Is Davide Zappacosta

Zappa Costa Zappacosta   It shouldn’t have been so surprising to me, so confounding….but given my circumstances, it was more than understandable that I would have had no idea whatsoever who Davide Zappacosta was and why he was playing for Chelsea. I perhaps should mention that I should have had no idea who or what Chelsea…

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The Championship Years 2017-18, part 2: All The Comforts Of Home

On The Ball City!

Norwich City 1      Sunderland 3   Last Sunday, the Black Cats of newly relegated Sunderland strode onto the pitch and from the off, they felt right at home. They played well….okay….they played well enough to win. Yes, they had only 35% possession, but….they made it count. They played the match with all the…

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Shadows Of The Monster

tits at talladega

I’m glad I don’t have to write anything….THAT would SCARE me….   So….what are you afraid of? Death perhaps? Public speaking? Sex? Losing your job, your spouses, siblings, parents or…..perhaps your virginity?  A plague of spiders….snakes….mice….rats….or any number of hissing insects?  Or that sickening horrible claustrophobic fear of being buried alive. Afraid of the dark?…

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If I Had A Mind

Go Pack GO!!

If I had mind to, I’d tear that fucking statue down and send it back to France….   A mind, they say, is a terrible thing to waste. But sometimes, in my case anyway, I’m not so sure. A mind can be very much like time and money. Money shines more brightly when it’s wasted.…

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Prolegomenon To Any Future Blog Post

Business As Usual??  I’m not so sure….   I’ve always resisted the typical end-of-year backward glances; top 23 lists of crap, movies, music that I hate; reminiscences; resolutions; and other typical forms of dull tedious shite. I have at other times engaged in some form of egregious introspection, but not at this time of the…

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The Championship Years

OnThe Ball, City

Back In The Good Old Days   Clint Dempsey’s final match for Fulham vs Newcastle United was a remarkable affair for both himself and The Cottagers. Fulham gave the Magpies a sound 5-2 thrashing as Clint Dempsey became the first American to ever get a hat trick in the Premier League. And instead of smacking…

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Two Pints Of Gravy

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GIVE that man another pint of gravy, good sir….   It’s been what….a month and a half, say? 3 fortnights? Well, however you slice it up, it’s been an unreasonable passage of time. And no need to belabor the obvious or oblivious facts that get in the way of the truth. And why bother with…

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Abandonment

My blog, recently….   I’ve been on the verge of filing a petition with the Federal Railroad Administration for the abandonment of this blog. The property is in sad shape, needs extensive maintenance work, track and signal upgrades. Bridges need to be replaces, not to mention the new ones that need to be built. All…

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Sundry Liberties & Free Warren

Business as usual, then….   I never visited the borough of Plumstead when I was in London…and I’m not sure if it was still called Plumstead back in those brave and terrible days of Nixon’s decline…but I am quite sure I was never there. No, I’m absolutely certain. Just a I’m quite sure (absolutely certain)…

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Like A Carp Driven Through A Man’s Skull

Stan Erickson Appleton

  A terrible thing happened on October 27th, 2015….but….I’ll get to that in a minute. Meanwhile, here are a few things I will not write about today. I will have nothing to say about the terrorist bombing in Paris. That ‘s been covered by everyone else on the planet, and I hate to say it,…

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Back To The Butcher

Who needs a focking DeLorean…!!?   Sometimes there is so much, too much, to write about, talk about, think about…and this is one of those times. I’ve painted myself into a corner (again) after all these years and faced with everything I have to and should be talking about, thinking about, and writing about, I…

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WARNING: Unresponsive Script (Not Responding)

Just How in hell did Lewis Hamilton just lose the Gran Prix of Monaco??   I don’t know. You tell me. Hamilton was ruling the day at Monaco from lap 1. He built a lead of 13 seconds ((13 minutes it might as  well have been)) and was virtually lapping the field. At lap 64,…

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Tawdry Remnants & Uninspired Marginalia

Basically, I (left) post to my blog, and then you (right) read it.    I’ve fallen off the weekly posting wagon and have been left behind in a trail of dust somewhere in the general vicinity of Iowa County/ Layfayette County line in SW Wisconsin. So there I am, a bit frazzled no doubt. But…

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Winning Cute

Chelsea FC

Queens Park Rangers 0      Chelsea 1   It doesn’t matter in sports how cute you are….sometimes you have to win the ugly way. Scoreboard, and all that. So today (as I transcribe these notes from my Egyptian Stationary Company stenographer’s notebook onto the pages whirling through my Adler J5 typewriter whirl as the hipsters sipping…