Making Mascot Madness Mascot Madness, an ongoing Heck Of A Guy series, chooses only the most blogworthy of mascots – those that are unusual, provocative, controversial, or just plain ol’ bizarre enough to (1) momentarily suspend the high velocity Brownian motion of the Heck Of A Guy editorial focus and (2) evoke the conviction that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Fascinations'
When Good Mascots Do Bad Things
March 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Today’s post is a cautionary tale that is part of the 2009 update of my seminal tripartite publication on mascots.1 While one might think the previous mascot-oriented posts, which included the interview between Purdue Pete and the Stanford Tree, the forced retirements of Chief Illiniwek from the University Of Illinois, Elon University’s Fightin’ Christians, and [...]
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Jackson Whipps Showalter – Chess Champion, Curve Ball Proponent, Cigar Aficionado
March 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Another Showalter1 You Should Know The devilishly handsome, dramatically mustachioed gent pictured above is one Jackson Whipps Showalter. The family resemblance fairly leaps out at one, doesn’t it? And, he’s not just another pretty face of the sort that is, after all, standard among the males who populate clan Showalter.2 As these excerpts from The [...]
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Internet Archive Treasures: Music, Spoken Word, Movies, Texts, & The Wayback Machine
March 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Fascinations
A Friday Field Trip To The Smithsonian Of The Internet My original intent today was to respond to requests for a list of sites where one can download recordings of live performances of pop music. The good news is that this post does indeed provide information about arguably the best single repository of those music [...]
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Orphan Photos Exhibition
March 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Fascinations
No, these are not photos of orphans. These images were found on my hard drive with no indication of what I intended to do with them or, for most, where I found them. The provocative content of these photos as well as my speculations about why I kept them on hand prevent me from ingloriously [...]
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Microsoft Software Packaging – Stupid or Malicious or Stupid & Malicious?
March 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Microsoft Switches To Stealth Packaging Having installed, since the days when the Word-Excel-PowerPoint et al combo was distributed on floppy discs, Microsoft Office in all manner of computers, some manufactured by companies no longer in existence, I anticipated no problems setting up the 2007 version of the program on my relatively new machine. That reasoning [...]
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Is Leonard Cohen Dick Tracy's Little Brother?
March 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Leonard Cohen, Media
Dick Tracy Not Just Another Leonard Cohen Lookalike? Note the family resemblance around the eyes and mouth. And with Leonard Cohen 3 years younger than the 77 year old firm-jawed detective, Dick Tracy, the ages would be appropriate for siblings. 1 Most significantly, consider the passion both bring to their work. For previous reports of [...]
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The Girl With The Leonard Cohen Tattoo
February 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Leonard Cohen
In Front Of The Beacon Theatre Before The Leonard Cohen Concert, …1 I chatted with batches of Leonard Cohen admirers as we waited to enter the building. One charming woman I met presented her credentials as a Leonard Cohen fan: I’m such a Leonard Cohen fan that I stayed at the Chelsea Hotel just because [...]
The Leonard Cohen New York Beacon Theatre Concert Stories No Other Source Dares Print
February 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Leonard Cohen
Careful readers of Heck Of A Guy may have correctly deduced from the occasional clue hidden in last week’s posts (such as the graphic from New York Tonight – Leonard Cohen & DrHGuy Appearing Together For The First Time) that I attended the February 19, 2009 Leonard Cohen concert at the Beacon Theater in New [...]
The Irrepressibly Uplifting "What A Wonderful World" Video
February 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Anjani sent the link to this video my way with a brief annotation, for all us sensitive types ….1 I like to think of this refreshing take on the classic Louis Armstrong song as a Heck Of A Guy blog palate cleanser to be enjoyed between – well, … less wholesome posts.
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