Before you head into your weekend

Today I looked through a 1976 edition of the Crimson. This newspaper was produced before I was born, and the ads inside it were great. Here’s one:

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That IHOP is now a pizza joint. That pizza joint is now closed.

You can see the front page and several of the ads on my Tumblr, here, here, here and here.

Isn’t this a lovely photo that I snapped from the car?

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That plane was pulling up as I was driving under its flight path. I dug out my phone and pointed it in that general direction — eyes on the road — and pressed the shutter button one time at what felt like the last moment.

And maybe it was the last moment. Another second or two of fumbling and the plane is out of the frame. But never mind that, look at all of that beautiful empty space.

Things to read … because the cat has currently strapped herself to me and is not interested in this typing business at all. (Seriously, she is being ridiculous.)

The fall of 2012 I don’t remember all that well, but I remember we sat near Kiehl Frazier at Barbecue House and took the “Oh look who is over my shoulder picture.” I also remember, prior to that, that he once felt the need to apologize on social media for the outcome of a football game. When you get beyond how unnecessary that is, you remember he was a freshman at the time. You can’t help but cheer for a guy like that, no matter where he plays, Auburn to Arkadoo:

Marquez knows sooner or later Kiehl Frazier will be one of those calling. When Auburn’s former quarterback-turned-defensive back-turned receiver is asked about the whereabouts of his 2013 SEC championship ring, he’s like all the rest who use Marquez as a lost-and-found.

“I haven’t picked it up yet,” Frazier admitted, 10 months and 550 miles removed his former school, an SEC title, and the ring that went with it. “I bet Dana still has it. I haven’t seen it at all. Right after the national championship game I came down here.”

Here is Arkadelphia (Arkadoo, they sometimes call it), a slow, sleepy Arkansas town 30 miles from Hot Springs, an hour and change from Little Rock, and light years from big-time football. Here is Ouachita Baptist University, a tiny private school that has to share space in a town of 10,000 with fellow Division II football power Henderson State.

Alabama’s unemployment rate dropped in October

Here’s a way we might have actually had it better than kids these days. Teens Are Sharing Gross Pictures Of Their School Lunches With The Hashtag #ThanksMichelleObamaNanny statism neither looks nor tastes delicious.

That’s all I have. Enjoy your weekend.

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