Missed a few days but still chugging alone with posts from the past. FYI, “Oxford Town” is Oxford Mississippi, home of The University of Mississippi. It’s quite the place. Whitehead and Russell’s Principia Mathematica was featured in Miss Missy’s School! Just another day in Oxford Town Published on August 27, 2015 by Marica | Edit You never know what you’ll
And the most amazing thing? This started PRE-Covid! They are everywhere. Four of us were standing around outside and one robot managed to negotiate the space between us. So Ole Miss. Two flagmen have apparently lost their jobs. We didn’t have to wait too long. My God the roads in this county are absolutely horrible.
Surprised me. And the fact that Off Square Books– the one with the ridiculously overpriced crappy old books– was not open was a real bummer. But other than that the trip to Ole Miss (That School Up North) and Oxford was fantastic. Big Bad Breakfast was unbelievable, as always. More to come.
Another Shakespeare Day on The Farm repost coming up shortly but I wanted to set the scene and draw attention to the supporting cast first. The Stage was the occasion of the 400th year since Shakespeare’s death– 2016– and the nation-wide, traveling exhibition of several first folios. Here in Mississippi a first folio was at
To evaluate a head football coach based on W-L record. What an odd concept. “Ole Miss scheduled a player meeting Sunday night to inform the players of the decision. Senior linebacker Willie Hibbler said players, including himself and freshman Jerrion Ealy, walked out of the meeting. “That tells you a lot,” Hibbler said. “I think they
We had supper at Ajax in Oxford this evening. Ajax has, in my humble opinion, the best restaurant-style Country Fried Steak and two sides any where around here where “here” is taken to mean this universe. I usually get mashed potatoes and green beans(m). The “(m)” indicates that the vegetable was cooked with meat. Inspired.
For the rest of the month, I am just going to go along with this silliness that a two-bit actor who never traveled anywhere and certainly did not know anything at all about English court– let alone Danish– wrote the best literature of Western civilization (cough, cough, Bacon was Shakespeare, cough) and invite you to a
The scene from this evening. What you see here on the leftward side are a number of lights pointed directly into the area from which the deer are coming, and surrounding the area where my tomatoes are. I’m going for the “deer in the headlights” effect. (The lights on the rightward side emanate from the
You should see how clear the sky is right now! I’m taking that as a sign from God. But just to be on the safe side– because a healthy dose of skepticism is always warranted when dealing with the philosophical– I think we’ll serve inside. (See now why I wanted to wear that cite little
I, for one, am going to readjust what I’d planned to wear the next few days. At times like these, it’s important to consider footwear. Let’s imagine a blustery day in late April. The tornado sirens sound. You and 30-50 others are in a lecture hall at That School Up North. You must quickly and calmly
Wait! What? Where are you headed? This is a pretty amazing story! Missy was outside and I realized she was barking which is something she hardly ever does unless… “Oh! Marica! That’s just not true. I don’t need my Dear Friend Rocky to tell me when to bark! I bark at the birds all of the
via Daughter C come the “100 smartest cities in America.”Starkville, Mississippi– home to Mississippi State University: #34 Oxford, Mississippi– home to the University of Mississippi, or as we like to call it, That School Up North: #75Cincinnati, Ohio– home to the University of Cincinnati, Xavier University and many others: #100Here’s the list. I do believe
As I mentioned, Mr. Big Food and I traveled to Oxford, in Lafayette Co., Mississippi, home of That School Up North (TSUN) today. We left the Farm a little after 9am. (Sorry. We don’t have GPS in the truck and I turned it off on my phone, so if you’re listening in, you’ll just have
This will teach them (via Y’all Politics): Lafayette County Political Party Comments on Election Night Events at Ole Miss The Democratic and Republican Executive Committees of Lafayette County collectively join Chancellor Dan Jones in condemning the inappropriate behavior displayed on campus last night. Although our organizations encourage spirited debate and engagement among University of Mississippi
TSUN = That School Up North, also known as Ole Miss. From WMCTV in Oxford (via Breitbart). Keep in mind that Ole Miss has a FIRE green rating– one of the best– in the top ten– schools in the country for free speech on campus. OXFORD, MS –(WMC-TV) – While you were sleeping, protests were
Today Mr. Big Food and I traveled to Oxfordtown and TSUN.* Miss M and Mike joined us. There was an EVENT on campus. We were not there for the EVENT, and that’s what I told the security guard who was guarding Visitor Parking Street, but he let us park in EVENT PARKING anyway. As per usual
for some football? Folks around here sure are! This week’s newspaper included the Three County Football Guide 2012. It took us a while to learn how to spell ‘Oktibbeha.’ Sixteen colorful pages of analyses, schedules, introductions, and advertisements. 16! Page 16 really cracked us up. That School Up North (TSUN) TSUN has a new
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has awarded Mississippi State University the ‘Green Light’ rating for MSU’s free speech policies. I’m pleased to report that That School Up North also has a FIRE green light. So here in Mississippi we have two, of only 15 colleges and universities in the United States of America,
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