Youtubery - Comrades know what’s up edition
Third Saturday in Blogtober —
This may be my favorite cover of this song of all time. Twenty bucks says they don’t know Rocky Top.
YouTube love: Sweet Home Alabama with a twist
Randball —
MR sends along this outstanding video of the Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir teaming up to cover “Sweet Home Alabama.” Love it for the juxtaposed politics. Love it for the hair. But please do love it.
Reporters' Notebooks
The Wiz of Odds —
Kyle Hightowner Iliana Limon, Orlando Sentinel: Initial autopsy results performed on Central Florida receiver Ereck Plancher were inconclusive about the cause of his death. Joseph Goodman, Miami Herald: Emmanuel Moody, the transfer running back from USC, is having trouble adjusting to Florida's offense. Michael DiRocco, Florida Times-Union: Florida offensive lineman James Wilson is back on the field for spring drills, but says there is still a chance he will transfer this summer. Jonathan Okanes, Contra Costa Times: Running back James Montgomery said his decision to ...
SWEET HOME HELSINKI IS HERE TO BLOW YOUR MIND
EDSBS —
It’s a Finnish band with a Russian name wearing Kool World haircuts doing a Lynyrd Skynyrd song in English with the Red Army choir singing behind them. We don’t understand it either, but if they don’t play halftime at Bryant-Denny Stadium with this exact instrumentation and military vocal support, Alabama fans you have been cheated of something truly awesome.
(HT: To the Point, via Kanu.)
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“Sweet Home Alabama” the way the good lord intended it
The Extrapolater —
STUFF CRIMSON AND WHITE PEOPLE LIKE
EDSBS —
Via the Alabama gentlemen of Picture Me Rollin and Uncle Rico’s Time Machine comes the latest installment of our rippity-offity Stuff ______ People Like series
Coach Bryant: This is perhaps too obvious, but there is little doubt that since the apotheosis of General Robert E. Lee there has not been as much hero worship directed toward an individual until the time of Paul William “Bear” Bryant. There are goods odds that you could walk into any mom and pop diner in most parts of Alabama and start a very healthy debate amongst people that adamantly believe that debating is for sissies, if ...
A Large Regular — Flotsam and Jetsam Miscellaneous thoughts and observations. Apropos of nothing a lefty comparison - before he was 26-yrs old Tom Glavine had 53 wins and had won a Cy Young Award. Jon Lester has 39 wins and has beat cancer... Good news for geeks - the lawsuit between the Tolkien Trust and New Line Cinema is over. This clears the way for The Hobbit to be made into a movie by Warner Brothers... Today should be called naming day in the US. In 1776 the Continental Congress officially adopted the name "the United States" as the name for the new country. Twenty five years later in 1791 - the capital of the new country was ...
