Barking Carnival

For those of you living here in the United States of Amnesia, you probably don’t remember Billy Squier. It’s not your fault. The music industry is fickle, and past stars are forgotten all the time. Rick Rubin can’t rehabilitate everyone.
But Billy Squier was/is a fantastic rock singer and guitarist who put out a great body […]

Every year about this time for some reason I get the urge to brew a large batch of home made beer. Why? I have no idea. Perhaps it’s deeply embedded in my DNA, some biannual farmer/peasant urge tied to thousands of years of festivals and the spring harvest. Maybe it’s just Scottish genetics, like […]

Despite reading numerous articles plainly stating that aggressively changing out your running shoes and getting an assessment from a trained running shop consultant are the keys to pain-free running, I’ve always liked to seek my own counsel. This means buying whatever shoes were on sale if they felt OK walking around the store and […]

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite
and furthermore always carry a small snake.
One hundred years ago, Barking Carnival would have been blogging enthusiastically about America’s three obssessions: baseball, boxing and horseracing. Blogging back then largely consisted of standing on a street corner crate shrieking incoherent opinions about immigrants while backed […]

I’d like to thank everyone for coming, we’ve had some time to look at guys in organized drills and process some of things we were able to do in the draft and free agency, and we feel pretty good about where we are as a football team right now. Vince will be available a little […]

The Worldwide Leader must have had this gem ready for any slow day (i.e. no salicious Roger stories broke). There is nothing new (Leach likes pirates), save maybe some new pictures.

“The object was to get a treasure. If the captain did a bad job, you could just overthrow him.”
That means win a championship.
I did […]

God makes Guantanamo detainees watch Yentl.
Seriously, has any player in any athletic endeavor gotten worse advice?
We’re talking about a guard who makes Freddie Williams look like Curly Neal. A kid that picks up his dribble 40 feet from the bucket only to get swallowed up by trapping defenses like a glow-stick at a HenryJames […]

I’m a big fan of Tony Barnhart of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Really knows his shit. He released his preseason Top 10 yesterday on his blog.
1. Georgia (11-2 last season, 8 offense, 9 defense)
2. USC (11-2, 4 offense, 7 defense)
3. Missouri (12-2, 6 offense, 10 defense)
4. Florida (9-4, 8 offense, 8 defense)
5. Ohio State (11-2, 9 […]

How can you tell it’s not football season? We are talking about comic books. I have a feeling that the demographic for this is me and me alone but I’m doing this anyway because Ain’t It Cool News won’t post my reviews ever since I admitted that I liked the second Matrix movie better than […]

So Chip Brown of the Dallas Morning News said on his radio show yesterday something to the effect of ‘John Mackovic’s best players would be Mack Brown’s best players.’
Now I didn’t listen to the show because I think people who listen to sports radio are even more despicable than people who read blogs. Except the […]