Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Jun 30 10:12 am

Suitable names for St. Paul Catholic school jocks of the 1970s.

Wiry, polite guys that lettered in four sports and grew up in huge third-generation families in the Holy Spirit or St. Mark’s parish. As compiled by Geoff Herbach and I for an as-yet-untitled summer radio project.

  • Jackie Doughan
  • Conor Kealy
  • Don Kinsella
  • Hugh Treacy
  • Randall Mulroney
  • Shane Dooley
  • Cam Dooley
  • Mikey Meagher
  • Pat Hanlon
  • Gerry Dwyer
  • Jackie Dwyer
  • Mac Whelan
  • Danny Whelan
  • Tommy Fitzpatrick
  • Glen Shanahan
  • Tommy O’Shaughnessy
  • Reece Rafferty
  • Rory Rafferty
  • Jamie Peter Duffy
  • Rory MacCashin
  • Flynn MacKerribly
  • Cam MacKerribly
  • Rory Plunkett
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Tagged as: Things were better in the 1970s. Herbach
Jun 30 10:22 am
A beautiful air travel map, handrawn on a Frontier Airlines cocktail napkin by Lauren van Wyke. Via Andrew Schroeder. This is a great reminder that I have to start documenting my travels better, or at least draw maps on branded cocktail napkins more often. Click here for the large version.

A beautiful air travel map, handrawn on a Frontier Airlines cocktail napkin by Lauren van Wyke. Via Andrew Schroeder. This is a great reminder that I have to start documenting my travels better, or at least draw maps on branded cocktail napkins more often.

Click here for the large version.

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Jun 30 11:29 am
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Sham 69, “If the Kids Are United.”

So in Cincinnati, there is a chain of convenience stores called United Dairy Farmers, located on almost every street corner. Whenever Nate and I are in town driving around, we sing this song whenever we see a UDF, except we change all the instances of “kids” in the lyrics to “dairy farmers.” So you get some wonderful lines like “Take a look around you, what do you see? / Dairy farmers with feelings, like you and me.”

And that is what passes for hilarity in my family.