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Stumpage Reports
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Wednesday, March 19, 2003 :::
I Matriculate at Moo U: or, On Campus at Cow College
Since N.C. State is a land-grant, state college, it is heavy on the agricultural programs. Today the school lived up to its sometime derisive nickname of Moo U. There is a courtyard behind the library locally known as "The Brickyard." This morning I smelled manure as soon as I got off the bus and began walking to the brickyard.
When I went here as an undergrad in the mid-80s, the brickyard was bigger and more of a center of campus life. It is smaller because they added a wing on to the library, which is fine with me. The brickyard has lost a lot of its charm, sometimes there is an errant Crazy Brickyard Preacher, but that's about it.
No preachers today, but the brickyard was hopping, singing, mooing, bleating, growling, lowing, chirping, and oinking. Alpha Zeta sponsored Ag Awareness Week and that means loading up the brickyard with tractors, cows, goats, pigs, and chickens. A group of students was singing praise Jesus songs and a small gaggle of anti-war protestors vied for our attention, but the baby goats were just too cute.
It was nice, tons of people, lots of stuff to see. It reminded me of the good old days. If the weather had been nicer it would have been perfect. A welcome diversion from crazy preachers and skateboarders with their pants halfway down their asses.
Suzanne Malveaux News
The Suzanne Malveaux hits just keep piling up on this website. I'm not sure what the deal is. I just happened to mention her in connection with a story I told about the space shuttle crash. Yeah, she's kinda cute, like most TV newsladies, but I'm not obsessed with her or anything. Apparently someone is. I noticed if you do a Google search for "Suzanne Malveaux N-ked" or "Suzanne Malveaux N-de" you don't get any hits. But of course, soon you will, welcome to Stumpage Reports.
Quote of the Day:
You hear a couple lines from this quoted a lot, a I just heard a reporter on TV let rip with those two lines a couple minutes ago. I think you can guess which one. Well, no one ever quotes the whole speech, so here it is, courtesy of William Shakespeare:
ANTONY:
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,--
Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips,
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue--
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;
Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
--- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, III, i, 254-275, (1599)
::: posted by tom at 10:50 PM
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