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Who The Hell Is Davide Zappacosta

Zappa Costa Zappacosta   It shouldn’t have been so surprising to me, so confounding….but given my circumstances, it was more than understandable that I would have had no idea whatsoever who Davide Zappacosta was and why he was playing for Chelsea. I perhaps should mention that I should have had no idea who or what Chelsea…

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Transmissions From The Representative From AMTRAK 8

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Amtrak 8 will be arriving on YOUR planet shortly!!   I’ve pored through my photo archives and it dawned on me that I really have almost no pictures of Amtrak 7, the Empire Builder from Chicago to Seattle. Almost all my Empire Builder pictures are of the eastbound Amtrak 8. It’s most likely down to…

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The Curious Return Of Captain Britain

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Wayne Rooney Goes Home To Roost   With far less fanfare than That Villan John Terry, Wayne leaves Man U and returns to his old home club, Everton from whence he sprang into Britain’s….well, England’s at least….football imagination so many years ago. There wasn’t the major salutations that surrounded Terry’s departure from Chelsea. Which does…

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Le Rejouer En Partie

Arsene Wenger’s revenge…..   I am currently watching the replay of yesterday’s FA Cup final between ArseAnal and Chelsea. My thought was that today it would turn out different than it did yesterday when ArseAnal and Arsene Wenger strode jauntily off into the sunset with a 2-1 win. But at the 3 minutes and change…

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21 Super Bowls

Sutton United

“We could get Keith Urban, Radio Birdman, and that Nick Cave guy to do the halftime show at the Australian Grand Prix….”   There’s been a changing of guard at the top of Formula 1 that has been years in the making and should have happened years ago. But Bernie Ecclestone clung on for 40…

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If I Had A Mind

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If I had mind to, I’d tear that fucking statue down and send it back to France….   A mind, they say, is a terrible thing to waste. But sometimes, in my case anyway, I’m not so sure. A mind can be very much like time and money. Money shines more brightly when it’s wasted.…

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Prolegomenon To Any Future Blog Post

Business As Usual??  I’m not so sure….   I’ve always resisted the typical end-of-year backward glances; top 23 lists of crap, movies, music that I hate; reminiscences; resolutions; and other typical forms of dull tedious shite. I have at other times engaged in some form of egregious introspection, but not at this time of the…

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It’s Talladega, Baby!! Fall 2016 Bee Gees Edition

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It’s TALLADEGA, Baby!! And you know what THAT means…!!   NOW I ask y’all straight off….is that not THE BEST FUCKING BEE GEES PICTURE of All Time?? You absolutely KNOW it is. Onward. As for what Talladega means….well….we all know that the #1 search term that finds this little online sadness diary that is more…

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Amtrak Southern — The Rail Strike & Relegation Edition

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Southern Serves The South;  AMTRAK saves England!   As the Premier League 2016-17 season begins and I start my annual parade of at least 20 predictions sure to go wrong, there is a big rail strike going on in England. Southern Railway, which provides vital commuter and rail services to south London and its suburbs…

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The Feeling Grows Within Me

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My Room With A View   The feeling grows within me that what I see out my window here is increasingly relevant to nothing other than itself. This would not necessarily be a bad thing if I were delivering a sermon at your church, but in this case it releases the impulse to communicate, applies…

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The New Medieval Realm…

Brian France

Brian France with a Charter prepared for a lucky team owner, earlier…   NASCAR has crept up on me suddenly this year…like the shadow of a monster. Well, to be honest it was lurking there all along  But like everything this year, it has taken me by surprise. Yes, it really IS and has been…

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Abandonment

My blog, recently….   I’ve been on the verge of filing a petition with the Federal Railroad Administration for the abandonment of this blog. The property is in sad shape, needs extensive maintenance work, track and signal upgrades. Bridges need to be replaces, not to mention the new ones that need to be built. All…

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Sundry Liberties & Free Warren

Business as usual, then….   I never visited the borough of Plumstead when I was in London…and I’m not sure if it was still called Plumstead back in those brave and terrible days of Nixon’s decline…but I am quite sure I was never there. No, I’m absolutely certain. Just a I’m quite sure (absolutely certain)…

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Hearts Of Stone

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Stoke City 1      Chelsea 1 Chelsea 1     Liverpool 3 Stoke City 1      Chelsea 0 Chelsea 1      Norwich City 0 Tootenham 0      Chelsea 0 Chelsea 0      Bournemouth 1 Leicester City 2      Chelsea 1   I was going to stand in the rain, in an empty stadium, or my front yard, whichever is closer, and rant about…