I won (tied) the slam last night!

I had a real itch during NPS that didn't get scratched and I haven't won a WB slam for a long time (mostly because I haven't been in them, but when I was, I wasn't doing the do).  Yesterday I said to hell with that, buckled down, wrote new work, edited old work, timed it, got it in my mouth before I actually got ( Read more... )

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Say what you want about the many developments of Slam over the years: time clocks, 3-minute rule, team rotations, 5x3...none of this compares to the scoring system I saw in place last night at the OSU Heritage Festival Slam ( Read more... )

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B.B. King can’t play and sing at the same time.
Some folks don’t have to,
but that alone isn’t any reason to sing the blues.
- Michael Brown, from “B.B. King”

(  An addendum… )

(  And on the second day, he rested. )

( This addendum is sort of a post-day-one recap of some interesting figures after the scores went out.... )