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Thursday Pickin Season II Week 13
Quote of the Day: (to be determined) Happy actual Thanksgiving Day everyone. TB’s livin it up in Key West, family style. We’re getting ready to take a “Power Adventure Cruise”–full details later this weekend or when I get back home. Unfortunately, that’s also when the results from last week will get posted. Suffice it to say, all the lead dogs bit the dust last week so it’s goin down to the wire. Here are my picks for this week: Link to Sheridan’s Odds Pitt    Even Temple  -3 Tennessee  -3

Happy Thanksgiving, Universe
Quote of the Day: “Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don’t eat has been proved to be indispensable for life.  But I go marching on.” George Bernard Shaw TB’s sittin on a balcony in Fort Lauderdale this fine morn overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, a bright, hot sun still rising and cooled every few moments by a series of marsh-mellowy cumulus clouds slowly drawing across a palette of pure blue. The clouds are all fat today, some light, white and fluffy, others dark,gray, and bloated  and your chronicler is right there feeling kinship with the latter. We

Thursday Pickin Season II, Week 12
Quote of the Day: “I got two cases and a 30 pack plus a gallon of vodka and a bottle of Jagar. Probably pick up another case on the way just in case.” –Feidt’s Follies, official Gentleman of Leisure of the TBU, always on Third Week holiday, dubiously substituting vodka for bourbon After all the sound and the fury, the whining and the crying, Sweet stepped up this week and voted for his only rival to winning the coveted Travellinbaen Universe Pickin Championship for musical bonus points. This set ol’ TB to ponderin the concept of sportsmanship. Was Sweet acting in a sportsmanlike fashion by helping RockStar g

Party Planning For Third Week
Quote of the Day: “I never did like to work and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh–anything but work.” –Abraham Lincoln TB hears all the time, “TB, I love Third Week. I’m spreading the word and most everyone wants to participate. But how does one celebrate this new holiday? After all, Christmas has the tree, Thanksgiving has the turkey, Festivus has its pole….what the hell does 3W have?” I’m glad you asked. First, you plan your Third Week Party meal–Third Pound Burger and 3 Bean Chili are the traditional main courses and

The Traditional Media’s War on Third Week
Quote of the Day: “When you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time–a tremendous whack.” –Winston Churchill It’s the third most wonderful time of the year! Third week is here, finally! Some of you were already explorers in the TBU this time last year for the inaugural celebration of the best new holiday to come about in centuries. If you haven’t heard about Third Week yet, I’m not surprised. The so-called “traditional media” won’t cover the story. Bec