S02 EP33: New Year's Day Used to Be March 25th
Bayou-Picayune
#33: Did you know that before 1752 New Year's Day in England and its colonies was March 25th, not January 1st?
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S02 EP32: Who Dat
Bayou-Picayune
#32: Did you know the phrase “Who Dat” was first used by Herman Melville in his 1851 novel “Moby-Dick?”
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S02 EP31: I Play Center Linebacker
Bayou-Picayune
#31: When I was twelve, we moved from California to Louisiana. In California, I played baseball. I lived baseball. But in Louisiana there was no baseball.
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S02 EP30: I step off the top of a football stadium
Bayou-Picayune
#30: When I walk, my head is down, and I scour the ground for nickels, dimes and quarters. It’s a poor boy habit I developed when I was twelve, but that tendency to look down before I make a step almost resulted in my death when I took a dare and stepped off the top of a football stadium.
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S02 EP29: Jesus Lied
Bayou-Picayune
#29: With my title — “Jesus Lied” — many Christians will probably presume this is yet another attack on their religious beliefs, while non-Christians will think this affirms what they already believe — that Jesus, if there was such a person, was merely a man and not God.
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S02 EP28: The Curse of the Frog
Bayou-Picayune
#28: When I was in high school, I knew a boy who went by the nickname “Bwana” because he loved outdoor critters. He used to keep a pet snake, and every morning some of us boys would watch when it was feeding time.
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S02 EP27: Money Games: How to Force the NFL to Play Their Stars
Bayou-Picayune
When a company tries to sell at full price, a diluted version of its own product customers tend to react strongly. Sometimes even petitioning their elected representatives to exert regulatory pressure on the company.
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S02 EP26: A Confession: My role in last century’s tulipomania
Bayou-Picayune
#26: This is, I guess, a confession of sorts about the role I played in last century’s video game fad. The years in question were 1978-1981.
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S02 EP25: The roll of the dice
Bayou-Picayune
#25: Did you know it was Galileo (1564-1642) who first figured out the percentages for each roll of the dice?
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S02 EP24: The Tattle Tail Priest
Bayou-Picayune
#24: Bleach. The smell of bleach and pine. A lot of what I do in the classroom, when it's not grammar, when it's not composition, is intuitive.
info_outline#09: You have probably seen aerial pictures of crop circles, strange patterns in wheat fields that appear to be deliberately made. No one knows who or what made them, though many educated people, like me, have jumped to the conclusion that they may be signs of a higher intelligence, possibly graffiti from aliens hovering above in their flying saucers.