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Mobley Bros edition

March 30, 2021 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Somewhere during his journalism studies at Southern Cal and a career as sportswriter, sports editor and desk man, my friend Gordie's worldview diverged from mine pretty severely to the point we can't be friends on the Colossal Social Networking Platform (CNSP) because we can't be civil about our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Gonzaga, Mobley brothers, NCAA basketball, Southern Cal, USC

Slothism

November 7, 2020 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

I vowed when I went to bed Tuesday and it looked bleak for our side that I would cut off all my friends who gloated when the jerk won and I would disengage from all politics and work hard for good in my community and be kinder to all living things and healthier in mind and body and, of course, drink … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: nihilism

Thoughts on Dot’s

April 19, 2020 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

In any snack-shopping story, excess = success, and vice versa. We were at our local grocery emporium and came on a rack on an end cap with two bags left, just two, of Dot's Homestyle Pretzels. Did I take them both? No. That would've been mean. Directly kitty-corner across the store, oh joy, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Cytokine Storms, Jeannette Catsoulis, tuchis

The street that time forgot

April 17, 2020 By Bart Potter 3 Comments

The dog shits more than he eats, I mean volume-wise, which is a puzzlement to me. I like all my bio/medical questions to be answered by Dr. Fauci these days, and while this one might be out of his particular area of specialty and off the subject at hand, I think I'll send it in to the next town hall … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Dr. Fauci, Heroes in America, the street that time forgot

There’s no next-best thing

April 2, 2020 By Bart Potter 2 Comments

We begin at the top when we start in to list the global sporting championships compromised by COVID-19. It's no joking matter, so we speak in hushed tones about postponement of the Bent Shaft Classic and lesser world events. It's not a tragedy. It's just a golf tournament. But what will we do with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: 3GA, Bent Shaft Classic, COVID-19, Golf, Grey Goatee Golf Association, PGA Championship, The Masters, The Open Championship, U.S. Open

Day 1: Goofy again at the Prez Cup

December 11, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

The Internationals' unprecedented 4-1 lead after Day One of the Presidents Cup should have been no surprise, given the severe competitive disadvantage faced by our boys. Really with the white pants? If cringing made a sound, you’d be hearing it from the famously astute Grey Goatee Fashion … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Patrick Reed, Presidents Cup

This week in golf and culture

November 28, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Thanksgiving Day Nov. 28, 2019: On which we appreciate golf and its large place in our lives, notwithstanding that it rips our guts out and makes us drink and takes us away for hours and days from our loving families. We know what you’re thinking, and no, this day is for family time … … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Global Golf Calendar

Monday Mess: Labor edition

September 2, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

Labor Day, 2019, and the only real work I have to do today is walk the d-o-g in the early-morning f-o-g and the only work he has to do is push out the shit for me to find in the Pampas grass in front of the building across the street from the house where I live with the girls and all the other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: shit, slug, Trump, turd.

Fleetwood, of a fashion

July 21, 2019 By Bart Potter 1 Comment

We watch, from a safe distance, as the famously astute Grey Goatee Fashion Committee goes about its work. There is much at stake: nothing less, today, than the Champion Dresser of the Year. We wonder, right along with the rest of you, about the committee and its members and their deliberations … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: Alfred E. Neuman, Champion Dresser of the Year, Tommy Fleetwood

By its whiskey be told

July 21, 2019 By Bart Potter Leave a Comment

The best way to think about the difference between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is not in religious or geopolitical terms, fraught as they are, nor even in terms of golf. As Shane Lowry said, “Everyone knows we’re all one country when it comes to golf.” We wouldn’t argue with the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Off Course, UncategorizedTagged With: bushmills, Champion Golfer of the Year, Jameson, Royal Portrush, Shane Lowry, The Sexton single malt, Tullamore Dew

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