Monthly Archives: May 2011

May 14, 2011 · 8:22 pm

MAY 14TH’S NAIA COLLEGE BASEBALL TOURNAMENT RESULTS (UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY)

OKLAHOMA CITY BRACKET – Belhaven Blazers over the Fresno Pacific Sunbirds  7-6  (Sunbirds eliminated) … Oklahoma City Stars made the Belhaven Blazers their prison brides by a score of 15-0. OKLAHOMA CITY STARS WIN THEIR BRACKET AND ADVANCE TO THE NAIA WORLD SERIES 

RIVERSIDE BRACKET – Cal Baptist Lancers over the CS-San Marcos Cougars  4-2 (Cougars elim) … Concordia (CA) Eagles over the Cal Baptist Lancers 4-2 in a “boring name” win over a “cool name”.  CONCORDIA (CA) EAGLES WIN THEIR BRACKET AND ADVANCE TO THE NAIA WORLD SERIES

JOLIET BRACKET – Continue reading →

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May 12, 2011 · 12:24 am

BAD MOVIES: SON OF SVENGOOLIE STRIKES AGAIN

My fondness for bad movies is no secret and what would bad movies be without America’s movie hosts, those men and women who adopted funny/spooky personas to introduce them to us and make wry, sarcastic remarks about the schlockier ones, especially those superannuated flicks that were all some local channels could afford decades ago. My favorite has always been Chicago’s Rich Koz, better known as Son of Svengoolie and later, just plain Svengoolie. This blog is loaded with references to Rich Koz, the man I consider to be the Aristophanes (just to get pretentious for a moment) of movie hosts. Here are links to some bits about a man who deserves to be known by all bad movie lovers, if only because his influence has been the most extensive and his style the most imitated. Comedy was the key to Koz’s appeal. Here are Continue reading →

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May 12, 2011 · 12:01 am

MAY MADNESS: NAIA COLLEGE BASEBALL PLAYOFFS GET STARTED TODAY!

Yes, it’s that time of year again! The NAIA baseball tournament is getting underway today! Here are a list of the teams from each bracket in their seeding order, plus my picks to win each bracket:

RIVERSIDE BRACKET – 1. Cal Baptist Lancers (My pick to win this bracket – sometimes chalk is right)  2. British Columbia Thunderbirds   3. Concordia (CA) Eagles   4. Cal State San Marcos Cougars   5. St Thomas Seahawks 

DAYTONA BEACH BRACKET – 1. Embry-Riddle Eagles   2. Brewton-Parker Barons (My pick to win this bracket)   3. Campbellsville Continue reading →

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May 10, 2011 · 12:03 am

THE TOP ELEVEN DEITIES IN AZTEC MYTHOLOGY

The underappreciated mythological pantheon I’ll be looking at this time will be the Aztec pantheon. It seems all anybody ever wants to talk about with the Aztecs is human sacrifice, blood, hearts being pulled out, etc. There are many more intriguing elements to their forms of worship than just blood and guts, however. Here is a list of some of their major deities. For other pantheons I’ve addressed see these links:

KOREAN MYTH – https://glitternight.com/2011/03/24/the-top-11-deities-in-korean-mythology/ 

SHINTO MYTH – https://glitternight.com/shinto-myth/

HAWAIIAN MYTH – https://glitternight.com/2011/02/20/the-top-eleven-deities-in-hawaiian-mythology/

HAWAIIAN MYTH PART 2 – https://glitternight.com/2011/03/02/eleven-more-deities-from-hawaiian-mythology-2/

NORSE MYTHS – https://glitternight.com/2011/04/10/the-eleven-most-neglected-deities-in-teutono-norse-mythology/

NEW!!!!!! INUIT MYTHS –  – https://glitternight.com/2011/06/06/the-top-12-deities-from-inuit-mythology-2/

Plus see my pages on Navajo, Vietnamese and Bunyoro myth.

11. OMETEOTL – The primordial and hermaphroditic deity who embodied all duality and from whom all existence sprang. Ometeotl did Continue reading →

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May 8, 2011 · 10:17 pm

TODAY’S COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM: PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY

PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY LUTES

 Location: Tacoma, WA 

Division: NCAA Division 3

Conference Affiliation: Northwest Conference

Major sports: football, basketball, base/soft- ball, soccer, volleyball 

Site: http://www.golutes.com/landing/index 

Comment: The Lutes are guaranteed to make you forget all about the Piccolos, the Zithers, and the Oboes! (I’m kidding!) Pacific Lutheran was Continue reading →

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May 8, 2011 · 2:51 pm

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS: NAIA COLLEGE BASEBALL CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT CHAMPS

 SOONER ATHLETIC CONFERENCE – The Rogers State Hillcats  defeated the OBU Bison by a score of 12-7 in this championship game matchup.

DAKOTA ATHLETIC CONFERENCE – The Jamestown College Jimmies  upset the top-seeded Mayville State Comets 5-4 in the title game’s battle of cool-named teams.

KANSAS COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE – The Continue reading →

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May 6, 2011 · 10:37 pm

WE MARRIED A MADMAN: THE HOT NEW REALITY SERIES STARRING BIN LADEN’S WIVES

Yes, in the spirit of Sister Wives and Mob Wives, it’s We Married A Madman, a Pakistani- produced reality tv show following life from the point of view of the late Osama Bin Laden’s wives. Early reports indicate this is why the Pakistanis were less than cooperative with U.S. military and intelligence personnel about Bin Laden’s whereabouts. A raid would have spoiled production of this guaranteed ratings blockbuster. A highly- placed Pakistani source confirmed this for me recently. 

“There we were, finally poised to get our piece of the reality tv pie”, he bemoaned, “when those damn Navy Seals come in and spoil everything! It’s just another example of American Imperialism and cowboy diplomacy!” 

Like all reality shows, the program was going to  Continue reading →

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May 5, 2011 · 9:29 pm

MAY 4TH’S NAIA COLLEGE BASEBALL TOURNAMENT RESULTS

 DAKOTA ATHLETIC CONFERENCE – The Jamestown College Jimmies took two games yesterday, defeating the Dakota State Trojans 12-2 and then going one run better by taking down the Dickinson State Blue Hawks 13-2. Meanwhile the Continue reading →

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May 5, 2011 · 12:10 am

TODAY’S SHINTO DEITY – OMITSUNO

A while back I wrote an item on Shinto deities. Some e-mailers have wanted me to add more of them to my “deity of the day” feature, so here we go! For my initial bit on Shinto gods and goddesses click here: http://www.makethelist.net/the-top-10-deities-in-shinto-mythology/

OMITSUNO – The god who ruled over the western land near Izumo. This area was where all the deities in the Shinto pantheon would gather once a year for the Assembly of the Gods, during which they would Continue reading →

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May 4, 2011 · 10:58 pm

MAY 3RD’S NAIA COLLEGE BASEBALL TOURNAMENT RESULTS

RED RIVER ATHLETIC CONFERENCE – The LSU-Shreveport Pilots (as in riverboat pilots) are the conference champs having eviscerated the UTB-TSC Scorpions by a score of 10-1 in the title game!

THE SUN CONFERENCE – The Embry Riddle Eagles took down the USCB Sand Sharks 10-5, the St Thomas Seahawks Continue reading →

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