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Crescent city gives last rites to “Aints” nickname with public Jazz Funeral today
By Paul M. Banks
Perhaps no event in life can define the term “emotional roller coaster” as well as a jazz funeral.The darkest depths of despair signified by the slow, low dirges of horns eventually give way to an up tempo swing encapsulating the most euphoric of highs. In Spike Lee’s documentary “Katrina: a Requiem,” a jazz musician describes exactly what a jazz funeral symbolizes. The slow, melancholic portion represents death, and the person who has passed on. The fast, joyous music that follows expresses “yeah, you’re gone, but it was such a pleasure knowing you,” and “sure, you’ve crossed over to the other side- but let’s celebrate that you’re now in a better place than here on Earth.”
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by Peter Christian
Hey did you hear? There’s a football game today, and for the first time in two weeks, it’s actually kind of important!
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By the TSB Staff
All the Super Bowl predictions you could ask for are right here. We mapped out every single thing that’s going to happen in this Super Bowl, and pretty much every comment that will be made by the announcers. And put it all together in a fun Super Bowl drinking game for your enjoyment.
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By Paul M. Banks
Welcome to a new quasi-weekly feature where we discuss some of the biggest topics in the Michigan State Spartan world, including the insight and observations of legendary MSU coach Tom Izzo. In this edition, we talk about the idea of a successful sports team becoming a battered city’s salvation.
Despite what ESPN, the Chicago Tribune and other corporate media outlets have told you this week, sports does not and cannot save a city in ruins. This week, we incessantly heard about the Saints’ rise supposedly redeeming the city of New Orleans. We’ve been told that the Saints’ winning ways are somehow accelerating the post Katrina rebuilding process. As if each Reggie Bush touchdown run somehow alleviates another unemployed individual out of crippling poverty.
Last April, the MSM wouldn’t leave us alone with their sappy, sentimental “Michigan St. makes the Final Four taking place in their home state, in Detroit; and a Spartans win can lift Detroit out of the economic rubble, as the financial crisis hit this area harder than any other place in the city.”
One man often at the center of those stories was Michigan State Head Coach Tom Izzo, who seemed to offer a very different viewpoint on this topic from mine. Therefore, his thoughts might offer the perfect test to the validity of my position. Like Friedrich Nietzsche said “the thinking man has no need for refutation- for that he suffices within himself.” So, I wanted to see if I could become a thinking man, and I gave Izzo’s arguments a chance to refute me.
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By Paul M. Banks and Peter Christian
So the Super Bowl is set- get ready for two weeks of INSANE HYPE. As a Patriots fan, I hate the Colts so I will root against them. As a southside Chicago guy and University of Illinois alum, I’m all in for Pierre Thomas and his New Orleans Saints. But of course, this rooting interest won’t stop me from calling out all the sappy crapola that the brain dead mainstream media is about to unleash upon us. Lots of “feature pieces” about the Saints saving a city, and helping to rebuild NOLA is inevitable. And it’s all just sentimental propaganda. Football is football, we all love watching and enjoying it. But winning football championships doesn’t save jobs or rebuild houses.
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