http://www.metafilter.com/activity/19844/posts/mefi/ MetaFilter posts by DonnieSticks en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 120 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/62125 If it's the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/hollerin/history.htm">3rd Saturday in June</a>, it must be time for the <a href="http://www.2camels.com/national-hollerin-contest.php">National Hollerin Contest</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiveys_Corner,_North_Carolina">Spivey's Corner, NC</a>. Ever since the contest's <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901000,00.html?promoid=googlep">earliest days</a>, it tends to make the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/08/circuits/articles/27holl.html#1">media's</a> <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4723224">ears</a> <a href="http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/wahoo/index/php/20040906.phtml">perk</a> <a href="http://www.ajc.com/travel/content/travel/southeast/nc_stories/051106hollerin.html">up</a>. <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/hollerin/hollerin.htm"> Hear and watch the many kinds of hollers</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpWvRH-IbVI">see last year's winner</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000002DA/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">buy a CD</a> (featuring hollerin' legend <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/o-b-jackson">O.B.</a> <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0zfyxq90ld0e~T1">Jackson</a>.) <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/57544/The-man-can-definitely-eef">Pr"eef"iously.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.62125 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:20:23 -0800 hollerin' hollering spivey'scorner contest folkart oldweirdamerica DonnieSticks http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/59538 Since January 1st, men in <a href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/TX-Shamrock.html">Shamrock, TX</a>, have been working on their <a href="http://www.beefandpie.com/beard/images/beardrules.jpg"> Donegal beards</a> and <a href="http://www.shamrocktx.net/site/index-2.html">today</a> they were judged on how they did. Missed it? Maybe you can watch the <a href="http://www.growinabeard.com/">documentary</a> by <a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A146104">Mike Woolf</a> or listen to a <a href="http://www.beefandpie.com/beard/thegourds/SHAMROCKFULL.MP3">song</a>(mp3) from the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000274TQC/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">soundtrack</a> by <a href="http://www.thegourds.com/">The Gourds</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.59538 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:44:33 -0800 beards St.Patrick'sDay contest donegal Shamrock Texas documentary MikeWoolf TheGourds DonnieSticks http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/51913 He created <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Ghost">Space Ghost</a>, <a href="http://members.aol.com/atreides6/herculoids.htm">The</a><a href="null"></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Herculoids">Herculoids</a> and made Saturdays worth getting up for with his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007XG0JU/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Super</a> <a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1563899647.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg">Friends</a>. In addition, he was a <a href="http://boards.collectors-society.com/attachments//771475-AllAmWest104.jpg">prolific </a> <a href="http://www.bookpalace.com/acatalog/Home_Alex_Toth_47.html">comics</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1582400903/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">artist</a>. <a href="http://www.tcj.com/262/index.html">Comics</a> great <a href="http://www.oklahoma.net/~silvrdal/toth.html">Alex Toth</a> is <a href="http://www.tothfans.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1028">dead at 77</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.51913 Mon, 29 May 2006 00:39:13 -0800 alextoth comicbooks spaceghost saturdaymorningcartoons DonnieSticks