Buffalo Phils 28th Anniversary

I was feeling kind of hungry last Thursday around 8 o’clock so some friends and I went to Buffalo Phil’s. Little did we know that they were in the midst of a daylong celebration of their 28th anniversary. To celebrate most appetizers were half off; there were $3 pitchers, and a live band. Good times had by all, except for a few. For some unknown reason two guys started fighting on the sidewalk right outside of Phil’s, immediately everyone was crammed against the front windows and jammed in the door frame trying to get a glimpse. It almost sounded as if someone had hit a mute button, everyone had stopped taking the band stopped playing and no one moved. It was awesome. Buffalo Phil’s 28th Anniversary will always be remembered by me and all who were there.

Book Buy Back: Bullshit

When I bought my books at the beginning of the semester the $500+ checkout total didn’t bother me all that much, why you ask? Because everyone in the bookstore assured me that I would get a large part of that money back at the end of the semester when I sold the books back. Well I’m writing this now to tell you that the bookstore employees were full of shit. I took my books to the Off Campus Bookstore this morning looking to thicken my bill fold you know get a little spending money for the first few weeks of summer. But after they scanned my books, six total, they informed me that they would pay me $68.50 for the books. That’s barely 12 percent of the original cost. Needless to say I kept the books, I would rather hold on to them than let the bookstore buy them from me and then put on a 300 percent markup and sell them to next year’s freshman. I have no problem getting only $68 for my books but if I do I want to sell them to someone I know and not some company who's taking advantage of a lack of competition.

Rama Jamma's

I just ate the best breakfast I've had since ive been in tuscaloosa and as you can tell from the title it was at Ramma Jamma's. I hadnt heard much about Ramma Jamma's but from the framed newspaper clipping it seems that its a tuscaloosa legand. After driving past Ramma Jamma's for an entire semester I decided to give it a try, not what i was expecting at all. They serve breakfast until one, very good descision for a college town, and have a pretty full lunch and dinner menu. I got the number four with bacon, which is two warm fluffy pancakes with a side of bacon, delicous. If you havent gone before I highly recommend that you go try it out, I know I'm going back soon.

Paul Bryant Museum

I think in the south college football could be considered a religion, and if it were Paul Bryant would a god and this Museum would be his temple. The Museum is filled with UA football memorabilia and personal belongings of Bear Bryant. When you walk in you are immediately confronted by a bronze bust of the Bear, if you venture further in you can find a collection of trophies and rings won during the reign of Bear Bryant. The two strangest things in the entire museum are actual office quarters of Coach Bryant and a crystal sculpture of his trademark hounds tooth hat on a spinning display table.

Museum of Natural History

So the other day I went back to the Museum of Natural History to commemorate our field trip we took several months ago. Even though I had been before the Museum was as awe inspiring as the first time. It’s cool to think that most things in there were found in the state of Alabama, even the whale fossil whose name I won’t even try and spell. Here are some pictures I took.

Here's the Museum from the front.

The grizzly bear that greets all the visitors

Plaque honoring Dr. Smith

Alabamas state fossil

Mammoth skull

Flowers Bakery

Every day on the drive back to my house I am hit with a euphoric aroma as I take Hackberry over 15th street. Why? You ask because located on that corner is Flowers Bakery. I don’t know much about the company but the other day I heard that they had a store located on the premises where you could go and buy fresh baked goods. So on my way home from English I stopped and found the store. It’s called Flowers Food Discount Bakery and its right across the parking lot from Little Casers and an off campus bookstore. I went in and was a little disappointed at first because I was expecting gourmet baked goods (don’t ask why I just did), but instead I found generic loaves of bread that you can see on any grocery stores shelves. The thing that separates these loaves from those is the price. As you can probably tell from the name of the store everything in it costs well below what you would pay for it at a grocery store. The factory direct store is able to provide quality food at discounted prices to the lower income residents of Tuscaloosa and for that I applaud Flowers bakery.

Ferg Art Display

Last Thursday when we went to the art display at the ferg the gravity of the works there didn’t really hit me all that hard. But a week later I can see how profound the works really are, it’s not because they are amazing works of art but rather because of what they represent. When I think of a stereotypical rape I think of some girl being accosted in a dark alley. But from the stories by the hearts it seems that in most cases the victim is abused by someone they know well. There were a few stories there that were horrifying to even read, especially the ones were the perpetrator were parents or siblings. It’s sad that we have to have these kinds of exhibits, but as long as abuse continues to happen people need to be educated about it. I tried to go back and take some pictures today but the exhibit is already closed.