The 2012 Glomerata is being distributed on campus this week. Here’s what Glom distribution looked like in 1974. And no, the folks inside that year’s book weren’t the only one’s flashin’ flesh.

So last week there was an email sent to Auburn students about Auburn’s parking situation, and some of the students whose opinions dot our timeline were absolutely losing their Twit. Lots of cussing and thinly-veiled threats… it had something to do with higher prices, but fewer spaces or something… and something about fro-yo. I don’t [...]

Cleaner, brighter, more muscle tone and wing definition, repaired beaks—the venerable ol’ eagles have returned to Toomer’s Corner. The two 350 pound marble statues were placed back atop their pillar perches at a media event Friday morning. We were there. We took video. Warm feelings all around. Before the big moment, I talked with Terry [...]

Bama paying and playing professional boxers in order to beat Auburn for the first time… Auburn football players swearing sensual oaths of devotion to the betrothed of one of the greatest American authors ever—it’s just another episode of It’s Pronounced Jordan (and so what if we’re still in March—onward we march). For more marvelous Marconi [...]

Just before the latest official update on the condition of the Toomer’s Oaks was released earlier this week, Auburn horticulturist Dr. Gary Keever conducted photosynthesis measurements on the leaves of a live oak in the parking lot of Comer Hall. The idea was “to get a baseline of what (the photosynthesis levels) of a relatively [...]

My favorite movie as a kid was the 1987 Iron Bowl and my favorite actor was Kurt Crain, because Kurt Crain and Aundray Bruce were “hoping to sack themselves an SEC title” and Kurt Crain “put the lumber” to Clay Whitehurst and Kurt Crain “knocked the ball loose. Ballgame. Ballgame.” Ballgame. Kurt Crain. (Holy flourishes [...]

Around 1:20, he even gets in on a tackle. And no one bats an eye.

I’ve obviously been pronouncing “Jordan” pretty slowly lately, for a variety of reasons, none of them important. What’s important is that we right the ship, you and I. And quickly. So without further ado or attempts at wit, here’s this week’s episode of It’s Pronounced Jordan, which is actually three weeks ago’s It’s Pronounced Jordan. [...]

In 1990, Bo Jackson went back to school—at the height of Nike’s “Bo Knows” campaign, when he was bigger than Michael Jordan, when he was kind of making cameos in Pretty Woman and Lethal Weapon. Back to school. It was a different time.

There are Shug Smoking photos and then there are Shug Smoking photos.