I was going to piece together a whole From the Wikipedia post about the Vulcan statue in Birmingham, which I visited a couple days ago. But I’m in New Orleans now and I’ve got important things to not do.
So in lieu of that, here’s a picture of the Vulcan statue’s backside. For some reason, the sculptors provided the city of Birmingham (well, initially the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, but you can check the Wikipedia for that) with tons of gratuitous buttcrack. I really don’t know why Vulcan is apparently naked under his blacksmithing apron, but I guess maybe he’s freaky like that.
Tedquarters 
Ahh, reminds me of my childhood days getting thrown out of a Cornell art museum for groping an ample-chested statue.
Ted,
I’ve been reading your blog more and more over the last couple of months and enjoy it thoroughtly. I appreciate the pics and thoughts from the south. I also most certainly appreciate the humor in awkward statues. However, this last week has been sub-Ted in quality.
Step it up man. You’re better than this.
(pls note I’m not referring to the statue per se, just in general it’s been kinda weak.)
Thanks
rob
He’s away from his desk. Good lord.
Hey Rob — I appreciate the feedback, but like Anit suggested, I’m away from the desk and so a bit out of touch. I don’t get a ton of days off a year, so I don’t want to spend too much time on any of them hunched over a computer.
In retrospect, I probably should’ve lined up someone or some group of people to fill in while I was gone, but I find it a bit awkward to pressure people to make guest posts on a site so inherently vain. Plus, I thought by now this site would be redesigned in a way that will allow me some more flexibility for publishing on the go, but that has (obviously) taken a little longer than planned.
So I apologize for what will be a slow 10 days. Clearly maintaining some regularity is an important part of fostering blog traffic, but I’m traveling with five other guys and trying to get to a hell of a lot of baseball games, eateries and sights, so it has been tough to find down time to write anything. I should be back in the swing of things early next week, and honestly, the blog will be better off for it. I love writing this site, but churning out 25-30 posts a week is still a new process for me and I definitely needed to hit the ol’ reset button.
Eh, take the time off and enjoy yourself. I’ll bet most readers won’t mind if you come back well rested and funnier. We appreciate whatever you write on your time off!
*thoroughly
I also appreciate your excellent grammar and spelling skills.
Ted,
My apologies for being obtuse. I didn’t realize this was an actual vacation for you; I thought it was a working trip for SNY.
Egg on my face.
Enjoy it dude!
rob
No worries. The part in Savannah was technically working; once I left there it was all vacation.