* Family’s always trying, isn’t it?
* In high school, when I was first coming to consciousness of sports, my fellows and I all supported the Detroit Pistons. Not only did we see ourselves as the academic-bowl version of the Motor City Bad Boys, we were thrilled to see the Lakers-Celtics monopoly broken. I say that by way of saying that for this year’s NBA finals, I am rooting for plague. Lots of it.
* I bought the oxblood DMs. The string on one of them broke almost immediately. I replaced it with a black lace out of my last East Coast pair of black 1460s, which I think is an appropriate passing of the torch and kinda punk besides. I doubt I will wear them that much – my black Solovairs are much easier to make work with my everyday wardrobe – but the important thing at this point is just to *have* them.
* Besides, you’ll never know when I’ll need to go back in time and pass as a pre-Two Tone skinhead. Along those lines, I now need a donkey jacket and a Lambretta. If you have either, please write in care of I Hate That Poser, Box L-7, Googleburg, CA.
* The new Fratellis single doesn’t sound that much like Costello Music did, although I do appreciate the driving piano throughout. It reminds me of something but I can’t put my finger on what.
* Who knew they were putting an IKEA factory in Danville VA?
* I finished second for the month in the online trivia competition I’m part of. That was almost entirely down to my missing two days – if you’d added two instances of my average score to the totals, I would have finished in first, handily. The moral of the story, as always, is that four-fifths of life consists of showing up for it.
• Vandy’s non-con schedule this year: at Miami (OH), home to Rice and Duke, and away at Wake. Conference home games are Carolina, Auburn, Florida and UT. If Big Six is going to happen this year, it’ll mean winning a few on the road – and of Ole Miss, Georgia, Mississippi State, and Kentucky, the best chance is that we somehow catch Georgia sleeping again. Not the sort of thing you want to hang your hopes on, especially given how many key Commodores just graduated. Still…only 89 days to go.
* My Buddy Vince Sez that if you’re looking for a new HDTV, jump on those Father’s Day sales in the next two weeks.
Finis.
the best chance is that we somehow catch Georgia sleeping again.
I’m so tired of not showing up for our game with y’all. This year, with the brutal schedule, I can completely see this happening.
Hopefully our running backs are as good as we think they are — a good running game will save us if we show up against the ‘Dores expecting to take a game off.