the saturday shout-outs!

first off: big love to the good family relations with penn state university credentials. you know who you are. i read this morning that psu isn't allowing alcohol at tail-gates????!!!!!! is nothing sacred any longer? one of my best family-related memories is from the 1985 or 1986 psu-pitt football game. the one where pitt beat psu, in large part due to a really weak holding or illegal blocking call against penn state that was completely on the other side of the field and had no bearing to the play. remember? anyhow, after the game, my psu relatives were having a tailgate. and they were probably a few years younger than i am now. i remember the food, the soda, my cousins singing songs and goofing off, and seeing, for the first time, a blow-up doll. now, now, don't go all reactive on me. the doll was dressed up and in pitt colors and the joke was obviously not meant for me. and, in the honor of all great adult humor, i didn't get it until i was a sophomore in college and, walking down trousdale to a usc/fucla game, i saw someone had done the same in bruin colors. and that's when the light went on in my head! so i send big love and good memories and sadness at the gutless, heartless criminializing of what once was a great weekend tradition. ergo, getting trashed at a football game.

much props to fellow trojans. me and euge (geography '99) were ready to drive to fayetteville to see the usc/arkansas game today. until we discovered that it's 560 miles away. and his paper isn't done. and i just drove that two weeks ago.

keen love and peace to drew l. of miami, fl. burning man?!!! really?!!! did you hear that the bonfire releases over 100-tonnes of greenhouse gases alone (not to mention any other burnables that one might wish to um... burn whilst there). and am i wrong in thinking that 1) it's a clothing-optional party and 2) i knew you'd get there one day?

restful peace and buddhist patient adoration to the clan l. of erie, pa. no internet (well, reliable internet that i have to pay for) for a week still. have no fear. we're already set up with the algorithm that models my gpa in a pre/post wow-world. the hockey-stick curve got nothing on me!

finally, big ??? love to texas a&m university. why ??? love? well, 1) they open today against the citadel (a div 1-aa school with "no passing game" according to the paper) and they're not favored by 50 points. that's a total ???. and 2) they don't give +/- on their grades here. anything above 90 is an A, anything 80-89 is a B, and so on and so forth. so you can get a 89.778 average and someone can get a 99.778 and you both score an A. that's a total ??? or as dr. mav of guam, guam would say, "WTF"???

beat the razorbacks!