The Iraqi Vote

Most of the time I try to avoid this political commentary; however there was one important thing that happened this weekend. The major news this weekend was the first free election in Iraq in my lifetime. Now we all have varying views on Presidents Bush’s decision to go into Iraq. While we may disagree on that fact I would say majority of us support the troops that are there and their efforts.

Did Bush make a mistake? I think most would agree he did. Was he misinformed by the people he entrusted to give him information about Iraq? Again most likely this is the case. Is our plan in Iraq going well? Overall it has struggled and we have probably lost more Americans than we though we would? In the end, will it be worth it for the people of Iraq, the people of America, and the world at large? I would have to say yes.

Tell me what can be wrong with the people of Iraq trying to establish a free society and having an open election for their leaders? This is what our great nation is built upon, and what most of us agree makes America the wonderful place that it is to live. The one thing George Bush promised was that he would bring democracy to a land that had been ruled by a ruthless dictator. Even the expected violence on Election Day was much less than expected, due not only to American troops but the trained Iraqi police forces.

It seems to me that some things are going pretty well in Iraq. Again, our administration certainly has some special interests over there, and we all no that is oil and now trying to cover their own asses for starting something they probably shouldn’t have. However, letting people decide their future leaders with a free election is something that gives me a tingle down my spine. As an American I am proud to say that we have liberated the people of Iraq and given them a vested interest in their future and how their country is going to be lead in the 21st century.

I am sure Josh and Dan will knock me for saying good things about what is going on in Iraq, because as card carrying hippie democrats they have to completely disagree with everything George Walker Bush does. I for one was very excited to listen to interviews with Iraqi citizens and Iraqi Americans and the joy that they had on this historic day in their country.



PS
I finally had the chance to see Million Dollar Baby. Clint Eastwood has made his masterpiece. Honestly, it is the best, most well made movie I have ever seen.

I still hate Stuart Scott, and Stu Scott at the Super Bowl is fucking dreadful.

Lastly, if we are going to have on big giant media day at the Super Bowl what is the point of having daily press conferences with the Coach’s and players? I have heard no less than ten interviews with each of the coach’s, QB’s and other star players. Why? No fucking interviews accept on Media Day, these fucko’s can answer all the questions on one damned day. I just don’t need daily briefings on the size of Richard Seymour’s scrotum.

It's Official

Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the Official news that "The Family Guy" will finally reappear with new episodes on the Fox Television Network. Oh, I never thought such joy could be reached down into my well of despair and rise me from the ashes of my misery to the heights of Nirvana, but of all things the Fox Television Network has come through for me in my darkest hour.

May 1, 2005 is the date folks, along with new episodes of "The Family Guy" Seth McFarlane's new series "American Dad" will also premeire that night. It will simply be the greatest day of my life, bar none!!


Check out this Link for all the info:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/television/10666962.htm?1c

2 Very Long Weeks

Oh holy heck, here we go. I now have two weeks for Sean Salisbury and Michael Irvin to tell me which jockstrap will be better to wear at the Super Bowl and why!!!

Two weeks is entirely too long, it just is. One week is really okay. Fuck the players and all the arraignments they have to make with their families and ticket requests and all that garbage. Too bad assholes, you get paid millions of dollars a year, you can figure all that crap out in a few days. Fuck the media to, they have no need to take up everyone’s time with this one big ridiculous media day. Why can we play every other football game in one week, but all of a sudden we have to stretch this thing out to the point of nausea.

One week, that is it. In fact if you want to give yourselves some more time here are 2 different suggestions. Play the Championship week games on Saturday and the Super Bowl the following Sunday, that would give you one more day to take care of everything. Sunday off day for everyone, Monday teams travel to sight, Tuesday Media day and Practice and preparations begin Wednesday just like every other game. Or start your season a little earlier or eliminate this silly bye week during the season and have it scheduled so that you play the Championship week on a Saturday and then the ensuing Monday is Martin Luther King Day and play the game then. That would give people something to look forward to for MLK day, instead of the inevitable well I have the day off and nothing to do. MLK/Super Bowl Day and a happy day for everyone.

I will speak no more of this game or its participants until it is the appropriate time, that Friday before the game, there you will get my complete analysis and prediction and the location I will be watching the game. Since I have no friends and do not know of a place that has naked hookers handing out BJ’s while watching the game, I will most likely be locked in my bedroom screaming at the bad commercials on the TV.

Again death to the movie theatre owners in my fair city. I am still on a quest to see Million Dollar Baby before Johnny Carson dies, oh wait, I am fucked. Clint Eastwood has now won the Golden Globe for this movie, and it has two other Oscar/Golden Globe winners in it, Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank. It has been in limited release for over a month and is a major award winner. I checked the Golden Globe list for Best Director winners over the last 10 years and I can guarantee all of them were playing in Columbia by this time, they include; Lord of the Rings 3, Gangs of New York, Gosford Park, Crouching Tiger Hidden Gook, American (terrible) Beauty, Saving Private Ryan, Titanic, The People vs. Larry Flint, Braveheart and Forrest Gump. But Million Dollar Baby, no way Jose!!!

Old School Rap Lyric of the Week:
Manhattan keeps on makin’ it
Brooklyn keeps on takin’ it
Bronx keeps creatin’ it
And Queens keeps on fakin’ it

Name the Artist and Song Title and win a prize.

Very Random Thoughts

This is going to be all over the place, just a whole bunch of things over the last few days that have angered me to the point of no return.

First I will start with the stations dedicated to Music, and these of course would be MTV and VH1. Okay I have totally accepted the fact that I will not see music, ever on these stations, but then again with the crappy music out there I am not that upset. For music I tune to Direct TV channel 337, otherwise known as “The Classic.” For anyone who can get VH1 Classic I suggest doing it. Again, it reminds you why we all fell in love with Music Television in the first place.

VH1 has been running this nostalgic series called “I Love the _________.” While what they are talking about (most of the time) is very nostalgic and entertaining, the people they get to comment on it just suck. There is no other way to say it. I can not tell you how many times I have hurled a shoe at the television after Mo Rocca, Michael Ian Black, or Loni Love got done pretending to be funny. This series would work a lot better of they just did Man on the Street interviews about the songs, TV Shows, products, and other pop culture references that we grew up with. The chances of finding someone on the street that is funny is way better than listening to one of these no talent ass clowns. Plus Stuart Scott is often on these things, and that is enough to drive anyone to a methamphetamine habit.

The one thing they did talk about in the I Love 1990 was the Mike Tyson/Buster Douglas fight. And while we all remember it for Buster Douglas knocking Mike Tyson into next week, there is a little fact that so often gets overlooked. Though Tyson was not winning the fight, but in the 8th round Tyson got into Douglas and absolutely rocked his jaw with a classic Tyson uppercut. Douglas went sprawling to the canvas and as Tyson was ushered to his corner Douglas was down for a 4 count, but the referee inexplicably started the count at 1 and counted Douglas to nine before he barely made it to his feet. So most reasonable people, though knowing Tyson did get his ass waxed for every piece of that fight except that moment, know that he still should have won the fight. Of course none of the Ass Clowns commenting on this VH1 show never even saw the fight so it is basically like them commenting on what happened between Tyson and Mitch “Blood” Greene, you did not see it ands you don’t know.

While it pains me to admit it, I was flipping through the channels the other day I came across some attractive young co-ed on MTV on the show Room Raiders. Well she was looking through this one Meat Heads room and his cell phone was lying there. Of course it was a camera phone (aside from being a St. Johns basketball player I see no need for one of these). While scanning the pictures the girl found topless pictures of other women, as this happened one meat head in the car made the following comment, “Dude, that is so awesome!! You are like Gandhi dude.” I can’t even comment on that statement.

I am going to try and not sound too insensitive with this next bit of commentary, but I have had about enough of this Tsunami. Yes it is sad that people have died, but if you believe in God, which I do, I understand that God has a plan. Now while I will get attacked by my tree hugging democratic atheist friends who read this website, my faith in God will remain strong even through the struggles of the people of Indonesia and Sri Lanka. As with most things though, Americans outpouring of support has crossed the line. We are now so consumed with Tsunami relief we forget about the problems we still have as a country. And yes that includes our Presidential Administration (again I will get attacked by my Democratic Jewish friends who will blame me for voting for George Bush). We still have an army of soldiers who are underpaid and under armed and we are too worried about how much already poor people on Sri Lanka are missing. Hey these people wade through disease upon disease in these third world countries, they will persevere through this tragedy.

Movies, most of you people know how picky I can be about this subject. First of all, Million Dollar Baby still has not come to this god forsaken town that I live in. I mean Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, and Hilary Swank are pretty big names. But in this shitty city we have to show Fat Albert and Racing Stripes on 15 screens a piece, thank god. Secondly, a friend of mine (and it pains me to call him a friend) and I were talking movies the other day. This crack-head owns the movie Next Friday, the sequel of the wildly hilarious Friday with Ice Cube & Chris Tucker (yes his 15 minutes of funny fame). However, he does not own Friday and it thinks the sequel is much funnier included that of Mike Epps over Chris Tucker. So while discussing this he states his belief: “If Next Friday had been released first and Friday second everyone would like Next Friday better, you know like Rocky IV. Everyone knows Rocky IV is the best but everyone says the original is better just because it came out first.” My head actually began to leak a liquid out of my left ear; I think I had a brain hemorrhage. Is this guy serious, has he ever seen Rocky or Friday? Rocky to Rocky IV, that is like comparing Kevin Garnett to Eddie Lee Wilkins. And while some people may subscribe to that theory (and a dumb theory it is) I can disprove it with 2 simple yet very different movies. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and the Empire Strikes Back. There you go, that theory is now rendered useless.

Exile Manning to Elba

That’s it, it is all over, Peyton Manning needs to be done away with. Whoever thought this guy was any good please put your hand up, now take a hammer and knock yourself over the head. What were you people thinking? It is plain to see that this man is a no talent bum. IF the Colts decided to keep this guy, instead of letting Jim Sorgi start they are not very smart. I mean really, the Colts are wasting all this time and effort in Peyton Manning and the likes of Drew Brees and Jake Plummer may be available this off-season.

After seven long arduous seasons of pain and misery that Manning has put the Colts through it is certainly time to give it up. I mean really, after the 1989 Super Bowl route the Broncos most certainly gave up on John Elway, he could never win anything. Jim Kelly of the Buffalo Bills, where does he stand in the pantheon of great QB’s, certainly he cannot be a Hall of Famer. After six seasons of bouncing around the league Hank Stram just gave up on Len Dawson when he was in his late 20’s, I mean could you ever win a championship with someone as terrible as Len Dawson? Four seasons of splitting time with Billy Kilmer and five seasons of mediocre football was enough for Joe Gibbs to just give up on Joe Theismen. What shot does Manning deserve, absolutely none if you ask me.

It is not just about Manning’s lack of production, but his selfishness and total lack of professionalism. How could this guy just come out after another road playoff loss and complete blast his teammates. What a jerk? Not only his teammates but his coach’s he has had in his career in Indianapolis, Jim Mora & Tony Dungy. Both of these guys are proven winners, heck their combined playoff record before they coached Manning is a Lombardi like 2 wins & 7 losses. How dare they be so good without Manning and so terrible with him? How can Manning expect to ever win a playoff game with his lack of preparation and training? I mean this guy dogs it everyday on the practice field and he just expects to go out there and win playoff games. Sorry Peyton it does not work that way.

This guy has no credential to ever be a Hall of Fame QB. I mean Peyton if you do not win a Super Bowl you have to go down with the likes of Ernie Banks, Dan Marino, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, and Barry Bonds as one of the most over hyped athletes of all time. All those guys could not get it done, just like you can. We in America cannot stand around and watch people like you foul up our great country.

It is obvious to me, and ever other clear thinking football fan that Manning does not deserve another season as an NFL quarterback, much less any more time in our beloved America. Last time I checked, America was for winners only. So I think the best thing for Manning to do is to pack his bags and get the heck out. Send him to Elba like the French did with Napoleon that is the only way.

Fuck Bitches, Get Money

Matt Leinart has decided to forgo this years NFL draft for the joy of playing collegiate football for a 5th and final season. What in the hell is this guy thinking? What a moron, I hope he gets decapitated in the first game of the season. Don’t give me any of this crap about how it is the “right” thing to do or how “classy” he is for choosing to come back to school. He is a moron. He is guaranteed to be a top five pick, most likely #1 overall.

What is the allure of going back? The chance to win 3 national championships, I guess. Maybe I just don’t give a crap enough about national titles. Hell nobody really remembers Tommie Frazier and he won two and came damn near close to winning three in a row. I remember guys who go to the Hall of Fame and win Super Bowls, you know like Trent Dilfer (ok, so that is a bad example). The ultimate prize in college football is the Heisman Trophy. Oh wait, Leinart has already one that, and chances of winning two, are slim and none especially with Adrian Peterson still playing college football.

And puh-lease do not tell how there are things he can work on with is game in college football to better prepare him for the NFL. Bullshit, you don’t play teams like Stanford, Arizona, and Oregon State in the NFL. You play men, who move with lighting speed, and hit with extreme power. In order to become a better player in the league you need to get up there and learn the game. All he has done is taken open year off of his pro career. Tim Duncan would have still been the #1 pick in the NBA draft his junior year and still would have won rookie of the year in 1997 instead of 1998

Hummmm, what else do we all crave in this world? Oh yeah, stacks and stacks of cash. That is why we wish we were famous pro athletes or actors or rock musicians. We want money. Last time I checked Matt Leinart does not get paid to play at USC, even the under the table booster money is not that much. And stop giving me that excuse about some damned insurance policy he took out in case he gets hurt. Insurance policies don’t give you $10 million singing bonuses. He is totally missing his opportunity to get paid.

Oh yeah, lastly we would all like the chance to choose between which playmates we feel like dating today. Well I am sure Mr. Leinart gets his fair share of tale in southern California but has he ever seen League tail? Son, there is a reason those ladies are chasing guys in the league and not college players. Just as the talent gets deeper on the field it certainly gets deeper off the field as well. Matt think of all those lovely young ladies who have to keep going home with the current crop of 49er QB’s like Ken Dorsey, Tim Rattay and Cody Pickett. Think of all the women you would have Matt, oh won’t some please think of the lonely women!!!

Plain and simple you need to go now, it is now known as the Terrence Morris Syndrome. Mr. Morris missed out on millions and millions of dollars by pursuing his dreams of a national championship and wanting to stay in college with his friends. Now where the hell is he? It is a no brainer decision and some how Leinart screwed it up. Which make me believe he should not be allowed to carry sharp objects and also be required to ride in a shorter team bus than everyone else. College is supposed to prepare you for you life and career, well Matt’s life should involved the following activities; “Fuck Bitches, and Get Money,” but sadly it won’t. RIP Notorious B.I.G.

Wow, What a Weekend

I did not have time to do a full weekend wrap addition, but I will give you random thoughts on all kinds of shit from the last 3-4 days.

First let’s talk about the NFL playoffs. Thank god the Matt Hasselback led Seahawks lost. Again, I repeat, this team was an odds on favorite to play for it all in Jacksonville. Are you kidding me? Matt fucking Hasselback. This is just another case of a Coach thinking he is some kind of mad genius and he can take any group of schmucks and make them winners. Anytime the fans in Seattle demand they have receivers that actually catch the ball they may begin to win some playoff games. Not that the Rams are any better, but at least Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce can hang on to the ball. I give the Rams and even money shot in this week’s game against the Falcons. I especially think Stephen Jackson could be a big factor running the ball.

Brett, I hate to say it, but it is time to hang it up. The game does not come easy to him anymore. Yes he can still make the magic happen and lead the comebacks, but it takes so much more effort for him to do. This is the third year in a row that it has ended badly in the playoffs for him (6 INT’s against St.Louis in 2003 & that horrible throw last year against the Eagles). The Vikings came into Lambeau and played excellent football. That Randy Moss character is pretty darned good. Yes he is a horse’s ass for his TD dance, but hey did you expect Randy Moss to start quoting scripture? Minnesota is another dangerous team, now they have confidence and they have always had talent, and the Eagles suck monkey ass without TO. 8-8 Vikes versus 8-8 Rams in the NFC Championship game………..Yeah Parity!!!!!

Daniel Steven, you and your J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS!!! Nothing like watching the two foremost experts (The NY Jets & Marty Schottenheimer) on, “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory,” play against one another Saturday evening. The Jets have to cut that asswipe who clubbed Drew Brees in the head, no questions asked just give him his walking papers. And just when you think things are going his way Marty goes into Marty Ball mode and slams the ball up the middle and puts his rookie kicker out there in a precarious situation. Good job AP Coach of the Year, you bleeping idiot!!

Pssssst……this just in, the Colts are good!!! Speaking of mad geniuses thinking they can do it with anyone, how about that Jake Plummer. Hey Shannahan he ain’t no Elway now is he? What is worse is they almost have to pick up the option on this guy otherwise they look stupid for having acquired him in the first place. The Colts will win it all. There are good offenses and then there are machines. Manning always has at least 2 guys open on every play, and he just chooses which guy he wants to throw too. Don’t drop everyone in coverage because he still has Edgerrin James and James Mungro the best 1-2 back combo in the game. I believe they will pimp slap the Pats this week just as payback and they take their act all the way to the trophy stand in Jacksonville.


Okay now to the real problems:

I still have no idea what Stuart Scott is talking about, EVER!!! He is talking about playa hatin’ and dat dude said oh no he didn’t and all kinds of other crap. When I was cool and hip and young I did not get it, and as I begin to get older I still don’t get it. Someone shoot him, or me!!!

Sunday night January 9, 2005 is officially being declared the worst night in the history of television. Sunday night is the one time I can rest and relax and sit back and chill. I almost went into a murderous rampage due to the lack of anything remotely close to watchable on TV. And yes that includes another horrific day in the life of Jack Bauer and some skank whores on ABC (for those of you pop culture illiterate I am talking about 24 & Desperate Housewives). Please, do not give me the argument that those whores on Desperate Housewives are hot, I pay $40 a month for high speed internet access I have all the porn I need.

I was forced to watch whiney fucking teenagers complain about how hard it is to be 16 in todays society on MSNBC. Really, it is hard. Hell ten years down the road it seems fucking easy to me. When I was 16 I did whatever I wanted whenever I wanted. Dan, Josh, Martin you were all there. If we felt like getting drunk, boom get drunk!! Weed is your drug of choice, sure call Frattarolla or Luykx up and get some smoke. Parties with bitches, we will see you on Friday nights at Tosney’s or Gussen’s, or the summer weeks when Ron and Clare took some exotic vacation and have the massive kegger at 274. I watched this crap and I have no idea what these kids where complaining about. School and decisions on college are tough, blah blah blah. You know what is tough, working 12 days in a row and getting home at about 2:30 in the morning from a road trip and wake up at 7 with a massive headache but you know what teens, I still had to be to work by about 8 am and was there till 8 pm. That is life kids. When I did not feel like going to class in high school, Hurwitz and I took a triple lunch and went to Sagamore Park and shot some hoops. Oh yeah kids, your parents fit the bill for all this stuff too, your weeknight job at the mall is just to pay for the movies, the weed and the condoms. Get over kids!!! I fucking hate teenagers.

This morning I saw a prototype jacket/cell phone/i-pod. Enough already people. Is this truly necessary? A cell phone jacket. Come one, talking to people just is not that important. This weekend I received 1 phone call, 1 that’s it, that’s the list. Did my life fall apart, nope. Things still went according to plan. I got all my work done, I hung out with friends, got everything I needed to get done without having to use my cell phone 400 times. The first time I see someone walking around with a cell phone jacket I am going to slice their head off. And yes Josh, unfortunately this piece of literature will be able to be used against me in a court of law, so you better start looking for ways to get this piece of evidence thrown out.

The Loss of a Cultural Legend

Over the course of the holidays there was one news item that seemingly slipped by unnoticed, while we were all busy doing various end of the year countdowns (which are dreadful) TV/Film/Broadway star Jerry Orbach passed away on December 28. A Tony Award winning actor on the stage before he made the leap to movies and television, Orbach is most remembered for his work on the television show Law & Order as Detective Lenny Briscoe.

However, Orbach’s career has spanned over 40 years. He was an actor who could use a simple expression to convey what he was thinking. He brought to life the character of Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago and also played Nathan Detroit of Guys & Dolls on stage and won the 1969 Tony Award for his role in “Promises, Promises.” He is remembered for movie roles in an underrated comedy (in my opinion only) “The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight,” Sidney Lumet’s vastly underrated “Prince of the City,” as Hackensack Bulls Manager Charley Pegler in “Brewster’s Million,” Baby’s father in 1987’s “Dirty Dancing,” as well as parts in “F/X,” “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” & “Mr. Saturday Night.”

But mostly his legend was born in 1992 when he walked into Police Headquarters of Law & Order as veteran Detective Lenny Briscoe. This guy just looked like a cop. I loved his bad suites, his short sleeve dress shirts, his alcoholic past, and every other part that made this complex character. He played the part so perfectly. His tough New York attitude was the perfect foil for the criminals he arrested. Like other great television detectives he brought a great knowledge to the part and was at his best with his sarcastic wit. He set the standard for the current detectives on TV. He has led the way for all of these other Cop drama’s to hit the airwaves over the last 6 or so years. In fact one great line he had on the show one time was, “Those crime scene guys are overrated. They all think they're cops.” His character made the show what it is today. He was preparing for a new Law & Order series and already filmed three episodes. No doubt there will be much deserved fan fare for those episodes later this year.

It is a shame that he has gone on so unrecognized. Meanwhile at the end of this year we were busy mourning the death of famous no talent ass clowns like Christopher Reeve, while Jerry slipped by us all. His character will forever live in reruns and I will never tire of watching him. Recently his character Lenny Briscoe was named the #30 Greatest TV Character by Bravo. Briscoe is a character that will live as a television legend.

Jerry Bernard Orbach
Oct. 20, 1935-Dec. 28, 2004

The Long & Winding Road

One would think this would be some sort of year end wrap-up edition of “The Wisdom.” The person who thinks that would be dead wrong; especially if you know me well and knew my predisposed hatred for all these “marketing holidays.” Nope this is about my long strange trip that has taken me around the US in 18 days, and why I have not been able to post in awhile. I know my loyal fans have been disappointed in my lack of post over these last few weeks. However, I always am trying to work hard and post when I can but basketball season is severely kicking my ass.

Anyway, back to my strange erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.

Over the last two and half weeks I have taken a piss in eight different states and dropped a deuce in five. It all started with a visit to the heartland of America, Kansas. Yes that the very same Kansas of Dorothy’s youth. I spent 2 and half fun filled days in the sprawling metropolis of Lawrence. Anyway who tells you Lawrence is a good college town is lying their asses off. That towns blows, and the women are very below average. Plus there are a ton of street kids. I have discovered that all those small cities west of the Mississippi have tons of street kids. You know, those fucking wanna-be hippies who wandering around without showering and tell you everything that is wrong with the government and believe that if everyone listened to Bob Marley music together that the world would truly be a better place. Next it was off to Mobile Alabama. Well there is not much to say about this place except for complete shithole. I would suggest that nobody ever spend any time there. All in all in was an okay trip, we played to excellent basketball games and almost pulled of the miracle upset at Phog Allen Fieldhouse against the Jayhawks.

After that I spent two fun filled days back in the homestead of Columbia. However, I barely had time to breathe since we had another game. Unfortunately in turned into and overtime thriller against South Carolina State. We played like shit and deserved to lose but we pulled it off and it was Christmas time.

This is where my journey takes a turn for the completely terrible. Knowing that flying to the NY/NJ area is like death around the holidays, I have been into driving back home. Most years I plan it right and hit minimal traffic. This year was totally different. I spent 15 of the longest hours of my life in the car. What is normally a 10 1/2 – 11 hour trip turned sour somewhere near Fredricksburg Maryland. From there until 30 miles north of Baltimore I sat in stand still traffic. In fact the only place where the road opened up was around Washington DC which you figure would be the highest volume of traffic. So that was the longest day ever. Christmas time is great and filled with tons of food and tons of relatives. But for me, with my schedule it goes by way too quickly and I am nothing but tired afterwards. Then I have to drive back down south. Figuring that there is bad weather moving into the Mid Atlantic region I should stick to my normal path of I-95 rather than the country roads in Western Virginia and North Carolina. Well just fuck me in the goat ass!!!! There was 3 inches of snow and ice across all of Southeastern Virginia and Northeastern NC. And to those people, as Josh realized first hand, 3 inches is like a blizzard. So at one point in our journey back to the Palmetto state it took 4 hours to go 90 miles, that sucks!!

Back at the ranch we prepared for another tough road test. This time it was at #7 Pittsburgh. Again I was home for maybe a day and a half before I hit the runway on my way to the Keystone State. Once again we came up just short, and that made the trip even longer.

Be advised that I have not had a chance to do laundry in these last 15 days. Finally, we finished up on New Years Eve with a late afternoon match up with the Wofford Terriers. We emerged victorious and finally a day off was coming. So now I am back on a semi regular schedule although road trips will be coming at least once a week I should be able to upkeep pretty well on here.

Andrew, just for you we will have an NFL season recap as well as Playoff preview this week. Plus there will be an obituary comimng and just some other random thoughts on things that are pissing me off.