11.9.03
Hello, world. If only I knew what to say. Or, to use my title, Oh, if only I knew what the heck I was doing. It's amazing what you can do on the internet nowadays. News gathering and dissemination. Write your own column. The big question is whether anyone actually gives a good goddamn. I mean, who reads this crap? Sure, some of it's entertaining, some of it is informative, and certainly I hope to communicate well enough to be included in both categories. In any case, I am who I am - to you folk reading, likely no more than just a few words on a page, little more than a complete abstraction; hopefully this will blog will give a sense of what I think and, in the end, who I am, even if there is nothing you know about my physical self. From time to time, I'll do regular features in this space. You'll figure out what they are.
College Football: I, probably like most people not students or alumni of small schools, or otherwise residents of the towns in which said schools hold class, do not closely follow college football that is not NCAA Div. IA. Whatever else I am, I am a fan of the Virginia Tech Hokies. I get to a couple games a year, although I haven't been yet this season. Blowouts against UCF (last I heard, it's not Central Florida, it's UCF, according to the athletic department down there; I guess acronyms are their own abbreviations now) and James Madison: I'll pass. I'll probably try to get something from a scalper for the Miami game or BC, or maybe Syracuse, which happens to be homecoming, like I did last year when I went to the Pitt game. Anyway, I heard today that Cal and Utah were playing tonight. The question I'm about to ask is probably about 10 years too late, but I'll ask anyway. WTF are college football games doing in the middle of the week? Autumn Saturdays are made for college football, and while weeknights aren't bad - Tech is one of the worst offenders as regards playing in the middle of the week - it makes you wonder what the purpose of the institution is. At Tech, they treat game nights as Saturdays, regardless of any academic concerns; the parking lots are (perhaps unsurprisingly, since those patrons bring money into the university) used for the fans, rather than for the students. Pardon the French, but what a crock of shit! I think that the Big Ten does it right with their schedule: they only play Saturdays, and they finish up the weekend before Thanksgiving. I can't say that I have a big problem with schools playing immediately following Thanksgiving - even if it isn't Saturday, as Ole Miss-MSU traditionally does, or UVa-Tech has done in the past, or even the following weekend, although I would prefer that only (1) conference championships and (2) the Army-Navy game be played the second weekend after Thanksgiving. In any case, I am not a big fan of the midweek game. Moving on.
Cal is at Utah in a few minutes (it may actually have started by the time that I post this). When I first heard that they were playing tonight, I thought of this. There's a great quote in there where some degenerate gambler (has to be, right?) calls the Atlanta Journal sports department, asking about Wyoming and Utah State, David Davidson answers the phone and, hearing the question, says "Wyoming and Utah State? Who gives a shit?" To be perfectly honest, that's how I feel about Cal-Utah. I can't really get worked up for a Pac-10 team that got whacked by K-State, and a mid-major.
Side note: I just heard a commercial for this Canadian tribal casino which featured Andrew Dice Clay, or an impersonator. I'm still not sure which. And, to be sure, I don't want to know. Dice can't be desperate enough to do commercials for said casino, can he?
Anyway, back to college football. I will merely say this about Tech's schedule: I wish the Pitt game was in Blacksburg, but, considering what happened last fall, maybe I should be glad that it's up in Pittsburgh.
11 Sept: It has been 730 days since Islamist terrorists hijacked 4 airliners; all 4 were cross country flights, so as to be loaded up with fuel. 2 from Boston to Los Angeles, one from Newark to San Francisco, and one from Washington Dulles to LA. 2 were American Airlines flights: AA11, which hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center and AA77 which struck the west side of the Pentagon. 2 were United Airlines flights: UAL175, from Boston to Los Angeles and which crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center 20 minutes after AA11 crashed into the North Tower, and UAL93, which is believed to have been headed for the Capitol or the White House, but whose hijackers were forced to crash in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Over 3,000 people died that day. And all because some folks thought that we were too free. One hopes that they realise that Jihad isn't the answer before they themselves are exterminated in, if you will, a counter-Jihad.
Anyway, that's all I have now; the great thing about having a blog - rather than a regular column - is that I don't need to update it unless I have something to say. Although, the flip side of that is that columnists get paid for doing this. -- Ryan
College Football: I, probably like most people not students or alumni of small schools, or otherwise residents of the towns in which said schools hold class, do not closely follow college football that is not NCAA Div. IA. Whatever else I am, I am a fan of the Virginia Tech Hokies. I get to a couple games a year, although I haven't been yet this season. Blowouts against UCF (last I heard, it's not Central Florida, it's UCF, according to the athletic department down there; I guess acronyms are their own abbreviations now) and James Madison: I'll pass. I'll probably try to get something from a scalper for the Miami game or BC, or maybe Syracuse, which happens to be homecoming, like I did last year when I went to the Pitt game. Anyway, I heard today that Cal and Utah were playing tonight. The question I'm about to ask is probably about 10 years too late, but I'll ask anyway. WTF are college football games doing in the middle of the week? Autumn Saturdays are made for college football, and while weeknights aren't bad - Tech is one of the worst offenders as regards playing in the middle of the week - it makes you wonder what the purpose of the institution is. At Tech, they treat game nights as Saturdays, regardless of any academic concerns; the parking lots are (perhaps unsurprisingly, since those patrons bring money into the university) used for the fans, rather than for the students. Pardon the French, but what a crock of shit! I think that the Big Ten does it right with their schedule: they only play Saturdays, and they finish up the weekend before Thanksgiving. I can't say that I have a big problem with schools playing immediately following Thanksgiving - even if it isn't Saturday, as Ole Miss-MSU traditionally does, or UVa-Tech has done in the past, or even the following weekend, although I would prefer that only (1) conference championships and (2) the Army-Navy game be played the second weekend after Thanksgiving. In any case, I am not a big fan of the midweek game. Moving on.
Cal is at Utah in a few minutes (it may actually have started by the time that I post this). When I first heard that they were playing tonight, I thought of this. There's a great quote in there where some degenerate gambler (has to be, right?) calls the Atlanta Journal sports department, asking about Wyoming and Utah State, David Davidson answers the phone and, hearing the question, says "Wyoming and Utah State? Who gives a shit?" To be perfectly honest, that's how I feel about Cal-Utah. I can't really get worked up for a Pac-10 team that got whacked by K-State, and a mid-major.
Side note: I just heard a commercial for this Canadian tribal casino which featured Andrew Dice Clay, or an impersonator. I'm still not sure which. And, to be sure, I don't want to know. Dice can't be desperate enough to do commercials for said casino, can he?
Anyway, back to college football. I will merely say this about Tech's schedule: I wish the Pitt game was in Blacksburg, but, considering what happened last fall, maybe I should be glad that it's up in Pittsburgh.
11 Sept: It has been 730 days since Islamist terrorists hijacked 4 airliners; all 4 were cross country flights, so as to be loaded up with fuel. 2 from Boston to Los Angeles, one from Newark to San Francisco, and one from Washington Dulles to LA. 2 were American Airlines flights: AA11, which hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center and AA77 which struck the west side of the Pentagon. 2 were United Airlines flights: UAL175, from Boston to Los Angeles and which crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center 20 minutes after AA11 crashed into the North Tower, and UAL93, which is believed to have been headed for the Capitol or the White House, but whose hijackers were forced to crash in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Over 3,000 people died that day. And all because some folks thought that we were too free. One hopes that they realise that Jihad isn't the answer before they themselves are exterminated in, if you will, a counter-Jihad.
Anyway, that's all I have now; the great thing about having a blog - rather than a regular column - is that I don't need to update it unless I have something to say. Although, the flip side of that is that columnists get paid for doing this. -- Ryan
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