Initial Reaction (It took 36 hours)

And now what…. I got some paper from this place and I am supposed to care, well yeah I do care, quite a bit, cus that cop is being filmed no where near where anything relevant to your camera’s presence occurred, its stocked film bullshit, show your aging correspondent
The gunman HAD to walk past the place where I learned about the west’s imperial eye,
4 of them were from my area now
from NJ
They all walked and yelled and drank where I drank
And went to the cascades and so what if this doesn’t matter that I am not there and wish I were
Why
Why not

And be angry
and just anguish and tremble and and and and
It’s a record we need to know that cus it might be somehow more tragic if we had fallen just short of that too. The communal HOKIE experience of … whatever we invented wireless technology and about a billion other things that I'd like to take credit for but merely take pride in, like one of those souls taken off the earth the BIOCHEM-ENGINEER prof who was like top 5 in the world. Don't we all just lose huge there. If that was a lone incident in 5000 miles away that'd be bad enough, but I can visualize that guy and the other brilliant people our university employs and the students too clearly for this to be real, yet.
To many whys and nothing retorts.
even the shabby alums such as myself take pride in
And this person, living creature of the same God walked on the same steps where I plead for peace the day the war began, and my best friend proposed to his wife and, where I met a dear person to read a book next to and shared meals there and
There’s just no resolution to this conflict, it just ends and we are heavy with emptiness.

First round microcosm

By the bracket I filled out that is taped to the wall in my room (which is a rough sketch of the 5 brackets I filled out online and elsewhere) I have a 22-10 record after the first round.

I guess that means i am good enough to lose in the first round like Arizona.

only 2 teams from the sweet 16 i predicted are out.
so I cannot be so down on the reults thus far.
but for the first time ever no 12s beat 5s

but we almost gave them that one didnt we. maybe we got some calls late, but come on not-Illiani, score a friggan point why dont ya?


What was the name of that guy that played and transfered from VT in like 2000 to SIU. I suppose we owe the Silukis one for that, and I also suppose that Tim Brando and Mike Gminski will mention it about 783 times by the end of sunday's game.