classic comedy comes to life

but as it turns out, "who" isn't on first. he plays shortstop.

Insanity

That was an unreal game. In fact, it was the reverse version of the Clemson game last year, except this time, WE come out of nowhere to win. Everything was running on all cylinders for Maryland until BAM! the Phonz runs 100 yards the pick six. That led the way for 28 unanswered points and our first ever overtime victory. Wow, wow, and wow.


Fun anecdote - I was able to watch the game through a almost-legal video feed of ESPNU. I downloaded some program and got ESPNU streaming at a pretty good quality. Then something strange happened - the channel changed. During commercials, the channel menu came up and it would bounce around a few channels, mostly other football games. That's when I realized I wasn't watching a feed of ESPNU, I was just watching a feed of some guy's TV.

somebody make it stop

the post office daggered me

Hey, we won! I watched the game by coughing up five bucks to accselect.com for a pretty high quality video feed. The "announcing" was great in a "boom goes the dynamite" kind of way. Although to be fair he didn't have a color guy with him - he was pretty much forced to talk to himself for three hours. Pretty uneventful game all-in-all; I'm just glad we picked up a win. Sagarin did rate us the best 0-2 team in the nation, so we deserved it.

Anyway, to the title. I thought it a bit odd I've been in this swanky apartment for a month and a half and I'd yet to get a single utility bill. In fact, I hadn't gotten any postal mail period. I call up Comcast and my energy company and - sure enough - they've sent me bills. After I paid up over the phone I dial up the PO to ask WTF. Turns out they've been returning all my mail because I hadn't verified with them that I'm at a "good address." I've never heard of such a thing. Is this an uncommon practice or is this like when I had no idea you could take a train from England to France?

zach braff lied to me

So I went by Wendy's for lunch today and got my favorite 3 dollar meal in the universe - jr. bacon cheeseburger, 5 piece chicken nuggets, and a medium coke. well, guess what. The executors of Dave Thomas' estate have evidently applied Professor Szalinski's shrink ray to the ole JBC. My damn palm is bigger than it now! When the hell did this happen? Ugh! When I fall victim for that "I deserve a hot juicy burger!" marketing campaign, I expect more than a gnome-sized portion (I was going to say Hobbit-sized but then I remember they eat a lot).

In other news, thanks to my Legal Methods III textbook, I now know that "crying typically indicates sadness."

In other other news, there were three game-winning field goals made in about a five minute span today. Have NFL kickers gotten better while I wasn't looking? Maybe we should start calling it the Big 32.

i'm not eating corn for a year

f-word. that game sucked. i hate nebraska. i miss riley skinner. f-word.

having just watched the first half of "star wars: the legacy revealed" on the history channel (the nfl? what's that?), i have but one thing to say:

I still can't believe Darth Vader built C-3PO. I mean, what the hell.

The boundaries of language I quietly cursed / And all the different names for the same thing.

The Powers That Be at Wake have reached an agreement with BB&T for naming rights to Groves Stadium. As far as I'm concerned it's basically free money, but I can understand that others don't like the idea of "BB&T Field." Just remember, it could have been much, much worse.

And if that doesn't scare Wake students enough, apparently there's a menacing alligator on the loose near campus. From a student-wide e-mail:

"Recently, the University learned that an alligator, approximately two feet in length, is in Lake Katherine at Reynolda Gardens. At the suggestion of Forsyth County Animal Control staff, the University has reported the alligator's presence to a non-profit organization that rescues reptiles and moves them to appropriate locations.

Meanwhile, the University Police department asks that people stay away from the alligator and report its exact location if anyone sees it. The number to call is 758-5591 or 758-5911.

The alligator was reported to University Police on August 31. Officers saw the alligator on a log in the lake, near the lake's bank, and promptly contacted Forsyth County Animal Control. That same day, county staff recommended that the University ask Tar Heel Reptile Rescue to capture it.

Since that time, the rescue organization has attempted but failed to capture it. Efforts to remove the alligator will continue.

Wake Forest News Service."

That's right. We pawned off campus security to the Tar Heels. God help us all.

PS - bonus points for identifying the song reference in the title.

kevin youklilis is driving me insane

For the past week I've been alternating having Kevin Youkilis in my starting line-up and on my bench. These are the results...

Starting: 4 games, 0-11, 8 K's.
Benched: 3 games, 4-10, 2 home runs, 6 RBI, 2 K's.

What did I ever do to deserve this!?

game day!

The wait is over.

Wake Forest kicks off its first game of the year today at 3:30 against BC. Depending o yo' region, it may be on ABC, it may be on ESPN, it may be nowhere to be found. I think I'll be getting ESPN around here, but if not its hello sports bar because I'm not missing this.

Also, I got an X-Box 360. Heh heh heh.

EDIT - WHAT THE F@#$!? WISCONSIN/WASH ST IS ON ABC AND ESPN? WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THAT?

F$%&!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HOLY SH*T NEVER MIND UPDATE - ESPN SWITCHED TO WAKE JUST IN TIME FOR AN ALPHONSO SMITH PICK SIX!!!!!!!!! TOUCHDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!


GO DEACS!!

And App State just beat #5 Michigan. Holy Crap. Go Mountaineers!


Post-game wrap-up: Dammit. Losing Skinner really hurt, but at least this Hodges kid looked pretty good. I'm preferring to think about App State's universe-altering upset over Michigan. Come to think of it, if given the choice between Wake winning today and App winning.... I still would have chosen Wake, but I would have hesitated for at least like a split second.

Final thoughts for today: The only evidence needed to prove that re-naming Division I-AA the "Division I Football Championship Subdivision" was a horrible, horrible idea is that everyone still says "Division I-AA." The Powers That Be need to man up and admit they screwed the pooch on that one big time.