Nothing much to report other than
– Krewe du Vieux‘s 2008 theme is still The Magical Misery Tour,
– the Badgers deserved to lose to the Fighting Illini yesterday,
– another moment of silence for the New Orleans Saints,
– celebrating Oktoberfest at Deutsches Haus was a blast (the stuffed cabbage rolls were yum-my),
– Save The Haus! and
– I laughed my rear off at another sad but true post over at Cliff’s Crib, and will do so until I receive my own irrational parking and/or traffic citation
… Be sure that if you get uncomfortable not to adjust yourself too suddenly and have that buckle jump up and hit you in the temple causing you to black out and run into a pole. You don’t want that to happen because I am sure that old hooptie doesn’t have an airbag.
… In the morning, you may pass a school zone sign but also notice that the school itself is boarded up, abandoned and probably has never been touched since Katrina. Slow down to 20 miles per hour anyway. Doing 45mph through one of these zones may be the reason to stop you under the hope you have something else wrong and help fill the quota.
Hey, Dan, the Illinois alum, is SUCH the happy camper about the Illini win. He’s already making plans for a trip to the Rose Bowl. I’m gonna have to nail his Portuguese loafers to the floor, I think…
Then again, the only fidelity to any college sports team I ever had while I was attending college was to the hockey team my fellow art school fools organized. Nothing like seeing loads of painting, sculpture, and industrial design majors making the old adage true: we’d have fights at the ice rink and hockey games would break out.