How’s it going out there? I’m talking to my fellow UNCers. The rest of you can listen in but I’m checking the pulse of Tar Heel Nation today. As I compose this, I don’t know what’s gonna happen but apparently something is gonna happen. Looking like a bit more than just no dessert with dinner.
There’s one less cantakerous coot in The District; allowing us to connect Sen. Byrd’s demise to World Cup Soccer in an awesome segueway. …… On UNC’s South Campus, Roy & The Wears are in a Mexican Stand-off. …… Missus (and Cape Central High) wins our family’s Weirdest Reunion Guy Award with “Jackee” ….. Good Lord!!
There are 200+ folks I’ve known for 50 years for whom I do not hold one negative thought or one iota of animosity – my high school senior class. We held our 45th last weekend. I had a dee-lightful time You will appreciate why. I know you will. PLUS World Cup …. Algore …. College FB ….. The Newest Bond Villain. ……
Caesar’s Gaul was divided into three parts. So is today’s global community – (Part 1) Soccer zealots obsessed with cramming their sport down my throat – (Part 2) Soccer-haters ranting 24/7 how stoopid they think Soccer, and the zealots, are – (Part 3) Me. Memo to Part 1&2 – A pox on both of you. Leave me alone.
What the heck WAS John Wooden? 99 years of articles and comments and never a single reference to his personal politics. …. How cool is THAT! Both sides will, of course, clamor to claim him. …… Speaking of “clamor” – BobLee has a kicking “what if” to that recent baseball umpire snafu that sent the sports world en fuego.
Do you have a “go to activity” that simply makes you feel better – walking, gardening, reading? For me it’s de-cluttering. In this Non-Accumulate Phase of my life journey, I’m attacking the problem from the other end – “jettisoning stuff”. O’ Joy, O’ Rapture ….. And some random comments on upcoming BIG DEALS !
.. You know me, Forever searching for that obscure historical analogy. Is Scott Brown the Paul Revere of The New Millenium? ….. or did the Nazi panzer divisions run out of gas just short of the fuel depot? Choose either. I feel a bit like Nick Saban never allowing himself to celebrate; rather always focusing on the next battle to be fought ….. the next battle to be won.
Nightmare on Franklin Street: This column’s inevitability was preordained. Watching the final minutes of Thursday’s UNC v VaTech game I wondered, “if we win should I delay this column”. Will Graves’…
A very special BobLee Buddy started an e-mail to me with that line two days ago. I get a lot of e-mails from BL buddies. I read them all. I savor ones from “him”. Big time college basketball 2010 is a Skunkworks that makes limburger cheese smell like gardenias. On a good day it is rancid. Last night the odious cloud parted for a few bright shining moments.
turns to Football!: Driving home from Saturday’s UNC Spring Football Game, my mood was upbeat and positive over events of the prior 24 hours. Then the voice and e-mails started. Determined not to over-react I laid my opinions aside to simmer. Those opinions now emerge hopefully objective and entertaining.
….. A very young BobLee visited Disneyland fifty years ago. I vividly recall Sleeping Beauty’s castle, a flume ride, the various “Lands” and seven dwarfs and, of course, “Mickey”. We took Kid ten years ago. “Mickey”, Goofy and the gang were still there. ….. It’s been forty years since I was “in college”. “Mickey” and his gang are still there too.
What do commencement “exercises” and youth soccer games have in common? …. Both mean more if you have “blood kin” participating. Saturday our “blood kin” became an alumna of The Univ of Missouri. “Rite of passage” serve as universal measurement for one’s “passage” thru Life. This one went off without a hitch.
(1) I’ve attended 4 of the past 5 NC Sports Hall of Fame Banquets. The average age of the 400+ attendees exceeds mine. I’m walking down Life’s 15th Fairway. If there isn’t anyone “on the front nine” that cares, this fine venture is doomed. …. (2) As expected, the commencement column stirred you up. ….. (3) James K. Polk did some very fine things as POTUS ….. Who Knew?
“No more …. Forever”: I recently found myself in one of those over-stocked antique curio shops …. where a normal sized person can’t walk around without breaking something crystal or porcelain or spindly. You’re afraid to breathe. You make yourself small until you can escape. I am NOT going to live the rest of my life like that This is a POLITICAL column. “Read More”…. or not.
The International Website Oversight Society is threatening to unplug me …. unless I do a Conference Expansion Column. Hokie Jim did his a week or so ago. I was holding out. A Conference Expansion column is slightly less trite than a “What’s Happened to Roy” column. I’ve done two of those. Here goes ……