I’ve gotten into sort of a routine with my weekly posts: write them on Sunday afternoon and/or evening, format and post the music one that night if it’s not too late, format and post the journal on my lunch hour Monday (and of course the music one if I didn’t do it the night before). This procedure requires that I remember to bring to work with me the flash drive on which the material resides. Which I forgot to do this morning. So that stuff will be along tonight, probably, or else tomorrow.
Meanwhile, I was thrilled to see the Great Pumpkin go down to defeat in the SEC Championship, and am happy to see this morning that LSU will be playing for the national title. What a weird season this has been, especially in the SEC, Greatest of Conferences. I was sorry to see West Virginia lose, though, as their quarterback, Patrick White, is a local boy.
In other, trivial, boring news: Alabama will face Colorado in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport. Nothing against Shreveport—I’m sure it is every bit as pleasant as north Alabama, where I grew up—but it’s a long, long way, cachet-wise, from New Orleans. I know what will happen on the day of the Independence Bowl. It’ll be like the Auburn game: I’ll think maybe I won’t watch it, because I won’t want to suffer through another Bama loss, and then I’ll start thinking but what if we don’t lose? what if it turns out, against the odds, to be a classic or at least memorable victory, like the ’79 Penn State game or the ’85 Auburn game? and you didn’t get to see it because you were too much of a defeatist?
And then I’ll watch it anyway. And Alabama will lose.
(I wonder how many people know what that “b/w” in the title of this post means. Not many people under 45 or so, probably, unless they’re Dawn Eden.)
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