Well, someone from my shitbag little down made it...

Keith Null had his first NFL start last night.  I was a year older than him, but he was way much mo' bigger than me.  And now it seems to be paying off for you.  I played basketball with him JV, if I remember.  He was a pretty good ball player, too.

 

Awesome seeing someone I went to school with starting in the NFL.

Having your cake and eating it, too?

http://www.theboombox.com/2009/12/18/chris-brown-says-twitter-was-nothing-but-trouble/

 

Note to Chris Brown.  You can't both be a woman-beater AND a crybaby. 

Ugh...

It looks like I was right.

 

Headlines everywhere read "Tiger is a Cheetah!"  And jokes abound about Tiger being unable to stay in his cage.

 

I hope Tiger says absolutely nothing about the incident.  Fuck everyone who thinks he owes them ANYthing.

 

All he owes the US is to continue winning golf tournaments around the world.

 

Get to it Tiger.  And no more tourney skipping.

Tiger Woods Hospitalized!

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/news/story?id=4693657

 

NoooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I just hope he didn't do anything that could land him jail time.  I don't think I could handle a week's worth of headlines which were in some way a variant of a "Tiger in the Cage" metaphor.

Things have changed a bit...

...but not as much as I'd expected.

 

I figured the change would be as drastically noticeable as the day after 9/11, but things aren't as obviously uncomfortable as they were then.  News analysts are calling this the biggest single killing event to occur since September 11, and pointing out that its the biggest killing of this kind in US military history (which is significant, I suppose, because the US military is nearly 300 years old).  But things seem to be going on business-as-usual around town. 

 

I have to wonder - is it because this community is so desensitized to the idea of death that this is almost normal? 

 

The real test will be at work this evening.  I'll have the opportunity to talk to a lot of people that were closely involved in the incident, and I suspect I'll hear some interesting stories.