Finally!!!!!

The Tarheels look like a basketball team!!! Toe to toe with Duke! The Dean Dome is rockin'! Even if they do not win at least they are playing a good game. Like I said, there is always the ACC tournament.

palinistics

New rule....if you are a liberal and refer to other liberals as "retards" you are insensitive and should not be able to hold a job in the federal government. If you are a right wing radio personality who loves Sarah Palin you can call liberals "retards"...that's the "new" definition of satire.

"How ya liken that hopey, changey stuff now?"

Obama is a jerk for using a teleprompter, but Palin can and does write her talking points on HER HAND! This must be a carry over from high school.

WHO DAT!!!!!

I have not cared about professional football in years....since we had season tickets to the Falcons a couple of years in the early 80's. And I must admit that I did not care about or follow the games this season. But the Saints have brought real life drama and soul into the Super Bowl this year. New Orleans is a city that I love...I love the grit, the energy, the history, the music, the uniqueness, the river...everything. The Saints are New Orleans. The owner could have pulled the team out of the city after Katrina, but she didn't; she stayed and fought back. None of that "it's a business decision" rationalization. The city needed the team and the reward has come! I will be pulling for the New Orleans Saints today as if they were the Tarheels playing for the national championship (and we know that's not happening). New Orleans will celebrate whatever the outcome...anyone want to take a road trip?

An afternoon spent on Pandora in the 3rd dimension.

Avatar does have a message and the plot is familiar...Dances With Wolves would sum it up. Do not go to see it expecting a revolutionary story line and denouement, see it to experience an unbelievable feast for the eyes. It is a milestone in cinematic art. Not to see this film would be like shunning the French Impressionist painters in the late 19th Century and refusing to view their art. Fantasy films are usually not appealing to me, but this is an altogether different experience. Pandora and its indigenous beings become real...you want to go there...you want to know them.

After Graduation...

Our sweet and wonderful Emily has been accepted to join the Mississippi Teacher Corps! We are very proud but will miss her since she will be sooooo far away.

The Tarheels are not going to make it to the dance.

They could win the ACC tournament....I can still hope.

The Sex Tape's...

...future has been decided right here in the "Pitt" today! Perhaps now you will believe that this is a happening place. Andrew Young (John Edwards' lackey) appeared in court today in Pittsboro and was ordered to turn over the infamous pregnant sex tape.

The "Pitt" has been on vacation in a place where there is no snow and all the people read the NY Times.

I must say there is a great deal of catching up to do.

The Tarheels have dampened my spirits...my winter entertainment has become a nightmare. What has happened? Well, of course I have an opinion. For whatever reason Roy is not connecting with the boys. Maybe it is the pain medication he was taking after his operation, maybe he longs for last year's group, maybe he is looking past this year to next, or maybe he isn't the coach everyone thinks he is. (right Carolyn) At any rate the lack of b-ball excitement has gotten me down. I used to be able to shift my enthusiasm to Duke when they were doing better...but no more. After having paid a gazillion dollars to UNC I can no longer support the K man and his thugs. Ga Tech will become my team...I will recover. By the way, living with Pat when the Bulldogs are having a fairly good season and there are only 2 ACC teams in the top 25 is hell. Though our annual ACC vs SEC basketball war has cooled since we moved here.

Katrina and I have renewed our walking commitment and are once again tackling Firetower Road. We WILL be in shape come the summer! There are several updates from the Firetower. Rex, the Lab that looked like Katrina was killed. Everyone seems to miss him especially his owner who refuses to accept the fact that he is dead. The Bottle House has been adorned with raccoon skins and tails. Naturally they have all been placed in "artistic" locations among the collection. A freezer, many more interesting rocks, bottles, and bicycle parts have been added as well. One morning as we were walking down the hill two men were walking up with shot guns and I wasn't real sure what to think. They were going squirrel hunting I was told. That was certainly a new experience.

The "Pitt" has seen two businesses close in January; Archie's Appliance Store and Beggars and Choosers. B and C was an antique, vintage clothing, stuff store that had been here since the 70's. It was a landmark and people were quite upset, but you have to buy things in these stores for them to stay in business. This stupid economy has got to turn around.

Then there is the political situation. It has put me in a super funk. I will deal with that in the next post. It will take a great deal of energy.

The snow that I thought was so cool last week has become a menace. Our house sits at an angle where the sun does not hit the front in the winter. The 15 inches of snow that blew up against the garage and then became the South Pole was still there this morning. Though it is sunny and warmer no way it was going to melt, so I have been loading up the sled with the huge chunks of iced snow and hauling it to the gutter where the sun does shine. Fun times in the "Pitt"

January is over and I will come out of my hibernation and face the world again.

It is freezing

WaPo what's in/what's out...

The Washington Post has published its iny outy list and I must say I am amused. Much of it I find clever and amusing, some of it is refreshing, but much of it I do not "get." I suppose I have reached the point (aka "the age") where I am totally out of it when it comes to pop culture. Who in the world is Rosamund Pike or Justin Bieber? I am comforted to know that Hall and Oates are in...I know them! I was a bit disturbed that leggings are out since I had just decided to get some. Platform sandals have been declared out and that upsets me because anything platform makes me taller. I was pleased to see that Liz Cheney and SarahPAC are out. I am looking forward to a 2010 without them, though I cannot imagine that that will happen. Some things never change...bacon is still in and so are cupcakes (trucks, not stores). It appears the AP classes are out so it is good that I have retired.