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Starting with my FCS report. Georgia Southern remained #1 (on my and the coaches' poll) after winning a creampuff game against Tusculum 62-21, and Wofford stayed at #2 (#8 coaches) after giving big boy Clemson all they wanted in a 35-27 loss. Appalachian St. rebounded after their kicking by VA Tech, routing conference foe N. Carolina A&T 58-6 to move into third in both polls, while William AND Mary climbed to 4th (5th) after topping VMI 24-7. The two Montanas each move up a pair on mine; Montana St. (4) to #5, riding a 3 TD second quarter to rout UC-Davis 38-14, while Montana (11) moved to 6th with a tough 37-23 win over Cal Poly. Eastern Washington drops to 7th (10) with their shocking 30-17 drubbing by South Dakota, 2-0 after being a doormat all last year. Richmond moves to 8 (9) after a lackluster 21-7 win over Wagner; Jacksonville St., who struggled in week 1, lost in week two to then #24 Chattanooga 38-17 to fall to #9 (16). Rounding out my top ten is New Hampshire (12), who defeated a team that I had regrettably not ranked- Lehigh- 48-41 in OT.
The rest of my top twenty-five includes #11 Liberty (20), #12 Northern Iowa (2, are you kidding?), #13 Villanova (in the also getting votes section),#14 Chattanooga (17),#15 Lehigh (19),#16 James Madison (14), #17 SF Austin (13), #18 South Carolina State (21), #19 North Dakota State (6, c'mon man!) #20 S. Illinois (15), #21 Delaware(7, but they burned us all last year), #22 Stony Brook, 0-2 but losses in two big boy games, losing in OT to UTEP week one and 35-7 to Buffalo last week), #23 Western Carolina (who won a rout against cupcake Mars Hill after a 42 point loss to big boy Georgia tech), #24 Bethune-Cookman (also getting votes after a 26-18 loss to South Carolina State), and #25 Old Dominion ( ignored despite outscoring FCS rivals 81-31 in two games). In place of the five of mine they didn't like, the coaches had Central Arkansas (18), McNeese St. (22) South Dakota (23, and they were still giving them votes at 1-4 last year) Sacramento State (24, who got blown out by Southern Utah 35-14) and UMass (25 and no longer eligible for anything since they move to FBS next year). I can see Central Arkansas, but all McNeese has on its ledger is a 42-21 loss to bbg Kansas and week two off.
This week, 7 of my teams (GA Southern, Wofford, UNH, Northern Iowa, N. Dakota State, Southern Illinois, Western Carolina, and Bethune Cookman) get a week off. The lone BBG belongs to SF Austin (Baylor- ouch!). Ranked matchups include #6 Montana vs #7 Eastern Washington ( a FAR bigger game for EWU after last week), and #11 Liberty vs #16 JMU. Two teams get cupcake games (W&M vs New Haven and Montana St. vs Minot State). That leaves us with: App St. vs Savannah State (who are 0-2 and already have 100 points against); Richmond against VMI (who W&M had no problem with), Jacksonville State vs Georgia State (who got pasted by ODU last week) and boy don't THEY need a win; Villanova gets Monmouth (everyone's favorite whupping boy, and they REALLY need to whup someone, anyone, at 0-2); Chattanooga gets Eastern Kentucky (who followed up an impressive 3-point loss to Kansas State with a disappointing 4 point win over Missouri State); Lehigh gets Princeton (who, like the rest of the Ivy League, opens this week); OOPS! South Carolina St. also has a BBG- against IU! Delaware gets cross state rival Delaware State (who is a deceptive 2-0- they only topped VMI by 3, and had to score 22 in the 4th quarter to edge cupcake Shaw); Stony Brook finally picks on someone their own size, Ivy Leaguer Brown; And ODU draws Hampton (who is a solid but not spectacular 2-0).
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I also thought I might do an every week or two report on the KHL, in honor of the fallen of Lokomotiv. The season opened this week, and Torpedo Nizhny-Novgorod is off to a 3-0 start, with a pair of 3-0 shutouts surrounding a 4-1 win over Spartak. They lead the Western conference by 3 points over Dinamo Minsk, whose only loss was one of those same 3-0 shutouts. Last years' conference champ are among 5 teams with one win, theirs a 3-1 victory over Neftekhimik. The "Moscow trio" are 2-3 combined thus far, with Dinamo and Red Army both 1-1. In the east, the season opening Lokomotiv Cup went to Salavat Yulaev, who rallied from early down 3-0 to win 5-3 over Atlant. They followed that up with a 5-4 win over traditional rival Ak Bars to be one of two teams with 2 wins. The other is season favorite Metallurg Magnitogorsk, who has topped first year team Lev Poprad 4-2 and Traktor Chelyabinsk 5-1. Poprad, who started in the Czech Republic and moved to Slovakia when the Czech Hockey Federation would not clear them to play in the KHL, is the first and only team from outside the old Soviet Union (and one of 4 outside of Russia proper). They also dropped one to second year team Yugra 3-1 to open their first campaign at 0-2. There has already been two games that went to OT shootouts: the first night, Traktor topped Metallurg Novokutznetsk 3-2, and this morning our time, Avangard Omsk topped Kazakhstan's Barys Astana 5-4.
Of course, the team I always feel sorry for is Amur Khabarovsk, way out on the Pacific coast. It is farther from their to the next closest team (I think Magnitogorsk or Omsk) than it is fro that city to Poprad in fricking Slovakia! Thus they get a lot of doubleheaders over two nights. The first was against Sibir Novosibirsk, with the far-easters losing the first 5-2 and winning the second 5-3. The league has thought about getting rid of them because of travel costs, but they outdraw the rest of the league at home consistently. But I think until Loko gets back next year, my team will be Automobilsk Yekaterinburg- the city where the Bolsheviks celebrated their newfound rule by slaughtering the Romanov family. AY opened with a 3-2 loss to Metallurg Novokutznetsk, and followed with a 3-1 win this AM over Neftekhimik, and thus are not only looking up at East leaders Salavat and Magnitogorsk, but also Omsk with 5 points and and Novokutznetsk and Barys with 4.
Friday, September 16, 2011
step into my time machine week 73
Today is September 16, 1976. As finswimming (yeah, I didn't know what that was either) star, Armenia's Shavarsh Karapetiyan and his equally talented brother jog around Lake Yerevan in training, a bus plunges off the dam road and into 33 feet of water. Shavarsh spends the next hour diving to the bus, and after kicking in the back window, bringing people one by one up to the surface. He cannot save them all; far from it. But he does save 20, and at a terrible cost. Between the exertion and sepsis contracted from the polluted water, he spends the next 45 days unconscious and is never again able to participate in the sport he loves. For his trouble he is awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor- 2 years later. He becomes a household name for his sacrifice- when Pravda does an article on him 6 years later. And he gets an asteroid named after him- 10 years later. God bless the Soviet Union!
Welcome toodd news stories Time Machine for another week. Today, we have the dreaded song-stuck-at-49 problem again, a glancing blow at the epic motion picture Resurrected, a tour of some British nobility, and speaking of Britain, the UK's #1 album this week! Away we go!
Topping the hot 100 debuts for the week (out of 7) are two of the best ever ballads about love gone wrong. The high debut at 72 is Barry Manilow's title track from the lp This One's For You (newbies- this is NOT a Bud commercial); and at 79, the Bee Gees with Love So Right. Also debuting this week, another of those songs I have vivid recollections of watching done on the old Midnight Special- Jeans On by David Dundas. Or should I say, Lord David Dundas. You see, David was the son of the 3rd Marquess of Zetland, Lawrence Dundas. In trying to find out what a Marquess of Zetland was, I learned that the 3rd Marquess was a good tennis player from the 40's, and that his niece was once married to (and not at the same time) both the manager for the Grateful Dead and to Roger Waters of Pink Floyd. And Zetland is an archaic spelling of Shetland, which (in addition to being where Shetland ponies come from) is a group of islands freezing their tushies off in the cold waters north of Scotland. So I figure Marquess of Zetland is probably a step or two above mayor of Zulu, Indiana. Anyway, happy 35th to those songs! and here come the rest of our birthday children for today:
Gypsies, Tramps, And Thieves turns 40 today, as does I'd Love To Change The World by Ten Years After.
Johnny Rivers' Poor Side Of Town and the Byrds' Mr. Spaceman turn 45 today.
Turning 50 are the Dovells' Bristol Stomp and the Marvellettes Please Mr. Postman.
And finally, the 5 Satins' version of In The Still Of The Night turns 55. Blow out the candles...
Our big dropper for today is Another Rainy Day In NYC, tumbling 18 to #87. The big climbers are 3, and two of them are in the top forty! I can tell you, though, that the third is the Commodores' Just To Be Close To You, climbing 17 to #74.
This week we are in the 2s of our look at #1s of other years, and in 1992 we hit a top dog that at least I know- End Of The Road by Boyz II Men. In 1982 this week the #1 was Steve Miller's Abracadabra; in 1972, the Hollies' Long Cool Woman. In 1962 the greatest song of all time was #1- the Four Seasons and Sherry. When Bob Gaudio first wrote this (he says it took him 15 minutes- sure glad Geico wasn't around back then to distract him!), it was Jackie Baby in honor of first lady Jackie Kennedy; after a few other permutations, Gaudio finally changed it to Sherry after his BFF's daughter. Finally in 1952 we have another repeat featuree- Vera Lynn's Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart.
Now yet again our Where Are They Now feature becomes problematic. 2 weeks ago we featured the song Hard Work; last week it was sweet Baby James with Shower The People- Hard Work moving up to 48. (Rookies- 49 is the spot from which I do the WATN segment) This week, Shower stalls at 49- with Hard Work still at 48! So rather than look all over for a rationale for another candidate (or spend another week of making fun of Taylor's connection to the various liberal zombie groups) I'm going to dip into the Valley Of The Dolls Post from earlier this week and bring you the man singing Live With Me- Tony Scotti.
Tony was actually an actor by trade when he did that song on Valley, though he didn't do a whole lot- just that movie and some TV episodes. He also had his hand in pop music, though not very successfully- he had 2 songs that grazed the charts solo and one with his band, Heaven Bound. HB included Eddie Medora who played guitar for the Sunrays. Who are the Sunrays? A 60s surf band who did a song I never should have burned called Andrea. If you want to experience the genius of Brian Wilson, just see what happens when people who don't know how to put background harmonies together try it! Anyway, that kinda went belly up as well for Tony, so he went into music production at MGM. Then he and his brother Ben went into the music distribution business, and a few years after that they tried their hands at producing films. The last of these was a low budget flick called Resurrected in the early 90s featuring Chris Sarandon. This seems to be where our trail of Mr. Scotti ends; but his Heaven Bound work is on youtube, including this number that I sampled last night, featuring the vocals of one Ann Marshall, who apparently played Angela Brown on My Favorite Martian:
We only had 2 entrants into the top 40 this week. At 40, up five, is Eric Carmen and Sunrise. At 38, one of our trio of big movers at 17 notches up, is the other debut- Beth/Detroit Rock City by Kiss. and the third of the 17 notch movers debuted last week, I Only Wanna Be With You by the Bay City Rollers, up this week to 23. While we're in this area, I'll mention a few odds and ends. First, an almost but not quite for Say That You Love Me by Fleetwood Mac, peaking this week at #12. Second, we have co-rulers from the grandpa chair this week- both Moonlight Feels Right (#58) and Love Is Alive (#60) are in their 23rd week on the chart. And third, our #1 album, in the midst of its last- and longest- run at the top is Frampton Comes Alive! I was just curious to see what topped the UK album chart this week, and the answer is a UK-only greatest hits collection from the Beach Boys called 20 Golden Greats. Pretty standard fare, with the odd pieces being a cover of Then He Kissed Me (obviously re-titled Then I Kissed Her) and a song called Break Away, written by Brian and his father Murray, which did much better in Jolly Ol' (#6) than here in the USA (#63). It was their last single of the seventies and people over here were too into listening to the critics' mealy-mouthed panning of the Boys to give it a chance. Here, let's see what we think:
Score another one for the British!
Three songs enter the top ten this week, three fall out. Dropping out are: You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine, 8 to 21; Don't Go Breaking My Heart, from 7 to 17; and Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel, from 10 to 20.
So, since our six degrees victim is our #1 song this week, let's do things a little different: we'll go backwards rather than forwards, and intersperse it into the top ten! Step Number one are the groups Survivor (Eye Of the Tiger) and the Ides Of March (Vehicle). These groups had one thing in common- leader and vocalist (for the Ides) Jim Peterik.
Climbing one spot to 10 this week is Dr. Hook with the less-than-subtle A Little Bit More. At #9, up 5 spots, is Chicago with If You Leave Me Now. At 8, flapping up from #18 last week, is Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots with Disco Duck.
Step 2- Jim Peterik was the writer of .38 Special's first big national hit, Hold On Loosely.
Climbing 2 spots to #7 is Cliff Richard's Devil Woman (hi, Lorraine!). The Bee Gees drop from 2 to 6 with You Should Be Dancing.
Step 3- It was .38 Special that gave southern rockers Molly Hatchet their first break by pimping them to their agent, who set them on the path to stardom.
Walter Murphy climbs one notch to #5 with A Fifth Of Beethoven; England Dan and John Ford Coley stall at 4 with I'd Really Love To See You Tonight.
Step 2- among the later members of Molly Hatchet was a guitarist named Bryan Bassett.
Number three this week, up two spots, is Boz Skaggs and Lowdown. Edging one step closer at #2 is KC and The Sunshine Band with Shake Your Booty. And that means that our number one song this week, for a second week, is...
Wild Cherry, featuring guitarist Bryan Bassett, and Play That Funky Music!
Well, I thought that went well. What do you think? Let me know, because I might try it again....
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Topping the hot 100 debuts for the week (out of 7) are two of the best ever ballads about love gone wrong. The high debut at 72 is Barry Manilow's title track from the lp This One's For You (newbies- this is NOT a Bud commercial); and at 79, the Bee Gees with Love So Right. Also debuting this week, another of those songs I have vivid recollections of watching done on the old Midnight Special- Jeans On by David Dundas. Or should I say, Lord David Dundas. You see, David was the son of the 3rd Marquess of Zetland, Lawrence Dundas. In trying to find out what a Marquess of Zetland was, I learned that the 3rd Marquess was a good tennis player from the 40's, and that his niece was once married to (and not at the same time) both the manager for the Grateful Dead and to Roger Waters of Pink Floyd. And Zetland is an archaic spelling of Shetland, which (in addition to being where Shetland ponies come from) is a group of islands freezing their tushies off in the cold waters north of Scotland. So I figure Marquess of Zetland is probably a step or two above mayor of Zulu, Indiana. Anyway, happy 35th to those songs! and here come the rest of our birthday children for today:
Gypsies, Tramps, And Thieves turns 40 today, as does I'd Love To Change The World by Ten Years After.
Johnny Rivers' Poor Side Of Town and the Byrds' Mr. Spaceman turn 45 today.
Turning 50 are the Dovells' Bristol Stomp and the Marvellettes Please Mr. Postman.
And finally, the 5 Satins' version of In The Still Of The Night turns 55. Blow out the candles...
Our big dropper for today is Another Rainy Day In NYC, tumbling 18 to #87. The big climbers are 3, and two of them are in the top forty! I can tell you, though, that the third is the Commodores' Just To Be Close To You, climbing 17 to #74.
This week we are in the 2s of our look at #1s of other years, and in 1992 we hit a top dog that at least I know- End Of The Road by Boyz II Men. In 1982 this week the #1 was Steve Miller's Abracadabra; in 1972, the Hollies' Long Cool Woman. In 1962 the greatest song of all time was #1- the Four Seasons and Sherry. When Bob Gaudio first wrote this (he says it took him 15 minutes- sure glad Geico wasn't around back then to distract him!), it was Jackie Baby in honor of first lady Jackie Kennedy; after a few other permutations, Gaudio finally changed it to Sherry after his BFF's daughter. Finally in 1952 we have another repeat featuree- Vera Lynn's Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart.
Now yet again our Where Are They Now feature becomes problematic. 2 weeks ago we featured the song Hard Work; last week it was sweet Baby James with Shower The People- Hard Work moving up to 48. (Rookies- 49 is the spot from which I do the WATN segment) This week, Shower stalls at 49- with Hard Work still at 48! So rather than look all over for a rationale for another candidate (or spend another week of making fun of Taylor's connection to the various liberal zombie groups) I'm going to dip into the Valley Of The Dolls Post from earlier this week and bring you the man singing Live With Me- Tony Scotti.
Tony was actually an actor by trade when he did that song on Valley, though he didn't do a whole lot- just that movie and some TV episodes. He also had his hand in pop music, though not very successfully- he had 2 songs that grazed the charts solo and one with his band, Heaven Bound. HB included Eddie Medora who played guitar for the Sunrays. Who are the Sunrays? A 60s surf band who did a song I never should have burned called Andrea. If you want to experience the genius of Brian Wilson, just see what happens when people who don't know how to put background harmonies together try it! Anyway, that kinda went belly up as well for Tony, so he went into music production at MGM. Then he and his brother Ben went into the music distribution business, and a few years after that they tried their hands at producing films. The last of these was a low budget flick called Resurrected in the early 90s featuring Chris Sarandon. This seems to be where our trail of Mr. Scotti ends; but his Heaven Bound work is on youtube, including this number that I sampled last night, featuring the vocals of one Ann Marshall, who apparently played Angela Brown on My Favorite Martian:
We only had 2 entrants into the top 40 this week. At 40, up five, is Eric Carmen and Sunrise. At 38, one of our trio of big movers at 17 notches up, is the other debut- Beth/Detroit Rock City by Kiss. and the third of the 17 notch movers debuted last week, I Only Wanna Be With You by the Bay City Rollers, up this week to 23. While we're in this area, I'll mention a few odds and ends. First, an almost but not quite for Say That You Love Me by Fleetwood Mac, peaking this week at #12. Second, we have co-rulers from the grandpa chair this week- both Moonlight Feels Right (#58) and Love Is Alive (#60) are in their 23rd week on the chart. And third, our #1 album, in the midst of its last- and longest- run at the top is Frampton Comes Alive! I was just curious to see what topped the UK album chart this week, and the answer is a UK-only greatest hits collection from the Beach Boys called 20 Golden Greats. Pretty standard fare, with the odd pieces being a cover of Then He Kissed Me (obviously re-titled Then I Kissed Her) and a song called Break Away, written by Brian and his father Murray, which did much better in Jolly Ol' (#6) than here in the USA (#63). It was their last single of the seventies and people over here were too into listening to the critics' mealy-mouthed panning of the Boys to give it a chance. Here, let's see what we think:
Score another one for the British!
Three songs enter the top ten this week, three fall out. Dropping out are: You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine, 8 to 21; Don't Go Breaking My Heart, from 7 to 17; and Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel, from 10 to 20.
So, since our six degrees victim is our #1 song this week, let's do things a little different: we'll go backwards rather than forwards, and intersperse it into the top ten! Step Number one are the groups Survivor (Eye Of the Tiger) and the Ides Of March (Vehicle). These groups had one thing in common- leader and vocalist (for the Ides) Jim Peterik.
Climbing one spot to 10 this week is Dr. Hook with the less-than-subtle A Little Bit More. At #9, up 5 spots, is Chicago with If You Leave Me Now. At 8, flapping up from #18 last week, is Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots with Disco Duck.
Step 2- Jim Peterik was the writer of .38 Special's first big national hit, Hold On Loosely.
Climbing 2 spots to #7 is Cliff Richard's Devil Woman (hi, Lorraine!). The Bee Gees drop from 2 to 6 with You Should Be Dancing.
Step 3- It was .38 Special that gave southern rockers Molly Hatchet their first break by pimping them to their agent, who set them on the path to stardom.
Walter Murphy climbs one notch to #5 with A Fifth Of Beethoven; England Dan and John Ford Coley stall at 4 with I'd Really Love To See You Tonight.
Step 2- among the later members of Molly Hatchet was a guitarist named Bryan Bassett.
Number three this week, up two spots, is Boz Skaggs and Lowdown. Edging one step closer at #2 is KC and The Sunshine Band with Shake Your Booty. And that means that our number one song this week, for a second week, is...
Well, I thought that went well. What do you think? Let me know, because I might try it again....
Thursday, September 15, 2011
AttackWatch, day 2
Never one to let a sleeping dog lie, and since AttackWatch has yet to reply to my reporting of Scrappy, I decided to strike again. I sent them that picture of the raccoon Scrappy treed:
Along with the following message:
To clear up what I told you yesterday: "Raccoon was not a racist codeword. there really is a raccoon that my dog treed. Attaching picture of the anti-Obama mammal. Sorry picture isn't very good quality, but neither is my camera. Perhaps you could send me a better one- nothing fancy, just something with an autofocus and better than a lousy 2X zoom. Then I could contribute more efficiently, eh?
Today I told everyone at work the story (naturally), and so, just like Bob, we were all joking about men in black coming to take me away, hah hah. Then, a change in city water pressure set off fire alarms all over our industrial park. I told my supervisor that this was the g-men coming to get me. A buddy said that when the sniper gets me, my last instructions would be to "not let them get Scrappy", and suggested witness protection and "changing his breed". We watched the water tower for gunflashes, but all was soon well and I live on to inflict more pain on AttackWatch.
Later, we were speculating on their possible responses. I said I'll probably get a "thank you for joining the fight " form letter. Laurie said, "But if they don't bother to read their reports, that kinda defeats their purpose." To which I replied, "That's what I'm all about, defeating their purpose!" Because after all, a fool can hardly change unless he knows he's a fool.
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| How about some hope and change for me, you dick! |
To clear up what I told you yesterday: "Raccoon was not a racist codeword. there really is a raccoon that my dog treed. Attaching picture of the anti-Obama mammal. Sorry picture isn't very good quality, but neither is my camera. Perhaps you could send me a better one- nothing fancy, just something with an autofocus and better than a lousy 2X zoom. Then I could contribute more efficiently, eh?
Today I told everyone at work the story (naturally), and so, just like Bob, we were all joking about men in black coming to take me away, hah hah. Then, a change in city water pressure set off fire alarms all over our industrial park. I told my supervisor that this was the g-men coming to get me. A buddy said that when the sniper gets me, my last instructions would be to "not let them get Scrappy", and suggested witness protection and "changing his breed". We watched the water tower for gunflashes, but all was soon well and I live on to inflict more pain on AttackWatch.
Later, we were speculating on their possible responses. I said I'll probably get a "thank you for joining the fight " form letter. Laurie said, "But if they don't bother to read their reports, that kinda defeats their purpose." To which I replied, "That's what I'm all about, defeating their purpose!" Because after all, a fool can hardly change unless he knows he's a fool.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Valley of the dolls
A few things on the agenda tonight. First off, I was informed through the Pat Miller show of a website, AttackWatch.com, which collects alleged smears against the administration of Prez Obama so that they can "send you information" to fight said smears. Now, you KNOW that this falls into the category "things you should never let Chris find out about". Needless to say, I decided to join in order to stamp out the horrible disrespect that POTUS gets around here. My first report to them went like this:
"My dog called President Obama a dick. I scolded him but he said he heard it from a raccoon he treed a couple of days ago. I cannot confirm that raccoons are against the President,however he is solidly supported by the neighborhood squirrels."
They even give you a button with which to send attachments. Therefore I sent them a picture of Scrappy.
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Next, The Great Postcard Campaign rolls on, and I got my card from "Average Girl" Tracy. She said she looked for a card with a picture of bottle caps, but had to settle for a mural of the Native People of Chemainus, with whom I am unfamiliar and will have to look up. It is a very cool mural, though, and will go well with the Southwestern landscape our fearless leader sent last month.
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Now, on to the thing I wanted to bloviate about. Did you, when you were real little, have certain topics come up among the adults around you, that colored your future perception of them? I'm talking about things that made the "unapproved " or "nasty" list. Things that gave you the creeps at a mention- like "cancer" or "poison". Or rock bands that you weren't to listen to- like Black Sabbath, the Stones, or even (to a certain extent) Steppenwolf (doubtless due to the chorus of The Pusher on their first lp.) Obviously these are the things on my list, things that still give me that vague sense of unease to this days (although it's hard to be intimidated by Sabbath now that every marching band in America play Iron Man or Paranoid).
One of those things on my list is a movie called Valley Of The Dolls. You old timers (no hands, you know who you are) remember this flick. It was the cutting edge of what was permissible back then, an R flick that my mom wouldn't let my sister go see. Most of the hullaballoo was it's treatment of drug abuse, specifically "dolls" (barbituates, probably shortened from Barbie Dolls), along with the teenyest bit of nudity and sex. By today's standards, it probably would be hard pressed to be called "quaint". But for a preschooler who heard snatches of conversation, it contained within its forbidden boundaries a near-apocalyptic world of the illicit that was sure to corrupt anyone who watched.
It was only a few years ago I found the Dionne Warwick single of the theme song and burned it.
Gotta get off, gonna get
Have to get off from this ride
Gotta get hold, gonna get
Need to get hold of my pride
When did I get, where did I
How was I caught in this game
When will I know, where will I
How will I think of my name
When did I stop feeling sure, feeling safe
And start wondering why, wondering why
Is this a dream, am I here, where are you
What's in back of the sky, why do we cry
I looked up the plot on Wiki, and learned that it was the story of three women climbing the ladder to fame, or riding along, only to be brought down by the pressures, the temptations, and, oh yes, the dolls.
Yesterday, home with a messed up back, I got to watch the movie for the first time. A quick set-up here: early last week, I had been musing to myself that, in a sort-of-bucket list way, I needed to see this film, once and for all. And yesterday, I found it on the on-demand free movies- three days before it ended its run. I knew I couldn't pass up those kind of omens.
What I saw was a fascinating movie, for all it lacked. It focused on Ann (Barbara Perkins), a young small-town-going -to-the-big-city-heroine; Neely (Patty Duke), a trying-to-be- rising star; and Jennifer (Sharon Tate), a dancer hitched by love to a singer named Tony who didn't know he was about to be felled by Huntington's Chorea. Ann seemed to stumble into good fortune and her share of love and fame; Neely started out a sympathetic figure but slowly the true Neely came out- having worked hard for her fame, she was willing to take what she wanted and steamroll anyone who stood in her way, including her new husband Mel (Martin Milner, 1- Adam-12!). Jennifer had fame forced on her when, to keep her husband in the asylum he had to be put in, she became a French art-film actress (and you know what that means). You could tell there were things in the book that didn't make the cut; for example, you never do see how Jennifer actually meets up with the others, and other than Neely, you never see how it is that they all ended up using dolls. For me, the movie had three great moments. The first is when everyone first meets Tony and Jennifer, during his stage show at this club where he sings a haunting song called Live With Me to Jennifer. The second comes when Neely is coming out of that same sanitarium Tony was in (trying to dry out) and tells the story of singing that song at a "dance night" and having Tony, in wheelchair, recover just long enough to do a duet with her; and third, when Jennifer's suicide (OD on dolls after topping off a hateful mother and a vegetative husband with breast cancer) and Neely's stealing of her man (who was also Neely's agent for her "comeback") drove Ann to attempt suicide by dolls and drowning. She realizes, once in the water, she hasn't taken enough dolls to accomplish her plan. She comes back to her room, weighs her choices, and throws the pills against the wall and goes home.
The movie ends with her guy coming back to small town USA to finally propose to her (now that he was done with Neely treating him like crap). But Ann tells him no, and walks off down a winter trail, breathing deep the clean air of freedom for the first time since she left home.
Gotta get off, gonna get
Off of this merry-go-round
Gotta get off, gonna get
Need to get on where I'm bound
When did I get, where did I
Why am I lost as a lamb
When will I know, where will I
How will I learn who I am?
So it wasn't all it was billed as, and it was more in some respects. But the thing here, for me, is that this feels like some kind of full-circle to me; like by watching this movie I have started the countdown on some mysterious clock set long ago. It makes me sad and apprehensive in ways I cannot hope to explain. You would think I'd have a happy, pulled the fangs out of the dragon's mouth feeling. And in a way I do. But in another way I feel like .... God, how to put it... like I've put myself onto the road to some darker fate. If you'll endulge me my love of Norse mythology, it feels like someone just put the sprig of mistletoe into the hands of blind Hodur.
And there is the whole Sharon Tate thing here, too. Here's that song, with a tribute montage to her.
"My dog called President Obama a dick. I scolded him but he said he heard it from a raccoon he treed a couple of days ago. I cannot confirm that raccoons are against the President,however he is solidly supported by the neighborhood squirrels."
They even give you a button with which to send attachments. Therefore I sent them a picture of Scrappy.
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Next, The Great Postcard Campaign rolls on, and I got my card from "Average Girl" Tracy. She said she looked for a card with a picture of bottle caps, but had to settle for a mural of the Native People of Chemainus, with whom I am unfamiliar and will have to look up. It is a very cool mural, though, and will go well with the Southwestern landscape our fearless leader sent last month.
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Now, on to the thing I wanted to bloviate about. Did you, when you were real little, have certain topics come up among the adults around you, that colored your future perception of them? I'm talking about things that made the "unapproved " or "nasty" list. Things that gave you the creeps at a mention- like "cancer" or "poison". Or rock bands that you weren't to listen to- like Black Sabbath, the Stones, or even (to a certain extent) Steppenwolf (doubtless due to the chorus of The Pusher on their first lp.) Obviously these are the things on my list, things that still give me that vague sense of unease to this days (although it's hard to be intimidated by Sabbath now that every marching band in America play Iron Man or Paranoid).
One of those things on my list is a movie called Valley Of The Dolls. You old timers (no hands, you know who you are) remember this flick. It was the cutting edge of what was permissible back then, an R flick that my mom wouldn't let my sister go see. Most of the hullaballoo was it's treatment of drug abuse, specifically "dolls" (barbituates, probably shortened from Barbie Dolls), along with the teenyest bit of nudity and sex. By today's standards, it probably would be hard pressed to be called "quaint". But for a preschooler who heard snatches of conversation, it contained within its forbidden boundaries a near-apocalyptic world of the illicit that was sure to corrupt anyone who watched.
It was only a few years ago I found the Dionne Warwick single of the theme song and burned it.
Gotta get off, gonna get
Have to get off from this ride
Gotta get hold, gonna get
Need to get hold of my pride
When did I get, where did I
How was I caught in this game
When will I know, where will I
How will I think of my name
When did I stop feeling sure, feeling safe
And start wondering why, wondering why
Is this a dream, am I here, where are you
What's in back of the sky, why do we cry
I looked up the plot on Wiki, and learned that it was the story of three women climbing the ladder to fame, or riding along, only to be brought down by the pressures, the temptations, and, oh yes, the dolls.
Yesterday, home with a messed up back, I got to watch the movie for the first time. A quick set-up here: early last week, I had been musing to myself that, in a sort-of-bucket list way, I needed to see this film, once and for all. And yesterday, I found it on the on-demand free movies- three days before it ended its run. I knew I couldn't pass up those kind of omens.
What I saw was a fascinating movie, for all it lacked. It focused on Ann (Barbara Perkins), a young small-town-going -to-the-big-city-heroine; Neely (Patty Duke), a trying-to-be- rising star; and Jennifer (Sharon Tate), a dancer hitched by love to a singer named Tony who didn't know he was about to be felled by Huntington's Chorea. Ann seemed to stumble into good fortune and her share of love and fame; Neely started out a sympathetic figure but slowly the true Neely came out- having worked hard for her fame, she was willing to take what she wanted and steamroll anyone who stood in her way, including her new husband Mel (Martin Milner, 1- Adam-12!). Jennifer had fame forced on her when, to keep her husband in the asylum he had to be put in, she became a French art-film actress (and you know what that means). You could tell there were things in the book that didn't make the cut; for example, you never do see how Jennifer actually meets up with the others, and other than Neely, you never see how it is that they all ended up using dolls. For me, the movie had three great moments. The first is when everyone first meets Tony and Jennifer, during his stage show at this club where he sings a haunting song called Live With Me to Jennifer. The second comes when Neely is coming out of that same sanitarium Tony was in (trying to dry out) and tells the story of singing that song at a "dance night" and having Tony, in wheelchair, recover just long enough to do a duet with her; and third, when Jennifer's suicide (OD on dolls after topping off a hateful mother and a vegetative husband with breast cancer) and Neely's stealing of her man (who was also Neely's agent for her "comeback") drove Ann to attempt suicide by dolls and drowning. She realizes, once in the water, she hasn't taken enough dolls to accomplish her plan. She comes back to her room, weighs her choices, and throws the pills against the wall and goes home.
The movie ends with her guy coming back to small town USA to finally propose to her (now that he was done with Neely treating him like crap). But Ann tells him no, and walks off down a winter trail, breathing deep the clean air of freedom for the first time since she left home.
Gotta get off, gonna get
Off of this merry-go-round
Gotta get off, gonna get
Need to get on where I'm bound
When did I get, where did I
Why am I lost as a lamb
When will I know, where will I
How will I learn who I am?
So it wasn't all it was billed as, and it was more in some respects. But the thing here, for me, is that this feels like some kind of full-circle to me; like by watching this movie I have started the countdown on some mysterious clock set long ago. It makes me sad and apprehensive in ways I cannot hope to explain. You would think I'd have a happy, pulled the fangs out of the dragon's mouth feeling. And in a way I do. But in another way I feel like .... God, how to put it... like I've put myself onto the road to some darker fate. If you'll endulge me my love of Norse mythology, it feels like someone just put the sprig of mistletoe into the hands of blind Hodur.
And there is the whole Sharon Tate thing here, too. Here's that song, with a tribute montage to her.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
NHFFL week 1
The first week of NHFFL play is over, and the enthusiasm of draft day for old powers has been dampened, while the enthusiasm of new clubs have been rewarded. The Greenwoods and Aguas win for the first time since 2001, and the Flying Porkchops win their first ever game.
The Greenwoods come away with the years first #1 ranking after a 44-12 win over the defending champ KCAs. The story wasn't so much the Elves' scoring but the lack thereof by the champs.Steven Jackson scored their lone TD early and then got hurt, and reportedly will be out next week as well. Ray Rice's 2 scores and Matt Stafford's big day were more than enough for the win.
Fellow Purple division squad and newbie/oldie Aguas "picked up where they left off" as my son said, rolling up a big lead and holding on to a 51-38 win over the Beagles. Atlanta's D (which did Atlanta little good) gave the Aguas 14 pts, and 2 TDs by Calvin Johnson did the rest.
The Porkchops took the third spot, top in the Gold division, with a 37-21 win over the Clock BBQs. A similar story to the last one; only this time it was the Philly D getting 15. The CBBQs had to overcome the loss of top QB Peyton Manning with 6 from "new" starter Mark Sanchez.
The fourth ranked team is the Rangers, who spent all afternoon going back and forth against the Angels. When the smoke cleared Sunday night, the score was 56-all, but the Rangers still had one player- Tom Brady. Brady's 15 gave them a 71-56 win. Mike Tolbert's 3 scores and the long TD by Matt Forte didn't hurt either. The Angels collected 5 TDs two each by LeShon McCoy and Steve Smith, but were hurt by the incompetence of the Pittsburgh D (1 pt).
The B2s take fifth with a come-from-behind 44-39 win over the State Ducks.That damnable 100+ TD catch by Wes Welker Monday night was the coup de grace, and 14 by the Bears D kept them in it to get there.
The Elks were the lowest ranked of the winners, hanging on for a 25-22 win over Buzz. Buzz was down 25-4 going into Sunday night, but rallied on the foot of Sea-Bass, who tied the league record Monday night with a 63 yd field goal. The Elks got half their points on Thursday night, thanks to Drew Brees and the GB D.
You'll see next my attempt to put the standings up without HTMLing myself insane. This is actually a google doc spreadsheet, but it's sure better than playing with an HTML template every week- especially when I can't get to last years' or find a new one. Next week, it's the Beagles up against #1 Greenwoods; the KCAs trying to find away to score points against the Rangers; the Angels play the #2 Aguas; the Clock BBQs vs the B2s; the Ducks battle Buzz; and the Elks play #3 Porkchops.
The Greenwoods come away with the years first #1 ranking after a 44-12 win over the defending champ KCAs. The story wasn't so much the Elves' scoring but the lack thereof by the champs.Steven Jackson scored their lone TD early and then got hurt, and reportedly will be out next week as well. Ray Rice's 2 scores and Matt Stafford's big day were more than enough for the win.
Fellow Purple division squad and newbie/oldie Aguas "picked up where they left off" as my son said, rolling up a big lead and holding on to a 51-38 win over the Beagles. Atlanta's D (which did Atlanta little good) gave the Aguas 14 pts, and 2 TDs by Calvin Johnson did the rest.
The Porkchops took the third spot, top in the Gold division, with a 37-21 win over the Clock BBQs. A similar story to the last one; only this time it was the Philly D getting 15. The CBBQs had to overcome the loss of top QB Peyton Manning with 6 from "new" starter Mark Sanchez.
The fourth ranked team is the Rangers, who spent all afternoon going back and forth against the Angels. When the smoke cleared Sunday night, the score was 56-all, but the Rangers still had one player- Tom Brady. Brady's 15 gave them a 71-56 win. Mike Tolbert's 3 scores and the long TD by Matt Forte didn't hurt either. The Angels collected 5 TDs two each by LeShon McCoy and Steve Smith, but were hurt by the incompetence of the Pittsburgh D (1 pt).
The B2s take fifth with a come-from-behind 44-39 win over the State Ducks.That damnable 100+ TD catch by Wes Welker Monday night was the coup de grace, and 14 by the Bears D kept them in it to get there.
The Elks were the lowest ranked of the winners, hanging on for a 25-22 win over Buzz. Buzz was down 25-4 going into Sunday night, but rallied on the foot of Sea-Bass, who tied the league record Monday night with a 63 yd field goal. The Elks got half their points on Thursday night, thanks to Drew Brees and the GB D.
You'll see next my attempt to put the standings up without HTMLing myself insane. This is actually a google doc spreadsheet, but it's sure better than playing with an HTML template every week- especially when I can't get to last years' or find a new one. Next week, it's the Beagles up against #1 Greenwoods; the KCAs trying to find away to score points against the Rangers; the Angels play the #2 Aguas; the Clock BBQs vs the B2s; the Ducks battle Buzz; and the Elks play #3 Porkchops.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
The Day
It wasn't my intention to write specifically about this day. Or write at all today. I've been reading the blogs I follow, and hearing their stories. I couldn't comment, other than one, hushed, "Wow." What could I add to the recollections- some at home, some at work. Some feeling like the last to know, others telling loved ones even as the disaster unfolded.
Do I have memories? Of course. At first all I knew was "a plane hit the world trade center." Not even what kind of plane, so I assumed here's some dumbass in a private plane that couldn't navigate around the biggest obstacle he'd ever seen. Then the details got filled in. Since patio cushions are so much more important than anything else in life, we had to finish out the day, and I remember intensely not wanting to be there, and I remember my apocalyptic imagination coming out. I remember heading for church afterwards, because I KNEW we'd all be there. I remember it taking forever to get through town because gas had magically went up 60 cents and lines at every station were a half-mile down the street.
Most of all, I remember the next day, and the quietness that told you you never really noticed the noises of air traffic until they weren't there.
And now, ten years have passed, and like the Alamo everyone goes around saying, "never forget."
What is it we're never forgetting?
Is it the horrible fascination of these remembrances, as if spectators at a traffic accident?
Is it an enemy we had nothing against, jealous of what we had, and believing the act was blessed by their god of butchers?
Is it the dead? Perhaps, for the loved ones who lost them.
Is it the burst of faith in God, calling out to Him in the midst of tragedy? That was the first thing that most people forgot.
Is it the heroes? Yes, and it should be. Throwing thoughts of safety aside to help others, which does them infinitely more honor than that accrued by any jackass who wants to kill people he doesn't know in the name of a god that warrants no praise whatsoever.
But the most important thing is the thing that we take from any disaster, any heartache, any loss. And that is, that as Americans, as free people, as human beings, we get back up from them.
We get back up.
And whenever we face a 9-11 in our lives, that is what to never forget. We get back up.
That's right, Abdul. It doesn't matter who you kill. It doesn't matter how many "virgins" you earn, or how many understand the "point " you're trying to make. You don't matter, Achmed.
You don't matter.
A comic book character once said, "We have always defied death just by living, truly living, in death's shadow." We get back up.
Never forget that, Rashid. And never forget, America.
Do I have memories? Of course. At first all I knew was "a plane hit the world trade center." Not even what kind of plane, so I assumed here's some dumbass in a private plane that couldn't navigate around the biggest obstacle he'd ever seen. Then the details got filled in. Since patio cushions are so much more important than anything else in life, we had to finish out the day, and I remember intensely not wanting to be there, and I remember my apocalyptic imagination coming out. I remember heading for church afterwards, because I KNEW we'd all be there. I remember it taking forever to get through town because gas had magically went up 60 cents and lines at every station were a half-mile down the street.
Most of all, I remember the next day, and the quietness that told you you never really noticed the noises of air traffic until they weren't there.
And now, ten years have passed, and like the Alamo everyone goes around saying, "never forget."
What is it we're never forgetting?
Is it the horrible fascination of these remembrances, as if spectators at a traffic accident?
Is it an enemy we had nothing against, jealous of what we had, and believing the act was blessed by their god of butchers?
Is it the dead? Perhaps, for the loved ones who lost them.
Is it the burst of faith in God, calling out to Him in the midst of tragedy? That was the first thing that most people forgot.
Is it the heroes? Yes, and it should be. Throwing thoughts of safety aside to help others, which does them infinitely more honor than that accrued by any jackass who wants to kill people he doesn't know in the name of a god that warrants no praise whatsoever.
But the most important thing is the thing that we take from any disaster, any heartache, any loss. And that is, that as Americans, as free people, as human beings, we get back up from them.
We get back up.
And whenever we face a 9-11 in our lives, that is what to never forget. We get back up.
That's right, Abdul. It doesn't matter who you kill. It doesn't matter how many "virgins" you earn, or how many understand the "point " you're trying to make. You don't matter, Achmed.
You don't matter.
A comic book character once said, "We have always defied death just by living, truly living, in death's shadow." We get back up.
Never forget that, Rashid. And never forget, America.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Better late... the FCS stuff
Games are already underway this week, and here I am just now talking about last week! So let's look at what happened. Two teams in the whole FCS won a big boy game last week- unranked (by me) Sacramento State, who tipped Oregon State (currently getting whupped by Wisconsin) 29-28 OT; and Richmond beat Duke 23-21- the third straight such win by the Spiders. Two others came close- Eastern Washington, who outgained Washington 2 to 1 but lost 30-27; and Northern Iowa, who gave up a TD with 40 seconds left to lose to Iowa State 20-19. Everyone else either beat FCS or lower opposition or got killed by a big boy, exception being #19 Southern Illinois smacking #18 SE Missouri State 38-10. That said, let's look at this week's rankings and schedule.
Sacramento State gets part of a tie for 25 with The Citadel, who dealt Jacksonville (last week's 25) a devastating 31-9 loss. SacSt plays KC's old friends from Southern Utah, while the Citadel goes against Furman. Chattanooga holds at 24 after their 40-7 loss to Nebraska, and they have a big game against this week's #5, Jacksonville State. Bethune-Cookman blew out an obviously incompetent Prairie View A&M team 62-14 on national TV Labor day and stay at 23, and face another big matchup with #19 South Carolina State, who'll be toasting IU in two weeks. Western Carolina slips a spot to 22 after a 63-21 loss to Georgia Tech, and get cupcake Mars Hill this week.I moved SE MO St to 21, down 3, and they get a week off.
20 and holding is North Dakota St., who whipped Lafayette 42-6 last week and face another probably easy game against St. Francis PA this week. 18 (I already mentioned #19 twice! Pay attention!) is Stony Brook, who also did good against their big boy, losing in OT to UTEP 31-24. Delaware slides 2 to 17 after a disappointing 40-17 loss to Navy, but get a cupcake this week with West Chester. Southern Illinois moves up to 16, and they've got their big boy game at Ole Miss today.
15 is Stephen F. Austin, who won a cupcake against McMurray 82-6 and will be going up against #13 Northern Iowa today. UNI moved up one after their close call. 14 is James Madison, who slips to a spot I'm more comfortable with after a 42-10 loss to North Carolina, and draw Central Connecticut St. today . 12 remains in the hands of Liberty, who did alright in a 43-21 loss to NC State and face Robert Morris today. 11 belongs to New Hampshire, who slip out of the top ten after a lackluster 58-22 loss to a Toledo team that might just be a little better than they seem, only 6 down to Ohio State at the half today. They get Lehigh today, who the coaches rank but I have not thus far; as I type, UNH leads 24-20 at the half.
Top ten starts off with those Richmond Spiders, who won their big boy game and now face Wagner. #9 goes to Villanova, who I was somewhat surprised to see lose to Temple that bad (42-7). They get a CAA matchup against Towson today. Montana holds at 8 with a 42-16 loss to Tennessee and Cal Poly (who waits just outside the countdown) awaiting. In state rival Montana State leapfrogs them to 7 after a better than expected 27-10 loss to PAC-12 rookie Utah. they get UC Davis tonight in what is a de facto conference game. My William AND Mary Tribe let me down against Virginia 40-3 and sag to 6th. They try to do better against VMI this week.
#5 Jacksonville State got a big 24-23 scare from Tennessee-Martin last week, and as I said get #24 Chattanooga this week. I dropped Appalachian State to 4 from #1 after a humiliating 66-13 performance against big boy VA Tech; they get North Carolina A&T today. 3 is Eastern Washington; the defending champs play South Dakota today. Wofford moves into the #2 spot after a surprisingly tough 35-28 comeback win over Presbyterian, and get their big boy game tonight against Clemson. And this week's #1 is Georgia Southern, who won their opener 31-17 over Samford and get a cupcake against Tusculum.
One more thing I noticed as I was getting my scores around for today was that traditional FCS doormat Campbell was playing someone called The Apprentice School. TAS is a shipbuilders school without a degree program (degrees conferred through another local university) run by the Norfolk VA shipyards, and they play in NCAA DIII despite not being an NCAA member. Nor much competition against an FCS level team; Campbell leads 48-0 with 3 minutes and change to go in the first half.
Sacramento State gets part of a tie for 25 with The Citadel, who dealt Jacksonville (last week's 25) a devastating 31-9 loss. SacSt plays KC's old friends from Southern Utah, while the Citadel goes against Furman. Chattanooga holds at 24 after their 40-7 loss to Nebraska, and they have a big game against this week's #5, Jacksonville State. Bethune-Cookman blew out an obviously incompetent Prairie View A&M team 62-14 on national TV Labor day and stay at 23, and face another big matchup with #19 South Carolina State, who'll be toasting IU in two weeks. Western Carolina slips a spot to 22 after a 63-21 loss to Georgia Tech, and get cupcake Mars Hill this week.I moved SE MO St to 21, down 3, and they get a week off.
20 and holding is North Dakota St., who whipped Lafayette 42-6 last week and face another probably easy game against St. Francis PA this week. 18 (I already mentioned #19 twice! Pay attention!) is Stony Brook, who also did good against their big boy, losing in OT to UTEP 31-24. Delaware slides 2 to 17 after a disappointing 40-17 loss to Navy, but get a cupcake this week with West Chester. Southern Illinois moves up to 16, and they've got their big boy game at Ole Miss today.
15 is Stephen F. Austin, who won a cupcake against McMurray 82-6 and will be going up against #13 Northern Iowa today. UNI moved up one after their close call. 14 is James Madison, who slips to a spot I'm more comfortable with after a 42-10 loss to North Carolina, and draw Central Connecticut St. today . 12 remains in the hands of Liberty, who did alright in a 43-21 loss to NC State and face Robert Morris today. 11 belongs to New Hampshire, who slip out of the top ten after a lackluster 58-22 loss to a Toledo team that might just be a little better than they seem, only 6 down to Ohio State at the half today. They get Lehigh today, who the coaches rank but I have not thus far; as I type, UNH leads 24-20 at the half.
Top ten starts off with those Richmond Spiders, who won their big boy game and now face Wagner. #9 goes to Villanova, who I was somewhat surprised to see lose to Temple that bad (42-7). They get a CAA matchup against Towson today. Montana holds at 8 with a 42-16 loss to Tennessee and Cal Poly (who waits just outside the countdown) awaiting. In state rival Montana State leapfrogs them to 7 after a better than expected 27-10 loss to PAC-12 rookie Utah. they get UC Davis tonight in what is a de facto conference game. My William AND Mary Tribe let me down against Virginia 40-3 and sag to 6th. They try to do better against VMI this week.
#5 Jacksonville State got a big 24-23 scare from Tennessee-Martin last week, and as I said get #24 Chattanooga this week. I dropped Appalachian State to 4 from #1 after a humiliating 66-13 performance against big boy VA Tech; they get North Carolina A&T today. 3 is Eastern Washington; the defending champs play South Dakota today. Wofford moves into the #2 spot after a surprisingly tough 35-28 comeback win over Presbyterian, and get their big boy game tonight against Clemson. And this week's #1 is Georgia Southern, who won their opener 31-17 over Samford and get a cupcake against Tusculum.
One more thing I noticed as I was getting my scores around for today was that traditional FCS doormat Campbell was playing someone called The Apprentice School. TAS is a shipbuilders school without a degree program (degrees conferred through another local university) run by the Norfolk VA shipyards, and they play in NCAA DIII despite not being an NCAA member. Nor much competition against an FCS level team; Campbell leads 48-0 with 3 minutes and change to go in the first half.
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