I hope you all have a grand Leap Day. Mine was largely squandered, but I feel the difference was in some measure made up by today's manifold glories.

Project OSPREY
Georgetown 70-68 Marquette (OT) - Marquette had every opportunity in the world to win this game, but every time they had a chance to put the Hoyas away they chose that exact moment to begin a minutes-long scoring drought. And if you let a team as talented as Georgetown stick around, they'll make good the comeback. Drat and double drat! Killer instinct, kids, its importance in sports can scarcely be overstated.

Minnesota 71-57 Ohio State - The hated Buckeyes are now a perfect 0-5* in games I have watched and their hopes of making the N.C.A.A. tournament are fading fast. Hey, neat, I'm a bad luck charm! The following quotation, ladies and gentlemen, from the fertile mind of the late Eric Hoffer, explains succinctly the entire State of Ohio: "Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."

*Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana again, and now Minnesota. Bwa ha ha ha ha!

Also, you can tell that I've been watching a lot of, mayhap too much, college basketball since The Barn's raised floor no longer strikes me as odd. 'Tis a lovely madness.

The Rebel Black Dot Songs of the Day
Spike Jones & His City Slickers, "Cocktails for Two" from The Spike Jones Anthology (T.L.A.M.)

Freitag, 29 Februar
Real Can of Yams, "Let's Get Drunk and Clean the Room" (live) performed and recorded on 21 Juni 2002 (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: That does it for the live recordings of "Let's Get Drunk and Clean the Room." Now brace yourselves for the album version! (Not tomorrow, but, you know, soon... ish.)

Coming Attractions
A three-part epic in "The Explorers Club" and the second round of America's favorite obscure and obtuse quiz sensation, Who Used To Own It?