The Victors: Halftime
Northwestern 24-14 Michigan (№ 12)

I love Denard "Shoelace" Robinson; I love the any-bloody-thing-can-&-probably-will-happen excitement he brings to the game, I love his infectious enthusiasm. I love that he is a Michigan man, through & through, but all that aside it must be said that he throws the ugliest interceptions in college football. The three he threw in the first half against the plucky Wildcats were exemplars. Not a one of those throws had a snowball's chance in Perdition of reaching a valiant Wolverine receiver. What I love about Shoelace is that everything he does is spectacular: when he succeeds, he succeeds spectacularly; when he fails, he fails just as spectacularly. However, given the spectacular nature of Shoelace's first half failures, being down ten points really isn't so bad. Let us hope the second half's spectacular successes outweigh the first half's spectacular failures.

Go Blue!

I've not commented on last week's 58-0 nothing triumph over the luckless Golden Gophers because I didn't see a lick of the game. I was in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the United States Air Force Academy (which reminds me that I owe you a "Master Debating" post).

Project MERCATOR
The kibosh was put on my Saturday night plans at approximately 6:30 P.M., with regrets but no apology (explanation). Not cool, Jojo, not cool. This augurs ill for a still nascent friendship. (She is most definitely in the "friend zone"—solidly in Project MERCATOR territory—, not the more dangerous, more stimulating realm of Project PANDORA.)

I learned last night that The Loose Ties were playing a show that very evening, but fortunately I learned of the verboten location—a Kettering U. (which I will always think of as G.M.I.) frat. house—before I started to get geared up. Easy come, easy go.

The Rebel Black Dot Songs of the Day
Fountains of Wayne, "'92 Subaru" from Traffic and Weather (T.L.A.M.)

Freitag, 7 Oktober
Fountains of Wayne, "Survival Car" from Fountains of Wayne (T.L.A.M.)