Draft to remember

Wow. Four LSU players in the first round. That's stuff of Miami lore. We are going to miss them. IMHO, LaRon will be the hardest to replace. While he made his share of stuffs, I think his greatest contribution was keeping a 3-5 yard gain from turning into a 15-20 yard gain.

One reason I got HBO was so that I could see Bill Maher again. I'm glad I did. He has a pretty good little show.

What a Weekend

Boston swept the Yankees for the first time in 17 years. That would be 1990 and would be working for the State of La. at the eligibility determinations office for the Office of Family Support. Law school was still a distant dream. I was having fun, loved my work and was friends with an extraordinarily pretty girl named Stacey Johnson. She was tall, blond and was a golfer. In fact, I still have the set of clubs she sold me. We played several times, but it never went beyond golf dates. She showed up once with another dude but I couldn't tell if he was her boyfriend or not. Oh, back to the weekend. LSU took two out of three from MIssissippi State. For a team with a meager lineup we have, Coach Manieri is doing pretty good. We got shelled the first game 12-3 and came back to win two. That didn't seem to happen under Smoke Laval, the former coach. One only hopes the scrappiness will continue.

Ten Favorite Movies and stuff

Eye Dr. the other day. N.O. duty tomorrow.

I was thinking the other day about a wrestling show I saw many years ago on TBS. This was back when we still had the WCW. It seems that Sting wanted to wrestle a bad guy, but the storyline is he wouldn't sign a contract to wrestle. It may have been Ravishing Rick Rude, but I can't remember. Anyway, Rude is in the ring to wrestle the nobody of the week when a busty girl comes in the ring, ostensibly to get his autograph, The Rude character is quite the horndog, you understand. So, he signs the paper for the girl and kisses her and gyrates his hips. A few minutes later, Sting comes up to the ring with the girl and Rude is understandibly angry and confused. This is when Sting proudly produces the "paper" Rude signed for the girl and says "have you heard of carbon copies" and waved the "contract" with Rude's carbon copy signature on it. Rude blusters something, however appearing to follow the storyline that indeed, he had been duped into signing a contract. As an attorney, I find this quite amusing. The WCW fans, of course, though that Rude had now signed a contract to wrestle when, in any jurisdiction in the civilized world, the "carbon copy" makes it as much of a contract as a fortune cookie. But, the amusement factor is there.

Ten Favorite Movies
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Field of Dreams
3. The French Connection
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. About Last Night
6. North by Northwest
7. 2001
8. Taxi Driver
9. Casablanca
10. Silverado

New Band

Because I am such a movie geek, one of my favorite sites is IMDB.com. When I saw 28 Days Later, I checked out to see what other stuff the main actors had been in. The one that played the girl, her name is Megan Burns. When I checked things out, I found that she fronts a band called Betty Curse. They have a myspace page and a website. What a cool band! They sound like a combination of The Replacements and the Darling Buds.

This LSU sports forum I visit and post, called tigerdroppings.com, did something cool. When you create your profile, you can list your favorite team. Most, of course, are LSU, but there are many other teams represented. One guy said we all should change our favorite team to Virginia Tech (at least until the first week in September, when they come to Tiger Stadium). That is a neat idea and a great way to show our support.

Let's see

Let's see if we can be a little more regular. Damn, what an awful, awful day of Va. Tech. What can you do, though? One crazy person with a gun, how hard to stop.

Jackie Robinson day yesterday. How cool, all of the players wearing 42. Here at LSU, Chris McGee wore 42 for the LSU game. What a good guy.

National Conference of Black Mayors here next month. Clinton, Obama, Edwards and Richardson gonna be here. Rallies? I hope so.

I cannot, cannot overstate how wonderful HDTV is. You can see the friggin laces on the baseball when the pitcher throws it. Watching regular TV for sports is such a letdown now.