Black Heart Gold Pants

I think Ross is Comptroller Atkins.

Catnuts is Super Nintendo Chalmers.

And I suppose that would have to make The Mexican't Skinner

So Hamsterdam could become a Chalmskinn Production.

It's like looking into a mirror!

That looks nothing at all like Ross.

Ross has a beard.

And usually wears an old-timey fedora

while smoking a cigar. And is a lot hairier in general

I think this is what Bunny Colvin would look like with beard and fedora

The pic comes complete with Ross's Minnesota build!

That's definitely Ross.

Good find.

Congrats on the election, Mr. Mayor.

Strippers all around!

I can't believe they got the name wrong.

That should clearly read BaRoss Davis. The “Ba” obviously stands for “Beard aficionado”.

Who says?

Just call me Webster, ’cause I am developmentally stunted, black, living with Alex Karras, and I know the meanings to ALL.THE.WORDS

Is that a plaid/checked safari hat, with bullets?

Are those bullets instead of feathers?

Damnit, I'm copying Chazz posts accidentally again.

/like crossing the streams

I just want to hit pause on the world for a month just so I can feel what it is like to be caught up with everything.

The Final Gun - February 8, 2012 reply

Is this a quote from "The Wire"?

Uh, I don't think so.

Just a general expression of anxiety.

I watched The Wire a few years ago. What an incredible series.

The Final Gun - February 8, 2012 reply

I'm almost done with season 2.

One episode left. So good. So incredibly good.

Is S2 the shipyard season?

Yes.

I loved that they completely started from scratch in Season 2 and had an entirely different angle and cast. It took me until episode 3 or so before I realized that Avon and Stringer weren’t coming around anytime soon.

Yeah, I really liked S2.

I think the wife gave up in S3 (politics…maybe?) and I never resumed my momentum.

You gave up on Tommy Carcetti?????

How dare you!

And Season 4 was the best season in my opinion, so you really should get back in. It followed the high-school age kids, whether they were in high school or working the corners. Amazing.

Yeah, everyone loves Season 4.

The elementary age kids, too.

the notorious r.d.m. - February 8, 2012 reply

This is complete blasphemy, I know

I hated Carcetti.

I have it all on HBO-GO (their streaming dealy), so it's easy to maintain momentum & keep up with it.

Yeah. We've got the DVD box set. I've really no excuses except that we only have one TV downstairs.

I’m not cruel enough to banish her to the upstairs TV.

I bought the box set a while ago from Ebay.

I recently burned through the first four seasons at about a pace of 1/week. Then I got to Season 5…I got through a few episodes and have kind of lost interest.

Yeah.

The entire storyline starts with a window.

Brilliant.

I remember it starting on the dock with the foreman's kid fucking up unloading something

I'm in the middle of season 2 right now

curse my parents for not having hbo when this show was on. It’s incredible

hithisisryan - February 8, 2012 reply

So, the basketball game is still tomorrow right?

Two separate places on the Gazette website say the game is tonight.

Yes, trust Hawkeyesports.com

I'm gonna be a little pissed if it was tonight.

And the band will be short one sousa. So I hope not.

Ha! It is all an Iowa plot to sabotage Northwestern's chances

Try winning without a tuba player, jerks!

Dammit.

Well played, sir. Now who will lead “Hey, Baby”?

Our band.

Wait, is this a road game?

No, it's tomorrow.

Not really a fan of this stretch of the schedule, though. Game on Saturday, then a game on Thursday, then no game until next Thursday… bah. Too much downtime.

So I got to spend my entire day in a bunch of scientific talks today

without a chance to check in on the presser. Can I get a quick new coaching roster? I’m sure I can go find it if you fine folks don’t wanna help a fella out, but I’m lazy. So I’m coming to you first

Same as the old roster after a game of musical chairs.

Plus maybe Brian Ferentz.

Thanks

So I didn’t miss too much

Nope, it's just like it was

two months ago

Ross had a good quick recap that I'm going to copy-paste here

I think it was…
HC – Ferentz
OC/QBs – KOK
WR – Campbell
RB – Erb
TE/recruit – Johnson
OL – Morgan

DC – N Parker
DL – Woods
LB – Wilson
DB – P Parker

ST – Wilson

Now it appears to be:
HC – Ferentz
OC – ?
QBs – ?
WR – Campbell
RB – Erb
TE/recruit – Johnson
OL – ?

DC – P Parker
DL – Morgan
LB – ?
DB – Wilson

ST – Wilson?

that luvly young lady's...

….initials are C and W (In my mind at least, Forever and Ever, Amen)

SantosL.Halper - February 8, 2012 reply

How's the book on Basque history?

Pretty decent.

It’s Kurlansky, so it’s an easy read as he’s a better writer than most historians, but for some reason it feels just a little flat. I think Amazon’s readers have it just about correct at a 3.5-star aggregate review

$1.57 on Amazon, you say?

Purchased. I’m looking forward to perusing it.

I think I paid about 8 bucks to have it on my Kindle app

I haven’t read a physical book in many moons now.

Someday I'll consider a Kindle.

But I kind of aspire to have one of those professional-looking bookshelves someday.

I hear ya. There's some sort of nerd vanity that only a full bookshelf can cover

I’ve long had enough books to fill an entire room of bookshelves, I have kind of an incurable lust for reading. Maybe because I didn’t have a TV for almost a decade, but probably just because I don’t have enough friends.

Exactly.

I’m trying to rekindle that reading thing… A couple years of college beat the “read-for-pleasure” side out of me, but getting into the upper-level history and poli sci classes in subjects I like has led me to actually stop and enjoy a book once in a while.

This.

I’ve always been a slow reader, but college kicked my ass with reading (I’d even read school books at the bar, and then in the morning I’d re-read the last two chapters from the night before, because I didn’t remember them- except on Thursday nights because that was Laundry Night, meaning $0.25 long islands/rum & cokes/screwdrivers @ The Union and we’d be so drunk, with leftover laundry money, so quickly that reading was pointless- I guess I didn’t read during FAC either- mostly it was just Sun-Wed, and no I didn’t go out every week or every day or anything).
Anyway.
My point was “This.”

About 5 days before I was leaving for China, I still had the same idea.

Then, I thought, “I want to take that book. I want to take this book. I want to take that book.” I was up to ten books before I gave in. When I got the Kindle, I learned that ANY AND EVERY book that was out of copyright… was free. That led to roughly 150-175 classics near-immediately downloaded. Then I learned of bittorrents and got another 1000 books for free (i.e. illegally). I do not “need” to buy another book for a looooong time.

My friend who has been here for 6 years has collected about 100+ books, getting them from people as they went home and didn’t want to take the books. She, too, is Kindle-averse.

And the ease from which one can switch from author-to-author, era-to-era, genre-to-genre...

…makes reading a lot more accessible for an ADHD man like myself.

My roommate gets pissed at me

as I’m a bathroom reader as well, and currently have 5 books stacked up in there, each marked in its own particular place. I’m an ADHD reader as well, just a little lower and less technically inclined, I suppose.

My local libraryi

is chock full of free books. And I don’t have to buy the kindle. I also enjoy goodwill. 50 cents and you just redonate when you’re done.

Does that title mean you have more than one local library?

HA

I sort of do. A lot of the libraries have a deal where you can use your card from one at all the others.

They're not free

you’re supposed to return them after you’ve read them.

When you find me an English-speaking local library in Shanghai...

…you can come over on your high horse and show me the way to it.

A horse (high or not) would probably die in the middle of the ocean (or somewhere along the way).

And it would never fit in the overhead compartment.

Sort of in the Goodwill theme,

I have found some pretty good sports books at Dollar Tree (so they are $1 per book).

I’ve bought:

Game of Shadows (about Barry Bonds and BALCO)

Running for My Life (Warrick Dunn autobiography)

A Lion’s Tale (Chris Jericho’s book)

And a couple of books by John Feinstein (I think they were “The Punch,” and “Open” about the US Open in golf.)

We have a beautiful set of bookshelves

Filled with Mr. Girleye’s collection of fantasy hardcovers & my murder-mystery/suspense-type mostly hardcovers. And bins & bins of books in storage. At our old house we built shelves tall enough to have one of those cool library ladders. (& that is the one & only thing I miss about that house!)

It wasn’t hard at all switching to Kindles/iPads for reading. The sheer convenience of having access to the book I’m currently reading & the ability to download more books without moving my ass from the couch conquers all, especially when we’re away for the summer. The library & tiny bookstore just can’t compare (& yes, that’s really very sad). Also with our 9 y/o devouring books & having the tendency to let me know at bedtime that ‘OMG, I need another book!’, it’s saved me many headaches & frustrations.

HawkeyeGirleye - February 9, 2012 reply

mmmm, wine

Cotes du Rhone

Celebrating your promotion, eh? Wahahahahaha!! The apprentice is now the master!

I'm not sure it's a promotion

Does pro bono responsibility count as a promotion?

Sure, it counts. You can put it in your Christmas newsletter, right?

Solid varietal?

What’s the winery?

Smokin Herb Grigsby - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

link

got it from World Market

http://thechive.com/2012/02/06/close-encounters-of-the-third-find-37-photos/

How old is this meme?

I have never heard of it

but that means nothing. I’m a pretty bad internet citizen. No Facebook, no Twitter.

Best to just ignore memes

the notorious r.d.m. - February 8, 2012 reply

I like The Chive. Great photo blog site.

But sometimes it seems like everyone on that site is a major creeper. Especially with that Find Her shit.

I had to choose what to watch with my morning coffee: Ben 10 or Carl Sagan's Cosmos

I went with the latter.

Always a good choice.

Saturday mornings might disagree.

A couple housekeeping items in case people have questions:

1) Mexican’t and I are not official authors or editors, so don’t be looking for articles outside of Hamsterdam from us. We’ll leave that to the experts
2) We do not have banhammer priveleges. That will continue to be the domain of Jacobi, Vint, and Ross
3) Yes, Mexican’t does indeed have a beautiful figure under that Mayor sash:

FYI, if you google "Mayor sash"

there pop up plenty of pictures of Tyler Sash. I think he now needs to have a nickname related to somebody that would wear a sash.

We could get Kluginator to make a Superman/Satchel Paige/Iowa safety mash-up

Sash-El Pagel

They didn't even give you

a nerf banhammer? Such a shame

chitownhawkeye - February 8, 2012 reply

No banhammer? What, you just have to be polite and such? “Please, stop being a douchebag! I know I forgot to put that rule in the post, but it carries over.”

Meh, the original Hamsterdam (from The Wire) was a lawless place.

With only its residents as enforcers.

I'm listening to a rap song that samples the Tetris theme

Just when I thought I’d heard it all.

Didn't Baylor have 30 at the half?

They’re getting crushed.

It's Missouri, Kansas...and everyone else

YES!

I’m no longer the FuNewG

Anyone here watch Ghost Hunters?

Occasionally

I saw that one episode where they went into a house, got a bunch of “spooky” readings but didn’t find the ghost

I'm watching one right now

and they did the “flashlight test.” It’s where they set a flashlight so that the slightest touch will turn it on. They then ask the “ghost” to turn it on for yes and nothing for no. I’m not sure what to make of it

My penis is an amazing ghost detector

so that the slightest touch will turn it on

Thanks for making it weird

Thanks for making it hilarious. Rec.

How often does it find Slimer?

Kyle McCann't - February 9, 2012 reply

Ha

And people will watch this.

My GF watches it

and it is slowly sucking me in

This is why I watch The Bachelor

Thats still not acceptable

Yeah

It upsets me

The Bachelor is more acceptable.

Unless the producers are trying to set him up with ghosts.

No.

Just no.

At least ghosts may exist.
The girls who “fall in love” with the guy in no time, and have no problem when he makes out with several other chics, well that’s not even plausible unless the final episode is the winner stalking and killing each and every girl that kissed her new man.

I believe they just stalk and kill their new "fiancee" instead

when they watch the new season months later. The reunion shows are always filled with this tension. “YOU WENT TO THE FANTASY SUITE WITH HOW MANY OF THESE GIRLS?!?!?!?”

So....every episode of Ghost Hunters, you say?

hkobb7 - February 8, 2012 reply

I think that was implied.

Kind of like saying “I saw that one episode of House where they thought the patient had something simple, but the treatment nearly killed them, and then at the end House miraculously figured it out and saved them. Oh, and House also said something racist and mean.”

Ugh. All of those shows are so goddamn stupid.

I like them.

I like that they all think they're scientists.

The host is a douche of epic proportions

My wife & I were HUGE Ghost Adventures fans for quite a while before it just got stale.

Those guys have got to be some of the dumbest people on cable TV. So entertaining.

Only to be outdone by the people who hoard old Ghost Adventures episodes on DVD

Those guys have got to be some of the dumbest people on cable TV

Hey!

the guys in Ghostbusters were. And they do the same thing

I’m so ashamed. I watched some show a couple nights ago about this lady who was 600+ lbs then have the thumb stomach surgery and follows them as they shrink. Shockingly, they’re still the same miserable human beings after as before. It was horrific. And I think there’s more of them to follow.

Ya they do

A professor I know likes to say “if a question is worth answering, fucking answer it!” You can’t tell me SyFy can’t afford more gear (thermal cameras and such). They should just put this gear on the guys heads so that there isn’t anymore of this “I hope we caught that on camera” shit.

So do anthropologists

And psychologists

Hahaha

yes them too

and epidemiologists

/personal hate

It will be a cold day in hell before I catch a disease from a bird

That ain’t my culture and heritage.

So you're saying you've never had

HAWKEYE FEVER!!!

Damn it. I don't have a funny way to extricate myself from this one.

TWSS

And laplanders

I just hate them so much.

YouCanPutYourEddsInIt - February 8, 2012 reply

Haha! Mexican't has a tiny penis!

/Littlefinger joke.

Wish HUB

could broadcast The Wonderyears in HD.

It's on Netflix instant queue

That’s pretty good quality

thanks,

I got a free month I gotta use

What do you think

he is thinking?

I wonder how that guy with the camera tastes?

About the newest Liam Neesen movie.

Nice

Has anyone seen it yet? I’m thinking about going this weekend

A friend of mine recommended it.

I haven’t heard a ton bad.

I have heard rave reviews, actually

but I can’t get my wife even remotely interested in seeing it

Cattle prods help, I hear.

Wow, just watched a History Channel about cattle prods being used as torture.

tyger1147 - February 9, 2012 reply

Baader-Meinhof?

MNWildcat - February 9, 2012 reply

Burned at the Steak

I saw it.

It is okay-to-good. There is some gore/violence, but not as much as I expected for a movie with a bunch of wolves.

I thought the ending was a bit lame. Feel free to refute this opinion if you see it for yourself.

So, better or worse than Taken?

hkobb7 - February 8, 2012 reply

I haven't seen The Grey yet.

But Taken’s pretty fucking awesome.

Aww puppy!

"How awesome would I look on a black t-shirt?"

Pretty fuckin awesome.

Wait, catnuts...

Weren’t you persona non grata during the first few weeks of HamDam? This is like a mini-Jamie Lannister redemption arch.

Smokin Herb Grigsby - February 8, 2012 via mobile reply

Redemption

pretty much

He is like the mighty Phoenix

risen from his own ashes

I'm a Phoenix

We would greatly appreciate your help finding for us this lovely young lady:

What do you creeps want with Maria Bartitromo now?

iowabeakster - February 8, 2012 reply

I want her to give me the business.

Totally forgot NC v Duke was on

Pain in the Sash - February 8, 2012 reply

Hello my friends

Waz good?

Pain in the Sash - February 8, 2012 reply

Just ate

About to go have a good Wednesday

Define "good Wednesday"

Pain in the Sash - February 8, 2012 reply

It goes hand in hand with bad Thursday morning

Just like college!

Sounds like my kind of Wednesday.

I just need someone to cover my graveyard shift at the library.

Ohhh, I remember those.

Best campus job ever, though.

Indeed.

Leave Hamsterdam open in the hope that someone is still up and belligerent, open the Comparative Politics textbook, and relax for three hours.

Then the printers’ server goes down.

Yeah,

once everyone leaves, you can only kill so much time filling printers with paper.

Gonna have a real good time?

So Doc Rivers is at pretty much every Duke game

Was he ever at an Indiana game while his other son played there?

You can always recognize Carver rent-a-cops

A simple "yes" would have sufficed.

yes

/retroactive brevity

Also, Carver has new rent-a-cops this year.

BTW

Ah, I should have known that since the football people were different.

The new ones in Carver are considerably more active in their patrolling duties than the old ones.

Anyone inclined to sneak booze in must now be much more sneaky about indulging in it. For those inclined to do such things.

Always get the big cup with a lid.

Who's the Rent-a-Cop in that picture?

tyger1147 - February 9, 2012 reply

the nonogenarian

I have no recollection

that Doc had an older son who played for Georgetown, then IU.

I've tried to erase my memory of that time

Wasn't at every Georgetown game

when Austin was there (before he transferred to Indiana)

About a month ago I looked up Duke vs UNC tickets

just to see what you’d have to pay to see it at Cameron Indoor.

The difference between tickets to this game in Chapel Hill vs Durham would blow your fucking mind.

The most expensive ticket in Chapel Hill was somewhere around $500. The least expensive ticket in Durham was somewhere around $1300.

Well,

Cameron’s capacity is around 10k, UNC’s is around 21k.

This fantasy basketball season is an example of my "problem"

With fantasy sports.

Danilo Galinari, Andrea Bargnani, Manu Ginobili

I am never again drafting players with names ending in “i”.

Fixed.

fantasy basketball ~~season~~ is a~~n example of my~~ “problem”

"is problem"?

And I thought you went to the smartypants school…

The "a" in "an" is not crossed out.

I guess it isn't.

You’re off the hook… this time.

Yessssssssss.

Sit back, play Bulls TV drinking game.

Hello, Wednesday night.

I had the Bulls game on earlier.

Will Ferrell’s lineup introductions were incredibly weak.

Ah, I just tuned in about 10 minutes ago.

My roommate and I drink every time Stacey King uses a nickname or says something ridiculous.

Turkish Hammer and White Mamba

Should count for two. Because they’re so awesome.

White Mamba

automatically equals finish your drink. It made for a long night last Saturday when I was in Urbana-Champaign and had just poured myself a fresh one when he came in the game.

Then again, getting my own Fishbowl at the Firehaus probably did that too.

Aaaaaand there was a Turkish Hammer dunk.

Does he do anything else on offense?

Dunk, rebound, and make blocks. That’s all he can do.

Are you questioning the Turkish Hammer?!

(By the way—I’m a T-Pups fan, I just watch these games because my roommate’s a fan and I like drinking.)

I wouldn't dream of it.

And I’m not a fan, either. I just live in IL and Bulls games are always on.

Haha then we are in the exact same position.

And a little “BEEP BEEP” to finish the drink.

GHOSTRIDER 2?

NO. THAT’S A BAD NICHOLAS CAGE. NO.

YouCanPutYourEddsInIt - February 8, 2012 reply

You can try rubbing his face in it but he'll never learn

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BAD NICHOLAS CAGE!

E.G. CONAIR!

Argulor - February 8, 2012 reply

Duke rebounds about as well as Iowa.

Just realized that my assignment and midterm for one class are on the 23rd, and not the 16th

this means I can procrastinate even more. Time to bring on the 21st birthday weekend

hithisisryan - February 8, 2012 reply

That feeling is MUCH BETTER than the converse.

Speaking of HBO shows

has anyone been watching Luck?

I watched part of what I think was the first episode

on HBO free weekend.

I was unimpressed.

I watched most of episode 1, did not go back for episode 2. Shoulda, coulda.

Not interested in discussing the politics of this

but Rick Santorum’s big wins this week were fueled by a huge donation from a multi-millionaire named “Foster Friess”. That is a yummy name.

LOL, somebody trolled wikipedia and put in there that he's owner of Foster's Freeze

Wow, awesome ending to the UNC/Duke game.

Dammit.

I turned away when Duke was down by 11.

Yeah it was at 10 with like 1:50 left.

I’m not sure what UNC’s defense was doing at the end; it was blatantly obvious that Rivers was going to shoot a three there.

I'm starting to think Prater is a problem at DB

Is it time to fire Ferentz?

No. It's time to hire, Ferentz.

Seriously, let’s get an OC within two weeks this time.

There's a better chance of the temperature hitting 60

In Iowa City than that happening.

Huh?

That fucking Scout ad.

she works at hills bank on clinton. I am not lieing

harvhawk - February 8, 2012 reply

Um

Wut?

I think it would be a really awesome BHGP meme

for people to start new accounts and have random, mid-conversation statements as their first post.

or just random non-sequiturs in the middle of open threads

look at the stratification. it’s clearly sedimentary

I'm guessing Harv got a text and a comment on his phone mixed up.

Sometimes, I’m glad I use a MacBook for BHGP.

Yeah.

I’m thinking it was whatever that all about Maria Bartitromo was about.

SaturdayMorningKegStanzis - February 8, 2012 reply

hooray for more hdam

This makes me excited

Can you say bacon?

White Lightning - February 8, 2012 reply

yay the link worked

White Lightning - February 8, 2012 reply

Rutgers and Syracuse might play home and away next year -- in football.

To make up for not playing West Virginia, Rutgers could face the Orange at home and then — as one plan proposes — at Yankee Stadium a second time. For now, the plan calls for only the game at Rutgers counting in the Big East standings.

(via)

Am I the only one who thinks that is retarded?

Why not just play the Yankee Stadium game, and then use the other spot on the schedule to let the teams schedule some decent OOC opponents?

Probably because most other teams already have their 2012 schedules set?

RossWB - February 9, 2012 reply

Man...

…just watched the new NOVA. I wept … like a baby … that thing was so fucking sad.

Sorry, it’s just there are no PBS forums and I had to say it somewhere.

That is all.

hawk4trees - February 8, 2012 reply

Was that the one where they discussed the heat death of the universe?

Entropy makes me sad.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/separating-twins.html

Looks like it was

the one about separation of conjoined twins.

White Lightning - February 8, 2012 reply

Question for you all

Would you be interested in a “Introduction Thread”? The good folks over at WAGNH (We Ain’t Got No History, a blog for Chelsea fans) did one a couple weeks back, I think its great way to better get to know one another.

Link

Just wanted to put a feeler out there, if there is enough of a positive response I’ll put up a Fanpost in the next few days.

It’d probably be entertaining as all get out.

txhawkeye - February 9, 2012 reply

Ok I'll get the ball rolling.

Hi, I’m DrHenryKillinger, and chicks dig me, because I rarely wear underwear and when I do it’s usually something unusual. But now I know why I have always lost women to bloggers like you. I mean, it’s not just the bad photoshops. It’s the stories that you tell. So much fun and imagination.

HFMR, you are a madman. When you stole that cow, and your friend tried to make it with the cow. I want to party with you, cowboy. If the two of us together, forget it. I’m gonna go out on a limb here. I’m gonna volunteer my leadership to this blog. A blogosphere without leaders is like a foot without a big toe. And Jacobi isn’t always gonna be here to be that big toe for us. I think that we owe a big round of applause to our newest, bestest buddy, and big toe… therealCatnuts

Hi. My name's WaterlooChazz. My friends call me Chazz.

You might have noticed that, uh, I’ve got a slight weight problem. Yeah, yeah I do. Yeah, I do. I went to this doctor. Well, he told me I swallow a lot of aggression… along with a lot of pizzas! Ha Ha Ha! Pizzas!

I’m basically a shy person, I’m a shy guy. Uh, the doctor suggested taking one these uh, aggression training courses. You know these aggression training courses like EST, those type of things. Anyway, it cost 400 bucks! 400 bucks to join this thing?

Well I didn’t have the money and I thought to myself, “Join BHGP”! It’s free. So I figured while I’m here I’ll make a few comments. And you got what, gamethreads and Hamsterdam here? Real tough ones. Which is perfect for me. I’m going to walk out of here a Lean, Mean, Commentin’ Machine! Ha ha ha ha.

I, for one, welcome our new Ham'dam overlords.

I’d like to remind them that as a trusted member of the BHGP commentariat, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground comment caves.

// seriously, congrats to both therealCatnuts and The Mexican’t

First the fruit picking and meat packing

and now the Mexicans are stealing good blog posting jobs from hard working Americans

C'mon, Americans DON'T want those ignominious jobs...

… and at such meager (nonexistent!) wages. Plus, for the esteem factor, blog poster is at least one step below the Dalits.

I know from experience.

That top post says "Tuesday, February 10"

But tomorrow is February 10 and it is definitely not going to be Tuesday. Unless the future extended my workweek by 4 days. In that case, I really hate the future.

That's post is five years old.

/ wow, how time flies
// when are you moving in, early March?
/// congrats on the “promotion” to Ham’dam general.

That's mayor, sir, not general.

If we’d made him a general before Ly, there would have been a full-on insurrection in the BHGP ranks.

RossWB - February 9, 2012 reply

And probably set off an Alphabet Generals game too.

EnergizerHawk - February 9, 2012 reply

It pains me

that Rambler no longer haunts these pages

Is he still taking time off after the Paterno thing or is he maybe done for good?

He's been here once or twice since then.

I expect him to be running a “General Paterno/Dutch Country Bed And Breakfast” themed blog by the end of summer.

Ross

He can be general if I am still in the running for Consul. I had a dream that I climbed a high cliff and when I reached a Hawkeye nest, I saw seven eggs laid therein. That probably means I will have seven consulships (ala Marius) or Iowa has seven individuals champs at nationals this year.

But I see 8 national champs! Your dream is too pessimistic.

125 McDonough
133 Ramos
141 Marion
157 DSJ
165 Evans
174 Lofthouse
184 Gambrall
HWT Telford

The Mayor lands in Chicago right around March 1st, hopefully

I’m driving the U-Haul on I-40 through the desolation of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas after leaving on 2/27, so there are distinct possibilities that not only will it take longer than expected, but also that I kill myself from boredom on the worst drive in the world.

One Spring Break, we went to Phoenix.

I pulled the shift from Tulsa to Tucumcari, NM. and was behind the wheel from about 1:00am to sunrise.

// an existential peyote-like trip w/o the drugs

I have driven from Iowa City to NYC and back without a stereo (was stolen the week before)

I would do that 10 times again before doing this drive. I really am dreading it. I hate that part of the country. I know some people find peace or serenity in the desert, I find interminable boredom.

THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE A KINDLE!

Any tips on how to teach my dog how to drive?

And remember, I have to leave in two weeks.

New Mexico is not my cup of tea,

but I really like driving through Arizona. I realize the parts of AZ I like most (where you go from desert to forest to desert to canyons) is north of where you might be.

West Texas is pretty much as Ly describes it. Oklahoma isn’t very cool. The parts of Arkansas I remember most were the flattest shit I’ve ever seen, but I’m not sure if that is I-40, or not. The drive in Tennessee is not boring, IIRC (some pretty steep shit near the mountains, I think). I’ve never been to Carolina.

Actually, I just looked at a map of I-40,

I’d think there could be some nice parts of AZ near there.