Tar Heels playing some pickup at Cobb

Looks like Reggie's rehabbing that knee well.

Sportsball Update!

Good news, friends! Especially Seth!

John Henson and Tyler Zeller have decided to come back to us next year! No word on Harrison yet, but the word on the street is he'll be back.


UPDATE: The deal gets sweeter: Kyrie Irving is going pro, after playing just 11 games in his collegiate career. Want some cheese with that, Coach? Of course you do.

Help Wanted

Fellow Shirkers,

This Saturday (April 9th) I will get that horrible banshee of the MCAT out of the way. Come celebrate that with me! A keg from Carolina Brewery will be in attendance. I'll be needing some help drinking that. It'll be at my place, conveniently located a short walking distance from Rach's, and Blaze's and jtan's. This'll start around 5 PM. BWA BWA BWA!!!!!

Whew!

Thank god all that sportsball nonsense is over with. People were really getting amped up over that shit for some reason.

Dog Catching Days of Summer

A dirty funk track by The Mighty Dogcatchers. Is dog catching still a profession for enterprising youth on their summer vacations? I wish me and a friend or two had had the entrepreneurial spirit and guts to do it when I was younger. I first became aware of it from William Wharton's excellent novel, Birdy. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend doing so, and I have a copy that any of y'all can borrow at my place.

Birdy tells the story of two boys, Al and Birdy, growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia just prior to WWII. Al, an Italian-American kid obsessed with lifting weights and chasing girls, finds an interest in Birdy, an odd boy who is enamored with mechanical engineering and raising birds. They get in all sorts of adventures as kids, including one summer where they work as dog catchers. The novel is actually set around 1945 or so, after Al and Birdy have been to war. Birdy has been committed to a mental hospital because he has become delusional and begun acting and speaking only like a bird. Al is brought in to try and bring him back to reality, which he attempts by recalling their boyhood adventures to Birdy.

It's also the novel that taught me that you can use "bird" as slang for your dick. I was quite satisfied when I started watching Trailer Park Boys and realized that Bubbles uses the same term to refer to dongs.