* Piggybacking on SAE's "random favorite" game, the 2013 Mizzou OT game at Rupp was unexpectedly rowdy. Cats won
with 90, though I would have preferred by 90, and I was hoarse for a day and a half. Julius Mays was nails IIRC. I think that was a College Gameday game, too? That's about the last time I really appreciated Jay Bilas, he really got obnoxious after that. "I goTtA gO tO wOrK"
okay there guy.
I was at UK from 2010-2013. I knew I was #blessed to be on campus for the first Final Four since '98 and then for #8, but man. Talk about an embarrassment of riches--even with the 2013 team being pretty mediocre and the football team taking a ton of Ls (other than the first UT victory in 30 years in 2010).
* Registered for my first all-pro meet this week. When I started lifting in 2014, I never thought I would have a prayer of hitting a qualifying total just to get in, forget actually hitting numbers that are semi-competitive with other pro lifters. Again, once of those "look back and be thankful" moments. Excited to train and hopefully put on a show.
*
Trading Places is the best non-traditional Christmas movie. Peak Ackroyd, my favorite Eddie Murphy performance, and breakout Jamie Lee Curtis (and I would be remiss if I didn't give her credit for really outstanding boobs. I mean, damn.) Ralph Bellamy explaining commodities to Billy Ray and Eddie breaking the fourth wall when Bellamy explains bacon
Drunk Santa Ackroyd eating the salmon is just *chefs kiss*.
I've seen that movie at least 20 times, but I didn't get how the ending worked until the last couple years. I learned this week that the Duke brothers were loosely based on
the Hunt Brothers cornering the silver market on Silver Thursday. Tiffany's took out a full page in the NYT to condemn them for hiking the prices up. What a world.
* I also rewatched
Gremlins this week and that movie should have been rated R just for the story about Kate's dad dying in a Santa Clause suit. Good lord, Spielberg. The mean Gremlins throwing darts at Gizmo was also just as scarring as I remembered. It's a little sad the special effects don't hold up as an adult; I watched that movie for the first time at my grandma's and I was scared
shitless and I loved it.
Also, Gizmo = baby Yoda.
* Friday 5: Christmas covers that shouldn't work at all, but somehow do edition
1. O Come O Come Emmanuel - August Burns Red
2. O Holy Night - Becoming the Archetype
3. I Wonder as I Wander - Lindsay Stirling
4. We Three Kings - Rob Halford (yes, that Rob Halford)
5. Linus and Lucy - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
* Go Cats. Show us something, Cal.
Guessing rules would change if I made my AIDS blanket into a sweater. 
