Bramble Tamble

A handful of random thoughts on a beer-sodden Saturday night:

* Question for the Bramble Tamble audience: on a scale of 1-10, 1 being least and 10 being most, how tacky is it to make a birthday card on your computer for someone?

* My last vestige of interest in the Indiana high school football playoffs fell by the wayside last night, as Indiana School for the Deaf's dream season came to an end in the sectional final against small-school powerhouse Indianapolis Ritter. If you're interested in what I had started to write last week about the Deaf School's 9-win season before its loss last night, here's a draft.

It's time for basketball now. My alma mater has a new coach with a vanilla name, and have replaced Linton with Trinity Lutheran on its schedule, adding a likely win to its ledger. Plus, with powerhouse Forest Park out of the conference, Bramble Tamble guarantees at least a 9th-place finish in the Blue Chip for his alma mater!

Without knowing the personnel on my old high school's team, I still like them to beat Trinity Lutheran, Medora, Dugger, Cannelton, and New Harmony, plus maybe a conference win against Washington Catholic. (And this is for no other reason other than the fact that they are Trinity Lutheran, Medora, Dugger, Cannelton, New Harmony and Washington Catholic. Who knows - one of them could have a Dugger-in-1999 type of season where they win 24 games.) You read it here first.

* Speaking of Indiana high school basketball, I was a little lax in keeping up with Winless Watch last year. I vow to you that I will at least consider updating it regularly, after the first of the year. I am also considering putting the whole Winless Watch concept on a different blog, and have reserved a site just in case.

* Tomorrow is Colts-Patriots. I don't really share the world's righteous indignation at Belichick's SpyGate scandal, though I do have at least a tiny issue with the fact that they are running up the score against their opponents. A lot of pundits are framing tomorrow's AFC Championship preview as "good versus evil," and I think that's a bit over the top, even as a Colts fan. Really, I think it's great for both teams to have a foil to play off of, and I think it's fantastic that the Patriots have retooled their team specifically with the Colts in mind.

My biggest fear is that tomorrow's game is just going to be a turkey, that one of them won't show up and that it will end up being a 49-14 blowout. With all of the attention focused on this game, that would be truly sad. I don't even care if the Colts lose by a field goal at the end (at least, it wouldn't be the end of my world, though I would be temporarily saddened by it) - as long as the game is near-classic, that's fine by me.

* Replica jerseys are expensive, and as such, I only have one Colts jersey in my wardrobe. And it's for someone who is no longer with the team.

So, my question to you is - is it tacky to continue wearing said jersey?

(The player in question is the tastefully named Brandon Stokley.)

* I've changed the front wallpaper on my cell phone from the clock to where it reads "fuck off." I think this is the funniest thing in the world. I look to see if anyone has called, and it says, "fuck off." God, I love this.

* Even though it says that Grant Lee's version of "Burning Love" is playing right now, it was only playing at the start of my writing this post. The Faces' version of "Maggie May" is playing now, and it reminds me of a particularly wine-soaked night in IU's Teter Quad where the Captain and myself tried to cover it.

The wine in question was Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill. I believe that the night in question was the night that Mike Tyson was released from jail. I remember this only because the Captain passed out on my bed and I ended up sleeping on the floor. Later, I learned that he only pretended to be asleep.

Fascinatingly, I'm finally not pissed about this particular point anymore.

Although I do wonder if he's still pissed about waking every 50 minutes and hearing Nirvana's cover of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" playing on my stereo.

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