Thanks in part to a password malfunction, I've been egregiously slack-assed in posting.
Seriously, I wish I could throw some progammer level type slang at you, that a server proxy went down or a cuplink went bad.... cuplink... I think that's from "Star Wars." Not sure if those are real, but they gave Han Solo the fucking fits.
Don't you worry, though. I shall return with the Wide World of Godfrey soon.
TGS: A blog putting its body on the line every night in civic centers, high school gyms and VFWs nationwide.
MANCHESTER, Tenn. — The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is negotiating to buy the 500-acre farm where the first five festivals were held to be the event's permanent home, the landowner has said.
Bonnaroo officials declined to comment, but farm owner Sam McAllister said the sale could be concluded next week.
"Well, there's a few little things that have got to take place before it happens," McAllister said Wednesday.
Coffee County zoning administrator Ronnie Branch said Bonnaroo official Ashley Capps told the Board of Zoning Appeals last month that a land purchase was imminent.
Capps asked the board for a type of zoning permit that would streamline the festival's planning process. The permit was approved contingent on the sale of the land, Branch said. The deal appears to be on track to be closed in the middle of this month, he said.
Capps told the board Bonnaroo wants to improve water lines and roads at the site and said the festival might want to stage smaller musical events at the farm.
"Well, they can use it when they want to use it, but they can only get so many mass-gathering permits in a year, so I'd say they'd be limited to three or four events" besides Bonnaroo, Branch said.
Don't say you weren't warned, people. We all saw this day coming.
And they said we couldn't hire another coach without any NFL head coaching experience.....
AND they said no one could make a sleazier move than Bama....
Viola!
By our math, he'll be head coach of Kentucky football in four years.
Pat Forde, ESPN.com:
Louisville coach Bobby Petrino has accepted a five-year, $24 million offer from the Atlanta Falcons to become their new coach, according to a Louisville source.
The Cardinals have a previously scheduled 9 p.m. ET team meeting at which Petrino will tell his players, the source said. ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli reported that an NFL source also confirmed the hiring.
"I'm in shock right now," Louisville kicker Arthur Carmody told ESPN's Joe Schad Sunday night. "I'm about to walk into a team meeting right now. We're coming off a great Orange Bowl win and we were all thinking national championship. I didn't think this would happen. He said he enjoyed college football. He's a great coach and we're going to miss him."
An announcement from the Falcons could come Monday. ESPN's Chris Mortensen first reported earlier Sunday evening that the Falcons were in deep negotiations with Petrino.
Before the season, Petrino signed a 10-year, $25 million contract with Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich. Petrino had previously interviewed with Auburn, LSU, Notre Dame and the Oakland Raiders for other jobs, but announced in August that he would be at Louisville for the long haul.
"I can't tell you how happy I am with the commitment and the confidence that Tom Jurich has in me and the university has in me," Petrino said after signing the contract. "I also wanted to make sure that everyone understood, I know I've said it, that this is where my family wants to be. This is where I want to be. I want everyone to really believe it."
This might read like blasphemy to some, but when you use the phrase, (and you know you do) "If I wasn't a (team you are a fan of) fan, I would be a (team that's likely way radder and wins more) fan," I've always* said "If I wasn't an Ole Miss fan, I'd be a Florida fan."
(* "always" denotes within the last two years, post Ron Zook, post Steven wanting to get a MFA from Iowa)
Why?
1) It's sunny almost year-round in Gainesville.
2) Their cheerleaders wear garters:
3 They win. At a lot of stuff, which is nice. And they're a nationally known program without nary a hint of racial strife or the excuse depleted state population and income.
4) Orange and blue, while hideous on the plains, is surpisingly festive and fashion forward in the Gator design.
5) Tennessee fans suck.
6) Alabama fans suck.
7) UGA wouldn't let me into college (see: UGA fans suck).
8) Reggie Nelson can achieve land speeds in excess of that of a jet fighter by continuously building on his own momentum, Juggernaut-style:
The aptly named Concussion Farmer. Bumper crop, bitches.
9) We beat 'em twice during Zook, ergo we've enjoyed four year period of shit talking over a national powerhouse in our conference (ending shortly, I assure thee).
10) Steve Fucking Spurrier
11) They usually beat LSU (See: 2003)
12) Every Day Should Be Saturday is a monstrous effort of factoids, analysis and painfully funny commentary (both in vocabulary, timing and natural, educated wit) that gives me blog small-dick syndrome.
12) This one time, in college, I wrote a column about Chris Leak puking in a garbage can that garnered me praise from just about every professor I had. Glory days....don't let 'em pass you by...wink in a young girl's eyes.....
13) Garters.
So, that being said, The Godfrey Show hereby endorses FLORIDA to beat Ohio State tonight in the Fed Ex / Allstate / Tostitos (I'm not sure, but it's one of those) National Championship. Besides, if anything could push the world into total Armageddon, it's the same school winning hoops and football consecutively.
Don't believe me? What about this? And this? And this?
See? Someone better call Bruce.
The greatest film of all time. Fuck you, Citizen Kane.
Standing in line at the deli in my trendy office building
I saw, two people up, a hipster
Wearing one of those hats Che had
Telling his unattractive female friend
He had a connection at Apple
And could get one of those new Iphones
"As soon as humanly possibly, you know?!"
And I thought
I hoped
One day this same young man will be in a plane crash
But not die
Just be in a little twin engine deal over somewhere like the Canadian Rockies
And as his life turns into the "Call of the Wild"
or even just Alec Baldwin in "The Edge"
He might find his inner man
And realize
That Iphone that carries his address book and the entire collection of Badly Drawn Boy records
Will do little when a pack of wolves takes interest in his starving, dying, ass.
