Random thoughts..

I'm feeling a bit sluggish (and kind of sick actually) because I'm still having flashbacks to the massacre that was the Texas-Kansas State game yesterday. I've never seen us play like that, and it hurts. We had better get our act together because if we lose to oklahoma next week, we're gonna fund ourselves unranked for the first time in about 8 or 9 years.

The other random thought is that I noticed that about 99.5% of the girls from Kansas State I saw out last night were totally busted. Thank goodness I live in a city with attractive women.

That's all I got. I'm already looking forward to next week in Dallas. More to come this week. If you read this before Tuesday night, be sure to come to Cain & Abels around 9 in the evening. $1 beers never get old :-)

Everywhere Like Such As

This isn't new news; certainly by now everyone has seen the video below...



As a US American, I must say that I've never seen the entire English language go down for an 8-count like that. It stood no chance. In opening her mouth, Ms. Upton threatened the foundation of our method of communication. At the end of that verbal massacre, all that was left were remnants of ebonics, creole, and whatever language people in her home state (South Carolina, where, incidentally, the age of consent for girls is 14!!) speak. She tried to go on for 3 seconds after the bell, but English was having none of it. It was badly beaten and didn't even want to get up. Way to go Lauren.

Backsweat

Yes, I have better shit to write about, but this hit me about 15 minutes ago when I was coming out of the UTC. I roll off the elevators and begin to make my way across the street over to the b-school. I get a frontal view of this smoking hot chick, so, as I usually do, I stare and point her out to my friend. So he stares. We like hot women (who doesnt?). Anyway, we pause to allow her to walk by and also so we can scope out her ass. But, like so many things in life, I was horrified at what I saw...yep, you guessed it, the chick was sweating the hell out of the back of her shirt. And no, she wasn't coming from the gym.

It was gross, and a total turnoff. Huge disappointment. But it made me think of the general problem of backsweat and how we deal with it. Unfortunately, because I go to a school in a very warm weather climate area, these are the issues we must deal with (I, for example, take nearly 3 showers a day during the first 3 weeks of school b/c it is so damn hot).

Yes, backsweat affects us all, but there are some people who probably should not be seen with it: (1) hot girls. Um, that's all I can think of. I guess everyone else can have it b/c no one really looks at you all the time on campus.

In other news, it seems that the Soulja Boy trend is growing. I taught a law student, and fellow Louisianian (yea, I know, I should not be fraternizing with future lawyers...rememeber the Magee curve...) the dance yesterday.

Finally, I am really excited about my plans for the next 4 weekends:

This weekend: Texas vs K-State, Mu Beta Alpha dirrrty throwdown Friday night

10/6: Texas - Oklahoma (Dallas, TX). After seeing some chick puke out the side of her car AND KEEP DRIVING last year, I can't wait to see the nastiness that is Texas-ou weekend

10/13: Ole Miss vs Alabama (Oxford, MS). My first SEC game in like 15 years. Insert joke about black guy voluntarily going to party in, of all places, Mississippi. Yea, I think it's funny too.

10/20: Notre Dame vs USC (South Bend, IN). Crossing stadium #1 I must see before I die off my list (others are Neyland and Tennessee and The Swamp at Florida). This game won't be good, but I'll be really happy to be in attendance.

Superman That Ho

I guess I figured out somewhere in Orlando that the currently popular dance these days is "Crank Dat", a dance popularized by rap scene newcomer, Soulja Boy. Most of you have figured out that I have extremely varied tastes in everything from music to food to women. This applies here. I think Crank Dat is a garbage song, straight up garbage. However, because there's a halfway cool dance to it, I am demanding that this song be played 3 times a night in the bars/clubs. But that's not why I am writing this blog entry...

I'm writing this entry because I personally find this dance step routine to be really, REALLY easy. I find it so easy in fact that I picked it up literally in 20 seconds two weekends ago while it was playing at a club I was at. However, I guess a shitload of people aren't capable of learning such things very quickly.

In support of my assertion, faithful readers, I point you to yet another youtube clip, aptly named "Soulja Boy - How to Crank That - INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO!" where an astonishing 7 million people have watched it in an attempt to pick this up. I find it hilarious that people are so into this. Click here for the link to the video in case you too wish to learn this. What I find particularly funny about this video is that it's being filmed in an empty swimming pool. Look closely. Maybe if he puts out another song, he can film his next dance step instructional video (by the way, who actually does that??? MJ never showed people how to moonwalk. JT isn't offering dance lessons...) in a normal setting (perhaps a real dance studio).

Anyway, thats my rant.

In other news, Semain thinks Texas should be number 12. I think I'm gonna kick his ass.

Orlando, Florida

So two weeks ago I went to the 407 (Orlando, FL) for the NBMBAA conference. It rocked. I've spoken to most of you about it, but quick highlights were:

• got a job offer
• met Shaq
• met Shaq a second time
• partied at Disney World (best party I've been to in the past 1 year)
• spent $100 at dinner on two appetizers (yes, I can't believe either)
• discovered Courvosier (i love that stuff)
• met a hot chick from Ross
• did i mention i met Shaq - twice

In other news, this past weekend was the dirtiest, nastiest, most beautiful, wonderful time I've had since...well, last weekend:

• 2nd place (out of 32 teams) in competitive flag football tournament
• met five different girls born in 1988 or later on 3 separate occasions (this in itself are funny stories, totally random)
• watched texas destroy rice (finally, we covered a spread)
• and, of course, i got my gigantic-ass TV. 60 inches of high definition tv watching goodness. i don't want to leave my couch. but i will b/c i'm a sociable dude

Lastly, there is a ton of shit that I will be writing about over the next couple of weeks, so check back often!

Longhorns and Bruins really CAN get along!

I gotta say, this was probably my most favorite guest-hosting experience ever. Not to knock any of you other out of town readers, but I really, really enjoyed this one.

On Thursday, my friend MD and her friend BB came in from LA to visit me in ATX. I met MD from an event at UT that took place last year.

They're both UCLA, I'm Texas. They're Pac-10, I'm Big XII. They're "hella cool dude" and I'm a "nice southerner, y'all". But despite these random differences, I was tasked to show them a good time. Thankfully, Austin was the perfect setting.

Between the Hula Hut, UT and UT Football (again girls, I wish we had played better), a taste of the 6th and 4th street bar scene, some good Austin food (not to mention free Wendy's frosty's AND home cooked brunch on Saturday, which I'm still having little taste bud orgasms over), and a couple random jokes about Indian IT consulting firms and "the Iraq", I had a blast with these two. In what may be the biggest understatement of the year, I can't wait to go out to LA to visit. Hopefully I can get out there within the next few months (MD starts a prominent California-based business school program in a month, so scheduling with have to wait until then).

I wish they could have stayed longer. Driving back home from the airport was kind of depressing b/c I had such a good time and missed them already. Seriously, you two have an open invitation, (correction, a wide-open invitation) to come down whenever you want, and I really mean that.

In other news, there's more football on today, and I have a ton of hw to do, so I'll write more later.