Well, the poor guy just died at the age of 39.

Crazy.

Based on the evidence, I haven’t touched a real rock while wearing a climbing harness in this century. In fact I’ve only climbed on the indoor fake stuff the once since I’ve moved to Colorado. Climbing was part of the “why” of moving to Colorado at the time of that decision. Funny how things work out, eh? A large part of it is having people with whom to actually do things. I suppose I didn’t realize how lucky I was to have developed the network of like-minded and tolerable people I had back in Massachusetts. Thanks, gang!

Then there the camping. I unpacked my tent to make sure it hadn’t dissolved completely over the years and found bits of bark and moss from a camping trip I took in New England with Miracle Ed and Hanh something like ten years ago. Good goddamn!

It’s all a bit conflicting, to be honest, because I can’t say I’ve missed it all as much as I would have expected. I’ve found other things to do at times. Mostly I’m just kind of lazy, I think. Or at least I tend to have a lot of inertia when I’m comfortable. That’s a nice way of saying “lazy”…

Also, snakes.

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Unrelated: Holy crap! I totally watched The Master back in the day!

Meta: I wanted to add my shared items from Google Reader to the new secondary sidebar, but it didn’t work properly. I might keep trying.

The gang is all 40-ish now, but it seems most of them couldn’t find anything else they wanted to do.

This video got me a little misty for my BU days. Like the time I saw the Bosstones tear up the CollegeFest shindig at Hynes Convention Center (probably in 1993…?).

Go get ‘em boys!

Makes me wistful.

And a bit depressed… As Ed put it to me “You should get skinny again. You were pretty.”

As of right now, the notions of getting skinny and getting back into climbing are almost a chicken and egg proposition… Nothing to it but to do it, right?

(Did I mention rock climbing is how I seduced my wife? It’s somewhat true.)

But when I come across a story like this, it warms the cockles, to be sure:

Clowns KKKick KKK ass!

“White Power!� the Nazi’s shouted, “White Flour?� the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour�.

“White Power!� the Nazi’s angrily shouted once more, “White flowers?� the clowns cheers and threw white flowers in the air and danced about merrily.

Awesome! And this happened in Knoxville, TN — my old neck of the woods.

After B-Tom kind of dwindled and fell apart, lead singer/guitarist Bill Janovitz released a couple of folky solo discs. They were enjoyable but nothing super exciting in my estimation.

Just recently, though, I grabbed his new album with his new band, the Crown Victorias, and I am happy to say Bill is back to his old rockin’ ways. In fact, several songs had me so nostalgic for Buffalo Tom that I looked them up and lo-and-behold they have gotten back together and have a new disc coming out! I have yet to hear the new B-Tom, but you should check them out, kids.
(Bonus: There’s a clip from the Daily Show on the B-Tom site in which Jon Stewart name-drops Buffalo Tom. I wonder if that’s why they are back together…)

(Sidenote: The new Tori Amos is also quite good, if you’re into the angry chicks – and you know I am.)

Next they take on Nebraska-Omaha in the first round of the NCAA tournament this Friday, the 24th.

Go BU!

“So we finish the season 16-2-2 in our last 20 games – that’s quite a run for us and might be the best run we’ve ever had since the 1978 team that only lost one game all year,â€? said BU Head Coach Jack Parker. “It was a great regular season for us and we get rewarded with the league championship outright. To enjoy the evening tonight – getting the championship and getting it in the style we did down the stretch is pretty nice.â€?

Yep. Pretty nice.

Thanks go out to the UNH team for beating BC in their season closer.

It was business as usual for the boys from Boston University on the second Monday night in February as the Terriers beat Boston College 3-2 at the TD Banknorth Garden to capture the 54th Annual Beanpot.

Effing sweet! Here’s hoping they ride this success through the rest of the Hockey East regular season and into the NCAA tourney.

“I think that we have the capability to do a lot this year and we’re not going to stop short of anything we’re capable of,” Curry said. “We’re going to enjoy this, but I think we have some big things in store for this year.”

Just to reiterate a fun fact: There have now been 54 Beanpot Championships. BU has won exactly half of them.