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First a few shout outs of some mad props:
1. My older brother is fucking BAD!  And if you don't believe it he will sue your ass just because he can.
2. My friend Jacob, who I suppose still counts me as a friend despite our failure to communicate except via flickr comments for the past year, is also fucking BAD!  For proof, see the Austin Chronicle's recommended shows this week.  He's the bemused looking chap in the back right.

Thoughts from the trip to Virginia:

1. The airport in Charlotte, NC has something found in few, if any, airports around the world -- rocking chairs, scores of white, wooden rocking chairs with people rocking in them as they read the paper.

2. If the Snake Diggity Postulate, first put forth here, which states that people not from Texas are by default unattractive, is true, then the Hotties Of Texas Taking In Extra States (HOTTIES) must have been having their annual retreat in Charlottesville last week.

3. After the hard sell from Southwestern and meeting more of the residents, I had decided that a program would have to really blow me away for me to leave Dallas. UVa blew me away. Taking proximity to family out of the equation I would leap head first at the opportunity to go to Charlottesville for four years. The faculty are outstanding, personable, and invested in the residents. The city is what I imagine Austin was like a couple decades ago, but set in a more lush landscape. The residents are happy, friendly, and crazy-smart. The hospital is modern, comfortable, and efficient.

4. I have never been anywhere as serenely beautiful as Charlottesville in the fall. The leaves were stunning in their autumn glory, beckoning from the foothills of Appalachia. Or some poetic shit like that but less gay. It was pretty.

5. Thomas Mother-f____n' Jefferson was a phenomenal man. The campus of UVa is like a centuries old testament to his genius. And I didn't even get to see Monticello. His connection to Charlottesville does get played up to a ridiculous degree, but the hype is justified. I don't care if he did sleep with his slaves and have a bunch of high-yella kids. Dude was bad.

College Football

1. Louisville bitches! I got to see most of the second half in my hotel room. This was a pretty good game. My opinion of WVU changed a little. I had thought their offense was over-rated, but it is easily the match of any in college football. Their defense, however, is as terrible as I thought. Their linebackers bit HARD on every play action pass. Brian Brohm is incredible. The pass he threw for their final touchdown was absolutely perfect. A laser guided missile would have been less accurate. He is all the more impressive for having comeback from a blown ACL. He may have worked his way above Slaton (two big fumbles in second half) for the Heisman runner-up spot. The Cardinals' defense was pretty weak on the whole, but when they forced WVU into passing situations their defensive ends looked good. I hope Louisville somehow finds their way to the Fiesta Bowl to play Texas. Since both defenses were worse than I thought the score was higher than I predicted, but I nailed the spread. I'm applying for a residency in Vegas this week.

2. As I write this Vandy is hanging around Florida, down 9 early in the third quarter, and Baylor is getting shellacked by Tech. Baylor is more likely to go 4-8 than the 8-4 I predicted at the beginning of the season. The near misses against TCU, Washington State, and Army really hurt. Three games lost by a total of 19 points. If they beat WSU I think they beat Army and give the Ags a better game.