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| I should say before starting that I am a former member of The Ohio
State University Marching Band. I love Ohio State; I love OSU Football;
I hate to see them lose. I am not bitter about the loss. Sure, I am
disappointed. Who wouldn't be? We had the potential for a great season.
But I am not bitter. I am confused about one thing, though. Since when
was the OSU/PSU game considered a rivalry? It is a highly anticipated
matchup, but truly, OSU has one rival: m*ch*g*n.
Anyway,
I have been reading a few accounts of OSUMB's trip to Happy Valley this
past weekend. I myself went to Penn State with the band a few years
ago. To be honest, I do not remember very much about it, so obviously,
we did not have the type of experience that this year's band had.
Everyone can expect the normal amount of trash talking and has heard of
the nightmares of quarters in the marshmallows (or probably pennies
here at OSU, since apparently "OSU is for Poor People"). Even the
visiting teams' bands endure endless insult, despite the fact that they
have said and done nothing to the fans except be there to support their
teams. However, the usual "it happens everywhere" can not be said for
throwing bottles of beer and urine and flicking cigarettes, which
happened at Penn State this weekend. You know what? There are
shitty fans everywhere--including Ohio State. And I know it, but I
don't condone it or pass it off as something people should expect. No
one was more pissed than I was when riots happened here. And any kind
of physical abuse (including those stupid marshmallows) that is endured
at these games is unacceptable, and to say, "It happens everywhere; get
over it" just allows that kind of behavior to continue. If you want to
accept that kind of thing from your own fans, whatever. I don't. But
don't trash other people who write about their own experiences at your
stadium. Since when is it "whining" to talk about getting urine thrown
at you? Is that something that a representative of a university (not
some obnoxious drunken fan) should be expecting?
I respect all
those people, especially those in the Penn State band, who have
responded positively and apologetically to those people that had the
bad experiences, mainly because they are the people that would never do
something like that. I would do the same thing if someone said they had
that kind of experience at OSU. I would hope that this will open
people's eyes to what kinds of things are beyond the limits of
acceptable behavior and that everyone will step it up a bit. Let's try
to keep all sparring to witty banter and keep the urine in the toilet.
And for Pete's sake, wash your hands!! | | |
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Does anyone know what asterisks next to the seat number on a football ticket mean? | | |
| Oh, and I know it's early in the year, but my Men of 2005 list is
already forming, with Ewan McGregor as definite listmaker, and with
Clive Owen as a strong candidate. I'm sure these men are thrilled to be
considered. They'll probably send me a thank you note soon.
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| So I never did follow through with my attempt to maintain both Xanga
and Livejournal, but I did want to come on here to talk about Star
Wars... I saw it midnight on Wednesday night, as well as on Thursday,
so here was my journal post from the second viewing that I wrote last night...
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Oh, yes. We saw it again tonight, this time with Headleys, Caryn, and
Blanchard. I really enjoyed it the second time. I think one has to get
over the worry of not liking it (as well as the smelly B.O. from some
of the nerds in our theatre last night) and just go with it. And I like
it more and more.
So
the experience at the premiere was a lot of fun. I was really tired by the
time the lights went down, but I was so excited once the music started.
We were in Theatre 13, in the front row of the third section, dead
center. Celebration III really strengthened my "Waiting in Line" force
skills. We were probably the third group of people into the theatre. I
was really glad they let us sit in the theatre instead of standing in
the hallway for three hours. But then that encouraged some really
uncoordinated people to have lightsaber duels at the front of the
threatre. That was entertaining in a sad, pathetic way. I kind of wish
I brought my Force FX light saber, but then again, I was not tempted to
duel anyone, so I saved myself some embarassment. Then the nice AMC
girl came into our theatre and told us that the Lennox was the highest
grossing movie theatre in the country, so of course I had to shout:
"Yeah! Fuck you, Spiderman!"
One funny thing was that after we
got into line, some lady came around asking if anyone wanted to go to
the 7:30 press screening, since there were still seats available. The
seats probably would have been awful, so we passed it up. It would have
been kind of cool to see it before everyone else, but it was also a lot
of fun seeing it at 12:01 with all our uber-nerd companions, even if I
was completely wrecked today.
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Go to http://www.livejournal.com/users/jadephoenix for my continued thoughts on the third movie. Thanks!
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| Not really chosen for his looks or subtle ways with the ladies ("You
could be drinking whole"), but more for his nunchuck and bowstaff
skills, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE comes in as number five. His FFA skills, love for
tots, and chapstick are definite turn-ons. And who can forget those
dance moves? Canned heat, indeed.
He may live in Slough, work for a paper merchant, live with his
parents, and be a quitter, but whose heart didn't break a little when MARTIN FREEMAN (aka Tim Canterbury from The Office) decided to be
spontaneous and make his confession to Dawn?
Coming in at sizzling number three: JUDE
LAW. As he proclaimed on Saturday Night Live, he is so good
looking! He also has an accent. Beautiful.
Number two involves a moral story more importantly evolving is the
glory of a boy: JASON
MRAZ. Or, the writer of a song that melts my stone cold heart.
Number one has scored many points in the hearts of Buckeye fans
everywhere, and it's awesome to see it set down as a record: NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE!!!!
Thank you. Please feel free to comment with your own picks of 2004! | | |
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