Friday Funnies

I'm still basking in the glow of last year's national title, while my good buddy Luke has seemingly forgotten that we won the big trophy last year (and beat Louisville on the way to doing it, no less). Can't complain about anything really.

But it's a new basketball season, and with it comes the holiday tradition of playing the Cards in a regular season game. My long-time friend Seth is drooling with anticipation, as his Cards will likely mop the floor with this year's UK team in a way not seen in a long time. I've already told him that I expect UK to lose by 7 or 8 if we're lucky to keep it close, while more likely seeing the freshmen lose their cool and probably get beat by about 20-25.

So it's going to take something special for UK to pull off the incredible. So for this week's Friday Funnies, we'll dedicate it to Patrick Sparks, who gave UK one of the more ludicrous victories in the series' history. Not laugh-out-loud funny, but still pretty funny nonetheless. Go Cats.

My Derby Glass Project

Right around Kentucky Derby time this year, I took stock of one of my secret collections that I've been working on for as long as I can remember. It probably doesn't make much sense outside of the greater Louisville and Kentucky area, but if this is what will get me on an episode of Hoarders, at least it's better than a house of dead cats.

Since as long as I can remember, one of the guaranteed Christmas gifts I can count on receiving from my mother is the coming year's Kentucky Derby glass. These glasses may not appear much to the casual eye, but for those who care deeply about the greatest two minutes in sports, this is a central part of the event. While the proletariat get their mint juleps served in plastic Derby cups at the Downs, the bourgeois folks who spend top dollar for their tickets get them served in glasses.

The glasses each year feature a list of every Derby winner since the beginning of time. I'm sure at some point the glasses are going to have to become bigger in order to fit it all on there, but at least for now there is plenty of room to handle more names for a while.

Several years ago my mom didn't just give me the coming year's glass, but also gave me all of the glasses in her collection. So now I have a couple big plastic tubs carefully arranged with all my glasses inside. One day, when I'm rich and famous and grown up and I'm a doctor or an astronaut, I'll get a display case and show them all off, but I'm not ready yet (and I have nowhere in my house to hold it). I'm not quit prepared because now that I've taken stock of my collection, there are some gaps that need to be filled. I have a list now on my phone that I consult when at random antique stores or if I'm feeling bored and decide to shop online for some glasses at collector sites. I'm always trying to fill in the holes that way I have at least one copy (but preferably two copies) of each year. Most of the holes I have in the mid-80s and then a lot before 1974, so if you ever stumble upon some in a weird location, be sure to let me know. I'm always interested in gaining a new member of the collection and making it more complete.

Friday Funnies

Well, it's Christmas time, so I have to bring up some holiday classics that I love for the Friday Funnies. This time around, we're going with Scrooged. This is not the funniest clip from this movie, but since my mother has so lovingly declared this year to be the Campbell Family Christmas of Coal. Apparently gifts are strictly forbidden and we may well end up eating toast and rotten wine for dinner, I'm going to hold out hope that I get a VHS while my sister gets stuck with a towel. No, scratch that, I'll take the towel. Thanks mom! And happy holidays, everyone.

Friday Funnies

Been thinking about Newsradio a lot recently and I wish I could tell you why. Just been replaying scenes in my mind the last few weeks as I close out another course in school. It's been a busy nine weeks, as I am sure you may have noticed since I've pretty much been bare bones here on the ole blog. But good wordier, rantier times shall return soon. In the meantime, share a laugh with me and Jimmy James (the man so nice they named him twice) and his fancy plans with pants to match.

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Friday Funnies

For whatever reason one of the movie channels has brought Chasing Amy back into the rotation, so of course I've watched it about 27 times. When you nail the opening scene of the movie, you got a good thing going. Black rage!