Danny Novo
From the monthly archives: November 2007
The coverage last month of the fires in Southern California included several stories of people being evacuated with just a few minutes notice. Invariably, something was left behind. It got me thinking. If I had a fifteen minutes to pack before being evacuated, what would I take with me? We have two cars, and I […]
I like college football. I also like the NFL (this may make me unwelcome in some places, but there it is), but there’s something about the semi-pro nature of college football, and the sheer number of programs, and the rivalries, and the radio announcers, and the terribly flawed bowl system(s, past and present)… it is […]
So that sucked. A lot. If KU had only played like they did in the fourth quarter throughout the whole game. Or, the second half. Or something.
Third quarter. This is awful. KU is playing like the team they were last year. Missouri is playing as advertised. I have offered a couple of times to stop watching and put on this week’s Survivor instead. A Mizzou fan holds up the best sign of the game, “Kansas Football, a Tradition since September.” I […]
I haven’t been so excited and nervous about a football game since… a long time… maybe since John Elway won his first Superbowl in 1997 (you can’t blame me, my wife’s family is Bronco fan-atic, and really, he deserved it). If KU wins, it’ll be because of their defense. None of the pre-game discussion of […]
Santa arrived an hour later than we thought to the top of a downtown department store (we failed to predict the speeches, caroling, and tree-lighting that preceded his arrival), so we spent the hour watching the local-toy-store stilt-clown, listening to the off-tune stylings of the Kaw Valley Drum and Fife Corps (all both of them, […]
