About the title

What's that you ask? The title? How did I come up with that title?
I'm glad you asked.

"The anger and the eloquence" is a line from a song by the Counting Crows. The song is called "Daylight Fading."

Waiting for the moon to come and light me up inside,
I am waiting for the telephone to tell me I'm alive....

Daylight fading
Come and waste another year
All the the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear
Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn
When we see the early signs that daylight's fading
We leave just before it's gone

You should check out the complete lyrics.

I love that line about the anger and the eloquence. It sums up so much about the music of today, and for the times we live in, for that matter.

Yay Oregon!

It's not the NCAA Championship tournament. It's not even the NIT. But the Oregon Ducks won their game in the CBI tourney's Final Four!

Oh. I forgot the weirdest one:
The Gauchos!

The Madness of the Madness of March

Why is it that I only come around to add new entries to this blog during March Madness?!? Weird coincidence? Some kind of strange karma? I dunno. Can't explain it.

Did someone mention March Madness? (Should that phrase have a little trademark symbol next to it?) How about some of those games, huh? There's been some great ones so far! Some nail-biters. Some supposedly controversial calls by the refs. For the most part though, I think the referees have done a spectacular job with some pretty weird plays. They are under as much pressure as the players and coaches, and I think they do an amazing job. For the most part.

Not as many weird nicknames this year. Lots of bears. Several Wildcats. A couple of Aggies. The Zips - they're always great. There are some strange ones, though. Bison. Terriers. Monarchs. Blackbirds - you gotta love that one. I'll make fun of them a little later.