ACC, get out my grill

Pac-10 3
Big 10 1
ACC 1

That’s right. Maybe if people in the East Coast (including all the commentators in the US) actually stayed up one night late enough to watch a Pac-10 game, they would see that West Coast is where it’s at for basketball talent, especially this year. Instead, they fawn so much over the “power conference” teams that I would expect their courts to be covered in roses. My dad scrawled the Pac-10 vs Big 10 and ACC tally in the dust on our car, but my mom made him wipe it off because we thought we might get shot at now that we’re in NRA country. Every other car either has a bible verse, a NRA sticker, or a Bush 04 sticker, so you know these people are dangerous. We actually passed a few cars with gun racks too. That was when we knew we had to hold my dad back even more. Like when he was upset when a car cut him off and was going to go know on their window and have a go at them when we all were stopped at a stop light. It wasn't a pick-up or anything, but better censored than lynched, right?

Seriously though. I like the South apart from the raging lunacy that is displayed by the conservative bumper stickers. Every single person you pass on the street smiles and says hi, which actually makes for very warm and fuzzy feelings all around. It is a step up from the indifference you encounter in Seattle and ten steps up from Baltimore’s pure hostility. These people don’t want to enslave me, they just want to be my friend! No, I know that’s not true. But I could totally live in a place like Savannah (which in addition to rhyming with my name, is GORGEOUS and warm), and just not interact with the crazies. I can find a liberal enclave, I am sure. I saw people biking, which combined with their Timbuktu messenger bags, screams liberal.

Besides, John Grisham is from the South. And I like him.

USC lost their Sweet 16 game an hour ago which was a dagger through my heart. But I will survive as long UCLA or Oregon makes it to the Final Four. I’m counting on UCLA. I am even at this exact moment in time wearing my Nate Robinson underwear as a Pac-10 good luck charm for tomorrow’s game against Kansas.