Quoth Ogre: NEEEEEEEEERRRRRRDDDDDSSSS!

Watching a Big Ten Network show on Dance Marathon (my first mistake), I saw this commercial. I think all this would do would drive prospective students away from NU.

Not to mention the guy at the beginning says "First and 10 NorthwesTREN."

"turn back the clock day?"

"Northwestern vs. Syracuse at Ryan Field - Turn Back the Clock Day

Saturday, August 30 at 11 am (ESPN2)

All Chicago area NU alums are invited to relive their time as a student in Evanston by purchasing discounted tickets in the student section (132-134). These seats are only $18 for NU alums and their families, but they must be purchased on NUsports.com with the Promo Code: NUTBC. Everyone who purchases tickets with this promotional code will automatically be entered to win a free parking pass next to the stadium compliments of U.S. Cellular!

PLUS, meet Darnell Autry on Walker Terrace during halftime of the game! Be sure to purchase the running backs edition of the Football Game Program and you will receive a free Wildcat running backs poster that Darnell will autograph on Walker Terrace."

of course my brother's wedding would be during the one game where i wouldn't have to buy an end zone seat and then sneak into the student section at halftime. troy and i will be relying on you guys to text us scoring updates. :-)

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I'm not sure...

...if this is frightening, sickening or the one of the coolest Craigslist ads I've seen in a while:


http://chicago.craigslist.org/nch/tag/802972250.html

109 LBS of LEGO & 284 MINI-FIGURES

I am selling my entire collection of LEGOs.I want to sell everything.I will not break up the collection.
PICKUP ONLY
ALL 12.1 MP photos are at the bottom.
109 pounds/lbs of LEGO pieces, including:
284 mini-figure, additional 28 mini-figure legs & 15 torso/arms, many other mini figure parts & accessories
4-48x48 base plates, 4-32x32 base plates, 10-16x32 base plates
2 Original Models
More than 60 LEGO sets
Lots of large LEGO wheels & vehicle/ship/spaceship pieces.
Lots of original instruction booklets
Lots of rare and expensive pieces
All of the LEGO were kept in a clean, well ventilated place, in a NON-SMOKING home.All of the LEGO pieces were weighed without boxes, bins, containers, bags or instruction manuals.95% of the LEGO are in like-new condition, 4% in excellent condition, 1% in great condition.All pieces are sorted, NO Megablocks, Duplo, or Non-LEGO pieces. (maybe 10 at most)

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The seller, by the way, goes on to list the exact weight of each of several dozen boxes of Lego pieces, divided up by piece type and everything...um, wow. That's a lot of time to divvy up Legos and weigh them.

(hugs television)

At long last, I get the Big Ten Network. Thank you, Comcast. You bastards.

I've already set one of the TiVos to record everything with the word Northwestern in it. That includes, this week alone:

2007 NU season review
2008 NU season preview
An hour and a half of an NU practice (seriously)
The 2000 NU-Minnesota "Victory Right" game.
The 2000 NU-Michigan 54-51 game.
The 2006 NU-Michigan State collapse (BOO! This one will be deleted!)
The 2007 NU-Michigan State 48-41 vengeance game.
And, I shit you not, a half-hour devoted to Dance Marathon.

And we're currently watching the Michigan-Appy State game from last year. Oh, Big Ten Network. Where have you been all my life?

The latest addition to the Ghetto family

Dave and Krissy are the proud (well, I assume proud) parents of baby Logan, who was born at 9:54 eastern time Friday night and weighed seven pounds, 13 ounces. He promised a photo soon...

Yay!

Happy Anniversary, UrbanTherapy!

Congrats, five years ago you made it official!
That also means that it's been five years since "45 minutes" made it into the Ghettoalums lexicon.

happy birthday jim!

have fun and don't do anything we wouldn't do. or something. :-)