The Jaguars’ Alumni Game

PIRATES! (and man boobs)

My latest post is up at This Land Press, in which I talk about attending the Westmoore High School Alumni Football Game over the weekend:

I’d seen the videos and the photos, I’d heard the stories, but I had never seen my brother play football in a Westmoore High School jersey. He’s still friends with all his old football buddies, having moved back to Oklahoma City after college. It was a motley assortment of players going back to the class of 1999.

(It bears mentioning that my class, the class of 1998, was not represented; probably because a) we were awful, and b) Westmoore’s official line is that we, the class of 1998, never existed, and no one can prove that we did.

I really am super proud of him. And though we may have lost the game, I say that we *actually* won, because we didn’t have a group of painted-up, shirtless weirdos flashing their man boobs at all of Yukon High stadium throughout the game. 13-6? More like 13-AWESOME, amirite?

Bears!

Bears!

A photo e-mailed to me by my dad, taken by his game camera. Says dad,

Have been getting pictures of a large male bear [likely the areas alpha male] for about a month. Haven’t actually seen him, which is okay with me. Got several pictures of a mama bear and two cubs for the first time today – usually only 2 in a given shot. They were in the area for quite a while – several shots over a couple of hours. This is the best shot of the 2 cubs who seem to be playing.  This shot was at 1:22 PM which is interesting since there was another shot about 1:34, and I picked up the camera a little after 2:00 PM. I may have “spooked” them away the corn feeder.

He tells me he always carries a gun with him. GOD BUT I HOPE SO.

He’s turning 75 a week from tomorrow. Next year I desperately want to take him to Ireland, where there are no bears, but where I think he will fall in love with the land the same way I did.

Gilly!

Gilley!

Seen in the window at the Louis Vuitton store at City Center in Las Vegas.

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