Breaking News: Chairman Signs with El Paso

Multiple sources have confirmed that The Chairman and El Paso have officially agreed to a 6-year deal, worth an estimated $0.87 million. The Chairman's Facebook page was updated with the status: "It's official. Starting this fall, I'll be strolling down Glory Road."

The allusion to Glory Road refers to the street on the University of Texas-El Paso campus that was renamed to honor the 1966 NCAA championship basketball team. "Glory Road" was also the title of Don Haskins' 2005 autobiography, as well as the the 2006 film it inspired, which told the story of coach Haskins' team at Texas Western (which has now become UTEP) that won the NCAA championship with a starting lineup of 5 black players. They defeated Adolph Rupp's Kentucky team, which had not yet become racially integrated.

The irony is that racial integration is diametrically opposed to most of The Chairman's philosophical beliefs. Most commentators believe that signing with El Paso was less influenced by any sort of symbolism, but instead by the easy access to the amenities of Ciudad Juarez, which has become the world's third leading producer of mass graves, behind Japan and Haiti, though Juarez leads the world in production of smaller mass graves (defined to be those with a capacity of between 5 and 30).

-Chairman

Hopeless Romantic

Let's just say that a certain someone had an awesome Valentine's Day this past Monday.

Our hero manages to sleep until about 11:30, and then mopes around the house until he has to go teach at 2 and 3:30. Then, he finishes up teaching, and then hides from students in his office until about 5:45, at which time he heads out to go to volleyball practice for 2 hours. Then, he jumps into an IM basketball game so that his buddy's team doesn't have to forfeit, before he finally leaves the gym at 9.

Our hero then wanders to Popeye's for some takeout, and one the way home decides to detour into Wendy's drive-thru to get a Frosty.

But it doesn't stop there. Our hero then forgoes a shower, and instead plops onto the couch to watch mediocre TV on his DVR, while scarfing down fried chicken and frozen fake ice cream.

So on one hand, this was the most awesome Valentine's Day ever. But on the other hand, everyone's reminded again as to why this guy is single.

-Chairman

Bells and Whistles

So, it looks like Blogger is catching up with some of the other sites and making it a little easier to change the look of your blog, add labels for your posts, and do other little fun things w/ the blog. So, naturally, I want to go back and add labels to all of my old posts. Plus, I just remembered that I had a website a little while ago that had some interesting stuff on there that I want to add to the blog archives. So, I think that I'll be playing around w/ some of the stuff before I actually sit down and write anything for real.

The one downer to the new Blogger editing features? You can't edit the raw code, yet, and they don't have an automatic feature that lets you edit the width of each element, so instead of the wide-screen version that I prefer (it lets you focus on developing the writing, whereas a narrow column sort os leads to a briefer version of the story), we've got the standard narrow field of text.

Hopefully, that will be fixed soon.

-Chairman