news and notes

emma's hockey team had two big wins against top ranked teams this weekend. one more game tonite (monday) to see if they can complete the trifecta. no hockey for terri this weekend (two games next) and basketball is a bye week for the MMSA 7th grade girls.

biggest news of the weekend is about ben and the new band he is trying to get going. they played at our house on saturday night. during the course of their jam session, they threw a circuit breaker in the basement and then came up to play in the living room where their reverberations contributed to the collapse of a whole set of shelves in the playroom. quite a mess. they think it'll be a great story for interviews when they become famous. doug thought they could name their new group in honor of the occasion: "top shelf circuit breakers." other nominations (all doug's which few others appear to think are cool) include: SPSS (st. paul super stars of sound), the como park sound machine, the text generation, and teenage music ninja stars.

doug started classes last week, and had two papers accepted for publication so things going well for him. he is giving a talk in the sociology department about his midnight basketball research tomorrow (tuesday). it is called "Race, Sports, and Neoliberalism: Lessons from Midnight Basketball." he is hoping it inspires him to finally finish the book manuscript this spring.