| The Daily News
 
1 Item from yesterday’s Merc News: According to the Philadelphia Daily News, a “very attractive younger couple” posted on Craigs List that they would perform (yes, that’s what we mean) in the presence of anyone who gave them tickets to the Eagles-Giants game. No word on whether the deal was consummated.
2 Sometimes, I tellya.
3 Football.
4 Speaking of football, an interesting theory abounds in the NFL that the reason the sorts of fumbles we all saw in the Cowboys game happened was that the new balls they use for kickers have wax on them. These are referred to as “K-Balls” because they are used exclusively for kicks. Evidently they come straight out of the box, and kickers have been complaining that they are slippery because they “have a lot of wax on them” according to David Akers, the kicker for the Philadelphia Eagles.
5 Was this the reason that Tony Romo bobbled his teams hopes away in their playoff game against Seattle on Saturday?
6 I tried to catch up with Tony yesterday to ask him, but he kept giving me the slip.
7 Word on the street is that Romo just got the wrong ball. What he got was a K/Y ball from the wrong box.
8 M’ bad.
9 You didn’t REALLY think I was going to let THAT one slip by now did you? ; ) <—–sideways winky guy saying all this talk is officially getting swiftly out of hand…
10 Oh, stop!
11 Some people, boy.
12 Moving On: Never mind all that. Let’s head into a completely new direction.
13 So I felt sorry for Ohio State and asked them over to a party in their honor last night, but they never showed up… ; )
14 And Moving On: Looks like they’ve chosen the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers for 2007 and the list includes Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Phil Spector,R.E.M., The Ronettes, Patti Smith, and Van Halen.
15 Noticeably missing: Mark McGwire.
16 But inclusion of Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn into the real hall had to make all of us smile.
17 Not in the Rock and Roll…into the real hall…you see…
18 NVM.
19 Shoddy journalism.
20 Anyway, Shay Quillen, a journalist for the Merc News noted this about the Rock and Roll HOF, which takes place March 12 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York:
…the real fireworks should come from Van Halen…Whenever [Eddie] Van Halen, Roth and Hagar are in a room together, sparks are sure to fly. And now that Anthony [Van Halen's former bass player Michael Anthony] has been replaced with Eddie’s 15-year old son Wolfgang? The mind boggles…
21 True that. New thing everyone seems to be saying. It’s annoying, but get used to it. True that.
22 Anyway, if that last item counts as Merc News Item #3 in two days, then so be it.
23 Well, it’s late.
24 And finally, birthday wishes go out to Thuy Ann and Trinh. Many happy returns; you guys deserve the very best. Thanks for all the help in your time TA, and thank you Trinh for keeping the Drama Workshop alive. You are both awesome!
25 Well, that’s about it.
26 I think I’ll slip off to bed. I wrote all this last night, don’t you know.
27 You have a great day.
28 Peace.
~H~
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