It has been a long time since Aycock Middle had any kind of a championship athletic team.  Someone might want to correct me, but from the looks of a faded picture in the trophy case the last time Aycock achieved an athletic championship could have been in boy's basketball back in the 80's.  That all changed tonight.

Daughter Josie is one of the team's co-captains but I've been hesitant to write about her excellent team all season in case such notoriety might jinx their season.  In my silence they just kept on winning.  But now I can fill you in.  Aycock's girls basketball team under the very capable tutorage of Coach Greene had an amazing season: 13-1.

Aycock's final game was tonight against perennial powerhouse Southeast Middle who entered the game with a 12-1 record, their only loss being to Aycock in their initial matchup before the Christmas break.  Aycock's only loss was three games ago against Northeast Middle, an excellent team which Southeast had whooped-up-on earlier in the season.  Because of that fact, tonight's game was for all the marbles.  I am pleased to report that every marble rolled over to the Aycock Lady Lions after one of the most exciting basketball games I have ever witnessed, no kidding.  Southwest's fate was sealed by an Aycock lay-up with less than 10 seconds left in the game. Final score: Aycock 48, Southwest 46.

Team celebrations are planned and we are allowing Josie to eat ice cream for dinner tonight.  As for me; an hour after the final buzzer I am still a nervous, but very proud, wreck.

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Update 9:15p: The co-captian pictured above is right now sitting in the kitchen practicing oboe in preparation for her All-County Band audition tomorrow.  That would be the very definition of 'well-rounded', would it not?

(Sorry about the cheap-o phone cam picture, Kentuckians, but it's the best I could do on short notice with breaking news.)

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I tire of the red and blue designations that have now become code words for political pigeon-holing.  I have always considered primary colors to be stark, unimaginative, simplistic and boring.

As your elementary art teacher explained, when red and blue are combined, we get purple.  I am immersed in purple up to my eyeballs.

Assigning red or blue as a political color requires little real thinking on the part of the political painter.  Painting with just those two colors only serves to ignore the body politic's subtle, just-below-the-surface nuances of thought, not to mention that the resulting canvas will be butt-ugly.  Why have the many shades of purple become such a rarity on the pallette of political discourse?

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Sounds like Dave Winer may be on the injured/reserve list for his upcoming Carolina tour. 

Related - The Triangle BloggerCon's attendee list has surpassed 100 folks.

Unrelated - We Didn't Start the Fire - Cool... I never did understand all of the words Billy Joel was able to fit into that song until now.

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