as part of the team's elementary school reading program, i've been in contact with a principal named mr. pagel. prounounced like bagel.

so his school was in our program last year, and it's in our program this year. and we were over there with the gigantic monkey today. (it's a small school...like four rooms, and then a church across the parking lot.) so one of the teachers greets me, and says, 'mr. pagel (pronounced pah-gull) will be right out.'

so then, in less than four minutes of conversation with mr. pagel the rest of the visit, i said 'mr. pagel' (pronounced pah-gull) no less than 14 times. or at least seven.

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i've been thinking that i've been writing some pretty comment-able material lately, and i've been stunned that i've gotten nothing. except for a (since-deleted, due to template-twiddling) gurs comment featuring the word 'hott.'

enter rico, who emails today:
"wanted to tell you that i still check for updates on redhothalos daily, but the one thing that gets to me is how i can't enter a comment w/o signing into blogger. unfortunately, i don't have a blog login. is there a way for me to leave you comments like before? or should i just email you my comments?"

enter me, now realizing "i should have probably re-added the comments section when re-selecting the template."

and now, enter the new comments link.

let the three-way dialogue begin!

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two final super bowl comments:
1) i sort of wish that terrell owens had gotten the mvp award. after all, peyton manning got the season's mvp, and he's a loser. t.o. was by far the best player on the field, even without considering the impressive injury comeback.

2) the 'wing-flapping' done by the patriots, methinks, cheapens everything they've been about. watching harrison and givens (go irish) and vrabel-bruschi (i get confused which is which, and i know at least one of them did it) waving their arms seemed to fly in the face of the 'team-first, go-about-our-business, we-just-want-to-win' attitude that has been their trademark throughout the run. it was what set them apart. (there's a parallel to the irish firing ty before his contract was up...no longer are the patriots necessarily *different* from everybody else.)

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finally, i don't believe jose canseco. that said, i wouldn't be completely surprised if there were more than just a shred of truth to what he's written. raffy? no. big mac. probably.

and when he says that 'there's no way former rangers president bush couldn't have known,' i don't think he's taken into account that president bush is really, really dumb.