after the two-fer I had earlier I went 4 for 4 the rest of the afternoon. problem is, so did the rest of the country.

I have the kentucky fight song playing in my head.

ugh. even though I have 3 brackets filled out this year I’m already half way in the hole after 4 games IN EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM. no thanks to pitt (#9) losing to pacific (#8) and alabama (#5) getting worked by wisconsin-milwaukee (#12). wisconsin-milwaukee! as a general rule, you are worthless if you get beat by a team with a hyphenated name.

GOD DAMN YOU ALABAMA.

it’s that time of year again. I am doing 3 brackets this year: one at work, one with select roommates and one with an old college buddy. I’m not gonna lie, I have illinois winning in all of them. I know they’re hyped and all, but some teams are rightly hyped (see: kentucky ‘96) and I think illinois is one of those teams.

so I kept my work picks pretty safe because I think there’s gonna be some money riding on it, but then I came across this article on espn.com and now I’m re-thinking my picks. the headline reads On average, 1.3 5-seeds fall each year in round one and I don’t have any 5-12 upsets this year. fuck. I hate second guessing. I played around my other two brackets but nothing too crazy, I’ve learned that predicting crazy upsets just gets you that much closer to the bottom of the rankings.

right now I’m listening to scary kids scaring kids‘ latest EP. I like it.

not to open HSS on a downer, but the get up kids called it quits recently.

even though they sort of lost me on their more recent releases, I’ll never forget the time I heard “red letter day” for the first time or when I bought a ticket from a scalper to see them open for weezer at roseland. or when I was the only one up front who knew the words to “central standard time” at their philly show (stephen strutt can back me up on this one).

anyway, stay tuned for a whole lot of march madness rants coming your way.