It's shaped up to be a rather good day. Took care of some of the arrangement for the new boat. Went by the Decatur dive shop to scope out new gear. Weather has been beautiful all day.

Get home and Dad has the SEC championship game on. Tennessee vs. LSU. Nothing wrong with that, don't much care one way or t'other about football.

A commercial comes on, Dr. Pepper, I believe. That doesn't particularly catch my full attention. The music did. Previously I have pointed out that Pepsi had co-opted a Lou Reed song. This time it is a commercial with a great big buffoonish football player cavorting with a goal post, using Emerson Lake and Palmer's music for background and color, hawking Dr. Pepper.

I saw ELP in Birmingham back in the mid '70's. ELP was/is one of the best of the progressive rock ever. They also were my introduction into classic music, via ELP's adaptation's of Copeland and Mussorgsky.

To equate football with the grandeur of ELP's most excellent music is, in my humble opinion, heresy. And blasphemy.

Karn Evil 9.

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends

We're so glad you could attend

Come inside! Come inside!

There behind a glass is a real blade of grass

be careful as you pass.

Move along! Move along!

Methinks I could use an aspirin and a cold rag right about now.

Oo la,

Elia