The Day the Incomprehensible Got Her Name

On August 24, 2005, like everyone else in the world, Louisiana and her people were busy about the business of planning their future. Planning for the next weekend, planning for the next day.

But hundreds of miles east of Louisiana, at 10 am CDT on this date 21 years ago, Tropical Depression Twelve officially became Tropical Storm Katrina. Five days later, it would become something so incomprehensible that people still talk about it. So big, of course, that football wasn’t even important at the time. 

We really know neither the day nor the hour when something incomprehensible will arrive. Ours was a hot day in August.

On Wednesday the 24th, new LSU head coach Les Miles appeared for the first edition of The Les Miles Show at Walk-On’s in Baton Rouge alongside longtime Tiger radio voice Jim Hawthorne. The two were discussing Miles and the team’s preparations for the season opener on Sept. 3rd. By Monday, everything they had discussed about the opener would prove useless.

Katrina struck Louisiana on August 29. LSU’s athletic buildings took on purposes nobody could’ve imagined for them five days earlier. The Carl Maddox Field House became a special-needs shelter. The Pete Maravich Assembly Center became a medical triage center. Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters landed inside Bernie Moore Track Stadium. Washers once used for the sweat and grime of football and basketball uniforms were used to clean sheets and towels for storm victims.

August 24, 2005 tells us to carry necessary planning with some humility. Tomorrow must be planned for, but it is neither promised nor our final end. Everyone inside the LSU football program and across Louisiana were doing exactly what they were supposed to be doing that Wednesday. That same day, hundreds of miles away, a monster was receiving its name.

On Wednesday, the LSU Tigers had North Texas circled on its calendar. By Monday, the helicopters were landing at Bernie Moore and the PMAC was a hospital.

Make the plan, then, and live accordingly. Laissez les bons temps rouler, right? But may we remember that the good times are never promised to last, and tomorrow has never promised a sunny day.  As for me, the 29th of August set the stage for the unlikely course in life that I traverse to this day.

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The Only Comedian Less Relevant Than Rosie O'Donnell is Big Butthurt.

“I’m just going to come out and say it. Are you ready?  My feelings are really hurt that I was not invited." -  Alleged Comedian Kathy Griffin

Kathy Griffin, known for her bad impersonation of a Comedian revealed Tuesday she was “really hurt” that she wasn’t invited to appear during Rosie O’Donnell’s disgusting resurfacing as guest host of Jimmy Kimmel’s show, lamenting that she is good friends with both of them. BOO HOO!

NYP  -“I’m going to be honest today,” Griffin said at the start of her “Talk Your Head Off” podcast. “I might cry. I am asking for your pity. I love a good pity cry. I’m going to be open and honest and hope you understand. And I’m trying to talk about something bigger than TV talk shows, but you know, I talk a lot about Hollywood and I give you the inside scoop, etc. But this one’s really personal. 

“I’m just going to come out and say it. Are you ready?” she continued. “It’s embarrassing to say, but I have to tell you guys because we’re friends. My feelings are really hurt that I was not invited to go on Rosie’s week of the Jimmy Kimmel show.”

There is nothing more pathetic than a disturbed narcissist entertainer long past their freshness date.

We all know Griffin loves the gays. She's got the drag queen look down pat. But trying to elbow in on someone else's limelight could get you stuffed into suitcase by the gay mafia.  

O’Donnell responded to Griffin on Instagram. “Kathy — shoulda called me honey — I didn’t choose the guests …,” 

Personally I think ABC had a say. Besides worried what these two hate-filled anuses, relics from the 1990's might say, having both these ugly bints in the same camera frame together could very well damage some quite expensive broadcast equipment.

Meanwhile, turning to more important news, my neighbor bought a new Lexus yesterday. 

Your Mid-Week Almost Semi-World Famous Irredeemable Big Ass Open Thread

Lots and lots of crazy shit happening now days and I know youse guys have an opinion about some of it. We got another legendary rock musician packed their gear for the great gig in the sky. We got commies jumpin' out of the trees everywhere. We got democrats demanding we pay reparations to.... ..wait for.......CUBA.  And still no one pays any attention when I say space aliens are spraying crazy gas into our atmosphere! Just wait. You'll See! 

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