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I can’t believe I didn’t get a plus one.

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05/08/2012 1 note

ann: but i met him through my friend k——, who is not form nola but went to tulane and just loves the place and hse's doing her dissertation on yats

ann: she's a linguistics phd

ann: so she interviewed me about yats, where to find yats if they still exist, what is a yat

ann: and i talked at length about the word as a slur and how i think it's evolved into a citywide identity that lost its whole classist connotation

ann: and how mom's generation worked to lose their accent because pepole assume they were uneducated and how kelsey et al still get shit in BR post k

ann: etc. went on for a long time about all the nuances of it

ann: then m—— comes in, sits down

ann: and she's like, so what's a yat

ann: and he's like, oh like, white trash.

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05/06/2012

“It’s okay…meet our interim Saints head coach, ‘Jose Paytonez.’”

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03/21/2012 6 notes

Some questions.

1. During the Gregg Williams era, the Saints must have gotten whistled for more— substantially more— personal fouls than every other team. Right? Right? No?

2. So what you’re saying is that if the Saints inflicted more than the usual number of injuries, the injuries were predominately inflicted by hits that didn’t violate the rules of the game?

3. So then either these player injuries are an inextricable part of football or the rulebook isn’t strict enough. Who writes the rulebook, again?

4. How much more lenient would the punishment be if the league wasn’t currently under scrutiny for burying data on player injury? Could it be that the Saints are being punished not for their own misdeeds but for the historical sins of the NFL itself?

5. Leading the witness, you say? Well then let’s crunch numbers! If Roman Harper got paid for every one of his knockouts and cartoffs during the Gregg Williams era according to the payouts the NFL alleges, he would have gotten paid $4,500 dollars. How does that compare to Harper’s salary during those three years? .06 percent? Wowzers.

6. So but then which was the more powerful incentive to knock Brett Favre out of the NFC championship game? Was it the handful of Jonathan Vilma’s chump change, or was it the shot at the ring?

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03/21/2012 2 notes