Kevin, my intrepid roommate, has just posted on his weblog a very good commentary on the Male Sexuality Class fiasco here at Berkeley. It really has been blown utterly out of proportion.

In a related conversation with my friend Scott down in San Luis Obispo:

EpikDave: hey.... have you heard anything about the Male Sexuality Class fiasco here at Berkeley?
EpikDave: apparently it's made papers in LA, New York, and London.
snoopy4568: yeah
EpikDave: blown SOOOOO out of proportion.
snoopy4568: it made our paper via the U-wire from wisconsin
EpikDave: it's amazing what a little sex can do for newspapers.
snoopy4568: yeah
EpikDave: ah well, any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
EpikDave: especially when it's SWINGIN' PUBLICITY!
snoopy4568: yep, nothing beats sex
snoopy4568: except the smell of ass, that beats anything
EpikDave: agreed.

I'm sorry I had to expose you to that base vulgarity.

Cal beat UCLA 69-51 tonight, and UCLA's Matt Barnes has made himself persona non grata in Berkeley for pretty much the rest of his life. A cheap flagrant elbow to Cal point guard Shantay Legans sent Legans to the floor for over five minutes, perhaps suffering a concussion, and got Barnes ejected from the game and he will probably receive additional UCLA/NCAA action. It was a very irresponsible and immature move, especially given that UCLA was out of reach of the win by this point anyway. Steve Lavin's teams have never been known for being particularly well-disciplined, and this only furthers that characterization.

Best wishes to Shantay and here's to you getting back on the court as soon as possible. Cheers.

Hey kids, sorry it's been a couple days, I was busy getting down back in Pleasanton this weekend.

Monday night was the Sevendust concert at the Fillmore in SF. It was an awesome show. Competent opening performances by Flaw and Gravity Kills led up to the electrifying headlining set by Sevendust. It was probably the best pure performance by a band I've seen in concert. I've been to many more elaborate shows, but when it came down to simply how well the band played and worked the stage, this was probably the best.

In other news, I'm not quite sure why I was so surprised, but the fact that Vonetta Flowers is the first black athlete to ever win a Winter Olympics gold medal really struck me. I guess I had always figured that in the 70+ years of the winter games there had been one black gold medalist, perhaps tucked away in an ice-dancing pair or on a hockey team.

Cheers to Vonetta Flowers. But more importantly, cheers to Flowers and her driver Jill Bakken on ending America's nearly 50 year medal drought in bobsled, an event which the US dominated in the earliest days of the Winter Olympics.

Squelch and ADPhi pledge events tomorrow, I'll keep you posted. Night.