I’ve disclosed in prior posts and revelations, my illustrious acting career, and while I wish in my Garbo way only to be left alone, the career continues to tug at my sleeve.  I received a residual check from the Screen Actors Guild.

Grossed $0.79.  They withheld $0.19 for Federal Income, $0.03 for Social Security, and $0.01 for Medicare.  Three sheets of paper with a detachable check for $0.56.  The Screen Actors Guild must be close to broke on my account.

I vant to be ah-lone.

I give thanks for my wife, Melanie, and our happy marriage; for the love and friendship of our families; for those who protect and defend our world; and to God who gives me life and faith, hope, and love.

I wish you peace and prosperity in this holiday season!

And, let’s Go-oooooo, Mountaineers!  Beat Pitt!

What’s the statute of limitations on potential NCAA violations? Just look at this picture from the WVU Media Day in 1988.

Hey, that’s the tailback from a team that will go 11-0 and play for the National Championship against Notre Dame. Don’t I look like one of those sleazy sports agents or party boy entourage hangers or, even worse, Dr. Feelgood? Yet, I was only a highly respected and poorly paid doc student who just liked football. I’d met Eugene Napoleon two years earlier in my Comm80 large lecture course where Eug served as a Sports Beat reporter. I had most of WVU scholarship athletes in that class at one time or another from 1986 to 1999. The class got so famous that WVU Presidents would come in for a Star Turn during Rock Break; the conspiracy runs that deep, wide, and high. And, we can’t forget the Playboy Girls of the Big East! Sorry, no pictures, but they were all hotter than Michelle Pfeiffer, and believe me, while I’m no Jack Kennedy, I knew Michelle Pfeiffer.

Next year, Eugene’s son will join the Mountaineers football team as a scholarship athlete. Maybe QB. The son’s smarter than the father. He must have watched the game tape of Eugie hitting the hole. “Gonna be like this all day, baby.” Markus Paul, Syracuse, to Eugene Napoleon, WVU, 1988.

My thoughts and prayers are with those who have sacrificed for me, my family, and our country. I appreciate your service.

God bless America.

The difference between thoughtfulness and intelligence is the difference between persuasion and a computer.