They Call Me . . . "Leader Guy"

One of the projects I've been working on for months is a grave cleaning activity at the Catholic Cemetery in Natchitoches. I'm using it to get material for one of the components of my project thesis. I had a small but energetic turnout of people, and we got a good bit of work done in the process. I was pleasantly surprised.

One of the participants was a writer for the Current Sauce, NSU's student newspaper. A few days after the event, I saw an editorial mentioning the work we had done. Do I, your humble writer, get mentioned in the article? Let's see:

So I would go through the cleaning process a couple of times and would see some improvement, but it didn't really look clean.

At that point the leader guy would come up and simply say, "Come back in a week. Come back in a month. Just wait."

So apparently I am no longer Scotty Williams, but "the leader guy." I guess I could do worse.

It reminded me of the Simpsons episode--"The Joy of Sect"--where Homer joins the Movementarians. Homer is impervious to their conversion efforts, eating dozens of bowls of gruel and singing the "nananananananana BATMAN!" theme song. The Movementarians counter by singing the same tune with "Leader" in place of Batman. I need to come up with a Leader Guy song that will convert people to my cause.

In other news, this was a weird college football weekend in terms of uniforms. Several teams wore custom jerseys in support of the Wounded Warrior Project. Some of the jerseys will be auctioned off. TCU's colors are purple and white, so why were they wearing red stripes on their helmets? Because the Horned Frog squirts blood from its eyes when threatened.

In the Florida/South Carolina game, Gamecock players replaced names on the back of their jerseys with warrior code values: Duty, Honor, Courage, Commitment, Integrity, Country and Service. This led to an interesting call by the CBS announcers doing the game (I paraphrase):

"So there are offsetting personal fouls on the play. In case you're wondering about the names, INTEGRITY just threw a punch at a Florida player."