Rants. Raves. T-shirts. All observations on the peculiarity of Provo life.

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Oh, the fame! Oh, the glory!

You'll all be pleased to know that this morning, the Deseret News awarded the Cecil is my Homeboy shirts a 2006 "Sammie" award. Check out the article here:
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650219029,00.html

I think this is great--I didn't know they were cool enough to win a fake award. Heck, I don't even know what the name "Sammie" means, but we'll take it nonetheless. I give the Deseret News some credit for recognizing that BYU is an actual college where young people have a good time, instead of insisting that its students spend all their time in rigorous study, with the occasional break to become engaged.

If nothing else, the article has provided us with this priceless quote:

"I always enjoy my association with our students, even if I'm not up on the
latest terminology."
President Samuelson


And here's the text of the important part of the article, in case the link stops working:

Sober? BYU is full of drollery
By Tad Walch
Deseret Morning News

PROVO — Brigham Young University's sober reputation is cemented in the national consciousness — more on that in a moment — but 2006 proved that humor, if not alcohol, flows freely in the shadow of Y Mountain.
The biggest campus wits included the president of the Board of Trustees and the president of the university. Since those men double as President Gordon B. Hinckley, leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Elder Cecil O. Samuelson, of the church's First Quorum of the Seventy, students have strong ecclesiastical examples of drollery.
Without further ado, then, let's hand out the 2006 "Sammies."
• The first goes to three students who caused a ruckus after they printed and sold T-shirts with Samuelson's image and the phrase "Cecil Is My Homeboy."
The students — Austin Craig, Landon Pratt and Roger Pimentel — dropped off one of the shirts at Samuelson's office and said they would stop selling them if he wished it. Instead, his secretary sent them an e-mail: "The president has no objection to you selling it. However, he wanted you to know that he probably won't be wearing it in public!"
Craig said that proved Samuelson has a sense of humor. So did the comment the president provided for this story: "I always enjoy my association with our students, even if I'm not up on the latest terminology."
The phrase became standard student jargon. One example: The campus comedy troupe Divine Comedy does a sketch where Samuelson is a Superman-like character who flies in to save the day. ("Faster than a Provo engagement, able to leap over the Botany Pond, more powerful than the combined testimony of the BYU Men's Chorus, he's President Samuelson!") During the sketch at a recent show, a student in the audience yelled out, "Go, Cecil."
Improvising, the student playing Samuelson/Superman turned to the audience and said, "Thank you. You're my homeboy."

(Not bad, eh?)

Thursday, December 21, 2006

(Christmas) Tradition!


I don' know about you guys, but I'm basically the youngest in my family, and all my brothers and sisters are married and have their own plans for Christmas. They're starting their own families and traditions. The question is, what are some of the Christmas traditions out there? I'll start. Though we're not doing it since my parents moved , we used to have a party on Christmas eve with everybody from our neighborhood, then on Christmas morning, after all of us kids had slept in the same room (I don't know why we did that) we marched downstairs from oldest to youngest.

Ok, your turn. Go. Tradition!

P.S. I know the picture isn't very Christmas-y, but it is extremely Tradition-y.

Monday, December 11, 2006

Some Snow Disease


I've decided I suffer from some Winter ailment. I have repeatedly woken up, only to discover that my bed is warmer, softer, and less work than actually getting up and getting dressed for a day with nothing that interests me. I grew up in ARIZONA, and while I've not lived there for over five years, I don't think I will ever become completely acclimatized to these darn Utah Winters. It's pretty, I know, but I can see it all just fine from the window next to my bed.