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Liveblogging the Saints Today at 3 p.m.: ‘Iconography Versus Aerodynamics’ Edition

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Varg

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Today starting at 3 p.m. there will be live-blogging of the Saints HUGE fourth game versus the also-undefeated and hyped New York Jets coming straight from the Superdo…uh, Sylvania 42-inch! We’ve heard sportscaster after sportscaster describe this as “game of the week. I am just hoping to keep my blood pressure around 110 /70. They seem to be really pushing the high-powered Saints high-powered offense (First in the League) versus the Jets stingy defense (third in the League). But maybe it will be the Saints 10th ranked defense beating up the Jets’ 20th ranked offense eh?

Also, not sure if Pants is doing it today but he tweeted the last home game consistently from the 600,000 section of The Mothership so we may have some Skooky stuff going down, going down.

See ya at 3 p.m.
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5:57 Damn, Dirty’s having a bad day.

5:50 Derek Sharper you are a god! I think we got this one yall! 🙂

5:47 Win or lose, defense has been excellent today.

5:42 Thank God, finally we are in. Bless you Frenchy. Merci! Merci!

5:37 They just showed Dirty eating his own fingernails. Like ripping them off and eating them. Not just chewing on them.

5:34 I’ve never even heard of the “hard count” before.

5:32 I do have to ask why they are going for it on fourth and short again!

5:20: Skooks is calling the game over. Said they lost it on the fourth-and-one. Offense is doing nuttin. Brees is having a rough day. We are still ahead though.

5:14 Jesus. I need to drink more. Abita Harvest, I need you.

5:07 Save us Pierre! SAVE us!

4:59 Goddammit Reggie.

4:55: Hey! Little Stevie Weatherford is back in the Dome! Saints offense gets the ball back. Perhaps we could, like, you know, put something together eh? Certainly not a very exciting offensive game. Neither team is looking very hot. Drews got like a hundred yards paaing?

4:50 Damn, offense is stalling. But we still have those two drives from the fist half. Even if one resulted in just a field goal and the other looked like it was going to be good and then it got bad and then it got good again.

4:46 Dirty’s got pressure on him damn nearly every play. Go Saints D-Line.


4:38
Just hooked up an awesome snack. Half an avocado, sprinkled with Garlic powder and Sriracha sauce, spooned individually onto tortilla chips. Simple, but good.

4:20 No, not THAT 4:20. Saints going to try and get some points before the half. Hell ya.

4:03 Oh, fine. Fumble for the TD. That’s cool too. We are fucking these guys up. 14 defensive points. Daaaaaaang.

4:00 Why did Coach Muniz feel the need to gor for it? We didn’t desperatly need the TD. The Jets wer showing resiliency in the previous three plays. It’s okay though. Perhaps a safety?

3:57: Sharper however is quite teh awesome. He just made the damn INT touchdown and already his Wikipedia page is updated.

3:36: Porter is pissing me off.

3:26: Announcers have now twice made comments that refs have missed penalties that would have favored New York.

3:22: Hey, there’s pink everywhere. It’s because it is breast cancer awareness day in the NFL.


3:17:
Now we the tenth-ranked defense versus the 20th ranked offense led by “Dirty” Mark Sanchez!


3:15:
Carney kicks a field goal and the announcers refer to him as “the aged one.” Except I think they pronounced it “the ay-jed one.” Which I sorta like.

3:08: Bush runs up the middle! And gets a first down! That’s a good Reggie. Also, the Saints haven’t been behind all year? Inconceivable!

3:05: Announcers are Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf. Hey ain’t Greg from here? Everyone says it’s loud as hell in the Mothership.

2:50: Game isn’t on but bull riding is! I notice some bull riders wear helmets and some wear the old fashion cowboy hats. If the bull is going to be forced to have a strap tightly around his balls, the rider can see to it to risk his skull as some sort of tribute.

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Know yourself. Know the Universe. Know yourself in the Universe.

Rev. Varg’s Artist Statement

Rejoice!

I say that a lot. I sign many pieces with it. I do this because I believe our lives are a true happenstance. A brilliant occurence from nothingness. We are so rare. We are so unlikely. And simply being born isn’t enough. From there we must survive, endure. So each morning, after our Sun departs and is reborn again. Please, for the sake of your ancestors and the Universe in general, hoist that cup of joe up and say, “Rejoice.”

Ours is a soulful existence. No matter how many McMansions, polyester fabrics, auto-tunes, modified foods and social networks we surround ourselves with, we are all still native, passionate beings made of ancient matter. We are organic and we have soul.

Wood also has a warm, soulful quality. Wood has a memory. It retains smells, traumas, events. It even has a calendar. This is why I have chosen it as my medium, for its old soul. I like to think the wood in my work is in its third incarnation. First a tree, then a home and now art. If you have a room that needs a little soul, get a piece. A room can never have enough soul.

My inspiration and subject matter comes from many sources, among them: Humanism, old ballads, trickster tales, flora and fauna, science, myths and folklore, stringed instruments, brass bands, amber spirits, lady vocalists, general relativity and quantum mechanics. Some of my pieces are there just to make a short, simple statement about what’s important in life. Some are more diffuse and abstract in meaning. A personal drama, an enduring line from a poem or novel, a poignant song lyric, the legacy of an important person, a fleeting thought … these are the subjects of my art.

I use hearts often because they are a very abstract way of depicting the human soul without also employing the very subjective human form. The symbolic heart is an apt representation for a person’s experience and essence. A body can immediatly conjure happiness, sorrow, youth, age, anger, bliss. These emotions can get in the way. Sometimes it’s simply about the experience.

I am the son of a sailor and a social worker, the grandson of a gypsy, a dancer and a nurse. I spent my youth moving from port city to port city, watching a lot of road go by and reading World Book Encyclopedia. After my parents settled down on the Gulf Coast, I was a miscreant youth, destroying cars and taking the wrongs things too seriously and the right things not serious enough. Eventually I began replacing my imagination with experience.

I will use any salvaged wood but prefer swamp cypress and longleaf heartwood pine.

I despise waste. Particularly the waste of organic matter. Trees are magnificent. They were here before we arrived and they’ll be around after we are gone. I’m making an effort to save as much wood as possible. Creating art is fun too. But beyond communicating with folks, but beyond making money ad providing for myself, beyond rescuing flooded parts, beyond reveling in the ethereal aroma of heartpine that hasn’t seen the light of day in 400 years, beyond all that, I am trying to make a simple comment on waste.

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