Brent and I tried out the website muxtape.com. It basically lets you make an online mixtape, that anyone can access over the interwebs. We put together mixes of our favorite songs of 2008.
Check em out if you want to. We don’t care what you think.
I know the elbuzzard faithful expected a draft post on Monday morning. For that I apologize. I’m much better at free agent signings than drafts. With the exception of our last pick, we only took guys who wore red in college. Excellent draft strategy.
We traded up to get Sedrick Ellis, a DT from USC. Apparently, he’s real good. Like all college players, I don’t know a lot about him other than what Mel Kiper says on TV. He’s a defensive player. A run-stopper. I like that. If he pans out, and we can get consistent pressure on the QB, our secondary will look a lot better than it did last year, even if Chasin’ David is still starting. Also our Dline coach Ed Orgeron was his coach at USC. So we should know what we are getting. In theory.
What I really like about our draft is our sixth-round pick. Taylor Mehlhaff. A GODDAMN kicker. He was the first kicker taken in the draft, and was the highest ranked by most everyone. Who cares, right? Who cares about the kicker? Why waste a draft pick? Just sign a free agent, right?
That’s been working out great for us, hasn’t it? No more Mare (well, he’s already been cut), no more Cundiff, no more Marteen Gramatica, no more whoever we have kicking for us now. No more having a kickoff guy and a field goal guy. Just one guy who does both. I really hope this guy can do both, the criticism I’ve read in some places is that he’s a better kickoff specialist than field goal kicker. I’m just glad to see us addressing a position that caused us no end of grief last year.
Assuming, of course, the kid can kick.
Marnie sent in some more photos from the big wedding shindig. Hers are first in the list, if you’ve checked out the gallery before.
Here are some highlights:
She actually thought to take pictures of the bride and groom…
Leslie sums up how we all feel:
Here’s our photos from Amber and Mark’s wedding.
We didn’t do a very good job of taking pictures of Amber or Mark…
Where are you these days? Seattle? LA?
Everyone’s favorite Saint has restructured his contract to remain with the team for at least one more season.
I hope he can make it. I love the guy, but he’s had so many ACL tears. When he went out last season (again), I figured that was the last we would see of him on the field.
If there’s one thing that I love about being a Saints fan, it’s the DOOOCE cheer.
Also, are Nissans any good? If I was in the market for a car, I don’t know how I could resist not visiting Deuce Nissan…
In other news, I simply CANNOT WAIT to get to New Orleans this weekend for Amber’s wedding. I haven’t been on a steamboat in forever. Maybe when my Aunt Tunia was in town many many years ago? I don’t know. I’m excited. I can’t wait to see everyone. Amber, I hope you invited Deuce.
Nice stain, Mitch…
Ashley Morris, the writer of one of the NOLA blogs I read every day passed away the other day.  I never met him in real life, but I enjoyed his passion for New Orleans and the Saints, and liked commenting on his blog. I’m really saddened by this.
It’s weird, this internet thing. Just really weird.
Barack Obama finally released a Gulf Coast recovery plan on his website, so it is now officially OK to vote for him if you want.
Here it is: Obama Katrina Fact Sheet (pdf)
As discussed before, Hillary Clinton has had her Presidential Gulf Coast Recovery Agenda online for some time now.
It is NOT OK to vote for John McCain. He does not acknowledge that anything happened or needs to happen to the Gulf Coast after Katrina on his website.
So, feel free to vote for either Obama or Clinton without scorn and rebuke from elbuzzard.com.
(Thank you to my darling wife for pointing out to me that Obama updated his website)
Hope you have a great day!
We’ll see you in April.
