So Ryan Perrilloux finds himself in a good bit of trouble for trying to get on a casino boat using his older brother”s ID. A big deal in itself? Hardly. We all know underage SEC quarterbacks like to have a little fun in the off-season - right UGA sophomore QB Matthew Stafford?
The problem for Perrilloux, of course, is that the casino incident follows on the heels of his brush with federal counterfeiting charges and his general less-than-sunny reputation as a big talker who”s not proved anything to this point on the field. So Leslie has put him on suspension and is now talking about Jarrett Lee as a No. 2 QB this fall. That”s a good move, as Perrilloux apparently doesn”t realize the special responsibility you take on as a bigtime QB.
It also wouldn”t be a bad idea to drive out to LaPlace and check for pit bulls at his house.
Elsewhere in LSU football, ESPN has picked up the Virginia Tech game - for a 9:15 p.m. Eastern kickoff. Damn that”s late. And CBS hasn”t yet committed to picking up the Florida game, but the possibility exists for it to be on CBS at night. That would be most excellent, but I guess CBS wants to see how LSU and Florida respond to the hype.
Speaking of hype - Lindy”s puts LSU at No. 2 in the country going into the season. We”ll see. As I”ve said before, having four first-round NFL draft picks means a lot of 2006 success came from talent on the field that won”t be there this year. LSU should be good, and expectations are rightfully high with a lot of returning talent and a favorable schedule, but we”ll have to earn it.
And finally, there will be a Mike VI, so PETA should move on to something else. I hear Auburn”s tiger bird is unhappy, so go check that out.
He was a good fella. And could somebody at LSU please come up with a picture from his arrival day in the cage that includes me? Dude on the right sort of almost looks like me, but it ain”t.
The symbolism of Mike V dying as the LSU Baseball team”s season likely gets put to rest in Nashville this weekend is not lost on me. Dark Days, indeed.
It”s good to see my buddy Dave and the Imagination Movers getting another step closer to kid rock (not Kid Rock) superstardom with the debut of a new set of videos on Playhouse Disney. The videos are a precursor to the TV show in development with Disney, and the Mouse influence is evident with slicker production values.
Some enthusiastic Movers fan (me) has posted the new videos up at YouTube (note to Disney … it”s for the purpose of promoting your new act, so embrace it, please). Vids and notes:
Imagination Movers Theme
This video gives a glimpse inside the Idea Warehouse set for the TV show and sets the tone for the band and the series.
Mover Music
The mac daddy new Movers video. Choreographed by one Trish Sie, who did a couple of neat little videos for her brother”s band - OK Go. You know, treadmills and all that. Wins herself a Grammy and follows up with doing an Imagination Movers video. Not shabby.
Shakable You
Big David Byrne jackets …
Seven Days A Week
Not an Irish drinking song … but close.
Farm
This one may be my favorite song and video of the bunch. You can”t lose with an ornery pig (what is that, a Razorback??) and “The roosters … the roosters … the roosters are tired!”
An interesting dynamic of the Disney stuff is that they cut what are full-length songs down to 60-second and 90-second video versions (you can check the 60-second versions here). Having had a chance to see some of the full-length videos, it”s too bad that they have to get cut down, since there”s some actual good songwriting and instrumentation going on here. But that”s life in the big media world, I suppose.
In any case, nice to have Disney putting the machine behind the Movers.
I”ve been poking around a bit with some information about Inman Park Properties lately (previous reports), and I noticed an interesting pattern.
The company really doesn”t like to pay its property taxes in East Atlanta. According to DeKalb County online records (which purport to be accurate to within two days on property tax information), Inman Park Properties has only paid its 2006 property tax on six of the 31 parcels it (and LLCs controlled by Inman Park Properties owner Jeff Notrica) owns in the East Atlanta Village.
That”s right - 25 unpaid property tax bills out of 31 total properties totalling $92,116, according to the county site. That”s $92,116 Notrica”s companies owe to DeKalb County and the city of Atlanta in 2006 taxes. And they owe another $6,981 in 2004 and 2005 taxes for the Homeless Hovel property Notrica finally demolished in January.
Hey, that”s $3 short of $100K Notrica has in unpaid taxes just here in our little commercial village.
There are about 100 total parcels in the East Atlanta Village area. Taking out a few government and church properties, there”s about 90 commercial properties on which taxes are levied. Apart from the 25 Inman Park Properties and Notrica parcels on which 2006 taxes are owed, there are only three other properties I found that owe 2006 taxes. Two of those owed a small portion of their total tax bill.
Only Abe Asher - the other bad-reputation property owner in East Atlanta Village - neglected to pay a tax bill completely. He owes taxes on one of his nine parcels (11% of his properties). Notrica owes taxes on 80% of his properties.
It turns out that St. Louis Cardinals” pitcher Josh Hancock had a blood alcohol level of 0.157, wasn”t wearing a seatbelt and may have been talking on his cellphone when he killed himself by slamming into the back of a tow truck going 68 miles per hour (in a 55 zone).
That”s a whole lot of stupidity to invest in a single human.
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