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Well, as I mentioned in my SEC Power Poll post earlier today, for the next several weeks I will be at a “secure and undisclosed location.”  The reason for this is that I am preparing to start a 2-3 week trial which … well … let’s just say that the parties stridently disagree.  Thus, until I return, “Home Sweet Home” will be manning the wheel here at the Gate, and will captain the the ship (probably far better than I usually do).  I will still be trying to post a few odds and ends here and there, but for all intents and purposes I’ll be incognito here for a while.

Once I return in late October—and my occupation quits infringing on my blogging—I hope to roll out a few new things (what is it with me debuting new ideas just before the end of the season?).  If things go according to plan, I will be able to debut a few new things, along with finally finishing some of the updates I started back in the summer but was forced to delay due to the very same case that I am getting ready spend weeks trying.

Ke garne… (That’s Nepalese for “Go Figure”)

Anyway, until I do manage to free myself from the bonds of Court and my occupation as a Shyster and Evidence Manipulation Specialist, I do want to go ahead and introduce—a few days late—a new partnership which Gate 21 is starting with the Blazer Chronicles which have previously lived only over on YouTube.  The hope is that, once I am back full speed, the Blazer Chronicles will become a regular part of the Gate’s veritable cornucopia of choices.  For now, however, we are simply going to be embedding the Blazer Chronicles in their current format for all to see.

The Blazer Chronicles: Episode 5B

The Blazer Chronicles: Episode 6

So, until I am back 100%, make sure you let Home Sweet Home know how much more you like his stuff than mine…

– Go Figure …

Videos Courtesy of: VolzRChamps / Blazer Chronicles

In case you haven’t noticed by the temporary header…

As I mentioned a few weeks back, I am in the midst of remodeling here at Gate 21 in preparation for football season.  Bearing that in mind, I am currently adjusting the color scheme here at the Gate, changing from the brownish “off-dirt” family of hues to more of a “light-black” (as if there were such an oxymoronicly named color — oh yeah, there is: “gray”) direction.  I’ve also added a few minor touches: such as the “shinier” checkerboard pattern, and the little “21” logos down the page a bit.  On the whole, my goal is to make things a bit darker near the top to improve visibility and make it more likely that some one might read my drivel.  If things look exactly the same, just hit refresh in your browser to see my coloring project.

Once again I have my coloring book out…

A Coloring Book for Lawyers ( PDF)

Anyway, let me know any thoughts either of you two folks out there who read this rag might have about this — including any complaints about how brown is your favorite color, how you hate my mascot “Gus,” how you can’t understand why I insist on having that infernal checkerboard across the middle of the screen, and how  you liked it better before I started screwing with it.

Seriously, if you hate it, just tell me…

– Go Figure …

Coloring Book Courtesy of: Office Spam

Actually, I suppose this is more like screaming madly as you run around in circles…

Well, in case you haven’t noticed (and you probably haven’t) it’s been pretty quiet here at Gate 21 lately — brisk as the tomb. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I am in the midst of a breakneck stretch here in which other obligations have forced me to step back briefly from this my temple of wasted time.

Anyway, given the fact that I will be moving tomorrow, I anticipate that there will be nothing new here on Gate 21 until next week (unless I get really lucky and find that I have inadvertently packed my clone in a box which the movers thoughtlessly carted off). Not that any of you actually care, but I am hoping to be back open for business full time at some point during the first week of June July.

Be that as it may — if you would be interested in contributing here at Gate 21, please feel free to email me at any time. Much as I am loathe to finally admit it, I suppose that I am now actively seeking more writers for the site, regardless of your stripes (yes, I might even let Florida fans contribute … sigh).

In the meantime, if you are looking for a little sports-blog action, you might try checking out a few of my personal favorites (a/k/a blogs that I regularly read):

(in no particular order)

• The World According to MoonDog
• 3rd Saturday in Blogtober
• Rocky Top Talk
• Fulmer’s Belly
• Your Mother Slept With Wilt Chamberlain
• Pigskin Pathos
• The BruceBall Blog

And just to show that I’m not completely fixated on Tennessee (which everyone knows is a damn lie) here are a few non-Tennessee affiliated blogs I read

• Get the Picture (Georgia)
• Hugging Harold Reynolds (Sports in General)

All of these blogs actually have some idea of what they are about, and occasionally get around to actually posting an article or two.

Anyway, hope to return to my typical level of low-quality and poor taste in the near future…

– Go Figure …

Not that anyone out there is actually reading…

Lawvol’s Planner

As you can see from my schedule, my life has been a bit busy of late. Between work, life, buying and selling my house, coaching Little League, beating up old ladies on the side of the road, and thinking up new and interesting ways to contemplate my navel I’ve been a bit crunched for time. Thus, I want to formally make excuses in advance for my hit-or-miss posting which will occur over the next few weeks.

With any luck, I’ll be back up and running as usual in July. Until then, my posts may be a bit sporadic, and of more dubious (a/k/a “crappy”) quality than my usual level of mindless and meaningless drivel.

I promise that, once things are a bit more settled, I’ll return to my current schedule of daily posting with the same poor writing and lack of intelligent thought that you have come to expect from the temple of wasted time that is Gate 21.

In the meantime, feel free to send me nasty comments and emails about how lazy I am and how I lack character…

Should any brave soul feel compelled, I welcome guest writers who would like to submit posts for publication. If you are interested (and I seriously doubt any of you are) simply email me by clicking my signature at the bottom of the post and we’ll get you set up (I’ll even do you up a fancy-schmancy avatar if you like).

– Go Figure …

Images Courtesy of: Photo of the Day Blog

Just an FYI…

Gate 21 is undergoing updates and upgrades today, as Lawvol tries to shift to the newest and fanciest version of Wordpress — Wordpress 2.5.

Thus, it is possible that things might look a bit out of place or generally messed-up during the process. Please bear with us while the “brain trust” tries to work out the issues. If you notice anything that looks odd, or is not functioning properly, please leave a comment on that page and let us know what’s broken.

– Go Figure …

“So where is the real Gate 21?” you may be asking yourself (“Ummm … Actually, not really”).

Gate 21 is “my” gate at Neyland Stadium.   It’s how I enter Fort Neyland every gameday.  It also happens to be the “main” gate into the stadium (at least that’s how it appears).  It sits on a big plaza where all sorts of alums, hangers-on, orange-clad crazies, program hawkers, trucks offering free ice cream, and visiting fans can be found waiting to enter the stadium.  It’s where the Vol Network does its pre-game show.  It’s where the Pride of the Southland marches into the stadium after doing its “Salute to the Hill” performance.  It’s where you can buy some really overpriced tickets from people with a fist full of tickets and—peculiarly—a cardboard sign on their chest announcing “Need Tickets.”  It is the path I use to get to my seats to watch the Vols play.  It is the entrance to the original Tennessee Home for the Visually Offensive (so named for its profusion of orange and lack of teeth).

The Real Gate 21

Gate 21 is where I have entered the stadium for years now, so I just figured it was as good a name as any for a blog about Life, the Universe, and College Football the Bounce of the Ball. I guess the real Gate 21 is a lot like this blog: it leads to something more; it is the gateway to a lot of wasted time; it promises great things lie within, but often the performance is less than spectacular.  It is part of my world, so I thought I’d drag any of you people who actually have time to waste reading my blog there to see it.

Either way, it’s the only decent name I could come up with…

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