East/West

Mom and I went to the East/West all star basketball game on Monday night at the Greensboro Coliseum to watch Victor Davila (6'9") play his last high school game. There were ten on each team - the twenty best players in the state, and Victor dominated! He scored 24 points against a 7'1" guy who has signed with Wake Forest (who in turn only scored 12 points against Victor). He tied with a guy from the East who also scored 24 points, and who was the MVP - but just because the East won. If the West had won Vic would have been MVP. Anyway, it was exciting to watch. AND he only played a little over half the game. The coach would sub all five at one time halfway through the quarter until the last quarter, then I think Victor played the whole time. So, now on to Virginia Tech. Go Hokies!

Ponyboy, What Happened?

I just finished watching a TV movie, "A Gunfighter's Pledge", I think was the name. C. Thomas Howell was one of the main characters. If I hadn't seen his name in the credits I wouldn't have recognized him. He has not aged gracefully at all. On the other hand, Luke Perry, who was also in the movie, has really come into his own since the Dylan McKay days. He has finally shaken off that teenaged punk look and has actually grown up into a pretty decent-looking actor. I think it's interesting to see how people age. When I go back to Starmount to a ball game or something I usually will see some people that I haven't seen since high school. The guys who were so cute back then are such rednecks now - beer bellies and all. It's like an opposite thing. The nerdy guys have actually grown up to be pretty handsome and seem to take better care of themselves. And the girls/women. Most of us have also gained a lot of weight, but there was this one girl at one of our reunions a few years ago that was always really heavy in school, and now she's got the body of a model. It's just strange.