A little music history and some "3rd-person" antics...

October 22, 1990.  The "Off Ramp Cafe" in Seattle.  A 5-piece band with no name takes the stage for the first time ever.  The crowd is absolutely in awe for their entire set.  A couple of months later they decide to call themselves "Mookie Blaylock", after the former University of Oklahoma point guard, who went on to be an all-star NBA player. 

The band ends up getting signed to a major record label, but in doing so, had to change their name. They settle on the name "Pearl Jam", and the rest, as they say, is history. 

Twenty years later, some dude named Dave is doing a paint project in which he paints one stroke a day for a year.  This particular day, he decides to paint a black stroke adjacent to Atala's yellow stroke from Thursday.  He does this for two reasons: 1) he has a copy of Pearl Jam's debut album, "Ten" imported from Europe, and it's jacket is that same yellow and black, and 2) that very same day he goes to the football game of his hometown*, Cassville, home of the Wildcats, who's colors are also yellow and black.  The Wildcats go on to stomp their opponent that night, the East Newton Patriots.  It looks like there's a good chance they may go all the way to the state championship game again this year, which would be the 3rd year in a row, by the way. 

The black stroke also serves another purpose.  This very same day, October 22, 2010, the New York Yankees are officially eliminated from the playoffs.  This makes Dave very happy. 








*Dave's hometown is technically St. Louis, since that was where he was born.  He also graduated from Southwest High School in Washburn, MO, so that could also be construed as his hometown.  Cassville is the town about 8 miles north of Washburn, in which his mother lives.  It's also the closest school with an actual football team, so he must live vicariously through them.