Ahhhhhhh ... good afternoon, everybody! How are you today?

What a tremendous Thursday. Beautiful weather here in Blacksburg, and even though I’m stuck inside doing work, I’m listening to the dulcet tones of Mike and the Mad Dog on wfan.com—always a welcome reminder of home for me.

In this, the first of two posts today, we’ll address some light-hearted stuff, then get to some more Xs and Os football stuff in the second post. And away we go ...

- Washington Post Lord of Lethargy Adam Kilgore and I were the third and fourth customers when Moe’s Southwest Grill debuted at 11 a.m. today. We arrived outside at 10:45 and waited for the doors to open. Granted, some select V.I.P. customers were allowed to eat at Moe’s in the past few days, as a part of employee training—a torturous sight for those like Kilgore and myself, who have longed to take a burrito to the face since we arrived here in early August and saw Moe’s construction underway.

- Moe’s lived up to our lofty expectations. They even deliver! Kilgore and I both slammed Joey Bag of Donuts burritos with sides of tortilla chips. As we were polishing off our meals, we saw Tech right tackle Ed Wang pull into the handicapped parking space on the street outside. Turns out Wang gets a handicapped tag because of his broken ankle. But he said he won’t have the tag for much longer, so there’s some consolation for your offensive line worries, Hokie Nation—your starting right tackle is no longer legally handicapped.

- The line was snaking almost out the door when Wang arrived, and the poor guy didn’t have enough time to wait because he had to bolt for a test. Kilgore and I both encouraged him to think about his priorities before making such a foolish decision, but Wang seems to have more regard for academia than Kilgore and I did during our college daze at Syracuse.

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A couple extra things from my story in today’s fishwrap about Nekos Brown ...

1. I asked Brown what his first name meant, because it sounds Greek even though he is not. Brown said he always wondered that, too, and he looked it up on the Internet when that silly technological fad first came out. “When we were in class, this was like fourth grade, I was like, ‘What the [heck] does my name mean?‘“ he said.

His curious online discovery: “It’s a cat, like a Chinese cat or something,“ he said. “My mother and my aunt came up with that name, because you’ve heard of Neko before, but you’ve never heard of Nekos. Added the S to it to make it unique.“

I laughed at Brown’s response. Was he serious? Chinese cat? “If I was typing my name on Google,“ he said, “you see football stuff, and the next page—if you [search] in [Google] images—the next page will be like all cats and mythical creatures and stuff like that. Crazy.“

Brown is right. Type “neko” into Wikipedia, and you learn the word is actually Japanese for domestic cat. Type Nekos Brown into Google images (with no quotes), and you find Brown’s pictures on the first row, then, a couple rows down, you find this.

2. Then again, if the meaning of his first name isn’t exactly cool, Brown makes up for it by having the smoothest father of anybody I’ve ever met. His dad is, of course, Chuck Brown, the D.C.-area go-go music pioneer who sang “Bustin’ Loose,“ the 1978 hit that former Daily Press colleague Dave Fairbank boasted is part of his extensive musical catalogue.

Here are some Chuck Brown links ...

- His official Web site (note that he plays in Richmond Oct. 27). The song on the site gives you a good idea of what go-go music sounds like.

- The music video for Bustin’ Loose. Who knew they had music videos back then?

- Another video, this one with DJ Kool, of “Let Me Clear My Throat” fame.

- A live performance in Brown’s hometown of D.C.