The merging of two beautiful things is taking longer than expected - so I guess we can’t be all that upset that Chipotle is a number of months behind on opening their main street location in downtown Blacksburg. No one asked God to speed things up when he created man in His own image, right?

Over a year after news broke of the big C coming to Bburg the interior work now begins on the site that once held Joe’s Barber shop. Delays brought on by a harsh winter and unexpected building modifications and flooring problems appear to be over as workers are ready to assemble the familiar steel and wood eating spaces where eventually up to 42 hokies will be able to enjoy their burritos. There is also going to be a back patio with additional seating.

As for now the target open date is August, before students pour back on to campus with fully charged Hokie Passports, tons of food swiped from their parents pantry, and bitchin’ new flavors of ice tea vodka.

And Chipotle better get things wrapped up in time for the football season. That cock of a burrito joint, Qdoba Mexican Grill said its heading in to Blacksburg soon as well. I need Chipotle to get in there and crank out the bliss, the campus has suffered long enough with the likes of Extreme Pita, A&W, Philly City and Moe’s.

More drastic than expected building renovations, town permit delays, and cold weather has slowed the opening of Virginia Tech’s new Chipotle location. With paper covered windows it is hard to tell exactly what is going on within the 308 to 316 North Main Street structure, but it sounds as though there will be little similarity to the old layout used by Joe’s Barber shop (though we can still hope that young single mothers will be there to rub their breasts against our ears) once the doors open and welcome students to Blacksburg’s second chain burrito establishment.

What was once a potential New Year opening has turned in to a mid-Spring opening for the soon-to-be best restaurant in town. Still, with all the renovations I was hoping it would be open for the spring game and now it looks like that may not be the case.

Its surprising too, when you consider that after an extensive upscale building project fell through at the new Penn State location (another college I called home), Chipotle simply improvised by buying up an old 5 screen movie theater in the heart of  downtown State College and converted it to a mega-Potle. However, if standing in a 30+ minute wait during a particularly bad lunch rush at Chipotle has taught us anything - its that those burritos are worth the wait.

Every year I like to put down my holiday wish list for the upcoming year as it relates to Virginia Tech athletics. This year the list looks pretty similar to years’ past… I guess some things are just worth the wait:

A Peach Bowl Win: Even without the assistance of Stephan Virgil I still have a decent amount of confidence heading in to our New Years Eve bowl game against Tennessee (but nothing is certain). The game is significant - mainly because the ACC needs to show some power against the dominant SEC and to keep our 10-win season streak going, but I also want a win for those die-hard Hokie fans that may be returning to Atlanta for a third time in four months after seeing the team lose on their first two attempts. Stocking stuffer: Finishing the season with a top 10 ranking.

A trip to the NCAA Tournament: Sitting 10-1 things are looking favorable for the Hokie Bball team. Strangely though this is something I ask for every year and never seem to get. Perhaps the price is low enough this year and I have been an extra special Hokie so I’ll finally get it under the tree. On the horizon are two tough games for the team: a game against a one-loss Seton Hall squad that shares a common loss with VT (Temple) on January 3rd, and the ACC opener against UNC in Chapel Hill one week later. Stocking stuffer: Delaney winning the 2010 Bob Cousy Award.

October 2, 2010: The date that the Hokies take on Boise State at FedExField can’t come soon enough. To anyone who attended the USC FedEx Game several years back you know just how incredible it is to go to a game in Washington DC’s backyard with 90K+ Hokies (sure there will be a few fans from Boise State - but don’t count on them making much of a dent on third downs). Stocking stuffer: Is it too soon to start beating the BCS Championship drum? Pa ra pa pa pum.

The Last Good Condo at “Legends”: So this may be my “Daddy I want a Pony!” gift but there is only one condo left on the top floor of the soon-to-be-built-but-probably-never-will condo complex located in the shadows of Lane Stadium. It features a balcony, one bedroom, and is a much better location than “The Colosseum” project down 460. In a world where money is no object I would love to rain foamy Natty Light shotgun spray down 4 stories before a game with my friends on a balcony. However, if the gameday attitude of Platinum-Diamond-Encrusted-Cock status Hokie Alum are any indication of how your neighbors would be, expect to have the cops called perpetually and banging on the walls if you cheer loudly, or even stand up, at any point while living in the condo. Stocking stuffer: Returning to Hunter’s Ridge (Phase I) for a semester.

Fight For Old DC is hosting a FBI kiddie porn sting operation Hokie Photoshop Contest and I know that the four many readers of DT can put up some good Hokie-related photoshop bits to suck compete for the top-prize.

Send any entries to me an I will send them on to the contest admin and post a copy in this blog entry. Entries are due by December 19th.

Entry 1 by D.G.

Entry 2 by J.P.

Entry 3 by B.G.

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It looks like Bud Light is upping the ante on becoming the tailgate shotgun beer of choice at this year’s Hokie football tailgates. My prediction is that it will be a success, history tells us so. The first time that Dixie plopped down orange solo cups next to the Beer Pong standard Solo red cups they sold out immediately across town.

I look forward to a Nebraska double pounder:
Hokie BL in my left, Hokie Bird White in my right.

I am just pleased because it makes one more reason why people will avoid buying that piss of a beer Miller Lite. But don’t get too far ahead of yourselves Hokie fans… we aren’t the lone school worthy of this marketing gimmick -these school color cans have been made for a number of other NCAA football schools this season as well.

9/24/09 Update: It looks as though the Bud Light “Fan Can” promotion may die before the football season even begins (see the comments section). If you must have these soon-to-be-collector’s items you should head to the University Mall Kroger where the first case was spotted or scour eBay, a few savvy sellers have already put up auctions to sell off cans. Let’s hope that VT doesn’t take an official stance against the cans like many other schools (Boston College, Syracuse, Alabama among others) have and perhaps we can make it to at least one tailgate with orange and maroon cans.

Starting with the 2009-2010 academic year, the largest all-male residence hall on the East Coast will be going co-ed. Pritchard Hall, a place I called home just as 40,000 other men have since 1967, is bending to conform with the gender balance that is becoming a reality at Virginia Tech. The dorm is set to become 41% female, meaning 416 women will have to sleep in the same living spaces that once housed raunchy chronically masturbating sink-peeing freshman who did nothing else but fill their rooms with internet porn, blast early 90’s rap music and smoke pot between trips to Dietrick Express and the shitter. These women will travel everyday in elevators with walls which, at more than one time, have been coated in a base layer and top coats of male piss, they will shower in stalls that have been decorated in feces for no apparent reason, and they will study in lounges that were once used for playful and drunk (but probably almost rape-worthy) sexual acts with women too far from being called one of God’s creatures to dare to bring back to a judgmental roommate.

In my day, finding a girl in Pritchard after 9pm was like releasing bloody chum in shark infested waters. At even the hint of a female on one of the eight floors, heads would poke out of dorm rooms, sniffing, for a moment putting aside Napster downloads, 2 player Tony Hawk games, and Big Lebowski DVD viewing to catch a glimpse of perhaps a painted toenail or anything that didn’t resemble the male form. The heads murmuring through clenched teeth “vagina?”

Starting in the Fall, women will be more than just an occasional echoing laugh from down a bright white cinder block corridor, more than a brave soul traveling to that one female bathroom stall on the first floor by the cage-protected vending machines, and more than someone who runs to and from the showers with her boyfriend’s loofah, wearing Adidas flip flops, clapping along the floor at 10 a.m. on a Saturday morning. Any woman who spent more than 10 nights a year in Pritchard Hall was certifiably a slut - but now will be simply be a potential slut. I hope for their sake these women enjoy watching hardcore porn being projected on to a bed sheet hung from two windows in the pit.

To my surprise Virginia Tech cracked the online list: Hottest Student Bodies: Top 50 Universities Ranked By Looks. Not to say that we don’t have some good-looking ladies down in the ‘burg- but our geography, demographics, and degree offerings haven’t really lended a helping hand when it comes to superficial lists in the past. Of course, we need to take in to consideration that the list was created by a highly professional online magazine by the name of Pop Crunch which goes by the byline: “A celebrity news and gossip blog that features the sexiest, most edgy celebrity news around.” Yeah, I’d say its pretty edgy to put VT on that list. Either way, being better than any school at anything is important to me and I would like to note that we beat Maryland (number 47), UVA (not listed), and Florida State (okay, we didn’t beat Florida State but those two strippers make up about 7% of their rankings - oh and Brett Jula’s imaginary girlfriend shouldn’t be able to count to the rankings either).

Next time let us play the Orioles if you want to provide some healing.