Big news out of The German Village last night that The Godfather has changed his name to The Chancellor. This is helpful because I now know how to spell chancellor. My previous affiliation with the word came in the form of Van Chancellor a long-time women's basketball coach whose entire name sounds like a last name.

It'd be nice if the name change breathed some new life into this blog as I became aware last night at The Mayor's Christmas Party that eight or nine people don't read this blog on a daily basis, it's more like 25 or 26 depending on who you're relying. Yes, it's a christmas party. Only communists say "H*ppy H*l*d*ys."

Fantastic evening at the Gracie Mansion as I was one of only three males not wearing a flannel/plaid shirt tucked in (not that I don't have one).

I'm all for the name change, by the way. The Godfather put in a solid three years (always as a namesake and usually as a poster). The Chancellor has a chance to be of equal stature.

Moving on ...

- Today marks The 1's birthday. I commented on his Facebook wall that he's quite quote-alicious winning "Quote of the Week" honors at football games as often as The Mayor won "Best Dressed."

We'll be celebrating Thursday night at Skully's/Skull-leeeeees. I'll be starting my night early by clicking "LIKE" on any chick's Facebook status that changes to "XXXX XXXX is single." No really, Imma just probably head to The Little Bar for a bit to see that one bartender in a Santa outfit. Imma? Oops. I am checking out athlete's Twitter accounts far too often.

- Fantasy Football!? F-YEAH! In the race for highest points in our league three people still have a legit chance to win the prize. Simian Nation has 873 points, Mathlete 845 points and Art McGregor 828 points. With three weeks remaining, it'll likely come down to Art McGregor and Mathlete because Simian Nation has Peyton Manning and he probably won't play much in the final three games. Let's go Aaron Rodgers!! No relation to TR O'Bannon. I still think it's Mathlete's as Chris Johnson is this year's "if you have this guy, you're winning your league" guy. Mathlete also benefits most from the league's scoring system with guys like Jake Cutler (no negative points for INTs) and Willis McGahee (only scores TDs/steals them from Ray Rice). I'm still hanging on to hope like a candle in the wind.