USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen. I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify. In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather. "Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully. "Honey, that's what it looks like." The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it." I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it. I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South. It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent. "Well?" the waitress asked. "I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed." "Everybody does, hon." Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it. Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating. I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden. It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

🎼“Cause you see I’m a dinosaur. I should have died out a long time before.”🎶🎶🎶 @BryceChance4 is one of the last of his kind. As his State career winds down, let’s appreciate his story one more time: 📰 - hailstate.com/news/2026/6/5/…

BREAKING NEWS: The MHSAA has passed a 1.5 multiplier for private schools that compete in the Association. That means that the private school enrollment numbers will be multiplied by 1.5 and that will be the number used for which level they compete in. The MHSAA counts grades 9-11 for reclassification. This will go into practice for the 2027-2028 season.

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That will be all for Roman. On comes Tollett