• The song Afternoon Delight is about, among other things, an appetizer from Clyde’s of Georgetown.  This and other fun facts in Jeff Reger’s cover featuring Georgetown professors Bill Danoff (the writer of Afternoon Delight) and Walter Egan, who had a hit himself with Magnet and Steel.
• Tim Fernholz is in the market for some Catholic justice, the upshot being, he says, Iraq war architect and Georgetown professor Douglas Feith has got to go.
• With the Big East Tournament underway and the Big Dance on the horizon, the Sports section is (almost) all basketball.  Tony Francavilla has a web exclusive on the beating ‘Nova took this afternoon, Phil Perry channels former Hoyas who chose to finish their four years elsewhere, Joseph Richman gives a tip of the hat to DaJuan Summers and Liz Kuebler bigs up JT III.
• Juliana Brint continues her stellar GUSA coverage as Pat is sworn in with ambitious plans for free summer housing, a new alcohol policy and lunch.  A little too ambitious, if you ask me.
• Mask & Bauble gets inside G.W. Bush’s head in the winner of their one act play contest and, Ryan May Handy says, it’s both witty and brief.  (You can buy tickets here.)
• The Editorial Board tells the National Park Service to clean up its act (and the National Mall).

I’m off to watch the second half of the Pitt-Louisville game.  It’s 31-33 right now with Pitt behind, but I smell an upset.

Jeff Reger takes us back a few decades this week in his cover story on musicians/songwriters/Georgetown professors Walter Egan and Bill Danoff. In case you haven’t read the cover and are wondering who Egan and Danoff are, no worries: just let YouTube fill you in (and then go read the cover).

Egan’s hit 1978 single “Magnet and Steel” was produced by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac and went on to sell over a million copies. In the video, Egan is rolling six deep and sporting an outfit that could only be described as transplendent (or something).

This next song, written by Danoff, thanks largely to Will Farrell and Mitchell Hurtwitz, needs little introduction. Danoff is the lead singer in the video, wearing a black tux and a pretty boss ‘do.

I feel like I’d be remiss if I didn’t post either an Arrested Development or Anchorman video along with this. (Unfortunately, videos of Michael and Maeby’s tender duet are in short supply on the interweb.) Video after the jump.

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The Big East tournament is one of the finest displays of basketball anywhere in the world, and the Voice’s Anthony Francavilla will be there all weekend to keep you updated on the Hoyas’ progress. Georgetown got it started right, and got it started quickly, with an 82-63 smackdown of the Villanova Wildcats. With no controversial last-second foul calls to hide behind this time, all ‘Nova fans can do now is shake their heads and think about the tournament record-tying 17 threes the Hoyas dropped to offset a nightmare afternoon for senior center Roy Hibbert (0 points, fouled out) and pull away in the second half. The loss could spell tournament trouble for the Wildcats, who were already treading precariously on the NCAA bubble.

Also from our Great News department, freshman guard Chris Wright was back in action for the Hoyas after missing the entire conference schedule with an ankle injury. He scored 6 points and notched 4 assists in 15 minutes of action, and proved his value as a speedy press-breaker that Georgetown has desperately lacked this season.

Up next for JTIII and his boys are the West Virginia Mountaineers, who took down the 15th-ranked UConn Huskies in the second afternoon game, 78-72. WVU has its own beef with Georgetown, as the Mountaineers lost the teams’ only regular-season meeting in Morgantown thanks to an acrobatic last-second block by Patrick Ewing Jr. that many felt should have been called goaltending. It was, at any rate, about as close a call as you could ever see. The world will find out tomorrow night at 7 if the Mountaineers are better at exacting revenge than the Wildcats.