Posted: April 14th, 2008 | Filed under: Ruminations, Sports, TV | No Comments »
Competitive professional golf is a curious spectator sport. It’s the only one that I can think of where the fan without a genuine emotional rooting interest cheers for the favorite rather than the underdog.
Which means if there’s no guy in the hunt who grew up down the street or working in the pro shop at your country club, you tend to root for . . . Tiger Woods.
It is so odd. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: January 30th, 2008 | Filed under: Community, Culture, Ruminations, Sports, TV | No Comments »
We will gather. Yes, of course, we will.
It is our annual rite. Our right inalienable.
We will eat chips. Tons of chips. Corn. Potato. And dips. Guacamole, lots of guacamole. So much that one of us, the guy in the corner with green dribbles down his sweater, will mention how there’s more avocados sold this weekend than the rest of the year combined. Or something like that. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: January 14th, 2008 | Filed under: Culture, Ruminations, TV | 1 Comment »
It is easy to understand the popularity of “The L Word.” Theoretically, of course.
A healthy segment of the American populace adores looking at attractive women without their clothes on, watching them making love, making sex, making eyes at their girlfriends’ girlfriends and generally carrying on as people love their soap opera stars to do. Read the rest of this entry »
