It’s a slippery slope being a fan of The Beautiful Game. One day, you’re minding your own business, blowing the blood vessels in your eyeballs by blowing your much-maligned vuvuzela. There you are, rooting for France, throwing back mojitos at Vagabond during lunch in South Park on a Thursday, alongside the business set, who’ve sneaked [...]
I was working this morning on a Very Important Post about the economy and whether it’s getting better, when I stopped to take a phone call. Thanks to the convergence of the oil crisis, my midlife crisis and my crisis of confidence, the conversation with my friend ran right over the start time of the [...]
Me: I don’t get the difference between figure skating and ice dancing. Sam: Well, figure skating is smooth with a series of elements that have to be shown, with dramatic air-type things and turns and jumps and stuff. The ice dancing is more dancey, if you will, with dance moves and lots of those close [...]
I was in the kitchen, setting out the frosting and the jimmies for the cupcakes Ruby and I had just put in the oven, when I heard a couple of heavy thuds come from the front hallway. It was pouring rain, Sam was away for the weekend and my heart had already exploded into a [...]
I decided to go into work a little later than usual because I’d stayed late the day before and because, with imminent pay cuts, my attitude is sour and because I needed to blow off a little steam and, frankly, because I could. I dropped my kid at school and headed to the gym, where [...]
Poor Michael Phelps. The guy can’t get a break since he was caught making out with a bong. I find the whole thing to be so utterly ridiculous that I almost want to friend him on Facebook. And I’m not even a fan! Sure, I was enthralled with him back at The Cube. But each [...]
Okay. So. Let’s say that Sam fires up his Mini this weekend, scoots to Las Vegas and places a bet on the Green Bay Packers game this Sunday against the Tennessee Titans. He may drop a few quarters in a slot machine or enjoy a lap dance on the way to the betting office, but [...]
I’m sort of ashamed to admit it but I’ve been sucked into the vortex that is the Olympics. Normally, I skip it because the coverage is too much blatant thought control for this girl. And while I’ve enjoyed much of what I watched this past week and am now officially in training to become Dara [...]
Did anyone else spend at least part of their Sunday leaping from the couch while maniacally screaming at their television set? I watched sports for a better part of this weekend—the second stage of le Tour and the Wimbledon finals—and all I can say is that I was in freakin’ heaven! Give me tennis or [...]