Saturday, February 23, 2008

My Oscar Ballot (Because This is How We Do It)

Bring Your Own Beer? Try, Bring Your Own Meat.
SuperBowl? SuperTuesday.
March Madness Brackets? Academy Award Brackets.

Friday, February 22, 2008

San Francisco Revealed!

One day last week that brought uncharacteristically rainy and slippery weather to San Francisco (and don't let anyone tell you otherwise or they must be from SoCal), we were commuting home-- me and the rest of the 50% of the city's workforce that works in SF (what a staunchly-located East Bay friend refers to as the "The West Bay") but calls somewhere in the East, North, or South Bay, home.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

I Promise, Sports Atheists, This Isn't Really About Tennis

Watching Serena Williams lose to Jelena Jankovic in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open a few weeks ago was an act of witness that overcame the mere spectation of sport. Even someone with the most casual knowledge of tennis who sat down on the sofa to watch 5 minutes of this match would have been made aware of the higher-level human act that they were painfully beholden to-- giving up.