Comments on Chronological Snobbery: The Week That Was (2/4 - 2/8)

Dark, indeed.What gives?

2008-02-14T15:59:00.000-06:00

Dark, indeed.

What gives?

Chron Snob has gone dark. Alas.

2008-02-14T15:53:00.000-06:00

Chron Snob has gone dark.

Alas.

TST, that makes complete sense. Really, I have ve...

2008-02-12T10:15:00.000-06:00

TST, that makes complete sense.

Really, I have very little understanding of what it means to be surrounded by a carnival of corporate sponsored hoo-hah for multiple days. I would try to compare it to when I used to work near the stadium where they held the Tostito's Fiesta Bowl, and 1000's of out of state football fans would descend upon Tempe, but it sounds like that multiplied by 100. A very different experience from flipping on the TV twenty minutes prior to kick-off.

Thanks for CS's link and for the League's salute. ...

2008-02-12T06:19:00.000-06:00

Thanks for CS's link and for the League's salute.

The League's nutshell description seems to capture the pith of the SB scene quite well. I wouldn't, though, say that I didn't appreciate the narrative w/r/t the Giants and the Pats. In fact, the football game itself was pretty cool by my lights. It just seemed like a very tiny part of my whole weekend, dwarfed in comparison to "Super Bowl Excitement." Maybe that says something significant in and of itself.

A salute to Zero Effect week. And a second salute...

2008-02-11T14:44:00.000-06:00

A salute to Zero Effect week. And a second salute to TST and her post on the Superbowl (and her comments on Scottsdale).

The artifice surrounding the SuperBowl is, I imagine, a bit like a beer-fueled Disneyland with a 1000 HP Monster Truck zooming around. And I certainly understand not caring an iota for the game.

What saddens me is that TST saw one of the most unexpected upsets in Superbowl history and had no appreciation for the narrative of the events of the game's 4th quarter.

Alas.