I watched some of the Super Bowl tonight– for work; no, seriously– and I saw that the big postgame TV slot went to CBS’ “Criminal Minds.” Apparently, Dawson from Dawson’s Creek played a serial killer, which is the only thing I’ve heard about this season better than Chevy Chase being cast as a Hollywood a-hole on “Law & Order.” In the commercial, they showed the shadowy killer putting streaming video of his deeds online. The lead cop in the commercial sneered, “Murder… played for entertainment,” in disgust.
I hope the irony was not lost on too many in the viewing audience.
We now enter one of my favorite times of the year: that sweet spot when football is over and baseball hasn’t started yet. For the nerd, it’s like lying out on a blanket in the grass, gazing up at the sky as twilight falls on a mild summer day. Cherish these glorious days, these days when “60 Minutes” and “The Simpsons” start on time and the news is about things that happened.
February 5th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
The only true downtime comes after basketball and before baseball. We’re now in the pre-March madness phase, followed closely by who-really-cares-NBA playoffs.
I don’t normally give a hood’s wink about basketball, but now that I’m in a college town with a top 10 team I expect I’ll watch at least one game at a sports bar with some friends. I should probably find out who the hell the players are before that happens so I don’t look like a tool. Or I could just keep my comments decidedly vague. “Man, our defense is amazing this year.” “Did you see that shot at the end of the last game? Wow!”.
February 7th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Basketball has no power over the Gateway City: Baseballville USA has no NBA team, and in the space where there should be college ball there is only suck.
A friend of mine is a St. Louisan only because his parents moved here during the ’50s for the university. “Yay Billikens!” his parents’ family said encouragingly, as at the time the Bills were a Thing. What’s a Billiken?, America says now. And to America, I respond, “A basketball player too poor to get accepted elsewhere.”