Day: February 1, 2016

I don’t know what happened yesterday in the pro bowl and don’t really care. I haven’t for a long time, just like I haven’t had that much interest in professional football since the Jets dropped a 4th quarter lead and their playoff chances into the mud on a Sunday afternoon back in what feels like ’15. There isn’t much appeal to it anymore. I cannot say if it is the lack of interest in the teams or if the weight of all the constant publicity just forced me to tune out. Or maybe its something else.

There’s a great quote from V for Vendetta that goes something like, ‘you have all the information to be had, now all you need is a story’ I feel like that is exactly how it works with sports. Reporters work hard to create that storyline that fans become invested in and right now there isn’t much of one. Folks have tried–billing this as the new generation of QB vs. Old, but even that isn’t really sticking. Instead that storyline is becoming more about the supposed arrogance of Cam Newtown vs. the class of Manning. Again, a fabrication that takes liberty with the information–the evidence–to structure a false narrative about two players and two teams that aren’t all that flashy.

The truth is, from a football perspective this should be a good game. Both teams boast incredible defenses and while Newtown is clearly the better QB at this moment in time, Manning has a better receiving corps and better RBs to wear people out.

Still, I don’t care.

I guess I want Cam to win because it’ll be funny to watch people spin. I guess I want the Broncos to win, because I have a lot of friends who are fans. It is football and I’ll watch and I predict a Panthers blowout but in the end, I’m just waiting for the Giants to get back to business.

Apologies to Billy G, but I can’t answer that question you asked me. Not yet. The sick seeped into my pores and robbed my of the ability to think in anything greater than log jammed stream of consciousness. So instead I’m going to spend ten minutes letting that stream take me where it will…

 

Some Thoughts:

1. At the Myrlin Hepworth concert last night I realized that the dude really needs to get with a guitarist, a piano player, and Sax man. The addition of real instruments to the digitally created beats would lend a certain authenticity to the music that it lacks presently. Not that your words aren’t authentic–the words keep me riveted–the sound behind them feels artificial. DR 808 isn’t enough.
2. Sick sucks. I’m not one who likes getting sick, and over the past few years I’ve been getting sick more and more. This is my first big one in at least 6 months and the worst in a year. But, as my buddy Steve is so fond of saying, ‘it’s still your mother f**kin set’ so I need to get out there and be a person and go to class and do all those important things come morning.
3. I also need to find my way back to a gym. Remember when I used to post my weight? 223… Not great.
4. I love that moment of discovery, when an idea so consumes your brain that you have to write it down before that flash of brilliance fades.
5. I did my team pictures with the boys this year instead of the standard framed plaque for coach situation. I still think I ought to do at least one shot of me with each one of the kids as opposed to me with all three… I might be rambling now.
6. I might also be back on the ultimate kid room kick. Plans are happening in my head for superloft 2.0. This one involves a hutch and an L-shaped loft with plenty of cool areas underneath. There might even be a U shaped plan in the works…
7. That is all. Sleep now.