Watch a televised football game. The announcers will remind you that it is a FOOTBALL game. Which is being played by FOOTBALL teams composed of FOOTBALL players who are coached by FOOTBALL coaches. Each FOOTBALL team is cheered on by FOOTBALL fans, who crowd inside FOOTBALL stadiums. At every opportunity you the viewer are reminded that you are, in fact, watching a FOOTBALL game. Why? Why do they incessantly include the modifier "football", when most people will find it self-evident that they are watching a FOOTBALL game and there is not need to remind them? I think it's because American football still worries about being confused with the rest of the world's football, so they repeat the word until their tongues are dry and the word kind of sounds like it might be an ugly fish in North Pacific. Football. Fooball. Foobah. Fubah. The fubah travels over 4,000 miles to spawn, then dies penniless, alone and regretful.
On the weekend, I've taken to letting myself sleep as late as possible, but I've been woken up by my dreams lately. The last one was about the house my 3rd grade best friend lived in when we were in 6th grade. The past sucks.
Uncomfortable phenomenon: I know an increasing number of college graduates who work at Starbucks as baristas.
