pleased to meet you. hope you guessed my name.

[intertribal]

The title is inspired by me and Lucia watching Charmed today and me accidentally saying, "You see, I make a great source"... I meant a resource on Charmed timelines, but The Source is short for The Source of All Evil in the Charmed universe, so of course that made for a funny five minutes.  Lucia said, "You know, now I think you are the Source," and seeing as how I've been telling my mother how I'm always more sympathetic to the Devil in movies than God...

... there are reasons for that, people.  Memnoch was definitely the most sympathetic character in Memnoch the Devil.  When we got to God and we the readers were all supposed to bow down and be amazed, I was just like, "what?  you're a bastard."  I'm like a Cormac McCarthy priest.  I'm the one in the broken house with a one-eyed cat, shaking my fist at God.  

Uh, okay.  Battlestar Galactica first. 

1.  I feel like nothing happened in this episode. 
2.  What the fuck is with the whole Callie-Tyrol baby daddy drama?  How was that necessary?  Okay, yes, I wanted to know who the father was... but... that was a cheap soap opera ploy on BSG's part. 
3.  So fucking uneventful with the VP politics drama.  Lucia watched this episode with me - first time she'd seen BSG, and it was not a good one to start her on - and she was like, "this show is so boring," and I have to say, if I was a newbie, this episode would not have converted me either.  I thought at the end for sure the fuel ship would blow itself up, but instead they were just told, "prepare to be boarded," and said, "okay."  Hello, writers.
4.  I think this is the first episode I was actually sympathetic to Roslin.  I know, right.  That's saying something.  Clearly there was something wrong with this episode.
 

Francisco Rivera

Apparently I'm moving to Canada.  In all seriousness, though, the football business is fucked the fuck up if they have people like Missouri's back-up quarterback getting invited to an all-star game and not Ganz.  If you invite the guy with a pass efficiency ranked 93rd nationally and not the guy whose pass efficiency is 14th.  Or how about the quarterback that was outplayed in the bowl game and clearly could not handle pressure getting invited over the quarterback that won the game and was named the game MVP?  WHAT THE FUCK.  Jesus, yes, height and how far you can throw the ball is "not really what being a quarterback's about."  Of course, tell that to Rex "I-Like-Throwing-The-Ball-Long" Grossman, but we start to see what makes - or rather, what doesn't make - a dick-quarterback, don't we.  A lot of us in fandom didn't think he'd get drafted because of the whole build thing - and the fact that Nebraska is getting snubbed nationally in revenge for the '90s - but when you compare him to the people that probably will get drafted, it looks ridiculous.  Cullen Harper!  Why! 

I know that football's a bloodsport and all, but this is starting to piss me off.  I wonder sometimes if this overall attitude has anything to do with why we suck as a society overall.  I'm into judging a society on how it treats its children - and this has something to do with that, too - but obviously there's something to be said for judging a society based on what it wants in its leaders.  Football fails both gauges.  For having such illusions of patriotism and godliness and health and community, it's pretty pathetic. 

But how strange, right, he's only nine inches taller than me.  God, I'm such a selfish fuck.

Comments

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

I wonder sometimes if this overall attitude has anything to do with why we suck as a society overall.

What overall attitude? But otherwise, yeah, probably.

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Oh, um, the overall attitude that values height in quarterbacks over any proven ability - to win games or to lead teams or to do anything, and thus reduces the role of the quarterback to throwing the ball... while at the same time not eradicating all the twisted entitlement of the Quarterback Mystique. So basically you just have a bunch of people who are born the right shape thinking they're due worshipping because they can throw the ball long, when in fact being a quarterback is much, much more than throwing the ball long. It's much more than athletic ability, period. But that's not what gets rewarded in the long run, so way to set an example for little football players. Awesome.

I'm probably expecting way too much from football, but, well.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

but...that's how we choose leaders, lol. i guess i don't see being a quarterback as being much, so it's hard for me to see at as being more than anything in particular, but i mean, yeah, it takes more than a few traits to be a good team member. but the whole idea of the quarterback being at all special creeps me out.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

*it

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

I know that's how we choose leaders. That's my point. That's why we're fucked up as a society. Unless I'm misunderstanding you.

The quarterback is designed special by the rules of football, just like the pitcher is designed special by the rules of baseball. Over time that's built up into a worship that's a bit grotesque.

So being a quarterback doesn't pertain to your role in the world or anything like that... but you know, political science without death... I find things in football that pertain to wider trends. I'm reading a book on American foreign policy right now and it strikes me how similar the roles of "the president" and "the quarterback" are. In a presidential system the president does have a special role - and I mean, even in a parliamentary system, the prime minister is somewhat special (unless it's Russia, where the prime minister is ULTRA special... you know, Putin is a lot like Tim Tebow) - but there's a whole school of poli sci called "great man theory" that basically sees the country's president as the Godhand...

Of course, it's a lot harder to differentiate dick-presidents from non-dick-presidents. But I would definitely argue that in a geopolitical sense, there are "sleeper-presidents"...

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

i wasn't disagreeing with you. although my point might be something more like "that's why we shouldn't choose leaders." or, perhaps, that's why people need a really solid public education. probably both.

i have no idea what sleeper-presidents are.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

What, you mean we shouldn't have leaders at all? But I would agree that people need a really solid public education.

Yeah, ha ha, I don't really know either but I'm sure they exist... you know, presidents that just sort of chug along doing their thing and nobody pays attention to them. obviously I can't think of any because nobody knows who they are... something like that. Whoever's head of Malaysia? No, bad example. Whoever's head of Mexico? Canada is like a sleeper-country, but expanding it to countries is probably dangerous.