The big football game is tomorrow. Block parties are springing up everywhere. All the people you know, and hopefully a good handful of new faces, will be meeting up in a back yard or empty patch of grass/pavement. When planned correctly everyone should be encouraged to bring some type of food or drink.
It’s World Cup week, and since I know nothing about professional soccer, I’m cheering for the teams with the best-looking players. I’m also thinking about my own experiences as a goalie, which mostly involved racing towards people and diving at their feet. I’m not tall, so scaring the opposing team’s offense was my only hope of being useful. It totally worked for the first year. (Take heed, goalies of average height!) I also occasionally wonder at the professional players acting more like little girls than we used to when we actually were little girls. And I wonder where the women’s teams are. I worry about the choices Jess and Jules made. When Bend It Like Beckham came out in 2003, I loved it. We all loved it. Remember our first sighting of Keira Knightley? We thought she was remarkably pretty then, but by the time Pirates of the Caribbean rolled around, something was missing and we couldn’t tell what it was. Remember Parminder Nagra? After her soccer stint, she was in 129 episodes of ER, which I have never seen, but you probably have. And Jonathan Rhys Meyers! My friends who had seen him in Velvet Goldmine found him unconvincing
