To stave off any more stupid questions: OF COURSE I'll be upset if when Studio 60 gets cancelled. I want so badly to love the show, and now it looks like I'll never get the chance.
We keep missing each other on the phone, but I have several important things to note, so here they are:
1) I am now convinced that Georgia, not Florida, has the worst fans in the SEC. While at the game this weekend, the seven of us were seated in the Georgia section club seats, and were repeatedly told by surly Georgia fans to a) sit down, b) stop cheering, and c) give it up. It's worth noting that this was IN THE FOURTH QUARTER, when Georgia was ONLY DOWN BY ONE TOUCHDOWN. Their fans just sat there quietly, refusing to get behind their team, and the players looked totally depressed by this. I bet they don't win another game the rest of the season. It was RIDICULOUS. I mean, we're all Tennessee fans (with one Longhorn in the mix), and WE were cheering louder for Georgia than THEIR OWN FANS. Come ON.
2) On the way back home on Monday evening, Sean and I tuned into a radio talk show about SEC football as we drove near the Auburn campus. Sean suggested that we call in, since the hosts were pretty much bashing the BCS and making gameday picks for the weekend, and we felt we should make our views known. Pretty much on a whim, I picked up my cell and dialed, only to be answered, asked my name, and put on hold. Then, with no warning, we hear "Sports Talk is back with Joan. What's your question, Joan?" So I go on this improvised rant about what a pompous, biased system the BCS is, and how it screws the SEC every time, and how most of the top 10 is comprised of joke teams like Louisville, Cal, and Notre Dame who don't play anyone of merit. The guys totally agree with me and keep me on the line, and after they answer that question I comment that Georgia has the worst fans in the conference and that Tennessee could totally kick most of the Top 10's ass, and they agreed with that too! I hung up and we felt warm and fuzzy for the rest of the drive. I wanted Sean to call back and be like "Yeah, this is Tommy from Birmingham. My question is, in regard to the new time clock rules in effect this season and the blown calls by many officials, why do you think Jeff Samardzija is so gay?" and then just quickly hang up and hear their reaction, but we were too busy laughing and spilling Mr. Pibb everywhere and weaving between lanes to put this plan into action.
3) Last time we were in Florida, we hooked Dad on the first season of Lost, which we watched in two days. This weekend, we hooked Liz and Bailey too, and now Bailey thinks she knows all the answers to the island's mysteries, which is adorable.
4)Roo.
Posted by: joan at November 1, 2006 04:56 PMGood on ya, Joan. Give 'em what for.
In one of the essays in Consider the Lobster, I found out that, on radio call-in shows, girls almost always get put through automatically (especially the cute-sounding ones). So, if I become a slightly cracked monomaniacal ideologue who needs assistance in dissemination of my manifesto, I may ask you girls, if you're sympathetic, to be my *secret weapons*. "So, I think Fulmer's neglecting end run plays that could be effective and YOU SHALL ALL BE TOUCHED BY THE NOODLY APPENDAGE OF THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER - LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD!"
Stand ready. Roo.
Posted by: Bobo at November 2, 2006 06:46 AMI love you both. I haven't laughed so hard since my conversation with Big Evil about wanting a purse dog. (His Disapproval Face gives me the giggles.)
"Live Free or Die Hard" is the new "sleepy tighty bleachy whitey". Fair warning.
Posted by: Holly at November 3, 2006 03:47 PM