So Now That That's Over...: In which I describe my non-Superbowl-centered yesterday

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So it’s come and gone. Another year, another season, another Superbowl.

Whew.

Not that I had anything hanging on the game. On the contrary, I could care less about the Church of the Inflated Pigskin, especially since Fox took over and filled the borders of the screen with video games. I gather the Patriots won. I don’t know if that’s good or bad, or indeed, of any suprise whatsoever. I haven’t seen any media fury over the halftime show, so I’m assuming Sir Paul didn’t moon the audience or engage in any Marilyn Manson-style grotesquerie. We wouldn’t want to psychologically scar the children with some exposed bit of the human anatomy, after all.

As I do every year, I avoided the whole thing. In particular, after spending a bit more time on the SDMB than was strictly good for my mental well-being, including posting some pointless screed about (shameless plug) The Hat, I gathered what tatters remain of my wits, put the laptop into standby mode, and trundled off to West Hollywood to spend a bit of quality reading time at my favorite coffeehouse whilst waiting for the show to start.

What show, you may ask? (And in case you didn’t, I asked for you. No extra charge; it’s all part of the service.) The show that I preferred to the Superbowl. In this year, it was the absolutely brilliant Terry Gilliam film Brazil. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen it now, but it gets better each time, particularly the happy-go-lobotomized ending. It was showing with the not-quite-so-amazing-but-still-rather-excellent Twelve Monkeys.

Madeleine Stowe is a babe and a half, by the way.

After that, it was a short walk over to the Angeli Caffe for some lasagna, as my appetite was inspired by this recent thread. Yum.

So, what non-Superbowl related activities did you do? I see that several people spent the afternoon Pitting a here-to-be-unnamed poster, which isn’t really my bag of tea (I mean, one or two posts are quite all right, but a marathon thread?) but whatever floats your personal hovercraft is fine by my first edition Wodehouse.

So, what’d ya do with yourself?

“We’re all in this together, kid.” – Archibald ‘Harry’ Tuttle (not to be confused with Archibald Buttle.)

Stranger

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My internet’s currently down at home, so I went for a 3 mile run. Then I went over to a friend’s house and watched the “Zombie Nightmare” episode of Mst3k. The rest of the day, I just putzed around at random. Good times.

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I don’t worship at that “church” either.

So in the afternoon, hubby and I took the sports car ('72 vette) on a nice hour long drive into the countryside. It was a 70 degree sunny day. Then did a little yard work while hubby works on his baby (the car.)

Afterwards headed to the theatre to see the movie Vera Drake. After the movie went to a highly popular chain restaurant that is always crowded and rowdy, but since they just have a tiny bar area with only one TV, it was not crowded with the hordes that are usually there and we got seated immediately. Once we had a nice dinner, we headed over to Publix (grocery store) to do the week’s shopping. We almost had the place to ourselves and as long as you weren’t there to buy beer or chips, everything was fully stocked.

We ended the evening watching HBO and Carnivale. We did watch the Simpsons on FOX after the Superbowl, but we switched to FOX at the exact time that the post-game show ended. So we never saw even a moment of the football game or the insipid pre or post-game shows.

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Didn’t do anything particularly special - and that’s the best part of it. I spent 4 1/2 years working at a sports website - and I am not a sports person. Not a big deal, programming is programming - but Superbowl was always a stressful time. Not as stressful as March Mayhem, though. But I am free - I don’t have to care!

Susan