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The one good thing about today’s match is that it brings us one match closer to the end of the season, right? Right. (more…)
The End Is Near
The End Is Near
delayed reaction due to having to reinstall my entire blog, yay
delayed reaction due to having to reinstall my entire blog, yay
Oh hey, who’s the hero of the day? (more…)
we played the Toffees for a laugh and left them feeling blue
we played the Toffees for a laugh and left them feeling blue
I am not sure if you are aware, but Steven Gerrard is our captain, Steven Gerrard is a Red, Steven Gerrard plays for Liverpool, a Scouser born and bred. (more…)
the culinary delights of the Delta Quadrant
the culinary delights of the Delta Quadrant
The Bundesliga started last weekend and like all Bayern fans, I was a little depressed that they lost to Mönchengladbach at home, which is incomprehensibly ridiculous. That said, today was international friendly day and while most people apparently hate this (“It’s too close to the start of the Premier League season / immediately after the start of the Bundesliga season / some arbitrary time frame before or after whatever other league you support!”), my love for die Mannschaft outweighs any anger I feel towards FIFA’s scheduling silliness.
I am deeply unimpressed by this
I am deeply unimpressed by this
I have somehow managed to melt the numbers on my Bayern Munich kit.
I threw this thing on late Wednesday night while watching the Bayern Munich vs Barcelona final in the Audi Cup. When I got up to go to bed, that’s when I noticed that was something was amiss because the shirt wasn’t hanging right on my back. I reached around to tug it down but found that I couldn’t; there was somehow a permanent fold in the fabric that prevented me from doing it. To my horror, when I took the jersey off I found that there was indeed a fold but for completely inexplicable reasons, where it was folded over on itself the numbers had fused their surfaces together. When I finally managed to pry them apart, I was left with these ink lines on both the numbers and the kit itself.
You always hear advice about not throwing your kits in a hot dryer because the numbers will peel off due to the heat. I’ve never had this problem whatsoever (yet) and I have kits in a couple of different styles with a couple of different numbering and lettering options. I can only guess that somehow the heat from my apartment (it wasn’t even that hot on Wednesday!) combined with my body heat while this was pressed between me and my couch somehow provided enough heat to destroy the numbers. I can’t fathom why else this happened.
I’ve been told my accent is sehr gut
I’ve been told my accent is sehr gut
I had my last German class tonight, sadly. The course actually ends next week but I’ll be on vacation and will have to miss it. (There are worse problems to have.) We did body parts today and before going through the vocabulary our instructor asked us if anyone knew any of it already; I had to contain myself from saying that I knew face is Gesicht because then I would have explained that I only know it because of my favourite word, Backpfeifengesicht.
In other news, I am rewatching Uruguay vs Germany from the World Cup last year because I haven’t yet decided which TV show to marathon next. This game is excellent because a) Germany wins, b) Uruguay has a great national anthem, c) Luis Suarez, d) Schweinsteiger ist der Spielführer. It was between this and the Portugal vs Germany game from World Cup 2006 Euro 2008 and in retrospect the latter game would have given me both a spectacular Schweinsteiger game but also a young Raul Meireles.
SPEAKING OF WHICH, Meireles picked up a knock in the Fulham game yesterday and given Liverpool’s horrible run of luck with hamstring-related injuries this year, if his substitution turns out to be anything more than just precautionary I am going to be exceedingly devastated about him missing the Tottenham match on Sunday. My heart palpitations, let me show them to you.
Eto’o, Brutus?
Eto’o, Brutus?
If you’re Leonardo, manager of Inter Milan, do you start a guy named Julio Cesar on the Ides of March against Bayern Munich?
I kid. I am not a superstitious person by nature but I share a birthday with Julius Caeser and every year I fear something going horribly wrong on March 15th. I consider myself a lucky person that the worst thing that happened to me was my soccer team losing a big match, but given that context of intense privilege I’m a little depressed at the results.
links of interest for February 16th – February 25th
links of interest for February 16th – February 25th
Soccer
- Bastian Schweinsteiger 2010 World Cup Drinking Game
A) I wish I had discovered this prior to the start of the World Cup. B) I like the bitchface rule under the Ladies Only rules. C) It seems that the creators of said game go to the same pub I do. The world is small! - Letters of Note: You were of course the outstanding candidate
"In May of 2006, armed only with a glittering virtual career on Football Manager 2005 and limited success in charge of a local under-11s team, then-25-year-old John Boileau made the leap and applied – with tongue firmly in cheek – to become the new manager of Middlesbrough Football Club."Once I finally win the Champions League while coaching Bayern Munich, I am totally applying for any and all open Bundesliga positions that may be available in real life.
- The Best Eleven: Premier League: Tallest and Shortest Players – 2010/2011
After Aaron Lennon (5'5") and Peter Crouch (6'6") teamed up to score that great goal for Tottenham during their first leg against AC Milan, I wondered if they were the shortest and tallest players on Tottenham. Turns out they are, and that they're also the shortest and second tallest in the entire Premier League as well.
Movies
- Bitch Flicks: Best Picture Nominee Review Series: 2011 Roundup
"We can't just ignore the Oscars. We need to make our voices heard. That's one reason we run a series of feminist film reviews on the Best Picture nominees. Our reviews focus on the women in these movies, and are written by women who go out and buy movie tickets. We hope you'll read them and add your voices to the discussion." - The Lost Movie Theatres of Toronto
- Hollywood Trusts First Time Male Directors With Big Budget Flicks
Directing a short and a Heineken commercial apparently qualifies you to direct a movie with a $170 million budget.
Miscellaneous
- Songs the Beatles Didn’t Do
"…meaning, songs they wrote while the Beatles existed, but which did not appear on official EMI Beatles records." - Center Of Attention | The Art Of Record Center Labels
"…dedicated to the artwork, graphics and logos of record center labels." - Typedia: Learn: Anatomy of a Typeface
All you need to know about ascenders, ligatures, terminals, and more. - Little Red Infinity Dress Tutorial
I think I already posted a link to a different infinity dress tutorial, but one can never have enough instructions on this. (One might even say… an infinite number of instructions? No.)
obviously there are things of greater importance happening in this world, i.e. Egypt
obviously there are things of greater importance happening in this world, i.e. Egypt
My sister Audrey, who doesn’t have a great love for soccer and who I drag to the pub with me on match day every so often with the promise of free breakfast, just texted me saying “Chelsea wanted Fernando Torres OMG!” I had to break it to her that not only had Chelsea made a transfer bid that got rejected, but Torres followed up by submitting a written transfer request that Liverpool then also rejected.
Merry early Christmas to me!
Merry early Christmas to me!
Breaking news that has made my weekend: Bastian Schweinsteiger has signed a new deal to stay at Bayern Munich until 2016. (Spoilers in that post for the score of today’s match against FC St. Pauli.)
As someone who is new to following soccer outside of the World Cup, I had not expected everything surrounding trades and trade rumours to be so stressful. Yet here I am, developing high blood pressure over the thought of my favourite player going to Real Madrid or Chelsea or (god forbid) Manchester United. Every day, my RSS feeds bring me an increasing number of trade rumours that cause me to sit and gnash my teeth as I wait for Schweini to make any kind of statement about where he plans to play after his current contract is up.
Always the classy individual, Schweini announced he was staying today after the match to the crowd of 69,000 fans at the game. I’m sure they’re equally thrilled they don’t have to wait until the January trade window closes to find out what his fate will be.
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