foreign failure (and a blind date) nets New York DC a soccer film festival
What almost started in London, only to become a gift to New York, is now taking the show on the
road with the second installment of the Kicking & Screening soccer film festival in Washington, DC,
October 15-18.
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There was a time when one would hear Liverpool and Chelsea in the same sentence, immediately
projectile vomit and then proceed on with their merry day.
That doesn't seem to be the case nowadays, does it? Not after last season, anyway.
These two loveable clubs who so often have sucked the life out of the sport of football over the
past few years now appear best mates I'd reckon they quite enjoy the odd cuddle up and romantic
comedy on a Friday night.
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Think about those words for a second. Putting aside the grammatically incorrect double negative,
it's a remarkable concept. Compare it with with Woody Allen, who, in Annie Hall, said that life was
"full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too
quickly."
Better still, compare it with Thoreau, who wrote that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet
desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
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Late last night Dan Loney lobbed a nuclear bomb in the direction of those who want a larger salary
cap, no more single entity, and promotion and relegation. MLS 2010 - Zombie Holocaust:
. . . suffice to say that "Raise the salary cap!" is the "Unleash Chiang Kai-shek!" for
the MLS generation.
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Yay, qualifying roster is out. It's like Christmas. On Mars. With Jehovah's Witnesses.
But first, I think I should at least pile on this. I get very few Christmas cards from either the
Angel City Brigade or the Union Ultras, but this is as weak as the Woody Allen Workout. I'm still
willing to rant about the Legion-Riot Squad fracas of 2007, but neither of these groups were
involved - and apparently the decision was more about West Ham-Millwall than Legion-LARS, which is
even weaker.
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I've been on a bit of an early Jayhawks kick over the past couple of days. Hearing Jeff Tweedy
sing Pecan Pie the other day reminded me that I got into Wilco and Uncle Tupelo through Tweedy's
involvement in Golden Smog, which I think was before the release of A.M. And I got into Golden Smog
because it also had Louris and Dan Murphy of Soul Asylum.
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