America's biggest holiday

[gordonzola]

What's everyone doing for the Superbowl anyway?

You know, running with the politicos, the queers, and the feminists, it's easy to come off as all butch. I mean, I am familiar with guns, I'm big-ish, I am meanly sarcastic, and I follow professional sports. My friends find that amusing and sometimes ask me to speak on behalf of all "normal" white guys.

Usually I watch the Super Bowl at my tough-ass co-worker's house. The one who used to drum for the almost-famous all woman punk/metal band. She would cook meat on the grill and make chili. She couldn't host this year so I'm just watching it with another male friend. We just checked in about food. I made cookies. He's making quiche. This is why I may not be the best spokesperson for my people.

Oh yeah, and the next participatory photo post will be people in political message t-shirts. Don't post them yet. Just get ready.

Comments

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

oh, by the way. when I read your comments tonight I will likely be pretty drunk. Just FYI.

[purejuice.livejournal.com]

sarcastic is butch??? i associate it with oscar wilde. who was many things. but not butch.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I think of witty, cutting sarcasm as very Oscar Wilde. I think of meanness disguised as sarcasm as very typical guy. I'd like to think I have my wittty moments but...

[purejuice.livejournal.com]

you're all wit.
and all man. ;-)

[dirtylibrarian.livejournal.com]

I'm not doing diddly! My pa is visiting and we might go to see The Aviator, and maybe to the last day of the WOW show at The Henry. There are 3 video installations I really want to see again.

Hmmm...I think I will post about my favorite Superbowl though...

[gwenzilla.livejournal.com]

my camera stopped working :[

i thought i missed the superbowl

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

my camera stopped working :[

OH NO!

[gwenzilla.livejournal.com]

i know, it totally sucks, right? right. did you find yours? i want to see the new doggy.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

that's tragic Gwen!

I was gonna comment on one of you entries today but it took too much effort to go to your site. sorry. Why don't you allow comments on your journal again?

I just wanted to say that "Mijo goes to junior college" is such a brilliant title for an album. I actually laughed out loud at the music store. Oh, punk in jokes...

[gwenzilla.livejournal.com]

you *can* leave comments on my journal, just click the link that's all http://www.ofrenda.etc. at the top of the post INSTEAD of the one that says 'leave a comment' -- it takes you to directly to the page where you can comment on that entry, on my journal, which is not on LJ. If you click the 'leave a comment' link, you leave a comment on the syndication page for my journal, which is not connected to me in any way other than it's taking the content from my journal and providing it more directly to LJ users, so i don't receive any notification that a comment was left there because i don't own it.

when i post as gwenzilla on LJ, you can leave comments the normal way because that is done using my LJ account and i do receive notification.

if that makes sense,

[fluxions.livejournal.com]

Matt's athlete friends are all going to watch it at Spenger's. I'm going to join them for dinner, but we are going to leave after we finish eating dinner. Then Matt will watch the rest of the game at home on Tivo. Eat at a nice restuarant while everyone else is watching TV? Yes. For 3 hours? No.

The good thing about this is that it gave me a good excuse to get out of another super bowl party. One where I would have to sit near the tv for 3 hours. Bad!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, that's right. There's a football game today!

powder puff

[chitinous.livejournal.com]

Rock on with your sensitive male Superbowl contingent. Is that going to be your political message teeshirt? "Feminist Football Fan?"

[commandercranky.livejournal.com]

I'm at school today, working in the library, and it is a dead zone. Last night I was in center city (downtown Philly), and eveerybody was going buckwild, wearing Eagles jerseys, leaning out of cab windows chanting E-A-G-L-E-S!!!!, and all the skyscrapers were lit up green.

This is only going to intensify the disappointment. But we're Philadelphians - we're used to it. Seriously, I don't know what the fuck people will do if the Eagles win.

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

I am watching the game, which will be the first football game I have seen in many a long year, up in the hilltowns. There will be human traits attributed to dogs. There will be beer and chips and possibly fried chicken. There will be repartee. I expect to feel cozy and happy to be there. My strongest assocation with actually watching a football game on the television is a persistent hope that nobody gets hurt.

[porro.livejournal.com]

On a nice weekend day like this there are usually tons of people traveling down the coast. Today I think there will be less so I plan on riding my lovely but sometimes neglected motorcycle to Santa Cruz to do some studying at my favorite cafe.

I wouldn't mind going to a superbowl party, though. I'm hungry!

[walktheplank.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I would not have known that it was Superbowl Sunday if NPR hadn't run a piece about this year's Superbowl advertising.

[odelenu.livejournal.com]

What's the Super Bowl again? lol. Well ok, I know what it is, I just don't know who is playing.
I hope you have a lovely day and eat lots of cheese and drink beer and quiche and home made cookies. Lol. You really are a mary! lol.

[mylastsigh.livejournal.com]

Friday's NYTIMES had a funny editorial about "national holiday."

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

ha. yeah, thanks for re-posting that. When I worked retail (rather than at a grocery store) it was so empty it may as well have been a holiday.

[sdn.livejournal.com]

wait, today is the super bowl? i thought that was last month or something. what teams are playing?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yeah, yeah. I don't write about that type of stuff here. go do a web search to satisfy your filthy little questions.

[princessrugger.livejournal.com]

i am heading over to ilipodscrill's house to watch the game with his patriots-obsessed roomie, because i am a gigantor patriots fan and must be among my brethren. i will also be making frequent calls to chestertodd to be boys over the phone. this is as butch as i get. which is about as butch as you with your cookies and quiche.

additionally, i am so psyched to participate in the photo post that i am actually going to figure out how to use the roomie's scanner, because one of my fave photos of me ever is one in which i'm wearing a very sassy political tee. yay!

happy drinkin'!

[corvus.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be in the hospital for the final couple overnights of my medical study. It sucks, because a) I'll miss the rioting b) I'll miss the nachos. But at least I get out Tuesday morning, which will mean I'll be able to do the victory parade.

[elusis.livejournal.com]

Let's see, I did two hours of belly dance practice, and then I was sort of planning on getting tied up and covered in hot wax, but we had another reschedule. So I think I'm going to sew, and possibly nap, and then decide whether or not to go to the club.

A very Super Bowl themed day, in other words.

(I actually sometimes enjoy watching the Bowl; I'm just not in the mood this year.)

I think your cookies-and-quiche party is very manly indeed.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Super-what?

I think I'm supposed to care

[troubler.livejournal.com]

because I'm from Boston.. but no, don't feel anything yet.

keep an eye out for scaaaaary breasteses

[vestalvixen.livejournal.com]

I was planning on spending the day watching free movies, but instead paid for a movie, took myself out for dinner, and came home. Now I'm going to play on the computer, and ocassionally come out of my room to hoot at my roommates.

[bemocked.livejournal.com]

I expect the game will be on TV here (Korea) sometime in the next few days... I channel surfed past the (subtitled) Golden Globe Awards show on Sunday morning, the lag there was only a few days.

Another American here in the office is apparently following it online, his office is down the hall, and he has been calling out the score when something significant happens (with the implied assumption that the rest of us actually are interested?) Later I'll browse the web for the important stuff... the commercials.

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

I'm watching Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on the last day my cable will be working, since I gave up on TV and cancelled it; the show has a football related theme for the second part, since they made over some fanatical Jets dude who then proposed on the field at half time. I saw about one quarter of the actual Super Bowl and missed the halftime show entirely (did Paul McCartney show any flesh? which is a horrible thought...). Ummm... the game seemed boring as hell, and I can't care about either team. What was up with all the time-wasting on the part of the Eagles near the end? Did they just give up?

Man, this appears to be a QEFTSG marathon. Excellent. But no quiche yet. The getting drunk part sounds really fun; I hope you had an excellent time.

[elementa.livejournal.com]

* slept in til 3pm
* watched wayyyy too much of the Puppy Bowl on animal planet
* ate chips and guacamole
* talked with a good friend and made catty fun of someone who deserves it: "feathered home pride head with an orange julius mustache"

[rednfiery.livejournal.com]

you know from my lj post last night that i went to a party at my friends' place. the cheese i brought was a huge success, G! there was nothing left but some random bits of rind. i was happy, but also sad. no leftovers to bring home.

my daughter A won $100 on the football pool. she was so excited. she *loves* football now. :) and she's such a good-hearted little sister -- she split the money with H, who was too self-conscious to write her name in squares on the big white poster board.

i saw very little of the game, despite the fact that it was showing on 3(!) TVs at my friends' place. too many people, too much food, too chaotic. i'm happy to be home, especially now that my girls are in bed. peace and quiet. *sigh*

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

well, there's more cheese where that came from. and what a great daughter! I never would have shared $100 with my siblings.

Gung Hay Fat Choy?

[dairryiere.livejournal.com]

What, no one else was out fighting the crowds to stock up for Chinese New Year?
I was hoping Ranch99 would be dead because of the game but it had it's regular huge weekend crowd. The kids were crazy because of all the decorations and candy but we got cool photobooth pictures.

Re: Gung Hay Fat Choy?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

but who was cutting cheese?

by the way, I forgot to give you that goat. It's yours next time I see you.

Re: Gung Hay Fat Choy?

[dairryiere.livejournal.com]

No One.
I get to make up for 2 whole days of no cutting when I go back on Tues.

[rzr-grl.livejournal.com]

I have to write a paper on the commercials for my mass com class, and still I neglected to watch it.

All hail Tivo + Google.

Does a Crass shirt count as a political message? Cuz that's about the best I got.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Crass definitely counts. Glad your clothes swap was a success.

[metacara.livejournal.com]

In mainland Japan, the commanders gave everybody a half-day off, and here in Okinawa, they got the entire day off. You know, because it's like Christmas, only with slobberknockers. To celebrate this national holiday, I watched Vanity Fair and took my toddler to Chili's, which is usually stuffed to the gills with people but today was a great experience because everyone was at home, watching the game. It was like plague had passed over the base.

[kest]

I went to a fancyschmancy play in the city, and on the way out some guy was standing on the corner telling everyone the score.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I watched the game as part of G.'s housewarming festivities.

[touchyphiliac.livejournal.com]

My girlfriend punched me in the arm while we watched Dialogues with Madwomen and I chugged vodka. THEY HAVE BLOODY PICTURES OF CUTTERS, MAN. So gratuitous. I couldn't handle it, but we know a bunch of the people on it, so we just had to watch it. IT WAS A TRAINWRECK, not unlike most of life.