Monday, November 25, 2002

FOOTBALL RUMINATIONS 1. Kel took

FOOTBALL RUMINATIONS

1.  Kel took one look at Jimmy Johnson on TV and asked if everybody else knew he was gay yet.  I guess I can see what she meant but I’d never thought of it before.  I suppose I’m just suppressing a natural reaction.  And I’m okay with that.

2.  The 280 “Junipero Serra” Freeway is deemed America’s most beautiful freeway, and I’ll admit it’s got some nice stretches, but the honorific seems unduly adulatory.  At one point not far south of the City, on a bluff jsut east of the road, stands a pretty big statue of the landgrabbing, culturekilling bead massager, Fr. Serra himself.  He did chart the road, after all, or the El Camino anyway (which is not redundant in this context TYVM).  But these days, the fall and early winter, every year, I can’t help seeing that enormous sculpture and and thinking, “first down.” Way to go, big guy.