Showing posts with label Alaska. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alaska. Show all posts

Monday, February 5, 2007

Sima's Folly?

Would anyone like to meet me in Alaska this summer?
http://www.alaska.com/places/parks/kefj/story/4481433p-4460422c.html

I'm pretty bent on going on some kind of a trip. Yes, I realize that no one has any money. But we will be camping - our only expense is getting there. Think of the sea otters, whales, and extremely hungry black bears.

In other news, the Superbowl, America's largest spectacle short of the presidential election, went down today in Miami. While I lived on Regent Street, my only access to football was staying up until 6 am on Sunday nights (for some reason, they aired Sunday night football but not Monday night football; in the US, Monday is the big night), watching disinterested British commentators talk about cricket. My other option was bribing pubs to put the games on (too expensive). Therefore, this year was a glorious return to obsession. The best part about the National Football League is that if you saw ANY player (ok, not kickers) walking down the street, you would immediately think, "This is not a human being - it is a terrifying war machine." With the exception of Sumo Wrestlers (obesity is scary in a different way) and basketball players (when's the last time you saw five 7-foot tall people together at the same time), football players are the most nightmarish men on Earth. And the terrorists.