tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897529.post8597025377307735942..comments2024-03-29T03:30:42.787-04:00Comments on A Dark Planet: Apparently, there was a game last night.David Terrenoirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482864941636273068noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897529.post-85321219592465205582009-04-08T10:32:00.000-04:002009-04-08T10:32:00.000-04:00My wife told me that the local TV news cut into re...My wife told me that the local TV news cut into regular programming yesterday when the Tarheels' plane landed at the airport, and that the coverage continued until about 3:30 while the news trucks (and helicopters) followed the team's buses down the highway. <BR/>Now, I have to admit that I occasionally love a good sporting event, but if anybody watched that entire coverage yesterday -- whether they were rocking on the edges of their seats and clasping their hands together in holy rapture or not -- that's a scary need for comfort and an appalling vacuum of heroism...Joe Saundercooknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897529.post-50501532057892549852009-04-07T17:08:00.000-04:002009-04-07T17:08:00.000-04:00There's a great scene in Neal Stephenson's ANATHEM...There's a great scene in Neal Stephenson's ANATHEM where the narrator, who's lived a cloistered existence most of his adult life, is forced by circumstance to go outside of the monastery-like institutions where his society's scientists and thinkers are kept away from the rest of society, except under very particular conditions. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, this young, brilliant, but somewhat naive man pauses for a short time in his society's equivalent of a sports bar. He immediately develops the theory that the people inside have no heroic stories in their own lives, so they escape by latching on to the heroic exploits and dramas of others. It's as good an explanation as any.JD Rhoadeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07123361739160525998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897529.post-41967053587634926592009-04-07T11:56:00.000-04:002009-04-07T11:56:00.000-04:00We never knew sports existed until we found our si...We never knew sports existed until we found our six-year old son watching a Lion's game. So now we mostly pretend-except for baseball, which we've come to like. Poor Spartans. So indicative of Michigan's luck.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com