So. no one's liveslogging Germany-Argentina? You west coasters are probably too tired from all your pot and rain to be watching soccer at 7:30 on a Saturday. Oh well.
3-0, scored by defender Arne Friedrich. Might as well turn off the TV and head on out. Hopefully there'll be a liveslog for Paraguay-Spain. That should be a better game.
You gave it a good effort, CN! You also seem to know something about soccer, whereas I only read LiveSlog for the foreskin chat and show-tune contests. Looks like we were both disappointed this a.m. Ah well, there are flowers to water in the arctic chill that is this July.
I'm so glad someone called out the irrelevance of posting this and then turned it into a soccer thread. And I'm even more glad my RSVP was confirmed for the show early this week, yay Tom!
Tom Lenk's role was one of the many, many things wrong with the last two seasons of Buffy. I'm sure Lenk himself is very funny in person--he'd have had to be, unless he was holding incriminating pictures of Marti Noxon and James Marsters' threesome.
@18, I thought the character of Andrew was one of the only redeeming features of Buffy season 6 and 7. You gotta love someone who thought Timothy Dalton was the best Bond.
Thanks to the great nation of Canada for raising such diligent livesloggers! I wish I'd been up to keep you company, but as a lazybones I have few peers.
All I can offer is the tidbit that Uruguay's Suarez declared after yesterday's match "the hand of God now belongs to me".
I'm Switzerland on the subject of Andrew on Buffy (there were enough things wrong with Seasons 6 & 7 that his presence didn't make things better or worse, IMHO), but I must say that Lenk is looking quite yummy these days. I didn't recognize him at all in that photo!
That is priceless, Gus! I'm now imagining Bocanegra and others hastily returning the obviously fake Hands of God they bought on Ebay before the World Cup....luckily they're still within the 45 day PayPal refund window.
PS I was only awake due to the whining of an incontinent Labrador, not because I'm one of those annoying morning people...
"Why are all the beautiful, slightly effeminate men gay?"
I believe that is one of life's eternal mysteries, Nurse, much like the existence of Marshmallow Fluff.
Re: the soccer: I don't have a TV near my computer, and am but a humble country bumpkin without high-speed, so watching TV online is like awkward highschool sex..."go, go...wait a minute, fumble..go!...no, not really..." which reduces me to impatiently enduring all the soccer talk, waiting, sometimes fruitlessly, for the conversation to drift around to something I can relate to, like body shots, what I think of foreskin, or the musical superiority of the Cure's "Love Cats."
I have never had a body shot, I am envious of anyone with foreskin on a "grass always greener" basis, and "Love Cats" produces the most embarrassing dances I've ever done.
Paraguay's uniforms are almost identical to my high school soccer uniform. They really could do better.
But, they couldn't play much better than this. Paraguay has exceeded my expectations these games. I thought Spain would have been more dominant than they have been.
Paraguay is great to watch, I can see that now. This should be a fun match.
What I know of Spain, Canadian Nurse, is almost entirely from Almodovar. Accordingly, I always imagine they may be playing super hard but also thinking about something fizzy related to cinema or family or lovers or priests or all four.
Haven't been on either end of a body shop since university. I like foreskins in theory, but since I've never had a LTR with someone with one, I find myself initially perplexed whenever presented with one. "Love Cats" = awesome.
So, the CBC commentators strongly believe that Paraguay's goal should have stood, although it was called offside. I'm not sure.
G Gus, I thought Spain would win it all this year, so I expected them to be ahead by now. I love the idea of all of the players being Almodovar characters.
Re: Offside
I think so, too, Emmet. It was just by seconds, though. He was on the right side of the defenders until the ball was in the air, but he still slipped behind the defenders before the ball was behind them.
Gus, I agree it's not great football, but it's good goaltending, on both sides. Yeah, I was cheering for Spain at the beginning of the match, but I'm getting tired of their attitude.
I don't think I can handle another overtime game, though. Someone needs to score in the next 20 minutes.
I dunno. I was going for Spain, but they've upped their attitude and reduced their skill, so I don't care anymore. I'm just cheering for a dramatic game.
Don't pass it up. I'm sure it's about as close as you'll ever get to kissing a girl - or boy, for that matter...
Lahm is also playing solid defence. Germany needs to play more aggressively, though. 1-0 is definitely not a guaranteed game.
All I can offer is the tidbit that Uruguay's Suarez declared after yesterday's match "the hand of God now belongs to me".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/…
PS I was only awake due to the whining of an incontinent Labrador, not because I'm one of those annoying morning people...
Why are all the beautiful, slightly effeminate men gay?
I believe that is one of life's eternal mysteries, Nurse, much like the existence of Marshmallow Fluff.
Re: the soccer: I don't have a TV near my computer, and am but a humble country bumpkin without high-speed, so watching TV online is like awkward highschool sex..."go, go...wait a minute, fumble..go!...no, not really..." which reduces me to impatiently enduring all the soccer talk, waiting, sometimes fruitlessly, for the conversation to drift around to something I can relate to, like body shots, what I think of foreskin, or the musical superiority of the Cure's "Love Cats."
Paraguay's uniforms are almost identical to my high school soccer uniform. They really could do better.
But, they couldn't play much better than this. Paraguay has exceeded my expectations these games. I thought Spain would have been more dominant than they have been.
What I know of Spain, Canadian Nurse, is almost entirely from Almodovar. Accordingly, I always imagine they may be playing super hard but also thinking about something fizzy related to cinema or family or lovers or priests or all four.
So, the CBC commentators strongly believe that Paraguay's goal should have stood, although it was called offside. I'm not sure.
I'd love if this post ended up hitting "Most Commented" without the majority of the comments being anyhow related to the original post.
I think so, too, Emmet. It was just by seconds, though. He was on the right side of the defenders until the ball was in the air, but he still slipped behind the defenders before the ball was behind them.
Amazing save!!!!!!!!!!
We need the sedate, accurate Japanese refs today.
BTW, Gus, I've never heard the phrase "hopeful and tender" used to describe a soccer player before. I approve!
And that player's face in closeup reminded me of the expression Sal Mineo mustered toward James Dean, I dunno.
I don't think I can handle another overtime game, though. Someone needs to score in the next 20 minutes.
Spain was playing cleaner soccer at the Europe cup. I didn't get the same sense of attitude. There was confidence, but it wasn't aggravating.
Gus, you do have a way with words.
Oh no! Ramos has a beautiful face and now it's all ruined! :-(
Oh no! Age of Aquarius en Espanol is wounded!
Did Age of Aquarius have a FORESKINJURY??? (I was holding that in...)
Cardozo looks like he's about to blow his stack.
http://www.oleole.com/media/main/images/…
This was fun, now I'm going to go swimming!
That's an oxymoron.
it is what passes for wit on the Slug