http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/humor/best-american-nonrequired-reading-2005/ reading material to get excited about Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:17:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/humor/best-american-nonrequired-reading-2005/#comment-2716 The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup » Bookgasm Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:10:14 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=177#comment-2716 [...] So does Eggers’ – treading less pretentious waters than usual – description of a child’s soccer game: “It requires very little skill. There is no other sport that can bear such incompetence. With soccer, twenty-two kids can be running around, most of them aimlessly, or picking weeds by the sidelines or crying for no apparent reason, and yet the game can have the general appearance of an actual soccer match.” Yep, that’s the ticket. And I’ve got homemade video to prove it. [...] [...] So does Eggers’ – treading less pretentious waters than usual – description of a child’s soccer game: “It requires very little skill. There is no other sport that can bear such incompetence. With soccer, twenty-two kids can be running around, most of them aimlessly, or picking weeds by the sidelines or crying for no apparent reason, and yet the game can have the general appearance of an actual soccer match.” Yep, that’s the ticket. And I’ve got homemade video to prove it. [...]

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