Now I have to Blog About the Redskins

Yesterday was hands-down the worst football game I have ever seen. I mean, I've been through a decade of mediocre to bad football from my beloved skins, but this was awful. Embarrassing. I've never been happier to NOT have any Cowboy fans as friends. 

The worst thing might be having to hear kids in my classes who look (and sound) like they know about as much about football as my 3-year-old cousin laugh about the Redskins. Listen you pasty Hatchet reporter, tell me the name of our quarterback and maybe you can laugh at our team. 

A big part of me is tired of defending this team, but I know I still will because it's almost habit. But what happened yesterday was a mockery of this great franchise I love, this franchise that has been dragged through mud by Dan Snyder.

I've never liked Eagles fans (at all), but my friend Kelsey did make me feel a little better today when she said to me, "Hey, it's okay...we have a dog-killer on our team." But an hour later I overheard her and another Eagles fan having this actual discussion: "How many dogs do you think he killed?" Philadelphians are weird.

I will not blog about the Redskins...

...tonight. I'm not going to blog about Kanye's VMA incident either - anyone who listened to the last cd he put out knew he lost his mind a year ago.

I will talk about, though, this whole Michelle Obama as keynote speaker thing going on. Apparently, if GW students complete about 4 million hours of community service, she will speak at commencement in the spring. I would love, love, love for this to happen. BUT I feel there are a few logistics standing in our way. For one thing, the only people who really care about the graduation speaker are seniors, and seniors are just about the laziest students on campus (apart from those who were way too drunk/lazy their freshman year and are now cramming in hopes of raising their fractured GPAs). 

It looks like we may have to rely on those go-getter underclassmen who care so much about the "status" of GW that they would DIE to be able to tell their high school friends about having Mrs. Obama as our speaker. [Sidenote: These are the same kids who consistently brag about GW being the most expensive school in the country (which it no longer is), or still tell people that Kanye West played at Fall Fest 3 decades ago.]

A girl in one of my classes this morning said something along the lines of "I can't believe she wants to speak here! It's like, so Ivy League." I can't even delve into how many things about this comment disturbed me, but really? Our school is about 3 minutes away from where she LIVES. I don't see her being too put out by it, (especially since the Exchange is on the way back?)

"It Ain't About Black and White Cause We Human"

I read a lot of Chuck Klosterman. If you like reading and you haven't explored his works, I highly recommend him. But anyway I was reading him tonight (which is actually semi-creepy sounding, to read someone), and I stumbled on this passage:

"This is a city with Republican bars and Democratic bars. Those establishments are filled with idealistic underpaid interns who are killing themselves with anyone who could put them in a position to network with someone else. It seems like a thrilling, confusing, horrific way to live. In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington, D.C., it just sort of works out that way."

This statement got me thinking, and actually not about whether or not Washingtonians are depressed, but about the differences between people living/from different cities. And the more I thought about it, the more I became convinced that there may be two kinds of people in many ways. And these two kinds are people associated with DC/Boston and people associated with New York/LA. And here are some of my thoughts...

-DC/Boston people have a much different outlook on their sports teams. They are almost pathetically defensive when their sports teams are sucking, and blame it on something being unbalanced in the universe rather than admitting that their team is just BAD that year (see Red Sox, Redskins fans). New York and LA fans complain or make huge monetary moves (see Yankees). Furthermore, DC/Boston people tend to have somewhat goofy and "off" franchise players (see Gilbert Arenas, Jon Papelbon, Ovechkin, etc.), whereas NY/LA fans adore people that nauseate me more than Friday morning classes (see Kobe, A-Rod). 

-Unexplainably, young NY/LA people are obsessed with clubbing, or going to a "Lounge" to wear a lot of black sequins, spend tons of money to sit at a table and drink overpriced alcohol. What is with Lounges? Why do I need to wear heels to go somewhere that's name sounds relaxing? These people also tend to enjoy the same music Abercrombie plays.

-LA/NY people are tan. Really tan. Bostonites are often Irish/pale, and Washingtonians just spend too much time waiting for late (and sometimes crashing) metro trains with their Capitol Hill badges. Compared to the "city that never sleeps," DC/Boston people can sometimes look like part of the fucking Twilight cast.

That's about all I can mull over right now, but there's sure to be more in the future. I considered briefly including people from Philadelphia, but they don't really fit in either of these categories. My friend who is from the Philly area and sadly an Eagles fan was immensely proud that he had just bought a Michael Vick Jersey. They are a strange breed. Pun completely intended.