rationale

chuck klosterman, in the past, has written things about music. i think. but he's also writing a blog about the lead-up to superbowl xl, and in his first post, he wrote this:

I guarantee this will be the greatest one-week sports blog ever written, or at least the best one since Jacqueline Susann's unforgettable blogging of the 1967 Ice Bowl. If this is not the best sports blog you have ever read, I will personally drive to your home, clean your garage, wash your car, shingle your doghouse with pancakes, and blow up your children with dynamite. That is my guarantee.

that's an awesome guarantee, and it made me laugh out loud in the office. btw, it's cute how the conventions of roman numerals (40 is XL because L (50) - X (10) = XL (40)) has made it superbowl extra-large, but what in the hell are they gonna do next year when it's something as unsexy as IXL? or worse: VIIL? maybe in three years it'll be the first ever webcast super bowl and they can call it super bowl E-VIL. and yes, sometimes i write superbowl and sometimes super bowl.