Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Reflections On The Dark Days of the Past


In the nineteen-seventies, before you could watch mediocre teenagers sing on television and vote for them on your phone, people were so desperate for entertainment that sometimes they'd host "baby fights" at private homes, where two babies of similar ages would be dumped onto an ugly bedspread and forced to battle for dominance. The winner took home Similac and a college savings bond. Fortunes were won and lost in off-license betting. Here I am, about to destroy someone named Sarah, as an anorexic ref looks on.

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