help!

I am thinking of getting a new Arsenal shirt (I feel like I just got one, but oh well. I have an obsession and a money spending problem) but I can't decide which name to get on the back. I love them all so much and this feels like I'm picking favorites! So I need input.

poll by twiigs.com

serious news

Charlie Davies was involved in a serious car accident early this morning on the GW parkway in NoVA. He apparently suffered a broken leg and internal injuries, and went through extensive surgery. His injuries appear to be non-life threatening, but at the moment it's unclear as to how they will affect his career.

More about it here and here.

Get better soon, Charlie. Here's hoping it won't be long before he does the stanky leg again.

UPDATE from US Soccer :

U.S. National Soccer Team forward Charlie Davies is in serious but stable condition and resting following several hours of surgery at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. to treat injuries suffered in a one-car accident on the George Washington Parkway early Tuesday morning in Northern Virginia.

Davies suffered a lacerated bladder and fractures to the tibia and femur bones in his right leg. He also suffered facial fractures and a left elbow fracture. Davies was air-lifted to the hospital where a team of doctors first repaired a ruptured bladder and then inserted titanium rods in both the tibia, the bone in the lower leg, and the femur, which is the thigh bone, with no complications. Davies will be hospitalized for at least a week and additional surgeries will be required to stabilize his left elbow fracture and possibly the facial fractures.

“Injuries of this nature usually require a recovery period of six to 12 months and extensive rehabilitation,” said U.S. Soccer physician Dr. Dan Kalbac, who is with the team in D.C. and collaborated with the treating doctors. ”Due to Charlie’s fitness level, his prognosis for recovery and his ability to resume high-level competition is substantially improved.”

south africa 2010: be there

We did it!


In what I hear was an incredibly unconvincing win, the USMNT beat Honduras 3-2 to secure a spot in World Cup 2010. OOO-sah!

I didn't watch the game because 1) I've already gotten in trouble once for streaming too many games so I didn't want to get a judicial referral (fuck college) and 2) I was too tired to stay up anyways, especially if all I could do was read a live report.

But Conor Casey (Conor fucking Casey???) got a brace and Landy scored the third, and Honduras missed a penalty and did other various things to choke and ensure our passage into next summer's tournament. They'll probably still make it anyways.

So yeah, go us! We better shape up massively before next summer though if we want any sort of a chance to, erm, win a game or two.

they don't just listen to rap?

So Les Bleus have been growing on me lately.

Why, you ask?

No, it's not because of their stellar performances in the World Cup Qualifiers. And no, it's not because this crazy woman convinced me that Ray Domenech is awesome.

It's because they've started sporting awesome classic rock tees.

Yes, I know this one was from a photoshoot (that made him look very gay...) but still, good choice photogs.

But there is also this:
Um, I think Ribery has been raiding my closet.

One of my favorite t-shirts (and number five in my Top Five Albums of All Time list). Yes, he very well could have gotten the shirt because, i don't know, he really likes bananas. But I prefer to think that he's a fan of 60s experimental rock. Ribery would totally be in Ravenclaw.


Speaking of Frenchies and music, this post would not be complete without this gem. Let's play a game of spot the footballer!



Wow, two posts in three days! I'm on a roll...

tuesday night insanity

There are tons of things I should be writing about, like the wonderful 6-2 drubbing of Blackburn at the weekend, the beginning of hockey season and the awesome start that the Caps have had, or possibly even the reign of Napoleon for my French class.

Instead, I mark my brief return to the blogosphere by penning this masterpiece.


Lucy and I were talking this evening about football and Harry Potter (as we do) and the two subjects started to mix. The discussion started with Thomas Vermaelen clearly being a Slytherin. Not because he is evil (on the contrary, he is wonderful and amazing and full of so much win...wow, I'm pretty sure this infatuation is not going to go away anytime soon) but because he is pale and slightly vampire-esque and sticks his tongue out a lot like a snake. He just has a very Slytheriny vibe.

So we started sorting other footballers into houses, and this is what we came up with (side note: I was watching a replay of Saturday's Arsenal game, so a lot of these happen to be Gunners)...

Gryffindor [Head of house = Pep Guardiola]:

Thierry Henry
Cesc Fàbregas
Robin van Persie (although he could potentially be in Ravenclaw too...he's a smart guy)
Steven Gerrard
Theo Walcott
Raúl Gonzalez
Andres Iniesta
Alex Song (specifically Neville Longbottom. He used to be pretty hopeless, but he's really started to come into his own. Perhaps one day he will help to bring down Voldemort's army AKA Manchester United, OBV.)

Hufflepuff [Head of house = Guti AKA Professor Lockhart]:

Gonzalo Higuain
Vedran Ćorluka
Nicklas Bendtner
Manuel Almunia
Aaron Ramsey
Lukasz Podolski
Lionel Messi
David Beckham (Lucy tried her hardest to put him into Gryffindor, but I won't allow it because he was a ManUre player.)

Ravenclaw [Head of house = Arsène Wenger]:

Dennis Bergkamp
Niko Kranjčar
Iker Casillas
Fernando Torres
Xabi Alonso
Bojan Krkic

This house is pretty sparse...there aren't too many bright footballers around, are there?

Slytherin [Head of house = Sir Alex Ferguson]:

Thomas Vermaelen
Cristiano Ronaldo
Wayne Rooney
...actually, all ManUre players.
Didier Drogba
Michael Ballack
...actually, all Chelski players too.
Torsten Frings
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Oliver Kahn
...and pretty much all Germans (especially the ones in the 2002 World Cup squad.)
Martin Skrtel
Karim Benzema
Vito Mannone
Alvaro Arbeloa
Artur Boruc
Gerard Pique
Carles Puyol
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Esteban Granero
Emmanuel Adebayor (Wormtail: used to be on the good side, but has gone very, very bad.)
All Italians (I know Steph will be happy about this one, being a Slytherin herself.)
Michael Owen (Lucy has dubbed him He Who Must Not Be Named, so clearly he's Voldy.)

Yeah so we put a lot of people in Slytherin. Like I said, not all of them are bad, some just have the right characteristics. But some really are evil, i.e. Drogba, Adebayor, and Ballack.


To borrow a phrase from my World Regions prof, I should really stop drinking. Good night, folks.