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There are a million articles written about why soccer “isn’t succeeding in America” and what “needs to be done” about that, or simply about why the author in question doesn’t enjoy it (the use of newspaper columns as some sort of Livejournal is another issue entirely). It’s boring, it’s immature, it’s really not worth any adult’s time. But I enjoy Steve Davis’s writing, and his rebuttal today to a piece from Matt Zencey in Philadelphia had a great paragraph that summed the whole genre up very well:
Seriously, I could live 1,000 years and not fully understand why anyone devotes time, energy and effort to telling the rest of us why we should not like something. Truth is, these dated and toxic discharges of anti-soccer venom aren’t for soccer fans. This is the fearful, anti-change faction of the Baby Boomer set, writing with wounded monotony in newspapers for the only people who still read newspapers: other Baby Boomers who like to believe that 1982 might just happen all over again.
So there you have it. Soccer is succeeding in the US, with or without your support. These are the last words I’ll devote to any of the whiners out there who wish I wouldn’t like it. 1
Notes:
Just a quick self-portrait-y cartoon I sketched the other day in celebration of the beginning of MLS’s season. Unfortunately, my New England Revolution has a bye this weekend, so I don’t get to pose like this for at least another week. I didn’t draw the sponsor logo (United Healthcare) on the front because I didn’t feel like it – it’s narrow white text and this was a quick sketch for fun.
I found this quote pretty much alone in the “drafts” section of my WordPress dashboard, which means I probably saved it for later because I had a lot of stuff I wanted to say to back this up. But really, It’s pretty good on its own. You should read the article too. It’s great. From Dylan Meconis:
If you pick up a comic book and you don’t like it – think first “this is probably a bad comic book.” Not “comic books are probably bad.” Can you imagine if a professional acquaintance of yours grabbed a novel at random from the Goodwill book bin and judged all of literature by it?
On Monday night I launched another website – this one was a freelance project for a salon in York, Maine. Much of the work was done for this one a while back, but it was the final details that delayed this for a while. It’s good to get it out the door and have the clients able to take advantage of their new fully-Wordpress-integrated site.
I launched a website for the company I work for on Saturday night. This was a collaborative effort in-house and with an external company, but I’m pretty proud to say a lot of what you see – the images, responsive CSS, HTML, and JS functionality especially – is my handiwork.