Playpen 1.15.25

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On Sunday afternoon, I turned on the TV and I see this title on an ESPN channel:

Pillow Fight Championship

I think, what?! Is that a euphemism for something else?  Is it some titillation where ESPN is using a bunch of bimbos to sell laundry detergent and play hitting each other with pillows?  Has Georgia Tech hacked into the network in a bid to bring a national audience into a men’s dorm on North Avenue?  

I gots to know.

So I hit the channel.  It’s none of the above.  Its “real,” I guess.  Its two dudes, one with his face painted like “The Joker,” both armed with pillows, in a boxing ring, engaged in a pillow fight.  

Feel the…down feathers I guess? 

A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He’d have to say, ‘O.K., I’ll be part of this world.’

No, thanks.

In the meantime, I will stand back, gawk, laugh and mock the ubiquitous absurdity.  

Discuss.  

10 thoughts on “Playpen 1.15.25”

  1. They’re struggling to fill the hours since the CFP rankings show is off until October.

    • There are lots of things to go that carry considerably more dignity and far less absurdity than two grown ass men engaged in a pillow fight.

  2. I saw some of that. What got me was their being called professionals and that these were sanctioned “fights”. Who knew? I wasted twenty minutes then went outside. Some things I think are better to have never been learned.

  4. They had quidditch on ESPN News on Sunday afternoon. It looked like a perfect sport for the nerds of North Avenue … this is coming from someone who is a big Potter fan and had just seen one of the movies with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra and my daughter’s college chorus providing a live soundtrack.

    I would be embarrassed to play it. Some things only need to be fantasy … quidditch is definitely one of those things.

    • EE: Watched a quidditch match in Boston Commons and was embarrassed for everyone concerned. Players, fans and the participating universities. Mentioned to my tour guide that it would be far more interesting if the ones on brooms were suspended by guy wires from a larger structure with a ground crew handling the belay on the ropes. They were not amused in that effete Northeastern university kind of way. I tried to explain, to no avail, that without the risk of life-altering injury, the game would not catch on.

  5. Up next on the Ocho…the Hobby Horse Grand Nationals. If you haven’t seen it…look it up. Now THAT’S a North Avenue Trade School NCAA sport waiting to happen. Pretending to ride an actual horse on an equestrian track while panting and sweating like you ran a marathon is a truly nerd sport.

    On another note, any time I can begin my day with Harry Callahan is a good day, to be sure.

  6. Derek, great arrangement of clips. The problem with anything that is 24/7 is you have to find content to keep the masses engaged. Getting the masses engaged in watching the things that will inform their lives is a bit of a problem. For example, I’m currently watching a much dumber, less ethical Elle Woods go through the “nomination” process for attorney general.
    As an astute observer of politics and the general malaise, name me one cabinet nominee that is more qualified for the position that they aspire to lead than George Carlin would be for the same position.

    • Qualified or not, there ain’t a nominee who has a more acceptable intelligence/greed/decency ratio than Mr. Carlin. They’ve each been hand selected for their characteristics of obsequiousness, of being telegenic, capacity for spewing bullshit with a straight face and general scumbaggery.

      Hedley Lamar would be impressed.

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