So sport seems to be in the air these days. There's something going on tonight involving hundreds of pounds of helmets and costumery, complete with grandiose spectacle and and pretend warriors, and I'm told this has nothing to do with Wagner. We'll see. And the Internet tells me the Olympics are coming up soon, though I thought we just finished with one of them? And let us not forget a tiny little event called the World Cup...
But all this reminded me of Morley Callghan, the Canadian spitfiring writer who regularly and famously boxed with Hemingway with Fitzgerald in the French Judge role of timekeeper. And if you don't know about this landmark event in literary history, and you want to, you might benefit from clicking that link up there to a CBC profile, because I won't repeat it all here.
And then that got me thinking: I'm not much for violent athletics, of course, but what if my colleagues in the land of literary podcasting got together for some friendly sporting matches? Could I beat the beloved Uncle Ron in a tennis tournament? Who would win if I took to water polo with the Librivoxers? With Kaseumin, I don't know, I envision a heated round of beach volleyball, because really: have you ever seen those women?! And eighty years from now, who knows, maybe they'd still be talking about the legacy born of the frenetic bobsledding competition between me and