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I didn’t watch it. Longish story, tell you later. Going to sleep.
Happy New Year to us all! One day you feel the world is rushing to oblivion, and then Federer wins a grand slam again and suddenly everything will be fine. Sport: the great metaphor.
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The match everyone thought would never happen again, where everything turned out the way I have always wanted while agonizing through every Federer v Nadal match in the last ten years, and I missed it.
I was in Thailand for work. Periodically I would check the results from Melbourne but was vewy vewy quiet because I didn’t want to jinx it. Sports fans maintain the irrational belief that their actions affect the outcomes of matches. But it was all Federer and Nadal. They are the best emotional investment we tennis fans have ever made, and they’re still paying off.
Okay, it’s been over 24 hours. We now return to the resistance. Now we see why superhero movies and dystopian narratives took over popular culture in the last decade. The writers could see it coming. We’re living in it now.
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January 30th, 2017 at 08:25
Yeesss!!!! Cheers to a great start to 2017!
January 30th, 2017 at 10:14
YAS! Federer and Nadal played a great game! I loved what the commentator said during the broadcast: “This is why sports is the best reality TV.”
February 1st, 2017 at 13:02
In high school, we had a class on basic economics and this is the only thing I remember: it was the golden age of fairy tales in the dark ages because people needed them.
February 1st, 2017 at 13:10
He won because I had my television volume at 35 the whole time.