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Comments on MetaFilter post The Big Country/RunMon, 01 Sep 2014 11:16:48 -0800Mon, 01 Sep 2014 11:16:48 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60The Big Country/Run
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<a href="http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2014/8/28/5935433/college-football-opening-essay-lets-have-feelings">College Football has returned, and Spencer Hall has .gifs and feelings as accompaniment.</a> post:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.142394Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:58:10 -0800DGStieberFootballcollegefootballSpencerHallAmericaRunningBy: hippybear
http://www.metafilter.com/142394/The-Big-Country-Run#5713950
Good lord. I guess this guy might be saying interesting things someplace in his writing, but so much of what is actually there is so off-putting with its smugness and superior tone I can't find any content to care about.comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.142394-5713950Mon, 01 Sep 2014 11:16:48 -0800hippybearBy: Earthtopus
http://www.metafilter.com/142394/The-Big-Country-Run#5713989
*skims idly, happening upon "Roman Phalanx"*
*Ctrl-F to find his exasperated response to pedantic commenters*
*comes here to be meta-pedantic*comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.142394-5713989Mon, 01 Sep 2014 11:35:43 -0800EarthtopusBy: Ian A.T.
http://www.metafilter.com/142394/The-Big-Country-Run#5714040
If you're reading the comments first to decide whether to invest in the article, I'll use mine to cancel out hippybear's and say that aside from the Talking Heads quote in the subtitle (which actually ties rather elegantly into the thesis of the second half), I found very little here that was smug or superior. What I did find was a lovely bit of writing and a meditation on what it means to feel a connection to a point on a map, and I'm very glad it was posted.comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.142394-5714040Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:07:31 -0800Ian A.T.By: sutt
http://www.metafilter.com/142394/The-Big-Country-Run#5714058
He mentions Cormac McCarthy, and three paragraphs later, we get this:
"Sense has never made a dent in how people fuck, drink, or watch football. They are inelastic ghosts with tin ears and large, bellowing mouths."comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.142394-5714058Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:14:37 -0800suttBy: surplus
http://www.metafilter.com/142394/The-Big-Country-Run#5714171
I liked the writing. It helped explain why I watched Georgia prove their way of life superior to Clemson's Saturday night, hating myself for filling that aching chasm with something so useless and important. One more prayer for Quezzie Green's wishboned hip socket and I'm OK.comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.142394-5714171Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:22:15 -0800surplusBy: conorh
http://www.metafilter.com/142394/The-Big-Country-Run#5714204
I must admit to a certain reflexive reaction of revulsion when I read articles glorifying college football. I think it's deeply weird and wrong that we continue to support a sport in our universities that causes brain damage.comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.142394-5714204Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:41:02 -0800conorhBy: joecacti
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I feel that too conorh, I'm part of the problem by consuming, by being swept up in the romance. We're all broken, and we come from broken homes, and we walk to a broken future.comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.142394-5714235Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:57:31 -0800joecactiBy: benk
http://www.metafilter.com/142394/The-Big-Country-Run#5714239
"Go to Boulder and realize you have done something very wrong to not be there all the time, and to not look like the people there, and do the healthy, fit, virtuous and cheerful things they do.*
*Going to Boulder is realizing you are now, by making all the choices you have made in your life, part of the problem forever."
Made the whole thing worth it, even if the Buffs are no good at football.comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.142394-5714239Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:02:12 -0800benk
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