I’m quite happily oblivious to the goings-on in sports unless baseballs or horses are involved, so when even I am aware of a situation, it must be a Big Deal. I mean, even I know the Washington Redskins stink to high heaven this year, a fact hard to ignore when living in their backyard. Mercifully, I’ve been able to remain oblivious to the inevitable minutiae that accompany a bad season, such as whether the coach will be fired or when. He might have been pink-slipped already for all I know.
The only sport that interests me less than football is golf, but even I know who Tiger Woods is. I have no interest in his personal life either and didn’t know he’s married until the roster of his girlfriends began to surface. And surface. And surface like a game of whack-a-mole. So I guess it’s a Big Deal, at least to some or many, but nobody’s infidelity shocks or even surprises me. I’m a grownup and I’ve dated musicians.
Word play does catch and hold my interest and I’m tickled that for two weeks in a row I can use the word “clever” about a cartoon. And it’s funny. I especially like the twofer the small print brings.
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Joe Heller
Green Bay Press-Gazette Dec 11, 2009 |
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Mom’s a huge Tiger Woods fan – “It’s so nice to see someone in sports who’s so clean-cut, you know?” – so I’ve been forced to endure a little more conversation about this than I’d prefer. This is a funny cartoon, and so is most of his work – I enjoyed prowling the archives while I was there.
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He is a good cartoonist. A fave. I’m glad you like his stuff.
Maybe your mom can transfer her admiration to Derek Jeter. He’s just about the only athlete I think of in terms of role model for kids and the work he does for kids and young people is admirable. I don’t say it just because I’m a Yankees fan; even most Red Sox fans, who hate the Yankees from womb to tomb, give it up for Jeter. I wonder what sort of career Babe Ruth would have had if the country had known at the time what a horrible human being he was?