June 2010 archives
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June 27, 2010 by cptwitter
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27
As riveting as last Wednesday's game was, I'll be much happier today if the contest is decided in the USA's favor by halftime. # Last game: a clean sheet, and the USA scored the first goal. For today: clean sheet please, and the first goal in the first half! #WorldCup # Here we go again, [...]Archive
June 26, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
Hamartia at the World Cup
For the second World Cup in a row, Ghana eliminates the USA 2-1. At least this time there was nothing to dispute about Ghana’s second goal. Hamartia is one of the most famous concepts from Aristotle’s Poetics, and it’s translated as “the tragic flaw” that both accounts for a hero’s greatness and also brings about [...]Archive
June 25, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
World Cup Bits and Pieces
I’ve been enjoying listening to the partisan commentary on ESPN’s coverage of the World Cup. Former footballers Shaun Bartlett (South Africa), Ruud Gullit (Netherlands), Jürgen Klinsmann, (Germany), Alexei Lalas (USA), and Steve McManaman (England) offer useful insights into each of the games they’re covering, but when those games involve the countries from which they hail, [...]Archive
June 24, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
Thar She Blows: The Sound of Animals Fighting
I was investigating The Sound of Animals Fighting, a band that Chani suggested in response to my Globalize My Playlist post, and I came across their song “Ahab” from their 2008 album The Ocean and the Sun. At least, I think it’s a song. It’s definitely an acquired taste. Sample it for yourself: I tried [...]Archive
June 23, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
Riveting
My friend Dick complains that he finds it to sustain interest in soccer games because there is so little scoring, but i think that sometimes it’s precisely the lack of scoring that makes soccer “the beautiful game.” Goals like the one that Landon Donovan scored today in the waning minutes of the USA’s game against [...]Archive
June 21, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
Summertime and the Livin’ Ain’t Easy
7:28 a.m. In my neck of the urban jungle, summertime officially begins — well, right now. I’ve got Gershwin George Gershwin‘s melody and DuBose Heyward‘s lyrics going through my head as I write this, but in contrast to what they sing in Porgy and Bess, my summer looks to be anything but easy. It starts [...]Archive
June 20, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
NYUAD Institute Lecture Video
The lecture that I gave last October in Abu Dhabi for the NYUAD Institute, “Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism, and the Promise of Literature,” can now be viewed online at the Institute’s website. Click here to go directly to the stream for the lecture, which lasts about 86 minutes. If you close the pop-up box, you’ll see a [...]Archive
June 18, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
Not so EASY
Do you suppose the English tabloid The Sun now regrets this piece, which was entitled “Best English Group since the Beatles” — referring to the World Cup soccer team? After looking at the Three Lions’ opponents in the group stage — Algeria, Slovenia, and the United States — the paper decided that the team was [...]Archive
June 16, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
