July 22, 2007

• The Second Coming

  Well, after a month of endless hype, Christ has returned in the form of David Beckham.  I bet every star in Hollywood wishes they had Posh & Beck’s publicist, because they have been absolutely everywhere.  No one’s sure if it will work though.  We had “good seats” for the game and my cousin Joel kept grumbling the whole time how boring it was and that Americans will never like soccer.  He may be right, but if Beckham doesn’t turn America on to soccer, it won’t be for lack of trying.  If it doesn’t succeed however, it never will.  This is soccer’s last chance in this country.  Just to have my entire family watching a soccer game was a major coup.  None of them had even seen a whole game before.  I can’t brag though.  Even though I went to the World Cup last year in Germany, I can barely tell a goal from a home run.    And come on, let’s face it, if he didn’t look like this, would there even be any hype at all?
  
  

  
  

  
  

  Beckham the ‘Jesus of Consumer Culture’
  
  LONDON- England fans may pray for him to lead the country to victory in next year’s World Cup, but not even his most ardent admirers have ever compared David Beckham to Jesus. Until now, that is.
  
  An academic conference was to hear Wednesday that while Beckham has yet to perform any miracles – at least off the football pitch – he is perhaps the closest thing modern British society has to a Messiah figure.
  
  “Beckham the brand is all about salvation, redemption, even resurrection,” said Carlton Brick, on the politics and sociology faculty of the University of Paisley in Scotland.
  
  “It is not me that is saying Beckham is a pseudo Christ-like figure, but it is how he is often portrayed, and it is how he portrays himself,” he told The Guardian newspaper. Read more…
  

  
  So here are today’s photos:
  
  

  

  Grapes in Darlene’s backyard

   

  

   

  

  Grandma & Andy

   

  

  Buster eyeing Andy’s pizza

   

  

  I told you we had “good seats”

   

  

   

  

  The crowd goes wild

   

  

   

  

   

  

  Reviewing my pictures on the computer

   

  

  Roxy!

   

  
  

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