i can be silent on this no longer

So many things are wrong with that Billie Jean King vs. Caveman tennis commercial. To wit:

1. The score is 6-0, 6-0, 5-0. But women play to two sets. It happens in women's singles, it happens in mixed doubles. It happened when King played Bobby Rig-
   

*googles "Battle of the Sexes"*

*reads wikpedia article*

*curses heavens*

Okay, so the Battle of the Sexes did go to three sets. Mea culpa, Ms. King.

*reorganizes thoughts*

1. The score is 6-0, 6-0, 5-0, but they seem to be taking an extended break, as if it were between sets. Odd game breaks are very quick, and are supposed to be for getting water or changing rackets. Here they're sitting in their chairs just chatting it up in the middle of a set.
2. King would have been 63, 64 when this happened, and she's not exactly in great shape anymore. And she's dominating a caveman in the prime of his life? This is only possible if he has absolutely no idea what's going on. Speaking of which...
   
3. The caveman agrees to play a televised, public tennis match, but apparently knows nothing (almost literally) about tennis or how to play it. He hasn't "even gotten a serve in" - so he can't perform the most basic shot in tennis. What's worse, he isn't even aware of his own failings, or the fact that he's been dominated for the entire match. It comes to him as shock that he's losing - he thought whatever it was that he was doing out there was winning him the match. This is mind-blowing to me.
4. The caveman is also completely unaware of everything around him. Geico signs are littered across the court, and he has yet to notice a single one of them until the umpire points it out.
   

Apparently the stereotype about modern cavemen being just as stupid as their ancestors (in the Geico Cavemen Commercial Universe) is extremely well-founded.

will i post in the month of june? stay tuned...

(pause)

i will! i figured out how to put a feed of my twitter updates on the sidebar to the right. i tweet 0-3 times per day, and max out that 140 character limit nearly every time - so i promise every update will have as much substance as possible. none of this "out for lunch" crap.

i saw a horrible rendition of "West Side Story" with my dad for father's day. the guy playing Tony had this air of effeminacy with the way he spoke and carried himself, very distracting when he's supposed to be a former gang member and madly in love with a girl named Maria. the girl playing Anybodys was subtly hot. i was intrigued.

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