Bowl, Super; Black Eyed Peas, Not So Much

I've been posting comments on Facebook referring to that halftime mess as "Tron: The Musical." As is our tradition on Super Bowl Sunday, Joreen and I played 7:00 Mass (for all 90 people that showed up, and yes, I counted the house) and then went down to the brewery. The poorly mixed, poorly performed and poorly conceived blend of LED technology and B-movie LSD visuals was way too long and, in the brewery, too loud. The best you can say for it is that it introduced folks to the next generation of lighting technology, which if you've seen Phish lately you're already hip to. Radio controlled remote light rigs in costumes is interesting stuff. If only they had used their powers for good instead of evil. Remember when "Disco Sucks" days were held in ballparks and they burned all the disco records? I propose doing the same for vocoders. They should stack all of them (what are there, about 20 or so?) in a pile and burn the lot. Well, maybe one should be kept in quarantine, like smallpox, so if the vocoder is ever developed again we'll know how to destroy one most effectively.

The football game was pretty good, though. Congratulations to our friends who are Green Bay fans. Condolences to the rest of y'unz.