The Largesse Recommends Belgium

Today I learned that Belgium is awesome.  For quite some time I have been taken with the finer points of this fair country: waffles, beer, and chocolate come to mind.  Throw in the legalization of euthanasia and gay marriage, the massive amounts of ecstasy consumed on the streets, and the highest proportion of households with cable television in the world (97%) and we are really on to something here (say nothing of the fact that In Bruges is maybe the most underrated movie of the past ten years.)  And yes, this will be the topic of my next post – Grosse Pointe Blank anyone?  For now though, I want to reflect for all of us how awesome it is that Belgium has decided to start bitch-slapping the Catholic Church.

My bad, Belgium.

The Largesse Recommends Strange But True Sports Stories

Look.  I’m not going to pretend that I watch tennis or anything, but of course I ended up streaming the ridiculousness of today’s portion of the Isner-Mahut match online.  And of course now I’m reading about how there are no words and that we’ve never seen anything like this before and never will again…

No shit.  It’s completely unbelievable.  It’s awesome in the most literal sense.  It’s the kind of thing I used to read about in the single most important book from my childhood: The Giant Book of Strange But True Sports Stories.