super bowl remembrances i want to remember.

tyree. sunday night, after the game, as i was walking east on 76th st, from nora's to the train, i passed a guy who looked to be in his mid-thirties, standing outside his brownstone in a giants sweatshirt, playing bagpipes! he wasnt with anyone, wasnt playing to any particular audience. he was just a noble bagpiping giants fan, sounding the call of victory, spreading joy through the air in his unique way. i loved him.

manning. this morning on the r train to work, i shared a car with a gaggle of what i assumed to be brooklyn high schoolers, male and female, decked out in giants jerseys, on their way to the parade, whose terminus is right outside my window here (just saw a float with strahan and eli go by, strahan lofting the lombardi trophy in the air - pretty classy). anyway, midway through the ride the girls started putting on eye black, and when i got out of the subway i saw tons of girls with eye black. and i have to say, maybe im drunk with the collective joy here, but chicks look cute in eye black. i was recently informed that i had been misinterpreting someone's eyes as arresting when it fact it was her eye liner that made them so, so maybe i just have a fetish for ocular ornamentation? (might well be true. during the super bowl, i said that tom brady should wear eye black all the time, even when he's not playing football.)

tynes. this is unrelated, but i will never eat quiznos again. before yesterday's regrettable lunch, i think the last time i had eaten that sh*t was two winters ago, with mephistophilicosis. (dont ask me how i remember it was two winters ago; i just do.) that time, mr. met had said something to the effect of, 'i always think im gonna like quiznos, and i never do,' and i totally agreed. and i was thinking of that yesterday before i got my inscrutably-flavored 'mesquite chicken with bacon' sub, but i figured, 'it's been a long time. maybe a) it's improved or b) i'll just like it now.'

i did not. that place is disgusting. as lindsay buckingham would say, never going back again. btw, lindsay and stevie nicks were a great couple based on their names alone. they each look like the other's name.