http://www.futfanatico.com/2010/05/07/junito-emancipaton-trepidation-anticipation/ My new Web site Sun, 20 May 2012 00:59:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.futfanatico.com/2010/05/07/junito-emancipaton-trepidation-anticipation/#comment-420 Junito: Emancipaton, Trepidation, Anticipation « Scissors Kick Sun, 09 May 2010 18:00:18 +0000 http://futfanatico.com/?p=5274#comment-420 [...] Junito: Emancipaton, Trepidation, Anticipation “The last time we held an election at Futfanatico, it was an unmitigated disaster. The premise was simple enough – a ‘blog of the year’ award for all soccer blogs with ‘futfanatico’ in the URL. However, a wisecracking tweeter and a Central American dictator-for-campaign manager conspired to blow things to smithereens. And, of course, I did not win. Still, Junito’s national team selection has one distinct advantage – I am not a candidate, as I am a human being, not a nation state. Thus, I reasoned, no evil can come of this. I was wrong. The expected and the unexpected merged into a vortex so profound, so deep and convoluted, that if you wiped your pink finger on the surface’s rim, you’d be elbow-deep in abyss in the blink of an eye.” (futfanatico) [...] [...] Junito: Emancipaton, Trepidation, Anticipation “The last time we held an election at Futfanatico, it was an unmitigated disaster. The premise was simple enough – a ‘blog of the year’ award for all soccer blogs with ‘futfanatico’ in the URL. However, a wisecracking tweeter and a Central American dictator-for-campaign manager conspired to blow things to smithereens. And, of course, I did not win. Still, Junito’s national team selection has one distinct advantage – I am not a candidate, as I am a human being, not a nation state. Thus, I reasoned, no evil can come of this. I was wrong. The expected and the unexpected merged into a vortex so profound, so deep and convoluted, that if you wiped your pink finger on the surface’s rim, you’d be elbow-deep in abyss in the blink of an eye.” (futfanatico) [...]

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