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"The teaching of history is not to enable the public to look back and say 'oh, that was really horrible wasn't it, we're very sorry'. The point is, rather, to look back and remember which doors shouldn't be opened and which roads shouldn't be travelled." -- "mink", on a Guardian discussion board

Ravens vs. Titans, about an hour from now. If you don't know who the Ravens and the Titans are, then it's not important enough to bother finding out. (C'mon, it's only professional sports.) But if you care (which I do): Go Ravens!

I'm going to miss most of the game 'cause I have a performance (maybe somebody can email my cell phone whenever points are scored ... I'll silence it and sneak a peek between dances). Ordinarily I'd just be, "Oh, so I miss a game for a gig, nothing new there," but this is the playoffs. Here's hoping I have good news to come home to tonight (or more accurately, good news to hear on the radio while driving home).

It looks like I've got someone to email me score updates. *whew* But some things are just too pretty to settle for hearing about -- I'm still at home, getting dressed for the gig, and I'm glad I was still here to see that cute interception just now. I know I'll miss a lot of beautiful plays later (I can never quite bring myself to watch a game later on videotape), but I get to see a little before I hit I-95 and dash from one beltway to another. Fun team.

(And it'll probably continue to be an interesting game, especially with McNair -- whom I think is wonderful when he's not up against the Ravens -- on the other side. A quarterback who can run like that, versus the Baltimore defense. Oooh boy.)