Saturday, July 10, 2010

Final-ly!

The Netherlands and Spain play for the Championship Sunday, July 11th.*

We are for the Orange in my house---even if you lack the actual agency to be 'for' a team. If, for instance, you can hardly distinguish between Iberia and the Low Countries, between Picasso and Van Gogh, between Sneijder and Villa, (if, for instance, you are a dog) --in my house you root for Holland.

He enjoyed the dress up at first:


But then he started to sulk, when he realized we were going to move him all around the house, like a chess piece, shooting photos:








And add props---further affronts to his dignity:









Enjoy the game. For me, the World Cup really ended when The Netherlands beat Brazil.

*As I predicted after the December 2009 drawing of the pots in Cape Town, and organization of the groups and fixtures.

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