Author (and goalkeeper), Albert Camus, wrote – “All that I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football.”

I also owe a lot to football and it’s something I’m always willing to discuss, play or watch. It’s even more appropriate to discuss today and even into the summer. In a matter of hours, over in Moscow, the Champions League Final kicks off featuring an all-English match up of Chelsea FC and Manchester United FC (I’m rooting for Man U). In a matter of a few weeks (17 days to be exact), the European Championships begin, sadly without England, but I’ll be rooting for the Orange Crush (that would be the Dutch National Team) and glued to every game I can catch on TV.
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80,000. It sounds impressive. It’s the capacity of the Stade de France in Paris – home to the French national soccer team. I mention that mainly for my love of soccer and to reference Zinedine Zidane once again in one of my blog posts. 80,000 is also the number of CD’s sold by the Spice Girls in Poland, for their album Spice World (Despi mentioned them in this post). And finally, one of the longest dinosaurs, the Apatosaurus, is estimated to have weighed close to 80,000 lbs.

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I’m going to talk about some soccer, my favorite videos on YouTube, the new IMA web site and more. I recently helped a friend setup for an outdoor movie party that involved a laptop, LCD projector, a tatty white sheet and some old speakers. It was like a DIY IMA Summer Nights experience. We bbq’d, invited a bunch of friends over, drank some good beer, sat under the stars and watched a brilliant soccer film called Zidane – A 21st Century Portrait, by artists Douglas Gordon and Philipe Parreno. It’s remarkable even if you’re not exactly a soccer fan. Read the rest of this entry »