"This Season, Heisenberg Wears a Red Sox Rally Cap"

joeallonby vze422fs at verizon.net
Tue Oct 26 23:15:37 CDT 2004


Many of us are having a collective existential crisis.

It is nerve wracking.

> This Season, Heisenberg Wears a Red Sox Rally Cap
> 
> Published: October 26, 2004
> 
> (Page 2 of 2)
> 
> 
> But I'm not the only one who, knowing better, succumbs nevertheless to the
> shadows of the lizard brain. One of my best friends, an outspoken atheist,
> admits to being terribly superstitious. Over the course of her life, she says,
> she has given away a small fortune in jewelry, purses and bits of clothing she
> decided were jinxed. An editorial in this newspaper last week repeated an old
> theory known as the Cubs jinx, that the team having the most players who used
> to play for the Chicago Cubs, an even more star-crossed franchise than the Red
> Sox, will lose.

I am currently using a 10 milligram Valium tablet in my medicine cabinet as
a talisman. No matter how stressed I may feel, if I don't resort to the
single lone Valium tablet, the Red Sox will not blow it. So far it's
working.

I am normally considered a skeptic.






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