- New Thing Learned for 20 January: The way to eat a gyros sandwich without ending up covered in tzatziki sauce is to mummify it in napkins until it looks like you're trying to eat it through a sterile surgical drape. Many shirts, napkins, and gloves died to bring us this information. [Source: much, much experimentation.]
So the Bears have beat the Saints, which I think means Ray Nagin has to show Mayor Daley his tits or something, I'm not the person to ask about arcane sports rivalry traditions. I spent the afternoon running errands instead, and only really knew that the game was on at all because nobody was on the roads and the managers at the supermarket kept announcing the score over the PA. Now hoping fervently that my football-loving upstairs neighbor goes out for her superbowl party, as the last couple of game nights have been a little loud up there.