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The game is brutal and while you can get injured playing any sport, and people have died by sudden chest impact in other sports, there is a particular brutality to football that, coupled with ongoing sweeping of the damage of CTE under the rug by the NFL, the racial implications of young black men bearing the brunt of the defensive injuries, and the utter soulless, callous cruelty of Roger Goodell and the NFL administration telling the players to WARM UP AND GET BACK TO PLAYING IN FIVE MINUTES while their teammate was getting CPR on the field... I'm (not) sorry but this is shit. Its just my opinion obviously but fuck football and fuck the NFL, I don't know how anyone can keep watching this cruelty.

@trinilikesalt tagged me, thank you!

Comfort food: Tomato soup and a grilled cheese. Really crisp bright green pickles from an Amish market. Plain cheese NY-style pizza, folded. Gigantic bacon egg cheese and hash brown breakfast burrito with plenty of hot sauce, from a walk-up counter service mom & pop in Southern California... the kind of place with the Pepsi-branded menu board with click-in letters. Costco rotisserie chicken. 

Comfort clothes: Wintertime: My black cashmere turtleneck sweater, leggings or black jeans, and fleece slippers. Summertime: Cotton wrap or pullover knee-length dresses with bike shorts underneath, Birkenstocks. Year-round: We don’t wear underwire bras in this house anymore. 

Comfort songs: Bogatyri - We Lost the Sea. Your Hand in Mine - Explosions in the Sky. Pyramid Song - Radiohead. Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins. Shipbuilding (cover) - Suede (aka The London Suede; I love the original by Elvis Costello but the Suede version just sounds so much more emotional). Challenger (Parts 1 & 2) - We Lost the Sea. Yeah lots of We Lost the Sea in there, its just that good.

Comfort movie: This is gonna sound weird, but The Blair Witch Project. Its just a perfect movie, in my opinion, and I can rewatch it endlessly. 

Comfort book: Toss-up between the Fragile Things short stories collection by Neil Gaiman, Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett, and Under the Skin by Michel Faber. The movie was fine but did no justice to the thoughtful philosophical questions raised by the book. Plus you can read it in one sitting, so you can go back and re-read it again when you finish.

Comfort activity: Napping. Walking my dog. Hugging, petting, and snuggling my dog. Spooning with my husband. Drawing. Fishing. Being on or near the water. Stargazing.

Comfort game: Scrabble and simple card games like rummy.