Poured like the deluge last night, so no yard work was done today. Clearly a sign that I was meant to lie on the couch and watch futbol all morning. Saw Holland v. Serbia (since the only Montenegran on the side is injured and out for the rest of the tournament, I think we can save the syllables and just call them Serbia). Went out to run some errands and missed all of Mexico v. Iran. But that did help to keep me on target for my aim of avoiding the ESPN broadcasts of all the Iran matches in the first round. Yes, yes, I know there are important political issues involving Iran. But I just want to watch the game, not hear some sportscaster try to get all political up in my grill (I'm having a flashback to this year's Olympic opening ceremonies). Got back in time to catch the end of Portugal v. Angola (the colonialism throwdown). I thought Holland looked okay. Maybe not win-it-all great but they should advance pretty easily. Portugal didn't look as bad as England but then again that's not saying much. Serbia looked like ass. And Angola seemed much more impressive than Paraguay.

Question: who decided that "C" was Grupo de Muerte this time? (cos I'm not feeling it)

My fave fun fact for today (which I think I read on the NYTimes World Cup blog) is that Univision's broadcasters are fond of referring to the Dutch team as "la Machina Naranja" which is also the Spanish translation of A Clockwork Orange.