Celebration

The good ol' USA has changed too damn much for me in a lot of ways, some good, a lot of bad, and some just plain puzzling.

Things like this didn't happen when I was young.

The Major League Soccer All-Star game is in Portland this evening, with a 6:30 start.  This end of town, not far from Providence Park where the game will be played, is in an uproar right now.

I can hear groups singing, others chanting, and even a group singing choral music, something purely religious that must amount to a statement regarding the holiness of futbol.

Helicopters are flying back and forth in the area to document the event.

The sirens are heavy, too, as if mayhem has already broken out in the soccer bars around the neighborhood, of which there are plenty.

The all-stars are playing Bayern Munich.  A good number of the German club's players repped Germany in the recent World Cup.

Definitely a party out there right now.

I wonder if anybody will go to work tomorrow...


TS