Levy Trail/Hash

I walked two miles on the Levy Trail this afternoon, literally through a gigantic bowl of egg-drop soup, in 28:26. I came in to discover that they're showing The Fisher King on COZI-TV.* Sometimes you get little jewels on rabbit-ear television, like the commercials they show during the World Cup on the Mexican Channel. Late this afternoon I walked for a about forty minutes on a Hash run set by Katy, the basketball player, and Tisha from the dog park at Murray Park in Little Rock. A new petepretty girl showed up today, because she met Zach and Lacey and John Cohn at a bar an hour before we started. She's an old-enough-to-drink, senior-to-be at a tiny Christian college in Siloam Springs called John Brown University, and sounded eager to run the Firecracker Faster than Two Motherfuckers 1K next week in Levy. I'd put the odds against at 5-2. We'll see. I'm taking a new tact with this race. I will begin serving beer and food—ribs, hot dogs, potato salad, and baked beans—at 5 p.m. The race will start at 6 p.m. Less than ten minutes later, when even the slowest walkers have finished, I will serve more beer and food. I think it'll work.

WORLD CUP TRIVIA

In the previous nineteen World Cups, only two countries not from the continents of South America or Europe have finished in the top four. Can you name them? (hints: one finished third in 1930, the year of the first World Cup, and the other fourth in 2002)

*I was at first a little bummed that they edited out, "I have a boner the size of Florida for you," but then recognized the subsequent two-minute love declaration as one of the best in the history of English. They of course did not remove, "You're the greatest thing since spice racks."