One day last year -- I believe it was during the
NHL playoffs -- I was flipping through the channels and stumbled across an
ice hockey game involving the local
Philadelphia Flyers. I'm not much of a
sports fan; I hold interest in only one sport,
baseball, and then it is only mild interest. So ordinarily I would have continued on in my search for an interesting program.
(A search that, alas, has had no favorable conclusion, leading me to largely abandon the medium. Not consciously, but ever since I lost interest with this season of
The Simpsons I've had no motivation to turn the
idiot box on. Besides,
Everything is more alluring. But that's another story altogether.)
But in this game His Eminence
Lucifer was playing; for SATAN was spelt out in large letters across an enemy jersey. The opposing team was trouncing the Flyers, of course, and naturally I objected to having deities in the game. Aren't they banned, like
midgets in baseball? But someone told me since that this player is one "
Miroslav Satan." He is quite talented, apparently. Let's see: otherworldly powers and such an.. unsubtle name. How do you know this is not the
devil made flesh? For we know He has appeared as a human before: as
Margaret Thatcher, as
pinchemadre, and as
Justin Timberlake of teen sensation
N'Sync. (Also a rather contrived name!)
No believes me but
Eric Lindros, and he has suffered through innumerable injuries. I fear what may happen to me. Should I die or lose my mind, all evidence is secured in a
safety deposit box in a certain Philadelphia area bank, including a decoded
Bible and
goat entrails examined by an
augurer and interpreted to be a Very Bad Sign. (Madame Voltari, on the
Boardwalk in
Wildwood, NJ, if you must know.)
I tell you this because
I trust you.