Tomorrow is Black Saturday.  More accurately, tomorrow is Black and Gold and Cardinal (and sometimes a little navy blue) Saturday.  It is the Iowa/Iowa State football game.

I don’t like football Saturdays anyway, because there are too many rowdy fans being drunk and rude and driving badly and shouting obnoxiously.  This one is the worst, though, because it’s a game that’s easy for a lot of people, local and otherwise, to get to, and there’s this very negative vibe.  Some people even have t-shirts with extremely distasteful statements on them regarding the team they don’t like.  Can’t you just support the team you prefer?  Why all the hate?  Where is the love?
I grew up in Ames, and I’ve lived in IC for over a decade, and therefore I have absolutely zero preference on the outcome of the game (except that my brother is a lot more pleasant to hang out with when Iowa wins).  Football fans boggle my mind.  I just don’t get it.  Almost all the star players on either team are recruits from out of state; how on earth can you feel like some kid who’s just here for 4 years somehow represents you?

If it’s all in good fun, that’s one thing, but people get downright mean and destructive about it.  Calm down, people.  It’s just pretend.

I plan to ignore the whole situation as much as possible.  Maybe I’ll go apple-picking at the orchard outside of town.

In other news, there’s a Project Runway Season Finale party in the works.  I’m trying to think of good theme foods I could bring for the occasion, besides the obvious Moët champagne (which, dang, costs $50 or so.  Maybe I’ll buy cheap champagne and tape a Moët label on it).

I was considering crepes all wrinkled up like that garbage dress that got Allison kicked off.  A cake with 20 billion rosettes like Angela’s stupid trademark?  That would be fun, but it would require learning to make frosting rosettes, which I do not know how to do.  Any other ideas?