Todd Terwilliger

If a Viking takes a dump in the woods, does he make sound? Yes, yes he does. How do I know this? Because I made the mistake of seeing Severed Ways at the Angelika Film Center on Saturday.

Yesterday I eschewed the twelve hour pre-game marathons of coverage leading up to the championship game so I missed all the heart-warming rags-to-riches success stories, the riches-to-rags cautionary tales, and the miscellaneous blather used to pad out hour after hour of build-up towards the actual on-field portion of the program.

“The best laid plans of mice and men…” I think Shakespeare said that, maybe somebody else, the ellipsis hiding the fact that I don’t remember the rest of it and am too lazy to look it up. Well, whoever said it, they must have known that, a thousand years beyond them, I would be sitting in Madison Square Garden watching the Houston Rockets choke away a game to the New York Knickerbockers.