Erling Haaland, Norway’s large, maniacal striker, has several exceedingly Norwegian traits. He sometimes exercises by chopping wood in the forest. He consumes 6,000 calories a day. After training sessions, he drinks raw milk. He owns a tax-sheltered investment company in Luxembourg named Pillage. He bought an edition of the “Heimskringla,” a 13th-century Old Norse saga, for $130,000—then donated it to his local library because, he explained, “I’ve never been much of a reader.” He has flowing blond hair, often compared to a Viking’s. He brings the intensity of a raiding party to the sport. Haaland scores goals at a higher rate than almost any soccer player ever. He has said, “I think of football all the time.” His wake-up alarm plays the theme song for the Champions League. He once posted a photo of himself on a plane, staring ahead intensely, with the caption “Just raw dogged a 7 hour flight no phone no sleep no water no food only map.” The Guardian once called him a “ravenous Nordic goal-yeti.”
Haaland’s style of play elicits not wonder but terror. He is enormous: six feet five, 200 pounds, about the size and speed of the N.F.L. wide receiver Randy Moss. “Watching him, I sometimes find myself giggling as I might over a big, obscene crash at a demolition derby,” Zach Helfand writes. Read more: https://t.co/iAtLMOvrv0
Maybe we don’t need another protest (yet) maybe we need a sensitization walk
We should get people moving, show them what’s actually happening, remind them this isn’t how things should be.
We’ve all adjusted to something that should make us angry. Let’s break that adjustment.
The key to the city? THE KEY TO NEW YORK CITY!!!??? YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!! This is what the world has come to?? Awarding a masked vigilante who refuses to show his face, dodges accountability, & leaves a trail of destruction every time he swings through Manhattan
Enjoy hip hop man, stop tryna scrutinize everything and listen as some sort of critic. Enjoy that Cole, Keem, Rocky and Don Tolliver gave yall music at a high level and stop making everything about how can we tear people down. Our genre and culture will never progress that way.
two emerging futures
one sells you digital opiates to escape life
the other gives you tools to think better
the logically better choice is obvious, but human nature sometimes disappointingly leans the other way