Portuguese football: That's 'soccer' for those of you who think a sport without ultra-violence isn't worth watching. Well, looks like Boavista won once again, and is quite close to winning its first ever championship. Which is quite sad for me, as I am one of those pesky FC Porto fans who are used to winning. But even sadder, is how such a mafia-sponsored team can clinch all those 1-goal victories with blatant help from the referees and even the opposing players — and at the end protest at the referee's decisions, to turn a previously fixed result into a dramatic victory, against everyone.···

Yestarday I went to the movies again, Gus van Sant's Finding Forrester this time, a movie that would have been a Wonderboys clone if it wasn't for a slower, more serious story, and the introduction of the pointless sports-related dramatic sequence (at least it was basketball, not stupid baseball or that wrong type of football). Overall, I found Wonderboys a more enjoyable experience, and Micheal Douglas better than Sean Connery. Anyway, despite the standardised pseudo-moralistic message at the end (about copyright, which made the blatant car manufacturer advertising look pale in comparison), Finding Forrester does have a lesson: That most artists make stuff because the enjoy it and that's it. Critics and other parasites are always making stuff up, always misjudging the artists' intentions. For that lesson, and that lesson alone, Finding Forrester is another movie worth watching.···