When I ask Thompson about the corporate fashion for pop-ups, about the way they're being used to flog us more unnecessary stuff, I expect him to be disdainful.
So wherever we are today on any of this stuff, I expect to be in a better place tomorrow, because that's been the momentum".
"Stuff like, 'You better watch behind trees,' 'You won't make it to Augusta.' It was bad stuff, but I expected it".
And I guess I want it to do more weird stuff Vs. just stuff that I expect it to do or stuff that I know LaCoste can do naturally.
There are plenty of similarities between the way the Boks play and the kind of stuff I'm expecting from the Lions.
I did warn readers of a likely gap in blogging; it got longer than I expected as stuff fell in on me.
As for the rest, it was what I expected, mostly stuff from Korn, Creed, Third Day, Caedmon's Call, Papa Roach, Stavesacre, Living Sacrifice, Metallica, Linkin Park, Project 86, Offspring, Arcade Fire, U2, Sufjan Stevens, Radiohead, Roadside Monument, Suffering and the Hideous Thieves, She & Him, Underoath, AC/DC, Bush, Pedro the Lion, Ted Nugent, Five Iron Frenzy, The Ws, and, of course, MxPx.
The usual shit blood, bones, vomit, weird genitalia doesn't phase me; it's the stuff I don't expect that does.
Sure, I expect stuff like Petz Crazy Monkeys and Shrek Carnival Craze to go for that much, but Soul Calibur 4? Fracture?
The Navalny campaign plans to mobilise 11,000 observers to try to prevent the ballot-stuffing it expects on Sunday.
