Super Bowl counter-programming

Looking for something else to do on Super Bowl Sunday? Come to the afternoon Silent Reading Party

Paul Matthew Moore is not a sports guy, and neither am I. We choose reading and music over concussions and commercials.

Because I have no interest in football, nor in watching commercials for crypto, I like to do the most non-sporty thing possible when the rest of the world is watching the Super Bowl.

In 2014 — when the Seahawks were playing in the Super Bowl — I spent the afternoon seeing Saving Mr. Banks. It’s that Emma Thompson movie about the making of Mary Poppins. Saw it in the movie theater. It was glorious. I cried when Walt Disney cried at the beauty of “Feed the Birds.”

As I left the cinema, I heard cheering and honking in the parking lot. Were they cheering on my decision to skip the game? That’s what it felt like. But I think they were cheering because the Seahawks had won.

Most people look at me like I’m insane when I tell them this story, but reading party musician Paul Matthew Moore is with me on this. We don’t mind that most people love the Super Bowl. We just aren’t those people.

So this year, Paul and I are tuning out the rah-rah cheering on of concussions and capitalistic consumption by having a Silent Reading Party at the Sorrento.

As of this moment, there are still good seats available for the February 9 party from 3 to 5 pm.

If you’re as bored by macho strutting and grunting as we are, join us!

One of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

We’re doing Sunday afternoon reading parties every other weekend through the end of winter.

There’s no Sunday party this weekend, but there is one next weekend, during the Super Bowl.

After that, the next Sunday afternoon party is February 23.

Happiness is the Fireside Room at the Sorrento, surrounded by reading buddies.