Ele esta de saco cheio

Adam's well-argued tirade on Brazil, Anderson Varejao, and the NBA on McSweeney's.

"Varejao's Brazilian lineage appears to be one of the main reasons he receives such special treatment. Just as Brazil—as a monolith—has been fetishized by American consumers of culture for its unattainably exotic (e.g., "Portuguese, not Spanish") and uncontrived (see, "primitive") "cool," Varejao, in the same manner, is fetishized for his exotic and uncontrived "uncool." Varejao's admirers, rather than noting any specific Brazilian aspect of his identity, see merely "Brazil," which translates to him possessing a quality both alien and special: as if he were unlike anything we had seen before...

Perhaps most irksome is that, were the fetishizing of a Brazilian player to be performed in congruence with the obsession over Seu Jorge's Bowie covers, Favela Funk (not really sure what that is), City of God, Snoop and Pharrell's "Beautiful" video, and the explosion of blue-green-yellow flip-flops and T-shirts that emerged following Brazil's 2002 World Cup victory, the logical candidate to become Brazil's most beloved would be the Suns' Leandro Barbosa. Would Rick Ross be so keen to observe that Anderson Varejao is merely the more commercially viable Sergio Mendes to Barbosa's slicker Jorge Ben? There is no doubt of it."