Just A Trick Of The Hat

In a way, it's appropriate: "kinky" and "tricks" go together like your mom and the body of work she's inspired.

(snap!)

Which explains why it feels so right that, this past Friday night, I should score three goals in my first soccer game with Team Kinky, earning myself a hat trick and our team its first win of the season.

A consistently strong defense laid the hat out, and a few perfectly-placed passes to the outside post helped me turn the trick. As they say al sur de la frontera, "GOL!"

Also, like many tricks, I had trouble walking straight the day after...

My Hat Trick: something like this, only much

less nightmarish or...French-looking.