carry a torch

“Me being the best me is doing the best I can do to carry a torch. You don’t replace a guy like Joe. It’s one of those guys you get used to being there, it takes time not having that face in the locker room. You don’t replace him, you just learn to live without him, and hopefully I can make that a little easier.”

I still carry a torch for Ethan Craft, so I haven’t quite ruled out Lizzie McGuire 2.0.

Harking back to its humble beginnings as a tool for ranking strangers’ attractiveness, Facebook has announced a new feature called Secret Crush, wherein users select the friends for whom they carry a torch.

But five years after the last Zune rolled off the assembly line, some fans still carry a torch for the device.

Mexico, for instance, continues to carry a torch for globalisation.