Sherman Alexie and Marc Acito Talk Rose Garden
by Ben Golliver on Nov 18, 2008 11:01 AM PST
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PrintGreat question in the fanposts from Yawnie: What's the Rose Garden like? A number of you stepped up to the plate to knock out solid "insider" answers to his query. To complement these, I present the following "outsider" accounts from two very talented writers. It's our chance to feel like microscopic third world natives in an anthropologist's snowglobe.
Recently, in the comments, Sherman Alexie dropped some thoughts about his first Rose Garden experience, including:
6. I never thought it would happen, but yes, there is an NBA arena that is even paler than Key Arena. Wow, there is a distinct absence of melanin in Rose Garden.
9. HARDLY ANYBODY LEFT THE GAME EARLY! At the Key, those first five rows usually started emptying at the four minute mark, which led me to dream of an NBA rule wherein you had to take a basketball knowledge quiz in order to sit in the first five rows.
19. The curvy bathrooms with the artsty exits are a little bit Dungeons & Dragons. I didn't know whether to pee or roll a twenty-sided die.
Sidenote: regarding point #6, I'd like to enter Salt Lake City into evidence. [Thanks to Sean at O Live for that.]
Today, novelist and Opera fan Marc Acito described his first Blazers game -- which just so happened to be Brandon's miracle shot against the Rockets.
Perhaps it was the teenage trauma of trying not to jiggle gelatinously while playing shirts-and-skins in gym class, or simply my natural aversion to having projectile objects hurtle through space at me. But I'd pretty much written off basketball as a bunch of overpaid pituitary cases running around gratuitously.
Then I saw the Jumbotron.
"That's what opera needs," I told Whitey (Ryan White) as I gazed at the high-def screen like it was a god. Likewise for the radio-controlled blimp, which periodically torpedoed coupons like cow pies onto the crowd.
Funny stuff. He also takes shots at the Blazers Dancers. Don't miss that.
Here's background on Marc and here's his official site. Here's Sherman Alexie's official site as well.
-- Ben (benjamin.golliver@gmail.com)
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These guys are good guys, I'm sure
but ehh….
in process of learning the Dvorak keyboard so my typing might be short, slow, & generally suckish.
VOTE AGAIN FOR YOUR ALLSTARS
Everyone go vote for your blazers.. its the link at the top of blazers.com
Loved this quote from Marc Acito...
“Apparently time is relative in basketball. At that point, a 48-minute game had already lasted three hours. If a doctor ever gives me six months to live, I want it in basketball time.”
Ha!
"I'd hate to be you if I were me." - Eddie (Barfly)
I love the Blazer Dancers
I also think I feel a kinship with Sherman Alexie. I found out recently that I’m almost 10% Native American. I always wondered why I had a tortured soul and now I know.
tortured?
I’m in hog heavin man I dunno what you’re complaining about.
The central oregon tribe born and raised…sort of. :)
The Faith don't panic, the faith freaks out burns out farms and torchs small villages in the name of The Faith.
Ha
I read something about people from oppressed people have some sort of trouble and what not because of their oppressed past. I was joking about that even though I can’t remember the reference.
Urgh
You joke about oppressed people having trouble? No wonder you have a tortured soul.
It’s nothing compared to what you’ll experience when I rule the world, though.
The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.
It's Post traumatic stress disorder
I just have a hard time buying PTSD in the people who did not go through the traumatic stress. I can probably be swayed, but it seems kind of like looking for an excuse to me.
lol...yeah, ptsd
sure it exists, but I think there are far more people trying to take advantage of it, than there are actual sufferers of it. so I guess I agree with “looking for an excuse”….
but no more so than people taking advantage of unemployment or, workmans comp and what not…..
life’s life, and it’s just as crappy, or wonderful as you want it for the next guy depending on his or her wants.
but yeah, no tourture here, I’m as right as rain…but some of the cousins could make a strong case for being ….“opressed” despite my thinking they’re just lazy and stupid.
but this is comming from a guy who’s been called an apple (red on the outside but white on the inside) once or twice in his life. :) despite knowing more about where I came from, than the callers of apple. go figure.
The Faith don't panic, the faith freaks out burns out farms and torchs small villages in the name of The Faith.
Is Sherman Alexie the biggest get for the Blazer fan community?
I mean, I’d much rather have a talented novelist than Jessica Alba any day of the week.
Depends
If she is wearing the Fantastic Four suit…….I would rather have her. I can still read the books, right?
"Fez, the foundation of any good relationship is three little words: I-don't-know.
What're you doing? I don't know.
What're you thinking about? I don't know.
Who's that under you? I don't know. "
-Michael Kelso
by 92wastheyear on Nov 18, 2008 1:06 PM PST up reply actions
nooooo...
we are! but he’s a great pick up from the dearly departed sonics. :)
The Faith don't panic, the faith freaks out burns out farms and torchs small villages in the name of The Faith.
That's exactly right
If you don’t have faith, man, you’re in trouble. I’d rather have faith on our side than Sherman any day.
Sorry, Sherm. It’s cool you’re with us, but there are certain mountains even you can’t climb.
The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.
Chinese Opera
In China, they have a similar Opera tradition to the Italian one. It’s all very formal and archaic, and the ‘average’ person would gain nothing from watching it (even the upper-class who attends hardly understands it, since it’s often in unusual dialects).
To help foreigners and the Chinese viewing public understand it, there are often large screens that run the dialogue in both Mandarin and English.
So yes, some Opera /does/ have a Jumbotron.
I don't get the D&D reference.
"Thanks for coming to the game." - Kevin Pritchard
I Love the Blazer Dancers!
Read Acito’s comments, mean spirited and snarky. Why slam these beautiful ladies who are basically volunteers dedicating hours weekly to cheer on our team? I have over the years seen them behave and perform exceptionally. Does Acito want them to perform in a burqua? He should stick to opera where the fat ladies sing!
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