Junk Drawer aka Trail Mix-18th

by Dheepan on Jul 18, 2008 1:29 AM PDT

So I missed the summer league game. I'm sad about that, but it looks like there is an archive, so I get to see more Jerryd awesomness.

Speaking of awesome, I went to go see Batman: The Dark Knight. Although I'm usually one of those haters who say "man you are so dumb for going to opening night at 12:00" this was worth it. I'm even going to write an entire fanpost about it, just because trade diaries are a little boring. So I'll save my deconstruction for later.

Btw, are we allowed to ramble in our post about the junk drawer?

I think I'm over 75 but I'll keep going because I CAN, so if you want to actually post and you are reading this right now, I'm telling you it's in your best interest to skip it.

I ate too much popcorn.

My mouth feels dry and I have drank like 3 bottles of water.

Was it worth it to read that? Oh and it's like 4 am so I'm sorry.

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I'll rec it first

Is that legal? Sabonis4Ever will soon arrive and tell me I was a bad boy for this post.

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 18, 2008 1:32 AM PDT 1 recs

I'm so remorseful

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 18, 2008 1:32 AM PDT up 0 recs

But not repentant

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 18, 2008 1:32 AM PDT up 0 recs

And timbo can sue me

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 18, 2008 1:33 AM PDT up 0 recs

But he has to figure out in which jurisdiction

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 18, 2008 1:33 AM PDT up 0 recs

Corvallis, Portland, Idaho, or Scotland?

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 18, 2008 1:33 AM PDT up 0 recs

Almost, he is everywhere and everywhere at once

My best guess is that Timbo is a time cop who has been tasked with policing the new/old millennium. He optimistically believed that the past was full of hope, love, and free porn on the internet. Alas it was not so. He now spends his days sulking about the lack of proper rebounding and post play on the Portland Trailblazers.

The singularity has already happened…

PS: I’m pretty sure Jesus is the same way, how else do you explain his 12 absent years from the bible? He’s time traveling man.

PSS: If you found my Jesus bit insensitive, well I don’t know, I think it’s kind of funny

A Time For Heroes,
It's not right for young lungs to be coughing up blood
And it's all
It's all in my hands
And its all up the walls
Well the stale chips were up and the hopes stakes were down
Until Kp came into Town!
'Sing it Petey!

by Dheepan on Jul 18, 2008 1:39 AM PDT up 0 recs

I'm pretty hard to offend

but it probably is an area you want to be careful.

But I don’t know what 12 absent years you mean, exactly. We get notice of His birth and some of the things happening for the next year, maybe (taking off to hide out in Egypt till the bad guy died). Then, there’s nothing mentioned until He was 12, but um, He was just a little boy then.

The real silent period is from 12 to 30, that’s 18 years. I think the general idea is that He was, like, you know, growing up and preparing.

Timbo also sulks about the presence of Spanish PGs who can’t shoot.

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 18, 2008 1:48 AM PDT up 0 recs

Yeah I was confused,

I went with 12 but after I read it I thought 18. Another reason why we should be able to edit our posts! Now that comment looks even sillier.

What you mean El Clanko?

The funny thing is that Timbo sulks about players that are generally well liked by BEdge. Like Sergio and, well maybe not so much Channing, but I always liked the Chan-Chan-Man.

by Dheepan on Jul 18, 2008 1:55 AM PDT up 0 recs

Channing is very popular here

Someone ran a poll on if they wanted him to stay, and it was huge in his favor.

It’s just a few vocal guys that don’t like him, and his end of season play even softened up timbo.

Silly comments happen. Especially in junk drawers.

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 18, 2008 2:48 AM PDT up 0 recs

Yeah

I’d bet Channing is more popular than Sergio, at least right now since the winds of change say Sergio sucks these days.

Channing played better as the season went along, but even if he stayed as crappy as he was in the first third of the season, as long as he kept saying he loved Portland and said stuff in his blog and did the KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD stuff, we’d all love him. We’re suckers for people who love Portland, and Channing could be Ha Seung-Jinn bad and we’d still love him for that.

Maybe not that bad, but as far as endearing himself to Portland making him tough to trade, Channing becoming an official Portlander was the smartest thing he could do.

Unfortunately, either he remains mediocre and is fine being a backup, or he continues to improve and becomes too good to always remain behind LMA and only get the leftover scraps from LMA/Oden/Pryzzlekabizzle.

I suspect he’ll be in that bubble where he clearly ain’t better than LMA and Oden (natch), but not bad enough to be a backup and never get a chance to show what he can do—and what young player whose livelihood depends on getting minutes and earning a big contract wants to forever be severely limited in what he can do and earn on a basketball court when he is good enough to do better?

I really like him, but luckily it sounds like he has a good attitude about trades. He’s gotta realize that if he is as good as he’s supposed to be he won’t really have a proper place on the team.

Mortimer

by Mortimer on Jul 18, 2008 3:23 AM PDT up 0 recs

Winds of change ehh?

That’s a song on my “to learn for guitar” que via Kutless

How do I set my laser printer to stun?

by prezofdeath on Jul 18, 2008 5:18 AM PDT up 0 recs

OMG, you are so right about Portland

Portland is desperately in love with itself. Which I kind of like about it. It likes to be self-referential. And of course those “KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD!” bumper stickers are a complete contradiction, because we stole the whole idea from somewhere else. There’s really nothing weird about taking someone else’s idea, but, whatever.

But seriously the town and its residents are enamored with its supposed eccentricities, which really amount to almost nothing. The thing I would consider “weird” about Portland is the complete absence of any and all minorities, and that’s one of the main things I’d want to change about Portland. Then again, most of the people I know with those “WEIRD” bumper stickers probably secretly would like to maintain that imbalance. Channing is obviously excluded from that group. Or maybe not…

No, seriously, he’s excluded.

The other “weird” thing about Portland is its militant leftist fascism, which is of course entirely counter to the actual and obvious majority of white people in the city. the predominance of efforts to “raise awareness” always strike me as weird because in Portland everyone already is aware. When you “raise awareness” about the tragedy in the Sudan, and you’re in the park blocks, your audience is a bunch of people who were planning their own awareness raising project for next week. That to me is weird. But at least the atmosphere is “very supportive.” Except that its not, because every twenty-something in the town is obsessed with their own perceived eccentricities and resents every other young person with eccentricities for challenging their supremacy.

Also, quick question, but what does raising awareness do? I mean, isn’t it the liberal equivalent of the flag lapel pin?

Wow, I went a little off the deep end there. To summarize: Channing is playing his cards so right with Portland I think he should be in the WSoP.

WWSBD?

by nightbluefruit on Jul 18, 2008 10:29 AM PDT up 0 recs

Portland's inferiority complex

I chalk it up to an inferiority complex, a feeling of being ignored nationally; perhaps the kid brother relationship with Seattle is part of it… we both try to act like we Portlanders don’t care about national attention and don’t want everyone to know how great the city is AND YET go ga-ga whenever Portland is mentioned in a positive light somewhere.

It reminds me of Canada’s inferiority complex with The Real America.

The average Oregonian knows all the famous people or semi-famous people from Oregon, and point it out to all when those people come up. If the assistant key grip who worked on HOW SHE MOVE is from Oregon, we all know it and if HOW SHE MOVE comes up we point it out to all within ear shot. We’re also probably guilty of finding a way to bring HOW SHE MOVE up in ‘casual’ conversation so we can fill in all nearby about the touch of greatness a fellow Oregonian has found.

I’m not any better of course, because I grew up in Portland.

I’m also not really complaining, I just think it’s funny how we are. Portland IS one of the best cities in the world, and is a great mix of beautifullability, liveability, affordability, cultureability, and no pesky minorities pulling switchblades and tying your fiancee to train tracks to put a damper in your day.

At least Portlanders try extra hard to seem multicultural and ‘accepting’ of all ethnicities, even if there aren’t many around.

It’s a hipster town, where most are too concerned with being cool and making sure everything they like is hipster approved and no one can assail their favorite movie/band/book. So WHAT if you like something uncool, just be yourself hipster!

I like many ‘hipster’ type things, but also enjoy what I enjoy. For a town that prides itself on being unique and different, everyone is way too concerned about their tastes being approved and it isn’t too different from the LA-Poseurs around here who only like whatever is popular that day.

Anyways, Portland be funny, yo. I can’t wait to move back.

Mortimer

by Mortimer on Jul 18, 2008 2:46 PM PDT up 0 recs

I loved that movie.

I don’t think I’ve ever identified with a lead role in a movie, like I did with Raya.

-... .-.. .- --.. . .-. ...

by tominhawaii on Jul 18, 2008 3:40 PM PDT up 0 recs

Two bones to pick

Okay, I think your hipster critique is pretty fair, but don’t go overboard here. You can’t reasonably compare Portland to LA.

When I moved “out west” from NY, I hitched up and down the coast, visiting friends and checking out the extant lifestyles. (Yeah, hitching was viable in those days.) Oregon was way cool, especially laid back Eugene. However, I had a guaranteed bass-playing gig in Santa Monica if I would consent to relocate there. Well, I checked it out, and in the middle of one of SoCal’s worst droughts ever, it rained one afternoon, and everybody in town was bitching about the weather. I realized then that those people are completely out of their minds!

Point deux. Lay off Canada, eh? Don’t forget that basketball was invented by a J. Naismith, a Canadian, eh? And Steve Nash is Canadian, eh? And Neil Young, Oscar Robertson, Arcade Fire, and Glenn Gould, eh? And Mike Myers, John Candy, Martin Short, Catherine O’hara, and Dan Aykroid, eh? Not to mention Wayne Gretsky—I bet that’s a surprise, eh?!!

So take off, ya hoser!

"Shoot, I don't even have anything to put in my own sig"

These are the modest words of pualo, posted on June 20, 2008.
Yes, pualo, an extraordinarily discerning BEdger with a knack for subtle expression.

by CatMan2 on Jul 18, 2008 3:52 PM PDT up 0 recs

Hey, I love Canada

But just like Canada does, we Portlanders make a big deal when someone who lived in Portland for a few years (or better yet, gew up here) becomes at least a lil’ famous, and we share that info with all we meet, sometimes as a greetings.

“Hello, nice to meet you, Matt Groening went to my high school!”

It’s just a cute, small timey thing we do, just like how we retired even the cotton candy seller’s number from the ‘77 championship team.

Portland is much, much cooler than LA, but it is infested with hipsters, and I don’t think the line between poseur and hipster is too thick, and perhaps most people’s definition of hipster includes the word poseur.

I am probably technically an ironic hipster, but I also probably like things that are not “ok” to like for a true hipster. Most hipsters in general are only allowed to like things that has been approved by everyone else, so that’s pretty poseury.

Obviously, I’m just generalizing, and I’m guilty of many Portland type stuff.

I also think Portland is the best place to live that I’ve been to in all of America and Europe, when you combine everything together.

Most of what I’m saying is about Portland I guess, and not Oregon as a whole, but oevrall Portland is much, much, much better than LA even though the Portland Hipster is cousins with the LA Poseur.

Mortimer

by Mortimer on Jul 18, 2008 4:39 PM PDT up 0 recs

I hate the local news media

for their “cowtown” mentality.

A local weahther person on July 27th (bout 2 years ago): “Wow this was the hottest day since August 11th of last year!” and I am sayin’ (back to the TV) “Wow no crap!!! So you are saying that it gets hot in the summer!! Great freakin’ insight!”

A local sports guy on the latest PGA tour event (also 2 or 3 years ago). He gushed about how a Portland native came in 2nd in the tourney (which is fine) and then doesn’t bother to report who came in first (which is totally amaturish)!!

Typical small town mentality

Mortimer: "It’ll be so nice I’ll need microfracture—ON MY WEINER."

by 92wastheyear on Jul 18, 2008 8:39 PM PDT up 0 recs

Mortimer thats a poetic effort

"Meow" --- My cat Bonzi insinuating Trail Blazer fans have forgotten about how important Steve Blake and Joel Pryzbilla are to the team.

by bow4meow on Jul 18, 2008 8:00 PM PDT up 0 recs

18 years of absence.

in the society at that time, the age of thirty was the age that one was considered wise enough to become a teacher. Before this age, he would have lacked the authority to do what he did.

It’s kinda like our age 21, where the society thinks you are now responsible enough to drink alcohol. Some may have been ready earlier, some are never ready, but that it the age determined by our society. drinking under that age, even by one day, is a crime, but drinking so much you pass out on your twenty-first birthday is not only not a crime, but socially mandated.

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"In vino veritas." - Latin proverb
"Ich sitze hier und trinke mein gutes Wittenbergisch Bier und das Reich Gottes kommt von ganz alleine" - Martin Luther
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by T Darkstar on Jul 18, 2008 8:08 AM PDT up 0 recs

dont the "apocraphyl"

books like the book of the macabees deal with jesus during this “lost” period?

Life is exhausting when you are this stupid.

by jonestr on Jul 18, 2008 6:57 PM PDT up 0 recs

Sort of

You have the Old Testament Apocrypha that the Roman Catholic Church accepts as Scripture, but they were before this time.

You have the New Testament Apocrypha that no one really accepts as having much validity, and were written fairly late compared to the New Testament books. They record some things, but hardly anyone gives them much credence.

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 19, 2008 2:21 AM PDT up 0 recs

I dont see why they

are not given validiity. They have not been given validity historically as they contradicted the trinity so the council of Nicea (maybe?), which was a hot topic for the first few hundred years of christianity, but that does not mean they are not valid. It sounds like you know a bit about this stuff so please tell me if the new testament apocrypha is invalid in some fundamental way.

Life is exhausting when you are this stupid.

by jonestr on Jul 19, 2008 9:15 AM PDT up 0 recs

Well

It isn’t a specialty of mine at all, but I’m aware of three points.
1. They weren’t accepted as genuine by the churches long before Nicea. You have quite a few lists of books that are considered Scripture or authoritative that were compiled by guys who came well before Nicea, and these books weren’t included. Some of the lists left out some of the books that are now included in the NT, but hardly any of the NT Apocrypha got a mention, and none of them get more than one or two mentions. One exception that (if memory serves correctly) seemed to have more respect is Shepherd of Hermas, but it wasn’t rejected on Trinitarian grounds, but simply because it was not accepted widely enough by the churches from the earliest days.
2. Authorship. A lot of these books claimed to be written by one of the apostles, but everyone knew they were written later (2nd/3rd centuries). That’s pretty much a killer. The books that were accepted were all believed to have been written by the person that they claimed to be written by. If you might be killed by lions in the arena for your faith, you aren’t going to be putting much credence in a book claiming to be written by Nicodemus when you know it wasn’t written by him.
3. Age. Most of the NT Apocrypha was written in the 2nd or 3rd century. Traditionally (though some scholars question this now) Christians have believed that the NT itself was of apostolic origin and therefore written in the 1st century. St. John probably died sometime in the 90s, and is traditionally believed to be the author of 5 books in the NT, perhaps the last five that were written.

There’s probably other factors I’m not remembering.

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 20, 2008 8:13 PM PDT up 0 recs

I thought your Jesus thing was pretty funny too.

But then again, I can hardly be classified as a pietist, especially given my multi-language signature.

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by T Darkstar on Jul 18, 2008 8:03 AM PDT up 0 recs

I'll stop you now

Before it’s too late.

by Dheepan on Jul 18, 2008 1:33 AM PDT up 0 recs

Woah I swear this thing moved

by Dheepan on Jul 18, 2008 1:41 AM PDT up 0 recs

How many comments do you all have?

I just passed the 1,000 comments threshold. 1127 to be exact, well 1128 if you count this insignificant comment.

My first comment was on Feb 27, 2007 right after watching the Sonics dismantle the Blazers at Key Arena. I think I was lurking for a few months before then. My fifth comment was about “Terrible journalism from Eggars”. My sixth comment was “jack is playing terrible” in a game thread.

Does anybody have over 10,000 comments aside from Dave?

BINGO, BANGO, BONGO

by blzrfan on Jul 18, 2008 1:51 AM PDT 0 recs

No I think Dave is the highest by far

I have 3500 or something like that. I have a lot of useless comments in there though, so it boosts my count. I joined last spring.

by Dheepan on Jul 18, 2008 1:56 AM PDT up 0 recs

Man

I passed Comment 2K and didn’t even know it. The world didn’t end, there weren’t massive power outages, I didn’t need my basement generator, and there was still food in the grocery stores.

I bet I’m among the leaders in words, though, because so many of my useless comments are long. Good thing I type fast.

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 18, 2008 2:50 AM PDT up 0 recs

Some of us...

had to start over.

"I love this game!" -Moonbeam, from 'Rollerball' right before he was knocked into a permanent coma

by -ken on Jul 18, 2008 4:06 AM PDT up 0 recs

I have just over 600 comments

Dang that seems low.

WWSBD?

by nightbluefruit on Jul 18, 2008 11:28 AM PDT up 0 recs

BTW--and this is elitist of me

Sometimes I check people’s profiles to see what their fanpost-to-comment ratio is. If they have close to the same number of fanposts as comments I pretty much ignore them.

Now, looking at my profile, I realize I would probably ignore myself.

Ah, poetic justice.

WWSBD?

by nightbluefruit on Jul 18, 2008 11:29 AM PDT up 0 recs

appropriate

"As long as Yao is in the league, Greg Oden will probably never start in an all-star game, because he doesn’t have 1 Billion people voting for him."
silkybrown

"Just so we're totally clear(, y)ou’re saying you want me to kill Yao, right?"
nightbluefruit

by ptwnblzr on Jul 18, 2008 1:00 PM PDT up 0 recs

Yeah

I’m going to have to jack up my fanpost ratio so people can start ignoring me.

Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo

by jscot on Jul 19, 2008 2:22 AM PDT up 0 recs

btw

what does wwsbd mean? what would sergio Bodreegus do

"As long as Yao is in the league, Greg Oden will probably never start in an all-star game, because he doesn’t have 1 Billion people voting for him."
silkybrown

"Just so we're totally clear(, y)ou’re saying you want me to kill Yao, right?"
nightbluefruit

by ptwnblzr on Jul 18, 2008 1:02 PM PDT up 0 recs

I was kind of hoping I could keep it mysterious.

Here’s a hint: it directly relates to my current avatar.

WWSBD?

by nightbluefruit on Jul 18, 2008 1:17 PM PDT up 0 recs

then my new thing will be to offer a guess at every post

completley ignoring any hints

"As long as Yao is in the league, Greg Oden will probably never start in an all-star game, because he doesn’t have 1 Billion people voting for him."
silkybrown

"Just so we're totally clear(, y)ou’re saying you want me to kill Yao, right?"
nightbluefruit

by ptwnblzr on Jul 18, 2008 1:30 PM PDT up 0 recs

OMG!!!!!

Ive got it!! What Would Steve Blake Do? He would pass FIRST!! Thats what Steve Blake would do.

"As long as Yao is in the league, Greg Oden will probably never start in an all-star game, because he doesn’t have 1 Billion people voting for him."
silkybrown

"Just so we're totally clear(, y)ou’re saying you want me to kill Yao, right?"
nightbluefruit

by ptwnblzr on Jul 18, 2008 1:31 PM PDT up 0 recs

You got it.

On the second try!

WWSBD?

by nightbluefruit on Jul 18, 2008 1:34 PM PDT up 0 recs

Although I did chuckle at "Sergio Brodriguez"

WWSBD?

by nightbluefruit on Jul 18, 2008 1:34 PM PDT up 0 recs

BODriguez

Now that killz “my thing”, so I gues Ill just clean my house or something.

"As long as Yao is in the league, Greg Oden will probably never start in an all-star game, because he doesn’t have 1 Billion people voting for him."
silkybrown

"Just so we're totally clear(, y)ou’re saying you want me to kill Yao, right?"
nightbluefruit

by ptwnblzr on Jul 18, 2008 1:36 PM PDT up 0 recs

What Would a Laughing, Smoking, Eye-Wiping Samuel Butler Do?

Just a guess..

"Well, Travis just showed us that we can go to Travis Outlaw." - Nate McMillan

by 12sharks on Jul 18, 2008 11:01 PM PDT up 0 recs

coming up on me first k

will be throwing a party, and every one is invited

"As long as Yao is in the league, Greg Oden will probably never start in an all-star game, because he doesn’t have 1 Billion people voting for him."
silkybrown

"Just so we're totally clear(, y)ou’re saying you want me to kill Yao, right?"
nightbluefruit

by ptwnblzr on Jul 18, 2008 1:03 PM PDT up 0 recs

Oden looking jacked at Playboy Mansion for ESPY kickoff

BINGO, BANGO, BONGO

by blzrfan on Jul 18, 2008 2:10 AM PDT 0 recs

lol, what does that shirt mean?

by Dheepan on Jul 18, 2008 9:50 AM PDT up 0 recs

Also

Oden’s beard is a little too long…

by Dheepan on Jul 18, 2008 9:56 AM PDT up 0 recs

I was about to mention that.

That is a baaad neckbeard.

"I think it’s going to be very beautiful game next year."
-Batuuuuuuuum!

by rockingharder on Jul 18, 2008 3:27 PM PDT up 0 recs

There is no such thing

as a bad neckbeard

Beards are about freedom and should never under any circumstances be styled in anyway. Any styling equates with a direct loss of freedom.

Life is exhausting when you are this stupid.

by jonestr on Jul 18, 2008 7:01 PM PDT up 0 recs

There are times when beards should be styled

like during the World Beard and Mustache Championships. This beard here, although highly styled to resemble the London Bridge is straight ballin’

Link to many, many championship quality beards and mustaches