now i want to go rent movies. just watched the prestige, it was allright.

Vegas Vacation?

Am I the only one who who writes replies and then cancels them? I do it so often. I’d say my comments versus cancels is about 33/66 with a 1% margin. If I didn’t cancel I’d probably be banned. Still, it can be therapeutic.

Stupid(in your view) -Frivolous(in your view)-Controversial(in your view) comments? I suppose if we all kept to comments strictly about basketball, with absolutely nothing tangential, that would cut down considerably on cancels. Unfortunately that would pretty much eliminate me from joining the conversation. I’m thinking of canceling this now but here goes! Post!

1) “I have many leather bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany”...

2)”This is my ninth sick day this semester. It’s getting pretty tough coming up with new illnesses. If I go for ten, I’m probably gonna have to barf up a lung. So, I better make this one count.”

3) “A flute with no holes is not a flute. And, a doughnut with no hole is a Danish.”

4) person1- “Can you fly this plane and land it?”
person 2- “Surely you can’t be serious.”
person 3- “I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.”

5 “Alright you primitive screw-heads, listen up. See this? This is my boomstick! It’s a 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart’s top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That’s right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan; retails for about one hundred nine, ninety-five. It’s got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That’s right, shop smart, shop S-Mart!”

6 ” Look at you. You’re the kind of guy that would beg for sex. I should know, we can smell our own.”

7 “On this ship you are to refer to me as “idiot” not “you captain!” I mean . . . you know what I mean.”

8 “I don’t even own a gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack. What am I gonna do with a gun rack?”

9 “Every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think we’d save everyone a lot of time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves. Me, I’m for wasting sports writers’ time. So, I’d like to hang around and see if we can give ‘em all a nice big crapburger to eat.”

10 “You could put amphetamine freaks to sleep with this crap. You got an agreement on Guam. Sound’s like bird droppings. Oh here’s something exciting: Hubert Humphrey visits Capital Hill. Sounds like a children’s story.”

- The Pacers officially hate Tinsley and his three years of contract worth ca. $21 million. They hate him so much that one of the owners is quoted with the nice statement “Tinsley, he’s probably outlived his welcome here”, and categorically denied the Pacers would buy him out. So they will try to trade him for 10 cents on the dollar. If they package him with Danny Granger (they won’t), I know a manager and an owner who would love to pay the buyout ;-)

- The Clippers are trying to get into the playoffs by acquiring Steve Novak from the Rockets for some draft pick deal. Uhm, yeah. In other news, you have Ricky Davis on your team who will find ways to prevent this.

- The New Orleans Hornets seem willing to let Pargo walk, which would be pretty dumb considering they got him for cheap and Chris Paul is human and thus prone to get injured, too

- The smallest NBA player in recent years now has the biggest contract in Italy (go google that one)

- So young and already a journeyman: Bobby Jones is back in Miami. He was there in March already. This week alone, he has been traded from Denver to New York, waived, and picked up again.

What are you talking about? There has been no opening ceremony yet! Well, soccer tournaments take some time, so (as usual) they already kicked that off today ahead of the official opener. I watched a women’s soccer match, to be exact. Feels somewhat like the WNBA. Maybe a little more exciting. Here are some results (all from the women’s competition):

USA – Norway 0-2 (oops, that doesn’t look like a great start)
Germany – Brasil 0-0 (the rematch of last years world championship final)
New Zealand – Japan 2-2 (Japan coming back from 2-0, but probably both won’t advance to the next round)
Canada – Argentina 2-1 (take that, USA)
Sweden – China 1-2 (and the hosts are happy)
Nigeria – North Korea 0-1 (we must stress that we are talking about NORTH Korea)

In other Olympic news, the German team will be easy to recognize during the opening ceremony. The flag will be a little higher up than with most teams, cause it will be carried by a 7’0 guy: Dirk Nowitzki was selected to be the flag bearer, and is very happy to have led his country to the Olympics in basketball for the first time since 1992. Unlike all the other NBA millionaires representing the US, he is also happy to live in the village like any regular athlete because he wants to get to know other people and have some fun with his team. Which won’t be that easy, since reportedly the beds aren’t even 7 feet long.

A while back he wrote a diary about saving a bumble bee. Yesterday when I was doing my Oden Minutes, I passed an adolescent pigeon that had fallen out of its nest. My first thought was to take it home and let my pets play with it then I thought to myself, “self, WWLBD?”

I went back to the bird, put it in a Tupperware, then walked to a local ladies house, who always has about 50 pigeon’s on her roof. She took the bird from me and said she would either take it to the animal rescue or raise it herself. She thanked me for saving the pigeon and I thanked her to taking care of it.

I’ve been e-mailing this guy to get him to do an in depth interview with the sweat wiper uppers at the Blazer’s games, and he keeps blowing me off. If you have the time, please e-mail Ben at benjamin.golliver@gmail.com and ask him to interview the sweat wiper uppers. How cool would it be if Ben could be a sweat wiper upper for one game?

More to come in “Awaiting the Schedule”.

It’s “The Last Days of Man on Earth.”

No, it’s not that kind (da kine?) of movie.

I love the way everyone who watches it gets mad at the end.

Synopsis here.

Good luck finding it.

” It’s down there somewhere. Let me take another look ”
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” at 15 mph I roll out, double back, grab one & beat it out of him. The Uzi.”

" The Uzi ?"

” You didn’t think I was rollin outta here naked, did you?
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Too many classic lines to quote !

My Quote - " B _ _ _ _ _  B_ _ _  O _ _   B_ _ _ _ _ _ ! 

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