Movies I haven’t seen because of the pain and the agony.
I’m warning you this is all historical and all from one time period because a) I don’t watch basketball anymore and b) when I was watching it, I definitely loved the players I was watching over anyone before them.
All-Time Favorite Top 10…
1. Michael Jordan, doh.
2. Charles Oakley, smooches to you.
3. Danny Ainge. He was scrappy!
4. Shawn Mullins, but only when he was with the Sonics.
5. Robert Horry, but only with the Rockets.
6. Dennis Rodman, before he got all spastic and crazy.
7. Xavier McDaniel.
8. Doc Rivers.
9. Anthony Mason, yes, I like bruisers.
and tied for 10. Jalen Rose and Chris Webber, how could you be from the Midwest and not love these boys?
Wait a minute, there are two sometimes-Celtics on the list. How the hell did that happen?
And I gotta give a shout-out to Muggsy Bogues, I could never really root for him (come on, he played for the Hornets!) but we are just about the same size so I always list him. I’m down w/ the shorties! And he was much more fun than Spud Webb!
Top-10 Most Detested…
1. Reggie Miller.
2. Isiah Thomas.
3. Shaquille O’Neal.
4. Gary Payton.
5. Detlef Schrempf.
6. Mark Jackson.
7. Charles Barkley, when he was playing ball (I enjoy him as a commentator!).
8. Nick Van Exel.
tied for 9. Alonzo Washington and Larry Johnson, most obnoxious teammates ever. (p.s. But Kendall Gill, I like. So, there you go.)
and tied for 10. Larry Bird and Kevin McHale, don’t even get me started.
I tryped a new word: “neard” = “never heard”.
And they said yes, but it must contain Scorpion “Wind of Change.”
I told them not to expect Headbanger’s Ball, but now that I’ve got Scorpion slotted in, all and I mean ALL I can think about is Whitesnake: Take me down, slow and easy…der der der der…[“der der der der” isn’t that what the guitar part sounds like to you? no?]
In a likely futile effort to get the Whitesnake out of my head, I’m now listening to the following in a vaguely repeat fashion:
Wish me luck.
Not only is there still something just SO WRONG about the fact that the poor little tan M&Ms were forced out, but I’m not thinking the future looks bright for yellow or dark brown either.
Take this randomly selected, standard bag of plain M&Ms:
5 red.
5 dark brown.
7 green.
8 yellow.
11 orange.
19 blue.
Nineteen fucking blue ones. There was a time, oh I remember it well, when the packs were 90% “the basics” (tan, dark brown, yellow and orange) with a few rare green ones thrown in. Seriously, only one or two green a pack. The introduction of red didn’t bother me since SUPPOSEDLY the reason red was missing was b/c the previous red dye was carcinogenic. Fine. So you add red. So maybe you would get 3 red and 2 green in a pack. If you were lucky.
But this blue bullshit is just wrong. They don’t even taste the same.
Dark brown M&Ms, you’re a dying breed. I wish you luck.
My top summer CDs right now are 1) Gnarls Barkley, 2) Daniel Powter and 3) Pink.
They are not the deepest most soul searching albums around (Powter seems to be getting slammed in reviews. Hello there is nothing wrong with just being FUN!!!! stupid idiots) but they are making me happy, bouncy and almost unable to keep from at least twitching if not outright dancing.
I can go elsewhere for life lessons; this is SUMMER, yo.
Dear Cranky Monkey Butt,
Never buy special limited edition Kitkats for your dad if you are not sending them RIGHT THEN because you know what will happen? YOU WILL EAT THEM YOURSELF. Or at least some of them.
Sincerely,
haven’t we been over this before?
yourself.
Need to buy George Saunders “In Persuasion Nation” and read by June 5 (for me this is forcefeeding short stories. for the rest of you, this is just the right kind of reading for people who ‘don’t have time to read’ so go! read it!) so I can leave Betsy a million comments that week.
Need to buy Yannick Murphy “Here They Come” and read it YESTERDAY as they are already a week into discussing it over at the Lit Blog Co-Op and now I can’t look at the site for fear of learning something I don’t want to know yet but I will so want to know as soon as I’ve read it.
The latest albums (with my quickie impressions from one or two listens) from: Snow Patrol (like it but very much just “regular” rock, no innovations from 1st record); Pearl Jam (rocking OUT); Fiona Apple (jazzy); Dixie Chicks (haven’t sampled yet); and Paste Sampler 22 (not yet).
Me and the SuperEggplant, we’ve got some Australia stories…