NBA Basketball, its FANtastic!

Since my favourite hockey team, the Washington Capitals (don't ask), came nowhere near making the NHL playoffs (but not without some bright spots), my focus is on the NBA playoffs which just started yesterday. This is a good year for me because i cheer for 3 teams pretty much equally right now. Those three teams are:

Boston Celtic- My team growing up...come on!..it was Larry Bird...how could this not be my team??? Anyway, they've sucked for years, but this year had the 2nd to worst record in basketball...giving them a pretty decent chance to secure either Kevin Durant or Greg Oden in this year's NBA draft...which should be a huge step to making them a playoff team again in a couple of years.

Toronto Raptors- I was excited when the NBA expanded into Canada...even more excited when I moved to Toronto in 2000 and got to go to a few games each year. They supplanted the Celts as my team at about the time I saw Allen Iverson and Vince Carter exchange 50 point games in the 2001 playoffs- Carter's I saw live in game 3. Too bad he turned into such a douche bag! (because this is without a doubt the best dunk ever!)

Phoenix Suns- Now most people might think I like them simply because they're run by a Canadian point guard...2 time MVP Steve Nash...and play the most exciting fast break basketball since the 80's "Showtime" Lakers. These are all part of the reason....but I actually started liking them when Barkley got traded there in the early 90's and I got introduced to another guard, who is my 2nd favourite all-time point guard- Kevin Johnson...the guy could shoot from anywhere, pick apart defences with his passing...and oh yeah, he was a 6-footer who had maybe one of the best dunks of all time over possibly the best defensive center of all time...check him out.

Anyway, Raptors have a chance to hang around for a couple of rounds and the Suns have a chance to take it all...I have to go back to my first round match-up of the hour: Spurs vs. Nuggets. I probably won't even look at a hockey score for a month. Thank god for the NBA!

Fucking Crazy!...Stick the Guns Up Your Ass, Next to Heston's Penis, Dubya!

I love how George W Bush took a second in his initial press address this afternoon to reiterate his pro stance on America's right to bear arms....with the caveat that everyone still had to obey all the necessary gun laws.

I would like to take a second to reiterate my anti-moron stance. It says I hate morons. The caveat to that is that sometimes complete idiots with their heads up their own asses can be mistaken as morons.

For those of you looking for my take on the Virginia Tech shooting, see my earlier 2006 post on re Kimveer Gill. The message remains the same: coward, toaster, hell and Elvis....see you there loser!

FaceBook: Sucking My Ceative Energy, Like An Internet Whore

I don't think I find facebook.com as addicting as some do. I don't feel the need to be on it all the time, or to constantly check my "minifeed" for activity. However, it is getting to me in a different way lately..... I find that the time I spend replying to messages, posting on walls, surfing across different friend networks, and just generally trying to be 'on my game', is completely sucking all my creative energy from me. At the end of the day, I want to blog, but I am completely spent...and I don't have the desire to research things to shout about....or, to rant on meaninglessly about nothing for that matter.

I fear facebook is going to kill my blog...I might have to quit it cold turkey. Then again, it does give me an advertising outlet for this shit that I write here. Oh, what to do?...what to do..?

This is the most time I've spent thinking about anything this seriously since the last time I developed a way to cheat at Pictionary. By the way, why is it that girls are so bad at Pictionary?...and by "bad" I don't mean artistically, I mean they don't notice that I'm whispering to my teammates the actual words that are suppose to drawn during the "All Play"s......you would think that they would clue in that we always guess the answer after 5 seconds and all that's been drawn is a ball on a stick......its the same ball and stick combo no matter what the word...I mean really, come on girls!!!

5th Grade: Then Vs. Now

I read an article today about a bunch of 5th graders who got arrested for having sex in class, in front of there other classmates while a teacher left them alone for 5 minutes.

Let's reflect on this for a second. When I was in 5th grade we occasionally got in trouble for being too loud when the teacher left the room.....I once got detenion for throwing a paper airplane at another kid and nearly putting his eye out...and I believe I got a couple of Dungeons & Dragons books taken away after a rained-in lunch hour, because they were a little too violent and inappropriate. I was probably the kid that got in more trouble than any other in my grade, and I was the class clown as well. However, at no time did it ever occur to me to start humping my classmates when my teacher left the room (maybe that's why the class clown is never the popular one...or visa versa).

I can't believe I'm about to say this, but: What hell is wrong with kids these days? The actual act doesn't even bother me as much as the fact that I read something like that and it makes me feel like I'm turning into my parents. Damn them Louisiana bayou punks!!!...it must be something in the crawfish!