Every Monday Morning Comes
I'm still giddy from the big W yesterday. At the risk of sounding like a total snob, going to the Final Four never gets old. 10 times in 20 seasons is absolutely amazing. It's all because of Coach K.
With all due respect to Christian Laettner and his two famous buzzer beaters, my two favorite wins in the Elite Eight are probably in 1988 when Duke took out a HEAVILY favored Temple team with freshman sensation Mark Macon 63 -53 behind 21 big points from Kevin Strickland and then again in 1989 when Phil Henderson dunked all over Georgetown freshman Alonzo Mourning and Duke took out the Hoyas 85-77. Those were two games I did not expect us to win.
I'll have my full Final Four preview tomorrow.
The C's held the gawd awful Sixers to a near franchise record low of 65 points last night. My eyes hurt after watching that game.
I'm sure Coolfer will be very happy to hear that his favorite Sacramento King player ever in the history of the franchise, Mateen Cleaves, is signing a ten day contract with the Cleveleand Cavs.
Look out Knicks fans Vin Baker, after a fast start, hasn't been as big a low-post factor as hoped. Let me be the first to say "Hahahahaha". PS - Your team is not going to make the playoffs.
The always informative Phil Mushnick has a great take on the new West Side Stadium in NYC. Imagine if all publicly-funded buildings - hospitals, schools, City Hall - had the same shelf-life of big league ballparks, monstrous structures designed to seat 40,000 to 75,000 people. "And so, this morning, we dedicate P.S. 192 in the fond hope that it well-serves our children, our community and our society from this day through the next, oh, 25, 30 years, give or take a few years."
Can you say "Bad Idea Jeans"?
Pitchfork reviews Irish Blood, English Heart but doesn't really say anything. Where I have I heard this before?
Check out the upcoming Teenage Fanclub tribute album. TFC = Best. Band. Ever.
Does anyone else go to lindsayism and wait for the taxi to ride by? Ok...maybe it's just me.
YAY! Kegzies fixed his non-compatible-with-Safari website. Looks awesome my friend.
Below is my updated list of qualities I am looking for in the next city I live in. The more I think about it, the more this sounds like Washington DC. If anyone can help a brother out, drop me a line yo!
1) Be able to make alot of money and not spend it all on rent
2) Have a free weekly paper like the Village Voice
3) Have a Craigslist
4) Be a regular touring destination for indie bands
5) Have a pro basketball team
6) Have an Apple Store
7) Be able to see Duke play at least once a year
8) Have a major airport nearby
9) Cheap beer prices while still having a good selection of imports
10) Have a few decent indie movie theatres
11) Have good snowboarding nearby
12) Be on the East Coast
13) Be a regular stop on the yearly Chuck Palahniuk book tour
14) Have a major daily newspaper
15) Be able to have a car but not worry about parking it every day
16) Have some nice places for brunch
Oh, when you and I / Watch the London sky / Traffic rolling by
Do whatever we like / So we chase the day away
Feel the morning rain / Piss our money down the drain
And do whatever they say
But every Monday morning comes / Every Monday morning, yeah
Pitchfork used the words "robust" and "vitriolic" in the Morrissey review. That is so classic!
Coolfer's not a big fan of the word "robust." It's a word to describe rich Colombian coffee. When it found its way into business jargon a few years back (as in "robust sales growth"), I was pretty miffed. Then is spread...everywhere. Now a sophomoric Pitchfork review uses the word?
"Vitriolic" is another popular music review word. If I had to bet, I'd say 2/7 of all reviewers use the word but don't know an accurate definition. (The quoted lyrics don't sound especially vitriolic to me. Nor do they have the urgency that would back the review's claim that he is "a man too disgusted, long-suffering, and desperately impatient for change to shade his anger and shame." I haven't heard the entire song, so maybe I'm speaking out of turn. But this may be a moot point since the review, as you pointed out, really goes nowhere.)
And to think it was only a lonely at the bottom of the code. Matt from fiftyfivehundred.org gave me the heads-up, and within 2 minutes it was good to go. In any event, I'm glad non IE users can check it out now.
Coolfer, i can't believe you wrote all that and not one mention of your boy Mateen! Think he still has that cheerleading. towel waving, no way in hell I''m gonna get any PT thing going?
I bet he does.
Detroit unbelievably fits your criteria, too bad it has no jobs...
whoa. check that shout out up there in the comments. i feel so proud.
i.l.b.: what sort of seats did you get to the moz shows? and actually atlanta pretty much fits yr criteria. pretty much.