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I like a Miami fan who doesn't resort to pussyphonics. Word!

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I like a Miami fan who doesn't resort to pussyphonics.

Not really a shot a Shocked, just a relative comparison in terms of being signed to BN. Vega's had some tangentally "jazz" related elements in her music over the years, and, to my knowledge, Shocked hasn't.

Nah, it'd be "Thank You...Falettinme...Be Mice Elf...Agin"

They'd better.

Now that was a good record! Is Rodney still in France? He's a cat I felt was just starting to get into something really exciting when he booked.

Their moniker is rightfully earned.

This afternoon, Avery announced on the local ESPN radio (the Randy Galloway show to be specific, for the locals) that he had been notified that Stack was getting a one game suspension. Un-be-liev-a-BULL. Otoh, Benga's back for Game 5, so that's 6 more fouls we can take in the middle. Who knows?

The NBA had three highly qualified officials on the floor who reviewed the foul before making the call. Would the NBA dare say that those officials are not as qualified as they're made out to be? I think not. Not even that little weaselsquirt Stern is that transparent.

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Oh boo hoo. The Daddy said afterwards that his daughter hits him harder than that. Does The Daddy now need a nursemaid to look after him?

Ah yes, the classic story of how the crafty fox convinced everybody that the grapes were no good, only to come back with a ladder aqt night when nobody was looking and devour them whole. I LOVE that story!

Exactly. I don't buy into the NBA Conspiracy theories (Stern hates Cuban, sure, but big deal. EVERYBODY hates stern, so that's a wash), but geez, if this goes down, you gotta wonder just what the hell is going on.

Well, the Mavs had all the momentum for 2 games and here we are. Momentum comes and momentum goes. I still have to believe that the Mavericks will get their shit together and come out on top. That's been the story of their season, teetering on the brink of falling back into their old ways only to pull it out and up at the last second. Hell, it was just in April that we were all getting worried that this team had lost its way and was going to be ripped by Memphis. These guys refuse to just go ahead and get it done in one fell swoop, damn them. But this year, they've always gotten it done, even if it was by the most gut-wrenching means imaginable. This series looks like it's going to be no different. Having said that, Wade really is a special talent, and if the Mavs can't find a way to slow him down (stopping him is going to be impossible), he can get into a groove that this bunch of head cases is going to have to dig extra deep inside be able to deal with. Do they have it in them? We'll see. Always the hard way with this bunch, always the hard way...

Local ESPN radio is quoting an unnamed NBA official that a suspension of Stackhouse for the Shaq foul is "currently under consideration". Give me a break...

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The complexity for me is not just in the arrangements, or evenin the songs themselves, although that certainly is there. The real complexity, and the one that finally got in side my head and permanently messed it up, is the complexity of essence - the "unimusic" aspect of her work that I talked about earlier. Think about it - how many people are able to naturally bring all they are to their work? And how many people are so many things, not in an "either-or" way, but in a naturally oraganic way? Not that many, and even fewer over the last couple decades as societal and industrial changes have led to music getting more and more segregated, even as people are getting more and more culturally integrated. The global village is a reality, whether we realize it or not. You think about how special a person it takes to, not just "fuse" all these things, but to seemingly be all these things and still be an individual, much less what it takes to bring the nature of that individuality to a creative expression, and it makes one stop and take stock of exactly what it means to be a thinking, feeling, loving person in today's world. Not yesterday's world, but today's. It's easy living in yesterday's world, where identities (and therefore destinies) of all kinds are pretty much pre-defined. It's a lot harder to let go of all that, stand in the present, and look towards the future with all of the good things from the past along for the ride as tools of propulsion, not anchors of inertia. Monday seems to me to be the type of person for whom that more difficult way is the natural way, and for me, it's been a revelation to start thinking about my life in that way. I'd been getting old without realizing, and I'd been getting comfortable with that oldness. No more. I'm still more than willing to mature, gain whatever wisdom borne of experience I'm able to get, and to physically age. But I'll be damned if I'm going to get old. Old means saying "oh well" instead of "why not?" Old means only dreaming with your eyes closed, never with them open. Old means letting your lifeforce dwindle away and pretending that that's the way it's supposed to be. Old means losing the ability to distinguish between defeat and surrender. Old is the beginning of death. The body will die soon enough, regardless of the age of the spirit it contains, so why not keep the spirit alive, fresh, ready for surprises, and ever-growing? Why the hell not? Give me wisdom, give me maturity, and give me age. Those things I will accept with gratitude as the blessings of life that they are. But under no circumstances will I accept old.

Sorry, but the Mavs and Spurs played two rounds ago. Wade, otoh, is starting to have "one of those" series. Glad to see it, as he really is a special talent. The Heat are not a better team than either the Mavs or Spurs, not on paper, and not over the course of the regular season. But it ain't about who's a better team, it's about whether or not you can play up to your full potential and prove that you're a champion. Right now, the Mavericks are nowhere near playing like a champion. If they lose this series, there's going to be some serious head trips going on, and there damn well should be. This team can only lose by choking, and chokers suck.

Note to Avery: Have your tema get their hearing checked. What they needed to increase was their focus, not their fuckups... Riley called it right after the game - from here on out, it's as much about will as skill. And the Mavericks look to be sorely lacking in that right now. Gut check, motherfuckers, gut check.

Yep, it didn't jump out at me the first few times either. But when it finally did, it jumped out screaming. There's just so much "there" there...

Ok, bit-torrent the little ones then. That's the way to do it.

And if I caught Bill Gates in the right mood, I'd be a millionaire!

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Sending kids by the postal service is soooo 20th century. Zip files thru e-mail, that's the way to go thse days.