- When I was in college, I accidentally signed up for an advanced music class called Harmony and Counterpoint. I couldn't even really read music, and this was about obsucre composition. I was about to drop it, but then the professor rudely taunted me in some fashion. Said something about how I could never finish that course, which got my dander up. So I stayed in his stupid class, worked like a mad man, borrowing a girlfriend's keyboard to write homework assignments, and literally (to the amusement of my roommates) sitting on the couch practicing clapping out complex rhythms that I would have to perform for a grade. Passing Harmony and Counterpoint may be the proudest academic achievement of my life, even though it probably also got me the worst grade of my life. I also learned a whole bunch about music including -- did you know? -- that every sound is a note. Like, your idling car might be G. Your finger tapping on the steering wheel might be a B-flat. This news has all kinds of implications. The main lesson for today, however, is that even though it is not technically singing, rap certainly can be off-key.
- J.E. Skeets and I have both taken miserable hits to our street cred. We have been called "nice." So have others. This ruthless accusation has been spread far and wide. So I guess that skinny Canuck (yes, the one who just published a love letter to Pat Garrity) and I will have to straighten this out the way we always straighten things out: With our fists. Teach that sucker who's "nice." In all seriousness, go read that whole post, and don't stop until you watch another allegedly nice guy, Jason Gurney of BallHype, get a mohawk. That same video will remind you how powerfully fun it was to watch the 2006-2007 Golden State Warriors. The team's reaction to Baron Davis's dunk on Kirilenko -- from Stephen Jackson to Adonal Foyle -- it's one of the greatest basketball things on video. And it's definitely not nice.
- OK, so what really happens at night at the Rookie Transition Program? No women. No drugs. Just a lot of young men. The video.
- With the help of an elite guide, Kings Coach Reggie Theus lures a massive bull elk extremely close. Coach Theus puts an arrow in his bow, and fires. He injures the beautiful animal, but not badly enough. He also screams loudly, scaring the animal off into a bleak and bloody future, when it might have hung around to be killed quickly. Everyone leaves feeling horribly dissatisfied. I'm sure that won't prove to be a metaphor for the Kings' season, though.
- So, what are Sonic fans up to now that they are not supporting NBA basketball? Drinking tequila and kicking the ceiling? Check.
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