Fucking A_Rock the World Jason, Brooklyn.
I was Just at the Scottish Clown across the street and ran across a spare USA Today and discovered that The Brooklyn Nets had signed Jason Collins to a 10 day contract. After tossing a fist in the air and shoveling the rest of the fries and burger into my maw and despite the fact that I did not hit the rack after nearly 24 hours I figured that I needed return home immediately, grab the lappie, cross the street to the Sbucks across the way and get on the freaking KeyBoard.
This space does not break news and it has become a much more personal space since Cerberus and I have become the primaries. I don’t think that movement in focus represents a distraction of the mission of Sadly,No! Simply a reflection of the changes in the paradigm, addressed in other fashions. We tend to share many more personal elements of our lives. Which gives me a reason to relate that the primary reason I was up for nearly 25 hours involved an invitation to hang in a hot tub which involved myself and a couple of astonishingly beautiful ladies.
Apparently my money at the sbucks across the way is not worth anything as in generally speaking I get what I order and they wave me away, now generally speaking whether or not I have to pay I do tip generously, and was informed that it is not unusual for them to act in this fashion with people they like.
Anyhoo, before we get to the nub of the biscuit, I just ran into a dude wearing a letter jacket from my High School alma mater, and out of the corner of my eye, I thought I recognized a familiar symbol…Sure enough he was a Cross Country Letterman. After a short chat following the introduction, I returned to this space worked on the last graph and then decided to plant a seed…and what this has to do with the first openly Gay professional Athlete in the NBA will have to wait, because after I finished the previous graph I felt the need to lay down a gauntlet. I approached my brother and explained that I had broken 5 minutes in the mile on every indoor track in town including a 4:59 on a 22 laps per mile track without a bank (believe me, not an easy task, which was why it was the last one attempted.) Anyway I asked that he make a similar attempt so the we could start a club, plus sent along greetings to my old coach, etc…
Which brings us to the following awesomeness:
LOS ANGELES — Jason Collins became the first openly gay athlete to play in North America’s four major professional team sports Sunday when he played 11 minutes in the Brooklyn Nets’ 108-102 win over the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center.
I cannot tell you how much joy I feel that this barrier has finally been broken. While I am a black, cis, heteronormative male and former athlete of modest repute, which might suggest that I have not a dog in this revelation, I have gay, bi, and trans friends that I love dearly.
And while I know that it is only a 10 day contract, a ceiling has been transcended and that, in and of itself, gives me a glimmer of hope for humanity.
I hope to lay my broke ass hands on a #26 Nets Jersey, something I will wear with pride.
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Hey. Sup?
tsam: Seriously, you were in porn flick?
And while I know that it is only a 10 day contract,
crap…a reminder that march madness is not that far away…
tsam: Seriously, you were in porn flick?
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Provider: See the Seahawks cornerback follow-up near the end of last thread.
Also, to stay in practice with A Href Alchemy, an article of interest for tsam and the Major: DOD will shrink Army to Pre-WWII level. Also changes to AF, Navy, Reserves/National Guard.
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Oh noes! tsam & bbfk: I misread tsam’s comment in the last thread! Apologies, Apologies, Apoligies!!!
/Emily Littella voice
Divorce cakes
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Cerb: I hope the anti-depressants help!
(Fenwick tip: Be patient! Took my treatment team years to find the right combination of (3) medicines and dosages. I went thru five medicines that had no benefits at all for me; fortunately, only one produced bad side-effects.
Mainly I’m glad you have health care and caregivers who treat you as a PERSON!!!
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Now I’m gonna make some coffee and get to wurk! I’ll check in later for BOtB.
a reminder that march madness is not that far away…
And spring training ! Huzzah!
tsam: Seriously, you were in porn flick?
HAHAHAHA! no
I don’t have the proper equipment for that endeavor.
Spring training and my Mariners have saved Robinson Cano from being a STUPID FUCKING YANKEE and appear to have some potential to be competitive this year.
Ten days? Is this a stunt so the NBA can claim to break new ground before the NFL draft?
I just found my new favorite tumblr site: agoodcartoon.tumblr.com It takes dumb ring-wing cartoons and ascribes left-wing meanings to them in a dry sentence. It’s so funny and the site works well on my phone.
The Mariners paid a pretty penny to save Cano from his folly. I’d bet folding money they still won’t get to 10 games over .500 this year. Probably quite a bit less.
Quick question re NFL in which I have no interest whatsoever.
Is Tim Tebow dead? I remember all the hoohah about his Christianizing all over the place.
Er – excuse me – I’m not a US lib. Sorry – wrong stereotype/strawwoman.
It appears that his future in the booth, or a new league.
Link
I always root for Seattle in AL West. (Also my bro’s team.) I am so sick of the Angels and Rangers. 10 games over .500 would be fantastic, imo. Who knows? That might be even enough to propel the Mariners into postseason…
About Cano: I think shedding Suzuki was an excellent move. Betcha some of the Cano money came from that move. (Not a knock on Ichiro, btw.)
Frank: You missed the point, as conservatives are wont to do. Suez is a proud liberal … but does NOT live in the United States.
Fenwick, FYI, this Frank is he who derps at the Hot Tub® of Sadly, No!
‘Nuff said.
Apologies to Sadlyburg: I forgot to observe the warning signs at the bridge. Don’t feed the trolls.
Also, here’s an etiquette question: Would it be nym-jacking to use Frank’s name without the umlaut? It would be nice to have another conservative buffoon to parody. Fake Gary is fun, of course, but variety is the spice of life. So is Fake Frank within the roolz?
There are roolz?
Frankly, (swidt?) I don’t care. I skip over Gary’s posts and I skip over Frank, so knock yourself out.
Thanx DA. I shoulda glommed onto it-who-must-not-be-named after the parenthetical reference to yourself. Nevertheless, I wish you [plural] would find another venue for your mutual obsession. It would make life easier for the Public Works technicians.
I haven’t responded to him directly in a while, and that policy is permanent from now on. I look forward to his brief attempts to lecture and shame other commentators here, but recommend your approach to all and sundry, and even the forgotten moondry.
Thanx for you self-restraint, DA.
I was up for nearly 25 hours involved an invitation to hang in a hot tub which involved myself and a couple of astonishingly beautiful ladies
Pics? Newletter? Can’t fob off what sounds like a nifty story into an end-of-para sentence. Wants details we does!
STUPID FUCKING YANK
EEMEEFixxorated for AL-East fans. Go Baltimore Oreos! (MD ex-pat in NM, but my loyalty to Dem O’s is rock solid.)
Coupla things :
First time I ever responded to troll and I knew I was doing a Naughty Thing but I did it anyway. Consider me chastened and apologetic.
Fenwick, not to get all persnickety with you, bud, but I ain’t no liberal of any stripe – I’m an oldtimey socialist. I just really like all you guys here so I hang out with you and other liberal bloggers. Oldtimey socialists are not really a fun crowd. I do try to avoid talking US politix tho.
Battle-O-the-Bands (Provider’s post + Comments)
Clown Across the Street
Freaking Key
Other Fashions
Hang in a Hot Tub
Nub of the Biscuit
Lay Down a Gauntlet
Five Medicines
Ring Wing
All the Hoohah
Wrong Stereotype
Shedding Suzuki
Without the Umlaut
Fake Frank
SWIDT
Knock Yourself Out
Mutual Obsession
Forgotten Moondry
Neato band names, Fenwick. I think I’ll hit the sack, it being 6:30 am.
Good Night and thanks for the company to you, B4 & anyone else hanging out.
Suez: Apologies. Shouldn’t have jumped to the conclusion. Mainly I was trying to nail Frank quickly for not grasping the “US” qualification in yer comment.
Fwiw, I also describe myself as a Socialist. (Partially for shock value; ‘soshulism’ is Teh Worst Evah in Murika. Great label for provoking my neanderthalish relatives in Indiana!) I tend to favor a more modern-European brand of socialism, co-existing with capitalism … not a classic Marxist version (if that is what you meant by ‘old-timey’.)
Neato band names
Thanks! I often wonder if people find them amusing…or merely irritating. Sometimes it seems like BOtB is the only contribution I make to the conversation….
PENIS.
Fenwick believes you, though
Thanks to prompt action by the civic-minded Public Works folks, the troll excretions were cleaned up so rapidly that I’ve seen nothing of the ‘dialogue’–real or imaginary–on my screen; I have no reason to doubt DA’s assertions.
With apologies to Kurt Weill:
Fuck, didn’t mean to trample this post with my new post.
Sorry, Provider.
Also, I absolutely love this post.
On another note:
Don’t feed the Bruce Tinsley, everybody. He’s not worth it.
Collins is a Stanford boy. Just had to put that out there.