Bizarro Obama 2.0

More Obama crap. Hope you enjoy:

The Lakers

I really don't like the LA Lakers. Just about everything about the franchise bothers me. Here's a short list:

- Phil Jackson

- Yellow Uniforms

- The mascot, 'Laker', despite the lack of lakes 

- formerly based in Minneapolis

- Jordan Farmar and all that hair gel

- Celebrities at games

 - except for Jack Nicholson, he can do whatever he wants

- The Media's love affair with them 

- when Luke Walton is considered 'good', you know the media loves you

The thing that set this off was the abundance of celebrities at games rooting for the Lakers.  I know that all of them are not from LA.  Go home and root for your home team.  And if you are thinking they just want to watch some basketball, I'd respond with 'why not the Clippers?' Sure, they suck this year. But they were in the playoffs two years ago. It's just a bunch of fairweather fans and I dislike it. Anyway, more productive posts later. Maybe some BBO.

Bizarro Barack, Take One

If you read my previous post, you were introduced to the idea of Bizarro Barack Obama, the Republican answer to BO. I came up with the idea at Moe's a few weeks ago and I personally think it is gold, Jerry, GOLD. So here it is. A short intro to Bizarro Barack.

Now, I just need to figure out how to get rid of that button.

Go Gator!

In case you haven't heard, the Gators went to the White House yesterday.  Here's the transcript from the visit.

I think that this is the funniest tradition of all championship traditions (just ahead of going to Disney World).  Who started this?  You know it was a president.  Teams can't just decide, "You know, this championship earns us a trip to the White House!" It just makes me think about how popular sports are in the lives of Americans.  I know it is in mine.  I care way more about Gator football than Bizarro Obama and his swashbuckling stories with the Somalian armada (side note: I really need to create the Bizarro Obama comic book). 

Anyway, no real point here except Obama seems to know his college football. Read the transcript and you'll know what I'm saying.

Another side note, I wanted to create some sort of Presidential Basketball Pick 'em. With Obama being a former player and all, it made me think about what other presidents could tote the rock. Here's my top 5: 

- C - LBJ. 6'3", built like a house, and crazy as a fox! 

- SF- The 6'4" Rail-Splitter would be an intriguing pick. Abe might sky over all other presidents like...Gheorghe Muresan? 

- PF- GWash was 6'4" and lead the colonists to victory in the one of the greatest upsets in history. That HAS to carry over to basketball. 

- PG - Obama is the only one with real experience.

- SG - Gerald Ford rounds out the top five because of his football success. Athleticism is athleticism. 

Basically, the President's Ball(PUN!) would be awash. It would end up like that pick-up game you play at the park with all the white guys in running shoes and ankle-high socks. 

Josh Dickenson...

...is bad luck. He has been in Pittsburgh this week staying at the same hotel as the Florida Marlins. The Marlins have lost the first two games of the series to the Pirates. All I'm saying is Josh better get out of Dodge before 12:30pm Wednesday. 

Redemption

I have been a fan of the band, Centro-matic, for a couple years now. I got into them because they are a part of the Undertow Music Collective along with my fav band David Bazan/Pedro The Lion. 

Will Johnson is a member of Centro-matic and creator of folk art. Johnson has recently done a series on baseball and I think it is worth your while.

As a side note to the writings on the Bill Buckner piece, I would imagine that it was one of the greatest feelings to receive that standing ovation. There are a couple of vids on YouTube; but, I've given you enough to click on for one post.

Alex Tyus...

...is transferring. I don't know what is going on with our basketball team but it is getting weird. 

Jeopardy

I started reading Ken Jennings' blog on and off a few months ago. It is mildly entertaining. For those of you who don't know, Ken Jennings was the guy who was on Jeopardy for 74 episodes straight and won about $2.5 million. 

Anyway, I thought this was funny because the term "post-partisanship" has really been getting on my nerves. Here is his post from April 9th, 2009:

How to speak Obama

I keeping seeing the word “post-partisanship” used by the new administration, where most previous presidencies would have been paying lip service to “bipartisanship” instead. Maybe this is appropriate: this is, after all, our first post-racial president. He’s not biracial: he’s post-racial.

Let me try this out:

• The president will engage in post-lateral talks with Russia.
  
• He’s also teaching Sasha how to ride her post-cycle without training wheels.
  
• Michelle Obama’s sleeveless dress really showed off her post-ceps.
  
• Bill Henrickson on Big Love is now a post-gamist.
  
• That girl you dated in college is now claiming she’s a post-sexual.

I hope everyone has a post-tching day!

Post-Easter Post

PostSecret is one of my favorite websites.  I have been reading it for years and it is always enjoyable.  The postcard above may be my favorite one ever.  

Internshipping News

As of today, my summer internship is set.  I will be at the Matheson Museum for the summer doing whatever they want me to do.  I am excited about the opportunity to finally put my education to work.  It will be great to not have to be on my computer for eight hours a day.  Also, I will only have one class over the summer; so I can hang out with people at a normal time! That means you might see me at 8 o'clock on a week night! YESS!

Stolen from John Piper

John Piper posted this in his blog today:

"Today, sixty-four years ago, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged for his part in the conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler. He is known by many for one main sentence. It is worthy of Holy Week.

Here is the context of his most famous quote:

The cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. It is that dying of the old man which is the result of his encounter with Christ. As we embark upon discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ in union with his death—we give over our lives to death. Thus it begins; the cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise god-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. It may be a death like that of the first disciples who had to leave home and work to follow him, or it may be a death like Luther’s, who had to leave the monastery and go out into the world. But it is the same death every time—death in Jesus Christ, the death of the old man at his call." 

Everybody's Doing The Fish

The 2009 baseball season started this past Sunday and I couldn't be happier.  It is going to be a great season. For those of you who don't know, I am a Florida Marlins fan. I have to say that I am pumped about our chances to make the playoffs this year. I think we have good young pitching and a pretty solid lineup. Also, we have the Manatees.

Hi-larious!

The main reason we are going to make the playoffs is the 6-year cycle. In 1991, the NL approved the Marlins franchise. In 1997, the Fish won their first championship. In 2003, the Fish won a second. In 2009....well, we will see.

Stephen Rockwood

I've been listening to a lot of soul music lately.  And if you can't get into this, then you're dead. Literally dead. Lit-e-rally. Li-tra-lly.