NBA All-Star Weekend and Other Stuff

I’m really tired this morning and I’d like to go back to bed. I got up at 9am, which is better than 10:30 but then I just sat around and didn’t do anything. I don’t have a whole lot to say today but here are a few thoughts.

NBA All-Star Weekend

I don’t like basketball but I do like the events surrounding the All-Star game and I always try to make sure to watch it (except for the game itself, which is too much like real basketball).

I was really looking forward to the NBA’s HORSE game this past weekend and I was very disappointed. I thought they’d be hitting all sorts of trick shots and they really weren’t. The announcers were TERRIBLE. They kept repeating the same thing over and over again. If you say something five times in a row, it doesn’t become true, or clever for that matter.

I wonder if Skills Competition and 3 Point Contest would be better if the announcers didn’t talk during the minute the player was performing. The announcers would pronounce a competitor done after two racks in the 3 Point Contest, he’d do well on the next two and the announcers would declare him the winner. And they kept doing that all night in each event. It was really annoying.

It didn’t help that the 3 Point Contest was especially lame this year. No one broke 20 points and for a little bit, it looked like 14 points was going to be enough to win in the final round.

The dunk competition, which has experienced a mini-renaissance in the last couple years, was okay. A couple suggestions: there was a time when players had two attempts and that was it. Allowing players two minutes to miss dunk and after dunk (and then providing them two attempts if they ran out of time because they missed so many), weakens the game. I understand the goal is to get players to try riskier dunks but when they finally make the dunk on ninth try, it’s kinda anti-climactic.

Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day went really well. My girlfriend was okay with getting a medium card and liked the gift and everything. And of course in her card, she wrote something really sweet and thoughtful.

We went to an Italian restaurant not too far from where I used to live in Cobb County. I was able to finish my meal but she wasn’t, which meant I totally won at dinner.

My Lying Shampoo

I just noticed that ‘YOU’RE THE BEST’ is written on the top of a bottle of Pert Plus. How weird’s that? I suppose it’s printed on every bottle, so everybody who buys it is ‘the best.’ Not everyone can be the best. I know I’m not the worst, but I don’t appreciate my shampoo lying to me and saying I’m the best. ‘You’re decent’ or ‘You’re okay’ will be fine.

On the back of the bottle, it gets worse. ‘Wow. That’s some great looking hair you have.’ My shampoo is such a liar. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to trust it again.

Also, I think that’s the first time I’ve ever seen the word ‘wow’ as a standalone sentence that didn’t end in an exclamation mark. I think it’s because the bottle knows it’s lying and can’t even get enthusiastic about the lie it’s telling.

Final Thoughts

Hey, media, is it maybe possible to not print the stories about people who missed a flight that ended up crashing? I mean, the stories don’t add anything to the actual event and it’s like kicking sand at the families who lost someone in the crash. I always feel uncomfortable when I see those stories. Maybe they can print them (if they feel they must print the stories at all) a few days after the crash, not the next day. Maybe?

I’m getting ‘How to Lose Friends and Alienate People’ sent to me tomorrow by Netflix, which thinks I’m going to hate it. Netflix predicts a one-star rating for the movie. I have a joke about the title but instead…moving on…

I had that Hungry Man country fried steak that intrigued Chunk Squirrel so much and I got sick. I think I’m going back to Wal-mart and tell him they’re great.

I was thinking about the reason I speed when I drive and I think maybe it’s because when cars pass me, it feels like I’m losing.

Is John Smoltz really going to keep insulting the Braves all season long or will it be just through Spring Training?

I really wanted Ken Griffey Jr. to play for the Braves…about 10 years ago.