pass the turkey!

i spent monday handing out turkeys to the needy with the los angeles clippers. let’s be honest — i was there for the clippers. but hey, at least i satisfied by own needs while doing something charitable.

to kick off the event, the clips were 1 hour late. the people receiving the turkeys were basking in the sun for a few hours waiting for the players to come but i don’t even think any of them cared who handed them the turkeys. the clippers’ presence probably increased the number of volunteers who showed up, but that’s not bad at all!

after the turkeys were handed out, i met a majority of the team, including shaun livingston, elton brand and tim thomas. shaun livingston was the coolest looking of the bunch, with some fancy shades and some sharp cornrows. i accidentally called him “sir”. kid is 19 years old! i also told tim thomas i liked his fugazi quote, from when him and kenyon martin got into a media name-calling war. that got a chuckle out of him.
ed note: there is a rock band named fugazi, but Timmy was referring to a gansta movie that called thugs fugazi’s.

of course, i forgot my camera at school, but was resourceful enough to get one of the photographers to take my photo and email me the pic. i also got a hat signed by the team!

anyway, that made my week — i love basketball, got some autographs, got a pic despite forgetting my camera, and did some good. happy turkey day, folks!

Me, Erkki and some guy named Elton Brand

my hat!

usurping my time

happy friday, peoples. i passed up friday-golf to run some errands this morning so i’m hoping to be el productivo. so far, i’ve achieved 20% of my productive errand potential. as i work towards maximum efficency, here are some things on my mind…

dinner

cobras and matadors tonight with glo and jia tonight. tapas! it’s got a good vibe and the food rocks.

jia is glo’s coolbeans maid of honor, visiting from colorado and always a good time — should be awesome. i hope to have some of my bschool friends with us too so that we can hijack the conversation with pretentious business talk that will undoubtely bore the girls. good times.

xbox 360

in other news, my videogaming-resource-buddy forwarded me this halo 3 beta link. sweet! halo rules.

while i don’t have an xbox 360 yet, glo has graciously agreed to buy me an xbox 360. say goodbye to society! other games which i will immediately buy upon purchase of the xbox are: tiger woods PGA Tour and splinter cell. still undecided about the suppossedly fantastic rockstar table tennis but let’s be honest, i’ll probably get that too.

borat

okay, so maybe I was a little extreme on my criticism of borat. days after my viewing, I’ve caught myself recalling lines from the movie and chuckling. i’ve also found myself discussing it with friends — mainly to express my point of view, but discussing nontheless. it got me to thinking … despite the slapstick-ish apperance of borat, maybe there is a deeper, subtle approach to sasha’s humor that isn’t apparent from the onset. or maybe i’m just thinking too much.

either way, i have a feeling that it’ll be like anchorman: the second viewing will be much better, as I anticipate the lines or scenes that I found funny. so i’ve upgraded it from “crapola” to “eh, it was aiight“. kevin found it hilarious after some inebriation, so maybe I’ll incorporate that if there is a second viewing. but enough about borat.

borat, the disappointment

Walking around the UCLA campus, I felt like I was missing out. Borat had infiltrated my fantasy league, my friends’ email signatures, and everyone’s hallway conversations. People loved this movie and have been quoting it left and right (myself included) — I had to see it.

Last night, Gloria and I decided to see what all the hype was all about. One and a half hours later, I was wishing I had spent my 11 bucks (11 freakin bucks) elsewhere.

Can you please pass me the crack that everyone is smoking? That movie sucked donkey-nuts. While it did have its outrageous moments, and while I did laugh at some points, that was an utter waste of time. I don’t even know if i’d Netflix it. Some of the laughs were unadulterated, but everything else was forced. The film just tried too hard and it dragged.

I was hoping it would be the second coming of Napoleon Dynamite and though I may be caught saying “I liiiike, nice to meet”, or talking about “romantic explosion on the stomach”, I’m not a fan.

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In other news, I watched the 2 hour series premiere of Daybreak tonight. Seems cool, and great concept for a movie — think: frequency and memento. I’ll be interested to see how they stretch this out over 11 weeks, but I’m into it for now. More about my TV addiction in another post.

minature technology

the new iPod shuffle, courtesy of UCLA Anderson orientation committee.

it’s weightless and I can clip it anywhere. i might lose it, but at 1 gig, it’ll rock, i’m sure. it’s almost as small as the iFlea:

you and that booty

my current favorite commerical, courtesy of amp’d mobile.

i can’t say it’s the most effective commercial; I remembered it as a boost mobile spot. still, good comic relief. the song is you and dat by E-40, for those who may be interested.