fantasy friends

Easy, tiger. You’ve been wondering where I’ve been, I know. I miss you too. Hey, wedding planning, exams and some personal stuff had me busy, but I’m here now. I’m not not busy, though — I have 7 weeks of Macroeconomics, GDP and models to catch up on. Life is good. Right.

Of course, I procrastinate and do everything I can to not do work. Hello, Fantasy Basketball. You gotta give it up to Yahoo!. They totally dropped the ball on the search engine but they got fantasy right. While you will struggle to find someone that uses the Yahoo! search engine, everyone and their mother is using Yahoo! Sports for fantasy anything.

Constantly improving, one of the coolest features is this new smack talk feature. It’s about time someone realized trash talking was core functionality to fantasy, damnit! Michel (a.k.a. Borat) and I are the trash talking anchors of my league, and while I have never met this guy face to face, I know I’ll hug him when I finally meet him. Any time you can tell a stranger that he sucks, is a total douche and is whipped, you know you have a great invention and that you guys are soulmates.

Anyway, that’s all for now. I understand that a small percentage of my small reader base enjoys fantasy, but let’s just say this posting is tribute to me coming home, rushing to my chair and checking stats. This is for you, Gloria. Maybe that’s why nothing interesting happens in my life.

But before I go, I just received my Amazon shipment in the mail. The Find by Ohmega Watts rocks. Underground hip-hop, cool jazzy beats and diverse tracks have me feeling this record. Track 8, Mind Power, is laid back, has some chick singing backup and is my favorite so far. On the flip side, the Outro, Dream On, has some crazy drums and keyboard action which is very late-night-at-the-jazz-club but also laid back. More later, but upon first listen,.

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!