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Okay, so in response to GOt’s backlash, these are all the proposed topics for the next ten blog posts, as submitted by you.
Since these were all so wonderful, I decided I’m going to cover every single one. There were twelve sets of submissions overall, so each set will get its own post. This will begin on Monday, and then nobody will ever be allowed to complain again.
These are listed in no particular order, although I’ve saved GOt’s for last, so that I can explain to him why exactly he doesn’t like what I write anymore.
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Okay, look.
Word everywhere is the Cavs have a deal in place to get Amare (Amar’e) Stoudemire, but it’s being held until after the All-Star Game, since it’s in PHX and all.
It’s Wally, Hickson, and a 1st round pick.
Let’s get this straight – I LOVE Hickson. I think he’s going to be a really, really good PF – maybe even an All-Star.
But…if you can add a 26-year old PF who’s an All-Star right now, you have to do it, especially when you consider we’d likely get back Wally after PHX releases him.
I’m going assume Amare’s lack of defense, like Mo Williams’, is due to the system he’s played in. He certainly has the athletic ability.
In other NBA news, go read this post from Alana G. Short version – some reporter took a satire site’s article about the NBA imposing a “tattoo limit” and ran with it as real.
This woman doesn’t check her facts at all, so I thought I would email her in clear daylight, and tell her I have more fake info for her.
Niki,
Sorry about the bashing you’ve taken over the tattoo story. Here’s something that just may twist things back your way – the original article – the one that was satire?
Completely based in truth at its baseline level. I have a friend who works at the NBA, and this idea was floated there, but they thought it would be deemed racist, especially because of the statements already made by Mike Miller about his tattoos, and all the controversy that went down with that.
I can tell you more, but would need to talk first. I don’t want this stuff in email. Thanks,
Brian
Let’s see if she gets back to me for the hot scoop – I gave her my full name and this web address, so as long as she checks out either, she’ll see this post, wherein I explain I’m trying to fool her.
By the way – if you’re not familiar, Mike Miller is white, with no tattoos and a mane of flowing, womanly hair.
He wears a headband.
Oh, and now there are people hating on Alana for calling this reporter out. Alana’s one of my not-so-secret internet girlfriends, so like Happy Valentine’s Day to her.
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So let’s start getting those sports blogger interviews out of the closet.
Up today is Cleveland Frowns – they write a blog about an alternate reality where all sports teams are named after facial expressions.
First though – this guy in the picture is like in his 30s – why are you dressing up like french fries? PP thinks he looks delicious, btw.
1) Your logo seems to be some kind of rocket, with a frowning football inside.
Why don’t you change the name of your site to Cleveland Browns Smiling Guys and have a picture of a boot, with a smaller boot inside of the first boot?
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I think we’ve all been in a situation like the following: you tell a really tasteless racist joke, and then see someone nearby looking all sad.
“I’m a racist,” they mutter.
“Oh, man – hey, I didn’t know. I was just kidding around.”
It’s an awful feeling, and you realize that “How many racists does it take to screw in a light bulb?” isn’t even that funny.
I may have mentioned this on the old site, but I found myself in just such a situation with a cutter once. One would think I’d learned, but I did it again over the weekend – I insulted a cutter.
The details are unimportant – it was short and unsweet. What’s important is this – I can no longer apologize for finding cutting funny. It just is.
Thing is, I can’t deduce how exactly one starts doing it, and that puts it in the category of incomprehensible things that automatically become funny.
With say, anorexia or bulimia, I understand how it starts. Need to lose weight –> stop eating or throw up food before it digests.
It’s not smart, but there’s an a-b-c-d logic to it.
(For the record, I’ve dated a bulimic girl.
It was awesome; I don’t know why, but it was – something about watching her eat two feet of Subway, then go into the bathroom for 15 minutes made her so hot.)
Anyway, back to cutting. I understand that it masks emotional pain by forcing you to concentrate on physical pain. But how does it start?
Like, if you Google “ways to make me not depressed”, does “cut yourself” show up right after “change what is making you depressed”?
(No – this is actually the first result…and somehow I think linking to that isn’t going to help curb my tendency to offend depressed people.)
I’m gonna stop now. If any of you happen to be a cutter, please let me know how and why you started.
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UPDATE: Vince Young, Tennessee Titans quarterback and the NFL’s most likely cutter, sucks because he isn’t good, not because of the pressures of being a “black quarterback”.
Have all “white quarterbacks” led lives free from stresses of any kind? What about all the “Asian quarterbacks” – wait – they’re good at math, right? Didn’t we get past this like 15 years ago?
UPDATE 2: MLB’s most likely cutter – A-Rod.
The NBA’s? Steve Francis, duh. (Is he still in the NBA? Seriously, I’m asking.) Tracy McGrady, a close second.
Oh, and Garnett does it every now and then – not because he’s depressed, but because he just really likes it.
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