1. Just finished reading a rad book, titled "Twilight" by William Gay. The book is awesome, very poetic and well written, it possesses much the same style and theme as "No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy. If you enjoy good prose and a simple and enjoyable read, I urge you to read this book. However, I must confess, it did take me a a few weeks to read, and no not due to its large size (roughly 200 pages), but mainly due to my lack of time and sheer laziness. Shame on me! My next novel on the horizon is Michael Chabon's "The Yiddish Policemen's Union". This will be my first look at any of his work, but if this book is any way near as entertaining as the movie "Wonder Boys" then I'm excited to jump in full throttle. Okay that's enough about that.
2. My girlfriend and I were out for dinner last night at some posh restaurant called "The Victorian", you've probably heard of it, but if you haven't it's your run of the mill steakhouse. Elegant, quiet, expensive and very much boring!!!! So this got me thinking. Why is it that all so called fine dining restaurants feel they need to follow this very much dated and drab sort of way of working? Okay so that was quite the q there, but seriously why? Who finds these places appealing? I mean here we were, the two of us, surrounded by linen, wine and such and no music, no atmosphere, nothing. My girlfriend thinks I'm crazy by the way, she professes that going out for dinner entails nothing but food and company. I tend to disagree with her, however, her opinion is valid and I understand where she's coming from, the last thing most of us want is a loud and abrasive establishment that shrills us into never returning. So I guess what I'm trying to get at is why does fine dining entail only a certain type of idea, and if you don't assimilate to its code your not allowed in. For instance, when I hear folks talking about going out for a big lavish dinner, why can't it be to a high end Italian joint, or Japanese or whatever, why is it that going for a steak is considered high end? And what's with Steak Dianne? The last thing I want is for my server to make my $50.00 steak in front of me, who likes that? Okay so I'm ranting now and sounding very condescending. If you understood any of that I commend you. Ah bitterness, ain't it grand.
3. Okay so we all know very well that the US is knee deep in one of its most intriguing and bitterly challenged democratic nomination process ever. We all agree! Yes. Cool! Here's the thing, I'm a Canadian, a proud one at that, I love my country (well mostly, our winters blow and we have Calgary, but other than that I'm satisfied with being here), and with being a Canadian I feel there's this unwritten rule amongst us all to know and learn about our neighbours to the south. Is it me or are they fascinating little people? The US of A is quite the place, home of the one city on earth I long to visit (NYC), home to great media, weather, money, etc...well you get my drift. Okay so here I am, awake sitting on my couch, eating breakfast, watching CBC (as I do every morning lately) and all I hear is Obama this and Clinton that, every single day, on and on. You'd think by now we'd all be done with them, but no, I and many others come back for more, just the same as when you accidentally stop and watch that episode of Springer and the lunacy he delivers, you just can't help but watch. Do I really care who wins? Not really, however, for the sake of Obama, I hope Hilary wins, for some reason I fear some yokel out there with his or her twisted way of the world might just up and off him ala John Wilkes Booth/Lee Harvey Oswald style. I'm not saying this wouldn't happen to Hilary, but I dont' know, Obama seems to me that he's on the very same tract as Dr. King. No disrespect to anyone with this by the way, this is just my opionion. However, I do hope I'm wrong, he's seems so nice and fierce. Whatever the choice, whomever is chosen, has to be better than the nit wit they have now. Shit I almost wrote we there instead of they...you see, I feel part of them at times. Freaky huh!
4. Okay I've waited this long, but I can't wait anymore, I'm a huge Basketball dork, I mean huge, y'know, the one's who dream and think of the shit when they go to bed. Most folk lay in bed, snog for bit, jerk off, whatever, not me I sit there most nights thinking that if Kobe had only gone to college for 3 years his scoring average would be 29ppg per and not 25ppg per. Yes thats' what keeps me up at night, not saving the world, recycling more, being nice, farting less, no I think about Bball. Lame huh!!! I know I'm here to confess this, it is absolutely down right shameful, I'm so sorry for it all, please kill me!!! Please!! These are words my girlfriend most likely shutters under her breath when she finds me sitting at ala ordinateur for many an hour reading, listening, studying the NBA, except change the me to him. "What a waste of time" she would say, and you know what, she's right. But here's the thing, I love it!!!! Love it, trust me on this. I've been to many a game, I've sat court side, I've nearly killed to watch a game, I've done it all. So I guess my q is, is this bad or good? We all have them, those things in our lives that we can't get quite enough of, whether it be watching CSI on Thursday nights, to buying secretly Us weekly so you can learn and read of your favorite celebrity. Okay so these examples suck, but you get where I'm going. Should I continue on and waste so much valuable time reading and listening to mindless dribble or should I take up piano, something useful? Aha there in lies my quandary. So this wasn't my feeble attempt to have someone, anyone to write back to me saying "yes Jamie, keep it up, if you love it, why not?", so don't feel any pressure now. I'm just having a little debate with my old noggin', do a little of this or that. Ah whatever, I guess we all go through this from time to time, we get that feeling of "what if", the if I hadn't just gotten of my behind an extra 2 hours a day and done said X instead of watching reruns of Seinfeld for the millionth time I'd be here. I'm done with this subject now, so depressing.
PS. I've chosen to continue on, fuck the girlfriend and her rolling eyes, I do as I please.
PPS. Baby if you are reading this, I love you !!!!
5. Kobe or LeBron? Fuck I hate that stupid question. Over the last month it's all I heard and read and boy does it piss me the expletive off. What a dumb question. If any actual fan watched more than his fair chair of Kobe and LeBron games he would obviously know and realize that Kobe is by far the best player in the league, bar none, Game, Set, Match. Hell even LeBron says so. Shit I hate all the knuckleheads and their "I hate Kobe" regime, what a crock of BS, take your stupid opinion of yours and throw it out the window. People need to realize that when you debate a player you debate his game, NOT whether you like the guy personally or not. Yes Kobe has had some issues and so far LeBron has remained squeaky clean, I know this. But that does not give anyone the merit to take away what Kobe does on the court. He's phenomenal pure and simple. He's the only player alive who could possibly at the end of his playing days have better numbers that MJ. Yes that MJ, the one most folk have a hard time letting go of, someone will be better than him, it will happen and in my opinion Kobe is right there, ready to take his thrown.
Okay so the big debate this year is what, who's the MVP? Everyone I know is all about LeBron and his numbers. True. His stats are impressive, he's above Kobe in most stat categories other than 3's, free throws and steals. But wasn't Kobe doing the same as LeBron is now the past two season's, when frankly he should have won the MVP then, (sorry Nash/Nowitski you both are great players, but you should have never won that trophy, huge atrocity), he I don't know averaged 35+, scored 81, 62 in three, then 65, 50, 60, 50, almost took a shitty Lakers team past the darling Suns, etc... and guess what he didn't get it then, he was too selfish, not a good teammate and blah blah blah. So what makes LeBron so special?, he handles the ball more than anyone on his team does twice over, and way more than Kobe ever did or has. You see, LeBron plays point forward in Cleveland, and well when you do that you tend to handle the ball more, which naturally explains why he has more assists and such. The other element that hampered Kobe back then was that his team didn't win enough. Fair enough, I understand that winning is everything, you win, you get glory, makes sense. So then why should LeBron even be mentioned in the same sentence this year when Kobe's Lakers are the best team in the West, 3rd best in the L and have an almost 10 game lead in W's versus LeBron's Cavs.
So let me see here again, he first shoots too much, doesn't make his teammates better and his team is only average = No MVP
Then.
His shoots less, gets his teammates involved, his team is doing very well and of course = No
MVP
What?
So here's my whole case for anyone wanting to debate this non sense any longer. Go back to the summer and watch (you tube) the US men's team play Brazil in the Fifa BBall Champs. Go and watch Kobe, not LeBron absolutely shut down Leandro Barbosa to the tune of 4 points in what may be one of the finest examples of lock down defence I've ever witnessed. Until LBJ masters the other end of the game this is null story and dumb debate.
Oh can't you feel the sweat coming off my forehead, wasn't that heated, a little feisty.
Sorry I tend to get emotional when my boy is being thrown under the bus. Remember: Super fan here, read with caution.
5a. One last point
THE VERVE HAVE REUNITED!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!
Bye bye
jamie mah
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