3 posts from May 2007

While icing my ailing back, the flipper stopped on a channel listing that said "High School Basketball".

Of course, I'm thinking "what's this." Even for taped coverage, late May seemed a bit off the grid for schoolboy hoops.

"This" was the "King James Shooting Stars Classic", an AAU tournament. The tournament was fine. Putting it on television makes it only the lastest iteration of our national need to exploitate young athletes.

I'm not outraged or anything. In fact, I'm laughing at the thought. Allen Iverson's infamous "We're just talkin' 'bout practice, not a game" came to mind when I was taking this in. And that also made me think of the recent track on Jazzy Jeff's compilation that looped Iverson's quote.

At the same time, I do find myself wondering if there's a line at which it's too far, the Little League World Series notwithstanding.

For reasons unknown, I told a friend that I thought that an NBA player reminded me of Teddy Ruxpin.

The more I think of it, the more I think it's Baron Davis. Nonetheless, I'm a little disturbed by the things I'm losing a grasp of, memory chiefly among them.

I guess I'll go back to working on crossword puzzles. Those actually kinda worked once upon a time.

On other fronts, I've had a quasi-obsession with poor television ads. I'm totally befuddled by former S.I. cover girl Kathy Ireland hawking her home store items on Rent-a-Center. No idea what else I need to say on that one without getting in trouble with my better self.

I'm running out of juice, so I'll just say that the adjustment to regular ads for alpacas has been a slow one, and sweet dreams to "14B" in Wendy's commercial.

Have you been affected by the pet food recall?  Has it changed the way you feed your pets?

A good friend of mine works for Hills. I haven't quite gotten the gumption to ask him why his business is poisoning Fido. Or Fluffy.

Will let you know when I get an answer.