Team Filthy

So. . .I'm procrastinating my decision on what to do for the rest of the night, but at this point (which is prior to the point in which I'm writing this), I'm messing around on the internet, in Google Reader, reading my musical friend KiD CuDi's blog while holding my Kindle in my left hand, open to location 1172 in American Lion Jon Meacham's book about my Presidential friend Andrew Jackson, the people's President, Mr. I was Born for the Storm and a Calm Does Not Suit Me himself. I read CuDi's blog - the latest was a prayer - and it's written in all caps LIKE THIS AND IS KINDA/SORTA STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS and CuDi is my favorite new artist, but Cudder, the blog is - and you'd admit this - not on par with the historical writing of an accomplished author like Jon Meacham. I finish CuDi's blog and I flip down my laptop and go over to my Kindle, and I cannot at all read the book because in my head my brain is still acting like it's reading the internet, and I'm only sort of focusing, and only sort of paying attention, I'm reading with speed not precision, and I realize that blogs have momentarily destroyed my ability to read.

Kids, please separate the blogs from the books - but please read both.

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For the hell of it, I'm going to write about the NBA. The trade deadline is this Thursday at noon pacific, and if I remember properly, the days before the deadline were more or less wasted days for me as I kept refreshing Cleveland Cavaliers' beat writer Brian Windhorst's blog (now @ www.cleveland.com/cavsbeat) looking for updates instead of writing. So this year I assume it will be no different despite the fact that the Cavs may be lesser players in the trade market (let's hope Steve Kerr owes Danny Ferry something).

But the real subject of this post is ESPN "analyst" Jalen Rose, who went on the air tonight with the following information regarding trades: 

The Celtics need bench scoring. 

The Spurs need a young athletic big man and someone who can score from the wing. 

Look for both of these teams to make a deal. 

Okay, now I am not paid to watch the NBA, nor am I paid to write or talk about it, but this information is beyond useless. Everyone on the planet knows that the Celtics need bench scoring, but - and this is the key - they have no tradeable assets, which is why they were and maybe still are considering signing Stephon Marbury if he gets bought out by the Knicks. It's a desperation move. 

When it comes to San Antonio we can all agree that they, and pretty much everyone else in the league, would like a young athletic big man. The problem is that the teams that have these guys don't want to give them up or the guys are marginal players at best that would never fit in on a team like San Antonio (e.g. Tyrus Thomas). Secondly, why do the Spurs need someone to score from the wing? Last I checked Ginobli and Roger Mason were doing a pretty good job of that.

Now, Rasheed Wallace...that's a different story.

Ultimately, my point is that we should all be more skeptical of "experts" than we probably are. Oh, and hire my ass, ESPN. 

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Now that I've finished the first draft of my manuscript, I'm prepared to start reading again - fiction, primarily, but also some non-fiction. With that said, here is a list of books I need to begin and then bury:

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson; Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth; The Night of the Gun by David Carr; Snowball by Alice Schroeder; American Lion by John Meacham; The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

I'd like to believe Tree of Smoke will be first, but I'm not sure I have a lot of faith in that actually happening.

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