brilliant basketball

Last year the Celtics had Mikki Moore, he was very skinny, had dreadlocks, he wore number seven and breathed a little too much air on the court.  In a brilliant move this year they signed Marquis Daniels, a foot shorter than Moore but with many similarities in that he is also thin and has dreadlocks.  So when the Celtics assigned him number seven, not only are fans confused, but it was a brilliant strategy to lull other teams into a false sense of security.  Now when the dreadlocked, skinny number seven on the Celtics rebounds, dribbles, scores and just plays with energy, no one is ready for it.  Brilliant. 

 

also, I love Hudson.  As Bob says our chant for this year,  82-0, fo’ fo’ fo’

our dumb neighbor

So we have a neighbor who got a baby German Shepard six months ago.  When she brought him home she told us his name was Pranee (pronounced Pra Nay).  Now she started calling him Pranee (pronounced Pra Knee) as a nick name.  I have told Courtney over and over again, you cannot have nicknames that are just a different pronounciation of the same word.  It is just stupid.  It would be like my name is Teddy (pronounced Ted dee)  and my nickname is Teddy (pronounced Ted day).  Once again it is just stupid.  I have good nick names for my pets-Paisley is called Pousley, Baloo is called Mr. Stinky Dog.   I fully expect Don to write at least 5,000 words about how I am wrong and if he were a pet he would not want me as his owner.

interesting things from a weekend with Molly and Emma

We went to Sephora (a make-up store) and they mixed all kinds of perfume on the free cotton pads and thenMolly  pulled them out of her pocket all weekend.   Emma asked to smell them every time they were out.

Blue nail polish is in.

Emma can put her own eyeshadow on, Molly requested help.

All weekend they wanted to go back to Sephora.

They know how to use our TV remote better than us.

Emma thought our waiter at sound bites had an Irish accent, which spurred a discussion that his accent was either from Maine or Spain.

Knowing limits with little kids is good.  If they say can I have pancakes and an omelette, it probably is better to make them choose one.

Molly’s favorite is Baloo, Emma’s is Paisley.  

No juice or lemonade, only water or fizzy water.  (they are very impressed by Kathy’s seltzer machine).

Things Molly and Emma told us this weekend that we need confirmation of,

They go to a school that has 8 first grade classes and 8 second grade classes and a pre school and that’s it.  

All the little pre school kids don’t know how to pull up their own diapers.

 They are going to Arizona sometime soon.

They are not allowed any chewy, hard or crunchy candy, but all chocolate is fine.

Junior

There are a lot of Juniors in this world that are misunderstood.  Junior Mints-never saw senior mints.  Carl’s Jr.-it just does not make sense.  But one Junior that makes sense is Junior Seau-from his first retirement, which he called graduation in a long press conference to his most recent signing with the Patriots, he is always colorful.  So this is the quote I heard on the radio today and had to find, just because it makes so much sense.

“I, basically in eight months, have been working out for a chance to make a choice, a chance I didn’t have control of; Bill had control of that. But the choice was to be prepared for that chance. So for eight months I have been training to receive a chance – and to have a choice – and here we are.’’

It reminds me of something Mike Brady would say in A Very Brady Movie or A Very Brady Sequel which by the way are brilliant.   In fact, did you know that the Brady Bunch True Hollywood Story on E! was the most watched True Hollywood Story ever?

from our old friend ron kaplan

Don’t ever have your media day on Yom Kippur

 

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-44-106/When-There-s-a-Blackout-in-Cleveland.html

It’s weird

The headline on Yahoo this morning was, Palin Finishes Memoir Early and my immediate reaction was, ” She must have cheated”.

US on the way down

So this week US magazine jumped the shark.  It was Emmys week.  All everyone was talking about even here on the east coast was the Emmys.  Doogie Howser hosted and all the glam and glitter were out.  So who is on the cover?   

8month pregnant Heidi Klum in Marchesa?

Blake Lively in Versace?

Drew Barrymore in Lhullier?

 

No Jessica Simpson whose dog got snatched by a coyote.  

This alone is bad, but the new advertising trend of 3-4 page ads that seem to be articles and say doesn’t she look great in Michael Kors,  and then mentions Michael Kors 6 more times and sends the reader to the website.  Maybe I’m just frustrated that I actually read 3 pages of the article before realizing it was an ad.

holidays for chipmunks

Our neighborhood is full of oak trees with acorns, so full of them that every day when I leave for work I hear them clunking off of

peoples cars.  Also our across the street neighbor swept all the acorns from their driveway and sidewalk into the street and our crazy neighbor took them to task for it.

Anyway all the chipmunks in our neighborhood are very fat and happy including the albino chipmunk who is a harbinger of prosperity.  It is going to be a very good winter for chipmunks in somerville.

Redumblicant

How come no one is saying private insurance companies currently have death panels, when they throw ill people off insurance or don’t let terminal individuals try experimental therapies.

Why does anyone listen to Sarah Palin.  How can anyone not love obama?

Did anyone ever yell “You Lie” at a Bush speech to congress-because he actually did lie!

OBAMA–HEALTHCARE LIVE BLOG!!!

Did anyone else hope  Obama was going to say we are going to fund this healthcare plan by ending Iraq and Afganistan.  

Obama makes me proud to be an American-the jackass republicans holding up paper are idiots.  Baloo and Paisely love obama too.  It is so nice that he is directly addressing all the dumb criticisms directly!!!

The republicans are really looking bad.  

I really hope this health plan goes through.