steve(thelil)

JSngry is the man.

I don't disagree, but I don't know if Lebron's surrounding cast would seem nearly as talented if they weren't playing with a guy who is so great at running an offense and getting other people involved and making them better. Also, maybe a more important thing about the teams that play beautiful ball than how many (in the abstract) "good players" they have is how good the players are at playing WITH one another.. The Heat and Spurs at their best both play gorgeous team ball.

You can't spell coherence without chewing poisonous plants. Oh yeah, you can. Sorry.

Oy. I tried to make the basic point that we weren't discussing Good Speak without being insulting or personal. Let's not play in the mud.

I'm pretty sure the guy with the online diary Walto was talking about in derogatory terms on JC was not Good Speak. In any event, I am absolutely certain that when I asked Walto a question about that guy and referred to him negatively (based on what Walto had said) I was not thinking about Good Speak, nor writing about Good Speak.

I have no proof, but my instincts tell me that a PD that tends to arrest musicians probably has serious problems.

My non-fiction (especially memoir) addiction is continuing. I think one of the things I like about non-fiction is that I don't get confused reading several books at once. With fiction, I lose the plot if I don't read a book start to finish. Just finished The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America by Mike McIntyre : About a guy who hitchhiked across the US with no money on him. Loved it. Finishing: In the middle of: 1982 by Jian Gomeshi Pleasant but lightweight coming of age memoir by the host of CBC's "Q" radio magazine Also in the middle of Backing into Forward by Jules Feiffer Good memoir by very accomplished writer, cartoonist,playright. Also in middle of Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin Springsteen Bio. The stuff about his childhood and early career was fascinating. Well written

Bravo. This "titles mean everything" perspective with respect to superstars is just dumb. Jordan's 6 rings supposedly PROVE he is a more effective hooper than Oscar Robertson or Lebron, and yet nobody would claim that Derek Fisher is greater than John Stockton or Jason Kidd. Jordan worshippers may never admit it, put put a Lebron on all of Jordan's rosters and vice versa, and we have a different story . Lebron with (in various years) Pippen, Horace Grant, Bill Cartright, Tony Kukoc, Rodman, Ron Harper, Steve Kerr, etc....C'mon Also, because of the way Lebron, Bosh and Wade came together and the focus on the Heat's "Big Three", Bosh and Wade have become overrated. I would argue that every championship team that Magic, Jordan, Bird, Dr J, played on had a 2nd and 3d player combo BETTER than Bosh and Wade are THIS YEAR. Howabout: Kareem and Worthy? Kareem and Byron Scott? Pippen and Rodman? Rodman and Ron Harper? Pippen and Cartwright? Parish and Mchale? Moses Malone and Maurice Cheeks?

Great line. Bravo!

To be honest with you, my surprised thought was "They actually have boner threads!?!?"

I can't make a reasonable prediction because I'm too emotionally involved. I love the way both teams play, but it means way too much to me that other hoop fans appreciate Lebron's genius like I do. And since I know there are still people looking for reasons not to, mostly because of the circus/fiasco about how he left Cleveland, I will take it very hard if the Heat loses and Lebron gets undue disrespect. Sick, I know.

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Perhaps try your luck here: http://speakeasy.jazzcorner.com/speakeasyarchive/thread.php?forumid=2504 Thanks for linking that. I brings back memories. Was your motive to accuse Jim Sangrey for killing it? (It's a longstanding half-joke at JC that the person who posts last on a thread is a thread killer) Nah, my motive (as always) was to celebrate the one true zen master (I have no idea what I mean by that, but let's just go with it). If everybody would just read that thread, then your transition over to the Big O ought to go very smoothly, and life in general will be better for all (some) (okay, maybe a few, but still). Oh, and it may amount to overkill, but I should probably make sure you see this: There. Now we can go eat. I love being overkilled with kindness!!! (he said so as to induce cringing)

Not sure anyone else (ever) could score 32, get his teammates going by running a gorgeous, high speed offense and totally shut down a player of Paul George's skills on D in a huge game 7?

I'm in too, if only to distinguish myself from the typical self-involved, self-amused and cootie carrying JCers. Please keep attacking them with messages derived from album cover art. They deserve it.

My parents were very proud of having quit smoking cigarettes. I might add that they both ruined their health and shortened their lives by overdoing alcohol and prescription drugs (anti-depressants, "tranquilizers" (their term), and sleeping pills.)

Perhaps try your luck here: http://speakeasy.jazzcorner.com/speakeasyarchive/thread.php?forumid=2504 Thanks for linking that. I brings back memories. Was your motive to accuse Jim Sangrey for killing it? (It's a longstanding half-joke at JC that the person who posts last on a thread is a thread killer) I just realized that the motive was more likely to THANK Jim S for helping end it!!!

Perhaps try your luck here: http://speakeasy.jazzcorner.com/speakeasyarchive/thread.php?forumid=2504 Thanks for linking that. I brings back memories. Was your motive to accuse Jim Sangrey for killing it? (It's a longstanding half-joke at JC that the person who posts last on a thread is a thread killer)

I don't assume your intent was to make anyone jealous. But I am jealous.

I didn't even realize there is Chrome for iPad. Thanks for the tip!

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steve, did you see my post earlier in this thread? steve? I haven't seen it. Sorry. I'll look now. Inventing it and carefully molding it into one of the most important cultural phenomena of the 21st Century are two very different things. Yes. This is true. Which is why I will be forever grateful to Organissimo for giving my existence on earth whatever meaning it may have. And even if this masterwork by O is insufficient to give my life any meaning, you folks can rest assured that you are doing the Godster's work. (He likes when I call him that. He calls me the Lil)

The jazz talk on the old Ask Jim Sangrey thread I linked to is great. I also dug the ending of the thread - with the now no longer on JC (but still unflappable) Brian O saying Jim must be a good guy if he likes peanut butter and banana and Jim bonding back with props to PB. It recalls another (for me) great moment on JC when a bunch of gourmet types were dissing Ketchup and the always brave "the enforcer" settling the matter with something close to "You guys are fucked up .Ketchup's great."

I don't smoke. But I'm thinking of starting, since I've heard good things about it. (stolen many years ago from a stand up comedian whose name I don't recall)

When you have a good memory, as I do about certain stuff, it's easy to forget how much you still forget. Since the JC board is going away, I was looking through some stuff I wanted to save, including a very old humor thread (I forget if it was "Ask steve(thelil)" or another one that I ran my mouth off on) . Anyway,on that OLD thread, I noticed a frequent and funny contributor who from an identical or VERY similar handle I recognized as being the artist who posts here as Jsngry. It was a name I recognized from this week on Organissimo, but had no recollection of from Jazz Corner. Small world. HOWEVER, Since it was an archived JC thread, it is possible that he posted under a DIFFERENT alias, but whose real name showed on the archives. (I know that has happened) I think I went by Jim Sangrey there. That was when I was still thinking that I could have a career in " creative music" by positing on the Internet all day on every site possible and playing a few local gigs a week, and have a happy stable home life by taking the kids to/from school & by positing on the Internet all day on every site possible,& by letting my wife worry about such trivialities as making money and keeping the house clean and fixing most of the non-fast food meals we ate. I'm sure there's a way to make that a winning combination, but it eventually became apparent to me that choices would have to be made, down would have to be pared, so...still got the wife (she's much happier now, as am I), still got one site to call "home", and,,,here we are. Maybe this will bring back memories...Good stuff. http://speakeasy.jazzcorner.com/speakeasyarchive/thread.php?forumid=16585