Pesto Is The Season
by dsb nola on July 9, 2010
Basil is our most productive crop. Grapefruit and lemons are on the way, and cherry tomatoes grow out of the compost pile.
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Hello, Cleveland!
by dsb nola on
Yesterday I came across this video about Lebron James’ pre-game celebration that Cavaliers fans adore[d]: the chalk toss. As robd points out, it’s not really original and James’ motivation is sketchy or maybe just lame:
It’s not even an original move. MJ was the first with a pre-game chalk ritual and more recently KG developed his own chalk habits … Why fault Lebron when others have gone before him? There’s a bit of a difference. MJ actually needed chalk for his very sweaty man hands. He did the chalk slap over at the scorer’s table right in the face of the Chicago announcers. It was comedy, and I remember watching an old-school NBA video where the Chicago announcers started to come prepared for the ritual – once wearing a gas mask and another time folding out a mini umbrella much to Jordan’s amusement (if anyone can remind me what that video was it would be much appreciated). But that’s all it was. Amusing.
Lebron doesn’t do his chalk toss for amusement. I’m not sure why he does it, and neither does he: “I don’t know why I started throwing it up,” James said. “But it is definitely trademarked.” Hear that? It’s DEFINITELY TRADEMARKED!!! DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT USING THIS MOVE OR LEBRON JAMES WILL KILL YOU!!! Don’t worry Lebron, no one is going to steal your ballet moves. Not now that it’s tattooed on your shoe.
So now James is taking his trademarked ritual to Miami and I’m sure fans in Miami will embrace him just as fans did in Cleveland. But about those fans in Cleveland. Do they feel duped? Would it be wrong for them to feel duped? Is this all just too stupid to care about who dupes or feels duped?
A few weeks ago I noted how the Chicago Blackhawks were represented at a gay pride parade in Chicago. It was a cool thing, but it would’ve been much cooler if more than one player attended (Brent Sopel wasn’t even technically a Blackhawks player anymore as the week before he’d been traded to Atlanta). I would’ve liked to have seen a young star like Jonathon Toews, who just had a lake named after him in Manitoba, attend. The Cubs, impressively, sent several luminaries, even Mr. Cub. I bring this up now because here’s what Lebron James had to say about the prospect of having a gay teammate:
“With teammates you have to be trustworthy, and if you’re gay and you’re not admitting that you are, then you are not trustworthy,” James said. “So that’s like the No. 1 thing as teammates — we all trust each other. You’ve heard of the in-room, locker room code. What happens in the locker room stays in there. It’s a trust factor, honestly. A big trust factor.”
Yeah, I can’t follow him either. His bigotry isn’t surprising, nor is his self absorption. Perhaps Miami will be good for him.
