The Truth!

I took this picture at Peidmont park yesterday. It is by far one of the best pictures that I have ever taken.

When arguing who is the greatest player of all time, most align themselves with either the Shaq, Kobe, or Michael Jordan camps. This author though is thinking completely outside of the box when it comes to who is the greatest player to lace up a pair of high—tops, put some really short shorts, and don a pair of eye-glasses with nothing but a drugstore athletic band to hold them in place.

If you have not figured it out yet, in my humble opinion, the greatest player to set foot on the court was Kurt Rambis.

He had it all. Style, work ethic, and an intensity that has not been matched since he left the game in the mid-nineties. He was the great white hope.


I mean who dives into the crowd after a ball when you are up by thirty in the fourth quarter with two minutes left? Kurt Rambis, that’s who. Watching him play was more then just watching a game, it was not unlike ancient Romans watching a beloved gladiator in the arena.

So here’s to Kurt Rambis, the Chuck Norris of Pro basketball.

This is my little brother Nathan and his girlfriend. He is leaving on a mission in a couple of months, and she is still in high school.

This was painted by my favorite painter of all time Vincent Van Goh, it is also one of my favorite works of art (My current top favorite is "Starry Night" by Van Goh". To me it symbolizes self destruction. What do you thinK?

I bought a great CD yesterday. But first some history on why I bought this particular cd and why I like it so much.

It was during the winter of 1997, in a pizza place called Craigo’s, when Ryan Probasco, Greg Payette, perhaps Jared Peterson, and I, were waiting for our “pizza bombs”, what Craigo’s called calzones, to come to our table.

We liked Craigo’s. It was a change in pace from the institutional food they served at the Galley, the on campus Cafeteria we ate at everyday. Craigo’s was also cool, because in this bastion of cultural Mormonism, they had MTV2 playing all hours of the Day on a big-screen TV. This was before the hip-hop coup that would overthrow rock and roll on cable TV to give us such shows as “Pimp my Ride” and “Cribs”.

Around 8pm or so, MTV2, the alternative music channel of the time, got even more alternative. If you got really lucky, you could see a Jamiriquai, Radiohead, or Crystal Method video.

Craigo’s was where I heard some great music, two of which, that are now my all time favorites. In particular they are “Karma Police” by Radiohead and “She Runs Away” by Duncan Sheik.

The other day I was thinking that it was shame that I did not have “She Runs Away” in my iTunes library. I felt bad. So I hoped on my P2P service and downloaded a cool live version of the song. Then I jumped on the iTunes music store to check out other things that Duncan Sheik had done. It was there that I listened to samples from an album called “White Limousine”.

Later yesterday evening, I went to Barnes and Noble in Buckhead. I gave “White Limousine” another listen and then decided that this CD was worthy of Purchase. So I went to the counter and whipped out my ten-dollar gift card that had been in my wallet since Christmas and made my purchase.

I am happy with the CD. Good music deserves to be purchased.