NBA Heartbreak

I think I genuinely got my heart broken just a little bit last night. After a 13-game winning streak, the Cavs lost in OT against the Nuggets last night -- at home. This is sad enough, but when LBJ lost his balance on that last shot and then missed it, the buzzer rang to signal the end of the game and I saw maybe the most heart-wrenching look on his face. He literally looked like he was about the cry and headed straight off the court towards the locker room. It looked something like this:

Okay, not quite. But the fact that it wasn't as prominent on his face was even sadder. It was a quick flash of a profound disappointment (triple double and all), and it was terrible to watch. Damn you, 'melo!

In other news, the Celtics beat the Lakers last night, but I don't feel very strongly either way about that. Ray Allen was having a great game and Rondo was the man as always, but Kobe wasn't playing and they lost their dominance in the 4th quarter. It just seemed lucky. The team is aging and it's definitely starting to show. The trade shakes things up a bit by adding Nate Robinson to the mix, but he's super inconsistent on the court. He's also small, which is awesome when you can slam dunk but not so awesome in the paint. I think it could be good though, so I'll definitely be watching his first game with Boston.


Other awesome trades: T-Mac to New York and Jamison to Cleveland. The Knicks' sending Jeffries to Houston clears up some cap space that some people think is leaving room for LeBron, but I just can't see how he could think that would be a good move for him. Obviously I'm getting a lot of heat about this since you're all Knicks fans and I know you want LBJ, but WHY would he do that to himself?! There are some great players on the Knicks right now, but they've shown year after year that throwing together a bunch of good players on a team doesn't add up to a championship. There. Start your hating.

I'll leave you with this one hilarious-slash-deeply-offensive final thing: The other day, an old friend of mine asked me if I would become a Knicks fan if LeBron came to New York. I said yes, I would support the Knicks with LBJ. He told me that mine was a typical female response, because rooting for your team even when you like players on another team is a difficult thing to do; it's more complex, and women are not capable of such a thing. LOL/WTF

Love & Texting

Provoking piece in the Styles section of the Times today. They've been doing this "Modern Love" series for a while and this column was one of the more interesting installments I've read so far. It's about an American student who moved to Thailand to teach English shortly after graduating from college. One of her students (college-aged) fell in love with her and the story is about their interaction while there and then after she returned to the States. An excerpt:

Text messaging and chatting are the modus operandi, and everybody seems to consider it a tragedy of modern romance that these forms of communication make it so frighteningly easy to say nothing at all, to forge a relationship out of little more than a few well-timed expressions: “Where r u?” and “Want to meet up?” Maybe...expressiveness seems strange to us, or pathetic. But it has something to teach us, too, about the note of cowardice embedded in our romantic culture, about the intensity of emotion we have a right to, about everything we could say, but don’t.

...Word.

Happy New Year!

Well it looks like this is my first post since last year, so happy 2009! And MLK Day! And Valentine's Day! And President's Day!

So let's see what's been happening.

1. I still hate my job. But lately I've been making some proactive moves and hoping they work out for the best.

2. Winter is STILL here!! Are you kidding me?

3. Chris Brown is a woman-beater. And that Rihanna photo is not that bad. She would look like that if she went to sleep with mad chapped lips and you caught her and took a really close shot. Yeah, I said it.

4. Barack Obama is President! Here's a lovely little collection of quotes from his memoir, Dreams of My Father, including "you ain't my bitch, nigga!"

5. Michelle Obama is on the March issue of Vogue, looking great. She's only the second first lady to be on the cover. (The first? HRC...sssss!)

6. I saw my brother perform with his little band at a concert thingy the other week and was way more impressed than I thought I'd be.

7. I got yelled at this past weekend. That hasn't happened to me in a while and I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

8. Spring is almost here. Anyone taking any fun trips? Or is everyone too poor at the moment? Speaking of which...

9. The economy still really sucks. It hasn't hit me directly and I'm hoping that it continues to stay the hell away from me.

10. Chimpanzees KILL people!! Seriously. And what's up with that Indian guy in the lottery commercial saying, "orangootang" in the thickest Bombay back alley accent I've ever heard?

11. Ginger snaps from Whole Foods are the most delicious little delights ever. They're heart-shaped and full of ginger love.

12. This post is dedicated to Dmitry, Chris and Eleonore who, in their own ways, pushed me to write on this thing again.

13. Follow me on Twitter! I hated it at first but I'm now discovering its virtues. Try it.

14. Still reading "The Moor's Last Sigh," but almost done. Salman Rushdie is a genius and I'm so jealous of his ability to write like he's spinning some entirely different material out of language. Next is "The Reader." Everyone is saying the movie sucked but I quite liked it. Any suggestions for a good (great) book when that's done?

15. I'm blogging again!(?) Maybe. We'll see.