Friday Afternoon Game Film

STEP YO GAME UP!

SPURS AMOUNG LEAGUE LEADERS IN HIP HOP SHOUTOUTS!

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SAN ANTONIO SPURS

NUMBER OF PLAYERS IN RAP SONGS: 4
The Spurs are the league's exemplary modern franchise, but they're an old bunch playing in a small city who ball with little flair. That said, pound-for-pound they can stack up their rap name-drops with anyone on this list. There's Tim Duncan, who was rhymed with "Joe Buddens" by Lil Wayne on Da Drought 3, then there's Tony Parker, who was rhymed with "Bob Barker" in a very rare and based line from Lil B. Topping them all, though, is Argentinian Manu Ginobili, whose marquee facial feature gets used beautifully by Roc Marciano: "The four-four chrome is long-nose / Call it Ginobili."

Manu Ginobili: "The four-four chrome is long-nose / Call it Ginobili, your real nigga show me" — Roc Marciano ("The Man")

Tim Duncan: "Any Tim Duncan, spur of the moment / Let the whole world know I run shit, jump ship quick" — Asher Roth ("Lark on My Go-Kart")

Stephen Jackson: "Stay strapped-up we G’s in action / Knock out orders like Stephen Jackson" — E.S.G. ("Fuck With Me")

Tony Parker: "Light-skinned? Nah, a little dark on TV like Bob Barker / Love is lost sometimes, nigga, ask Tony Parker" — Lil B ("Reggie Miller")

I had 3 beers at lunch today.

I do not care much for my current job right now. But, I am thankful for so much else wonderful in my life. Happy Thanksgiving, friends.

Happy Thanksgiving

This Week in the IC

Salute to Marc Miller on this Veterans Day. We are all in debited to you for your service.  

Happy Birthday to Brent Lubahn who turns 32. 

And Tuesday is Diwali.  So, yeah, Diwali.

"He's just a thrower."

Colorado, Washington Legalize Recreational Marijuana Use

Colorado, Washington legalize recreational marijuana use - Nov. 7, 2012

I am man.

So, I attempted to install a light fixture this weekend. I had my doubts.  I am not "handy." When I turned the power back on, walked back to the light switch flipped it on, and the light actually came on- well, I can hardly explain the overwhelming sense of raw masculinity and satisfaction I felt.  To a lesser degree, I get this same feeling from changing a light bulb.

My intention is not to brag.  (Well, maybe a little.) But also, just to ask the group if you share this sentiment and what tasks (greater or smaller) have you accomplished that left you feeling like Al Borlin on HGH.

Freak.

Freaks

My new company is really into Halloween. It's a little strange.  www.batcetera.com

You can see the disparate effort i put into my pumpkin relative to the rest.  (although, no surprise i found a way to get some face time.)

Run it back

Faust Wedding a video by lmatthew11 on Flickr.

Just barely the best thing to happen to me while at a pollo loco.

Geeks in the FW Star-Telegram


Portillo, do you live in LA or is that just what your shirt says Brah?

Trevone Boykins

... He is suppose to have a cannon of an arm too. If he can pull off more runs like these then it will be Casey who?? GO FROGS

Oh No, Not Again



Rangers dropped 9 of last 13 and are first team in MLB history to piss away a 5-game division lead in final 9 games of season. They were in first place for 161 games of the 162-game season.

Keeping the faith for a playoff run. Fearful that there's a Tex-Hex. I think Thurman Thomas is starting in RF tomorrow. Jim Kelly is pitching.

PS - F'ck David Freese.

Not Good

We're 30.

We're not that young anymore. Miller has more salt-n-pepper than a Golden Corral, Butz is an active AARP member, and Lubahn's oldest kid just applied for college. Wrinkles are showing up, hair is falling out and watching Tivo-ed episodes of "New Girl" with a bottle of Pinot is more enticing than going to a bar called Vertigo to stare at girls you won't talk to on a Saturday night.

But we are still young. We still have good metabolism, are the same age as professional athletes, and only get referred to as "Sir" by commission-earning teenaged bell-hops with pimples.

We are physically still considered "in our primes" for the most part, though still feeling young and still acting young are entirely different. Some elements of our youth and 20s should be retired, shelved and locked away post-30, only to be looked back upon with both fondness and shame, sort of like every other bad habit we've given up along the way.   

Ten Things to Give Up at 30

10. Going to stripclubs.

You went enough times between 21-30 to know you aren't missing much but a feeling of remorse, $11 drinks and clothes that wreak of a girl named Licorice who has two kids and lopsided implants.

9. Getting TOO drunk in public.
With your friends at a summer lakehouse or at a bachelor party, great. At a wedding or work outing or throwing up at a bar called anything O'Shea's on a Thursday is no longer justifiable.

8. Wearing a backwards hat. 
Do you still think Fred Durst is cool? Neither does anyone else.






7. Wearing T-shirts with clever slogans.
Showing up at a party or bar wearing a t-shirt that said something like "Beer is the reason I get up every afternoon" was hard to pull off five years ago. It is now impossible.

6. Posting on Facebook more than 1/Week. 
Sure everyone is doing it. Politicians, Bill Gates, LeBron, Snooki, Gino Weiss. Doesn't mean you should. If you're getting a haircut, think Chik-Fil-A fries are the best, or got some great shots of a Galveston sunset, no one cares. If they do, and "Like" your bullshit, it is because they too have as little to do as you do.

 

5.  Jager shots, Buttery Nipples, Long Island Ice-Teas, Coors Light. 
These are drinks you used to drink for the purpose of getting drunk or because you didn't know what else to order. We are not 20 and this is not The Library or The Cellar. Hold off on the group order of Red-Headed Slut shots (and see #9)

4. Jewelry.

If it is not a wedding ring, Goose's dog tags from Top Gun, or a hand-woven bracelet given to you by a young El Salvadorian boy before he died in a mudslide, take it off. Eventually you will look like a Pizza shop owner or an indie rocker. You are neither. 

3. Movie Quotes.
Yes, the movie was funny and yes a line from it might be applicable at the present time, but Billy Madison came out in 1995, and 11.3 million people have now quoted the "wolfpack" speech from the Hangover. Try to be original because "they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!" (to make up our own jokes)

2. Video games, Fantasy Sports and Cargo Shorts.
If any of these apply to you, you likely know you are indulging in something past its expiration date. Whether it's playing Call of Duty or reading through CJ Spiller's projected stats versus the Bengals, you are fully aware you could and probably should be doing something better with your time. Like ridding your drawers of cargo shorts.

1. Smoking Weed.
Rapper Rick Ross referred to smoking weed as taking a vacation. You zone out, go numb for a few hours and have a mini-mind adventure. We've taken that adventure hundreds of times, and it is fun, but do you still need to "go on vacation" Tuesday night after dinner?  

Any and all arguments appreciated. Please include any additions you think worthy of making the list. 

I am using this post to announce that the official IC 2013 New Years trip this year will be to Cuba by way of Costa Rica. Fly into San Jose Friday December 28th. Fly out of San Jose Sunday, January 6th. What happens in between will be Castro-tastic. Who is with us?

My girlfriend's company made this vid in lovely Central America. She helped with script. I think it's pretty funny and more impressive than Miller's band.