Sitting in Seattle on my way home from Denver and another heart-swelling, magical, untranslatable installment in the adventures of the Star Six Permanent Honeymoon Superfriends. If this post serves no other purpose, I hope it will remind me always to pursue the people and the times that make me happy and make life worthwhile. Or something. Sleep ( Read more... )

I don't like the Miami Heat. My reasons are many, many of those irrational. But the one aesthetic and theoretical reason is that they never find an inventive way to play basketball. There's no creativity, no imagination. Either their concept works or it doesn't; Lenny in a fistfight. That's not to say they never deviate from the ethos. Sometimes ( Read more... )

Rising up. Stepping up. Tripping up. Falling short. Dragging along. Pushing forward. Pulling through. Digging deep. Driving on. And on. And on ( Read more... )

It's time for an old-fashioned one-step-in-front-of-the-other, keep-doin'-what-yer-doin' self-directed pep talk entry. I just wish I had the emotional energy to write it ( Read more... )

Well this changes some things.

I wish I could post this entry as a sub-structure to the previous one. I really have nothing left to tie me here save for the lease that my name is signed to. Augusts have been weird times in my life. You only have to see the same pattern play out so many times before the glitches in the matrix start to fringe on the obvious. If you're paying ( Read more... )

Okay, but for realz this time.

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Nothing easy in this whole world.

Still room at the singles mixer for one more?

This is it. Tonight it is decided - and a little boy's heart is on the line. And while the Lakers have their core inked to another 2-3 years, the future is never so clear; this may end up being the high-water mark in his sports-fan career, or the crushing blow that spirals that little boy to his end ( Read more... )

The fuse is lit. Lakers/Celtics. This situation calls for more and better metaphor. But I'm honestly too tightly gripped in the elliptical gravity of it all to summon the meta. There is only here, now, and the feeling that this one is the most important that's ever been.