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Excerpts From The Book The NBA Doesn't Want You To Read
Tim Donaghy’s book on being a ref in the NBA… Remember when this dude went to jail for cheating? His book looks like it’s going to be a fun read.
“first foul of the game” bet. While still in the locker room before tip-off, we would make a wager on which of us would call the game’s first foul. That referee would either have to pay the ball boy or pick up the dinner tab for the other two referees. Sometimes, the ante would be $50 a guy. Like the technical foul bet, it was hilarious — only this time we were testing each other’s nerves to see who had the guts to hold out the longest before calling a personal foul. There were occasions when we would hold back for two or three minutes — an eternity in an NBA game — before blowing the whistle. It didn’t matter if bodies were flying all over the place; no fouls were called because no one wanted to lose the bet.
Holy shit. I understood conduct in general was bad among NBA referees, but these excerpts go beyond what I expected. I too can’t wait to read this book.
Reggie Bush just scored in our corner of the endzone!
Leaving work early...
…to head down to NOLA for Monday Night Football and Saints v. Falcons! This is my (sideways) attempt at black and gold. If I were you, I’d expect a post or two from our seats and hopefully a cheerful victory picture! Cheers, and Geaux Saints!
OMG you guys, "Intervention" is on Hulu now!
I recommend the “Sylvia” episode if you need a real downer. Seriously, I’ve seen that one about 3 times and it never fails to bring me down.
Wedding cake samples
Couchon de lait
Ghetto hamburger
The best 100 calories you'll eat today
Delicious B&J
A lot of the pictures on my phone are of food.
Halloween:
We started Halloween off my tailgating at LSU for a few hours. We parked extremely easily at Dalrympe and Tower and stayed pretty near that area.
After tailgating, we came home to put on our getups. I went as Michael Jackson, which was almost effortless. I bought this jacket at Forever21 in red, and wore a white T and black leggings. I had a black fedora from a failed Halloween costume years ago, so that plus slouchy white socks and black flats rounded out the outfit. I am describing it because I failed to take but a single picture, which was of Andrew and his friend Sarah.
Andrew went as a Heath Ledger montage, which ended up requiring a lot of explaining. He had on a cowboy hat and shirt (Brokeback Mountain), joker face paint and fake scars (Dark Knight), and wrote on this shirt “10 Things I Hate About Drugs” (10 Things I Hate About You). When he explained it, everyone thought it was pretty clever, but explaining it got old.
Costumes we saw included a few Lady Gaga’s, a Popeye & Olive Oil, octomom, Nene & Kim from Real Housewives of Atlanta, Jessica & Roger Rabbit, and a girl with a big poster of her Facebook page.
Today we’ve layed around the house, did various chores, and are going to my Mawmaw’s house for dinner.
Thriller as performed by Mike the Tiger and the LSU dance team.
Wow! I love Mike’s awkward moon walk and the “best of” Michael Jackson’s dance moves from the Tiger Girls.
I’m a Staff Pick!
I do not understand what Ross does (I’m so bad at computers), but this seems to be exciting and a big deal. So congrats!
Great!
With 49 hours to go, Andrew decides he does in fact want to go to a Halloween party. Oh yeah, WE HAVE NO COSTUMES!
Lauren reminded me that I don’t say “eat a dick” enough. Thanks LC!
In my dream last night...
Andrew brought me to a surprise baby shower for… me! I didn’t know I was pregnant, but everyone else did and planned a baby shower for me. Then I got worried that I had been doing things unintentionally that would harm the baby.
This is a direct result of us finding out last night that Andrew’s sister is pregnant again. When I looked at her Facebook later in the evening, she had been eating sushi earlier in the week. I was concerned, but Andrew said she didn’t know she was TWELVE WEEKS along until this yesterday. (I’m not totally convinced he heard her right because he may not have been paying attention. I’m also interested in the concept that any damaging behaviors you do before you know you are pregnangt are somehow OK, but you can’t do them after you know. If sushi isn’t really a big deal before you find out, why is it a big deal after you know?!)
LOVE the new cover of Sports Illustrated.
Geaux Saints! I’ll be there Monday night!!!!
(Please don’t let the curse be true please don’t let the curse be true please don’t let the curse be true…)
Zoila, Flipping Out (via laurenreynolds)
This was a difficult episode of Flipping Out for me. I love my Roomba, but I love Flipping Out (and thus Zoila) as well. In the end, Roomba always wins (I’m scared mine will develop emotions soon- problem solving skills already come standard on all models)- so I had to side with Jeff about the Roomba.
True Love:
- Andrew: (puts his arm around me)
- Me: Aww that's sweet... Wait, are you OK?? You're never this nice.
- Andrew: (pushing me off him) Fine, you know what? No! Never mind! I try to be sweet and you can't just leave it alone. Get off me.
Amy Winehouse. The beginning…
Has anyone pointed out how Amy Winehouse looks like a (Jesus, am I really going to use this word) normal version of Lady Gaga? If you think about it, Lady Gaga really got it going around the time Winehouse fell off everyone’s radar…….
I’ve never seen them in a room together is all I’m saying.
