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Name: Chris
Birthday: 12/2/1981
Interests: basketball, guitar, dance, writing, cooking, dvds, taking pictures, making videos, bargains, laughing and making people laugh.
Expertise: being taller than some asian people.
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AIM:  Cleenex
Member Since:
11/12/2003
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| is to focus on providing uncommontary more content. i changed the look yesterday, and i think it's visually more appealing.
hopefully the site redesign and the incorporation of my flickr albums on the photos page (though still buggy) will help. also have a "20 most recent photos" widget in the sidebar, and trying to list my full blogroll because some people have been asking what i read. also, RSS subscriptions are alive and well to those that are interested and use an RSS reader.
hello to everyone out there in the xanga world!
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| bye bye xanga
it's been fun, but i've grown tired of you.
any posts that i make will be on my new personal blog http://www.uncommontary.com so check it out! it's still being tweaked, but i am looking forward to content rich posts, and archiving some of my best photos there.
if you're lazy but still kinda care, you can subscribe by rss (link is at the bottom).
i'll still check xangas from time to time, but i thought it was time to move on!
friendster:facebook::xanga:uncommontary
the uncommon is big and yellow!
*updated*
now with rss and comments enabled.
*updated again*
now rss REALLY works (link on the bottom), and there might be a place to comment of interest to warrior fans. next step, figure out how to have a pictures page. i guess my xanga'ing days aren't over yet eh?
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| Awesome Marketing Campaign
to promote the upcoming Simpsons movie, 7-Eleven stores turn into Kwik-E-Marts!
 
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| stupid nba "fans"
i.e. - utah jazz crowd.
how easy is it to be "one of the greatest nba crowds" when you're winning? at least in the oracle when we had OUR bandwagon fans start to come in the second round, we weren't chucking crap at the opposing team -- we just resorted to becoming deafeningly silent (which was really annoying). the jazz crowd yesterday, in their first home game playoff loss this postseason exhibited who they truly are: bandwagon/sore losers that don't know anything about basketball. they were tagged with being a great crowd, even rivaling the warrior fans by the media (WTF?! are you crazy? that really pissed me off...), and they happened to be winning at home. they lose and this happens, hmm i wonder what the common denominator is here.
either way, did they forget the horrible calls made against the warriors in round two? i didn't see them complaining then, in fact i saw them holding up ridiculous signs of stephen jackson in a jail suit, baron davis crying, and knockoff "we believe" shirts with an X through it (i guess those fans didn't want to pony up for the unsponsored $10 a pop "true blue" shirts everyone was wearing). classless, unoriginal, and childish. hey, let's add racist to that list as some warriors have reported that they heard racial slurs getting hurled at them in salt lake.
this leads me to another issue i have with white dominated america. until we form an "alternate" means of mass media, faint racism will always solidify the heavier stereotypes people carry around. for example, the pacers/pistons brawl a few years back. with a "bad-boy" team like the pistons, and the general misconception that they play in the heart of a ghetto detroit, the announcer called the pistons fans "punks," and labelled certain players "thugs." what people don't understand is that the palace of auburn hills (which sounds like such a projects-ridden ghetto right?) is in the county of oakland -- the 26th wealthiest county in america. watch the replay, and tell me it was a black man that tossed his beer on ron artest, and provoked the other players. and i'm sure the lower bowl, first 8 rows or so are filled to capacity of thugs and punk fans that would want to simply start a fight because... that's just the way they are. have you ever been to an nba game? it's like a black/white gradient going from the lower bowl to up top, geezus.
so what did the commentators say about the salt lake crowd? "a few unruly fans are throwing objects on the floor, but overall this has been a great crowd throughout the playoffs." yes, it's just a few bad apples in a sea of salt lake white, sitting in awesome seats that ruined it, while in auburn hills in the county of oakland, it was a battle of punk fans and thug players. why not blame the drunk predominantly white fans that are rich enough to even sit by the players/game and get drunk off of multiple 10 dollar beers at the arena? is that such a crazy thing to even consider? want to talk about the teams in detroit vs. salt lake city? you have deron williams, carlos boozer and derek fisher who are either part white or super "white-friendly," matt harpring, mehmet okur, andrei kirilenko, and gordon giricek. coincidence? ask the subconscious of the announcers and refs.
either way however, the fans in general should have more blame on their shoulders. players obviously get fined for clapping and nodding, even smiling on the bench a la tim duncan. amare was physically on the other side of a line and was fined/suspended. yes rules are rules, but stop demonizing players you white dominated, lower bowl sitting media. i'm not only a warrior fan, an nba fan, but a basketball fan. i love the game. keep the players safe and respected, and if any more punishment needs to be dished out, it's going to have to be to the fans whether black, white, brown or yellow for that matter. don't be idiots.
this post was inspired by today's goldenstateofmind post.
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