B Ball

B Ball Means Baseball to Me, but Today It Meant Basketball
I had to go out with the boys tonight and watch the March Madness college hoop chase--I had to because my alma mater was playing Memphis in the first round of the NCAA tourney down in old New Orleans this afternoon. Yep, good ole North Texas University--when I went there it was North Texas State University--and now they call themselves the Mean Green, 'cept when I went there they were the Eagles--and then they became the Screamin' Eagles--and then Mean Joe Greene went there and became a national star with the Pittsburgh Steelers--they won like the Super Bowl several years in a row when Mean Joe was a Steeler along with Terry Bradshaw and that bunch--and when Mean Joe Greene played for NTSU that's when they started calling themselves the Mean Green and their colors are green and white, same as Tulane U down in New Orleans whose team name is the Green Wave (isn't that ironic), though they call themselves the Greenies nowadays.

OK, Memphis took the Mean Green to the cleaners and bleached them Lean Green--twenty points or more--so then this year's basketball season was over for me. 'Cept I stayed on to watch Villanova, a Big East team, play Kentucky. I'm a Big East fan now that I live in New York City, though NYC has no teams in this years climb for the Final Four. We are cheering for Georgetown, the best in the Big East, though they probably can't beat a team like North Carolina, who will probably take it all this year. Thank Zeus Duke was dumped early by Virginia Commonwealth--how embarrassing for the Blue Devils--no problem for me. There's still some cinderella hope with Wintrop who beat the saintly shit out of Notre Dame, another Big East team--Louisville, Big East also, is still in it, too.

F basketball; I'm itching for baseball season and it's right over the horizon.

Even though it's snowing cats and dogs tonight in NYC. A lovely powdery snow. Snow like hell, I keep hollering; wolves love snow and cold--hot damn, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Kept the edge off by listening to American composer Zev Confrey all morning before the B ball day. I'm still looking for America's greatest classical composer--well, that's already won by Charles E. Ives, so I'm looking for the second to Ives best composer--and I like Zev; he's Gershwin cool; in fact, Gershwin may have stolen some riffs from Zev's African Suite. I look out my window, it looks south down Manhattan, and just a few blocks away was where Tin Pan Alley used to be, where Zev and Georgie Gershwin wrote their best stuff--just right out there just a few blocks south now opague from the veil of sleek snow that is curtaining down over all over this part of town.

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Check Out Dennis Kucinich for President--Sounds Good to Us

Dave Lindorff: Kucinich Has a Chance to Make a Historic Move and to Stand Out as a Presidential Hopeful

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 03/16/2007 - 2:45pm. Guest Contribution

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Dave Lindorff

If Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is looking for a way to distinguish himself from the pack of candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for president in the 2008 election, he need look no further than impeachment.

While Kucinich can justifiably and proudly claim ownership of the anti-war position, having been there from the get-go, everyone else in the field has piled on -- even Hillary Clinton -- at least to the point that the average voter would have a hard time distinguishing their positions regarding the war in Iraq.

But calling for impeachment of the president is something else.

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