LeBron: The new MJ?

With Sports Illustrated putting him on their cover and asking "Best Ever?", The hype over LeBron has never been greater. But is he the next Michael Jordan? Will he ever equal or surpass the Air Jordan? Or, more importantly, is he the man who can become the face of the NBA to the millions of people who don't follow it? Does he have the combination of skill, good looks, and publicity to become a worldwide household name? Some would say he already has. While I was wathcing the Cavaliers lose to Indiana last night, my mom came in. When she saw I was watching basketball, she was clearly uninterested, but then she heard the announcer say, "Cleveland Cavaliers", her face lit up. "LeBron James!" She said. He was a player whom she could identify, and her interest in the game skyrocketed. She still didn't watch it with me, but it proved to me something. She had no idea (and didn't care) that LeBron was having a bad shooting night and didn't yet have a field goal. He was just a player she knew. The only one she knew. For years, this was Micheal Jordan's role: to be an icon of the NBA. LeBron has become a David Beckham-esque figure; he might be the best player, or he might not, but he is the connection point between non-fans and his sport. We must also remember that when Micheal Jordan was in his second year, he wasn't even an All-Star. LeBron's career so far has been more successful than that of Jordan when he was at the same point. Mabye, someday, LeBron will win seven titles, exceeding Jordan and removing all doubt of his greatness.

Shakespeare, adoption, and things like window washing

Well, tonight was the annual Shakespeare play at school. Attendance was mandatory, so I dragged myself down to the theater for what I expected to be a terrible evening. Shakespeare did not dissapoint. It was a pretty bad play, although it was good for Shakespeare, but, as if requiring attendance wasn't enough, they left the lights on! Throughout the whole show! We couldn't even sleep! Preposterous! Today has been terrible. It's like when you wake up and find that a pack of rabid spitting weasels have taken up residence in your nose. You just want to scream and laugh at the absurdity of it all. At the debate today, Henning put me on the con side! I had to argue that gays and lesbians should NOT be allowed to adopt children, even thougb I feel they should. He delibratley split Logan and me up just to spite us. So that made History today about as fun as jumping out of a plane without a parachute. Then, I had to go to work! At my school, if you don't do a sport, you are sold into slavery and you must work tiresome hours for no wages. So I had to wipe windows and vaccuum classrooms that were already clean! At least Mr. Rhem said I can go play soccer with the girls team some days. That will be fun. But right now everything is terrible. Also I think my computer got screwed up by something me and Logan did after school. And then, not only did I have to miss watching the Georgia Tech game because of the idiotic piece of Shakespeare filth, Duke beat us! Duke beat Georgia Tech by four points, dropping us to 6-7 in the ACC. So right now, I'm kinda pissed at those weasels camping out in my nose. I'm about ready for them to leave. OK, I feel better now. Blogging is so soothing. Mabye I will write something else later tonight if I can't sleep. But it will be lighter hearted and completly weasel-free. Promise.

Netscape icons

I've noticed since switching to firefox that most sites have their own little logo where there is just an E on Internet explorer. Obviously this is just a difference between the two browsers. How could I get a logo for my site? Does anyone know this? Please post if you know.

Quote of the day

"The United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion"

-John Adams, founding father.


Just something to think about.

Some random thoughts

School started back today, ending a 4 day long weekend. At convocation I was inducted into the National French Honor Society, which is cool I guess. I got a free t-shirt. I was, I think, the only guy up there. I don't know why, but most guys take Spanish or Latin. oh well.

This week is debate week in Henning's class. It's going to be swell! A whole week of in class, mandatory arguing for a grade! I get to do what I do in class anyway, but now it is encouraged. The only drawback is that Emily won't be there. That's bad because I disagree with her about pretty much everything, so arguing with her is fun. Tomorrow's topic is whether same-sex couples sohould be allowed to adopt children. I fall strongly on the PRO side of this hot topic. Did you know that only 24% of children are raised by both of their biological parents without divorce? Take that, you Fanatical Conservatives! Yes, it would be a shame to corrupt the "American Family Unit" by allowing gays to have children, because right now our families are so pure and righteous. I can't wait for tomorrow.

Right now I'm listening to Flogging Molly, an Irish band. Or at least I think they're Irish. They had a four leaf clover on their CD cover. Not that I bought the CD of course. I'm strongly opposed to that. Get your music for free from your friends!

And the unenlightened one rambles on...

Well, basketball season is officially over, and we lost our last game. But I'm glad that now I will have free time.

Do you have lots of cool images saved on your computer? Do you wish you could hang them up on your wall like full-sized posters without much pixelation? Well I have a site for YOU! Rasterbate your images! No, perverts, get your minds out of the gutter. The Rasterbator takes images and makes them into a huge, printable PDF file. You can adjust how many pages you want it to take up and whatnot. Use it for all of your image-resizing needs! The Rasterbator.

In Henning's class today, Logan and me got into a huge argument. That usually happens in Hennings History, but today it was worse than usual. I don't even remember what it was about, but I was real fired up about it. We were standing up and screaming at each other, and it was so intense that Chris started to keep score. Mr. Henning, of course, didn't inervene until I was in the middle of making an excellent, well thought out remark. It was all in good fun though. Argung with Logan during history is one of my favorite pastimes. I think that the argument was something to do with the Chinese or the Indians or something. Maybe it was about overpopulation. I can't recall. But I think I won it. I remember Logan being mad about it afterwards. But there are no hard feelings; we skipped the first half of English together to go buy Cokes at the Grill, and he lent me 50 cents. English is a pointless class anyway. During our boycott of English, we didn't argue even once. I was proud of us. So now, I leave you with this parting thought: On the other hand, you have different fingers.

My ISP is LAME!!!

Well, as I was writing that last post, my internet connection gave out. LAME! Thank god for copy & paste. I'm getting kinda fed up with my idiot satellite ISP (starband). But my Dad pays the bills and starband is the only ISP where I live, which is, once again, lame.

We had an Advisory Dinner tonight in the Dining Hall. The food tasted like rubber, as usual. The best couse of the meal was the bread. We had to endure an hour of Mr. Brigham, which is enough to make grown men fall down and weep. And on Valentine's Day, no less. Or, as Sara aptly put it, Singles Awareness Day.

Today was the last day of basketball practice. I think this is a good thing, but I haven't decided yet. Our last game is tomorrow, and hopefully we will win and squeak out our fourth win of the season.

Well, those are all the words I have left in me. Perhaps in an hour I will be poetically inspired to write poeticly. But most likely not. Until then, my thousands of adoring readers, I bid you a Very Very Merry St. Valentine's Day.

The Untitled Post

Just got back from Andrew's. We went to the gym and played basketball with a bunch of college guys. They were huge. I did pretty well though. I should be studying for a Geometry test right now, but instead I'm wasting my time. I am completely at peace as my computer serenades me with the sweet melodies of Simon and Garfunkel. Yes, right now I am truly feelin' groovy. But I won't in a little while because it's Sunday and that means that the next day is Monday, which sucks. Mabye I'll post again later tonight, after my grooviness has passed. Then I'll write a dark and evil post about how when I'm older I will one day rule the world and install terrible and unfair rules outlawing the wearing of male leather lingere. That's what our world needs: me as its ruler.
Screw war, we would all be one big happy country, so we wouldn't have anybody to fight. Unless aliens came, which would be awesome.

What's the point?

Well, I just registered this mother on bloglinker.com or something like that. Hopefully someone will see it on there and come to my site. I really should go to bed, but insted I'm listening to Eric Clapton and trying to find ways to get people to come to my site. I'm thinking of changing the title. Rantings of the Unenlightened seemed good at first, but now I'm not sure about it. I don't know. It doesn't really matter. In a completely unrelated note, I'm going to Andrew's house tomorrow after the dance. That will be fun. I really want to write something about how marijuana should be legalized, but I'm too tired. All I can do is ramble on about nothing, like I'm doing right now. See? I'm typing, but not saying anything. In fact, why are you still reading this post? Oh wait. I forgot. NO ONE WILL EVER READ THIS POST because nobody ever comes to my site! Oh how I wish for someone to see it. Well, good night. You've all been great. Every last one of you. I mean that. I really do.

Finally!

Well, I finally got my computer working. The graphics card had fried. The new one came today. That thing is incredible. It needs its own seperate power supply, just as if it was a disk drive. Crazy. It feels so good to be able to use the computer again.

Tomorrow is the dance, and I'm drading it. I've had to plan it, and it's been a total nightmare. I hate this Student Government stuff. Complete and total B.S. All of it. It's the biggest waste of time since basketball was invented. Which leads me to my next point...

I just watched the Nuggets beat the Cavs. Melo vs. Bron-Bron. Carmelo finished with something like 9 or 10 points, but Earl Boykins shouldered the load and carried Denver past Cleveland. LeBron had 35 or so. The Nuggets killed in the fast break. Some of their passes were so good, it made me want to pee. Anyways, I'm too tired to write any more. I wish someone would come and read my blog.....

WHAT?

Well, almost a week after the creation of my blog, no one has visited it. I am shocked. I expected to cause an uproar, igniting the populous with a burning, passionate fire. I can't beleive that my inbox isn't cluttered with hatemail and lovemail and what-the-heck-are-you-talking-about-dude mail. Soon, however, I will make my move. Then, everyone will flock to this site and I'll strike a lucrative ad deal with McDonalds or Miller or Budwiser. This small blog will change the world! Ok, probably not, but I enjoy my delusions of grandeur.

Firefox

OK, one last post before I go to bed.

EVERYONE MUST GO HERE RIGHT NOW AND DOWNLOAD FIREFOX! A FREE, SAFE, SECURE, WEB BROWSER! DOWN WITH INTERNET EXPLORER AND MICROSOFT! POWER TO THE OPEN SOURCE NATION!

www.mozilla.org

Firefox is the open-source descendant of Netscape. It is so much better than IE, it makes me want to cry. And get Mozilla Tunderbird, too, while you're at it, for all of your e-mail needs.

What it's all about

This is it. A little bit of everything. Sports, politics, computers, idiocy, humor, music, and various assorted ramblings, all from the mind of a teenager who can't even (legally) drive yet.

So anyway, I had an interesting discussion today with the 'rents about the media and its role in politics this evening. All I did was mention that if you could control every media outlet, then you control everyone who is exposed to it. This would effectively let you rule the world, which is very stylish in some circles. Of course, this set my dad off on one of his speeches about how the republicans were trying to do just that and take over the world. My mom was the voice of reason and fairness to both sides, my dad was, as usual, overinformed and used more statistics than a basketball scorekeeper. He argued that FOX News had a Republican agenda, and they put a pre-devised spin on everything they reported. At the same time, other right wingers bashed the "liberal" media (CNN, CBS) for being off-center. This made CNN defensive, as they aimed to maintain journalistic integrity. So, in the intrest of not appearing too biased, they gave extra props to the right. So this leaves us with one totally and unabashedly republican-controlled conservative outlet, while the other slightly left leaning outlets try to put a conservative spin on things to be fair. Now we have Uber conservative and slightly liberal but scared into being conservative. This, said my dad, is the problem.


wow. that was long. I hope someone reads it.

First post

so... this is my new blog. I got real tired of my old xanga one. Never posted on it. hopefully I'll remember to do this one.