Continuing my NBA VIEW ATLANTA HAWKS: You give a team enough lottery picks and it’s difficult to not be a good team. If you draft fairly well, your team will be very good, or better. Or you could be the Hawks. Ugh. What a wrecked franchise. I’ve written about it ad nauseam so I won’t go into [...]
NBA VIEW – ATLANTA HAWKS
November 19th, 2009 · No Comments · BASKETBALL COMMENTARY, ROAD WRITING
Tags: atlanta·Atlanta Hawks·bill simmons·couchsurfing·greyhound·high school players·Josh Smith·luol deng·michael mandlin f#cking up in an infuriatingly patrick dempsy pg-13 movie from the 80s sort of way·milwaukee·nba·playoffs·the south
Thoughts from an All Night Greyhound or The Locked Knees and Sore Fingers of Despised Love
January 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · ROAD WRITING
This is long as hell, and I don’t feel like editing it; transcribing is enough to put me to sleep, anyway. So yeah, typos and whatever. Instead, I’m going to back through and just putting asterisks in between sections, for your convenience. How’s that? *** Nobody wants to take the 1:25 AM Greyhound from Orlando [...]
Tags: atlanta·bulls·couchsurfing·europe·greyhound·heat·hitchhiking·oklahoma city·orlando·ride-share
You’re Doing Fine, Oklahoooooma!
November 21st, 2008 · No Comments · BASKETBALL COMMENTARY, ROAD WRITING
I left Washington D.C. on Wednesday, Nov. 12th, on the 8:30PM Greyhound to Oklahoma City. I arrived in OKC around 6AM on Friday, the 14th, something less than when I departed. Oh, I was fine, but I’d had maybe 4 hours of restless sleep since we’d left and Greyhoud buses are not made for people [...]
Tags: greyhound·oklahoma city·thunder