So, last night, with their 16th and 26th picks, the Bulls selected forwards James Johnson, from Wake Forest, and Taj Gibson, from USC. To each of these picks, I had the same reaction: "Who????"

BUT. Something really, really good—and I can't emphasize that enough—happened last night, as well. With the 13th pick, the Indiana Pacers decided to take Tyler Hansbrough. Now you may ask yourself, "Dave, you don't like Tyler Hansbrough! In fact, you sort of hate him. So why should such news make you happy??" Well, let me tell you: if he'd been there at 16, the Bulls would have taken him. Without a second thought. As if we don't already have the same goddamned player in Joakim "Clown Shoes" Noah. Anyhow, thank you Indiana Pacers. He's your fucking problem, now.

Thanks to irvys_sefie for bringing this place's existence to my attention, but this quiz had me in TEARS while I was taking it. I'm not lying.

Your result for The Despot / Small Woodland Creature Test...

Charlemagne the Squirrel

31% Brutality, 59% Wackiness, 70% Playfulness, 43% Strength, 62% Kindness, 29% Agility and 71% Intelligence!

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I have a new journal style. I'm not quite sure why I feel the need to share that, but I do.

So go: spread forth the word and have many a nuanced discussion about this most momentous of days.

It's true: I've been neglecting my LJ like I'm being paid to. But what better way than to break out of the funk with some good, down home, meme action?! This one is the ~*Cell Phone Meme*~ that's been making the rounds.

And it comes (as far as I know) from barkinmad.

1. Grab Your Phone.
( LOL, SORRY! I FORGOT TO MAKE A CUT, AT FIRST! )

ETA: I'VE DECIDED TO ACTUALLY INCLUDE THE PICTURES OF MY CAT I MADE REFERENCE TO, SO NOW THEY ARE IN THERE. BUT THEY ARE HUGE. GOOD DAY TO YOU.

ETA2: THEY ARE NO LONGER HUGE. I FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE THEM REGULAR-SIZED. CARRY ON.

IT IS 72 FUCKING DEGREES RIGHT NOW, BUT THAT'S NOT THE BEST PART. LATER, IT WILL BE AROUND 82. FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE OCTOBER 12TH. HOT DAMN.

ALSO, I AM GOING TO A BASEBALL GAME TONIGHT. YAY FOR ME! HOPEFULLY MY SUCK-ASS TEAM WILL NOT LOSE LIKE THEY DID TWO WEEKS AGO WHEN I WENT. EXCEPT THAT TIME IT WAS 30 DEGREES. SO TONIGHT WINS, NO MATTER WHAT.

MOLE OUT.

ETA: Oh, and did anyone else know that Myrtle Beach is being ravaged by wildfires? Really?! Myrtle Beach?! That's not really where I think, when I think "fire-prone regions of the United States." Oh well, I hope they get that under control soon. I loves me some Myrtle Beach.

As mine eyes gaze upon walls adjacent
and catch glimpse of yon White Sox calendar,
I warm with a measure of elation
and spy the date, twenty into April.
But wilst thou join in my celebration?
Wilst thou commemorate that true genius?
Stricken by awe and pure concentration,
I craft my offering to thine words past.
Today we celebrate the creation
of words and prose that withstand and endure
the ravages of time, from thence nascent.
And I shalt echo my best, thine speakings.
Verily, friends, there is nothing too hard:
Toss modern away, and speak like the Bard.

( Or, in English… )

Okay, so I've decided to give some visual hints to the movie meme that I posted yesterday.

( These are, in no particular order, the hints. )

And this is a link back to the original post, if something's jogged your memory.

And y'all can probably expect the answers to those still unguessed in about a day or so. I know, I know… you're all on the edges of your seats. But try to be patient, the answers will come.

So, once I saw this thing going around, you had to figure it would only be a matter of time before I decided to play, too. The problem is that I am distracted by basketball tournament happenings (more on that later). But here is das meme:

Movie Meme

1. Pick 16 of your favorite movies*.
2. Go to IMBb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO cheating, if you don't know any of them that that's just too bad.
6. You don't have to be tagged in this to play.

But come on, do you ever have to be tagged to do something? No, of course you don't. Tagging is just a silly practice to begin with, but that's a rant for another day. For now, the meme is behind the cut text.

( This would be the cut text )

In other news, the basketball brackets came crashing down upon me yesterday, when Pittsburgh lost. See, at this stage, it's pretty brutal to lose a team you had in the final game. I mean, sure, my champion is still alive, but I took a real hit yesterday. And it looks like Louisville is in trouble, too. That would take out two of my final four picks. Furthermore, if Ty Lawson and company play like they did on Friday, Oklahoma will be in some trouble, as well. But as long as Blake Griffin just destroys stupid Tyler Hansbrough, I will be happy enough. I mean, my bracket's pretty dead, anyhow. Oh well, at least UConn still looks on pace to win the whole damn thing. That will be slightly vindicating.

…and then this happens:

WARNING! THIS STORY IS NOT FILLED WITH PUFFY PINK CLOUDS AND UNICORNS, IF YA KNOW WHAT I'M SAYIN'.



( My reaction )

MOLE'S LESSON OF THE DAY: When confronted with a wild and dangerous animal, try to refrain from pausing to take pictures of it. Not only will this be confusing and possibly enraging to said wild and dangerous animal, it also wastes valuable time that should be spent getting other people in between this animal and yourself.

Eagerly awaited by all, I know.

( I'll spoil the surprise and tell you that I picked UConn to win it all. )

So there you go. I am sure that I'm incredibly wrong about all of this, but that's fine. It's all just a crap shoot, anyway.

Yes, that's my Kentucky Wildcats. They've been making this sound for much of the season, and they've only gotten louder in recent weeks. I have no illusions of them making the NCAA Tournament, not since they lost their last four games going into the SEC Tournament. Pretty much the most interesting thing left will be seeing whether or not they accept the NIT bid they're sure to receive (I would—I mean, it's money for the school). Anyhow, I figured I should open up the floor to mockery, since it's sure to come my way.

In better sports news, spring has been kind to my White Sox, thus far. Both the 2,000 year-old Jose Contreras and the 2,000 lb Bartolo Colon are way ahead of schedule in coming back from their injuries. Contreras might even be able to take starts in April! If Clayton Richard is your fifth pitcher, and not your fourth, I feel a whole lot better about the rotation. And this Gordon Beckham kid is unbelievable, if spring numbers are to be believed. I'm not thrilled with any of our myriad infielders (Alexei and Paul excluded), so if Becks were able to steal the 2nd base slot, I would not mind. Unfortunately, it seems that my never-ending quest to make Brian Anderson the starting center fielder will continue yet again, this year. IDK what the deal is, he looks more than adequate to me, but the team doesn't seem to like him for some reason. If Jerry Owens starts in center on opening day, I will probably puke.

In even better news, tomorrow is my birthday. Which birthday it is isn't important, but I feel happy, nevertheless. Tonight we go to a nice little French bistro where I shall order l'oignon, erm, soup, la biftek avec pomme frites, and some good-ass French wine (take that, high school French class!)… and probably some yummy dessert, too.

'Kay, that's all I've got right now.

Did anyone else watch that new Castle show on ABC last night (you know, the one with Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic)? I just finished it and I think I like it. Granted, it's a crime procedural—not normally my cup of tea—but it's a little off-beat and I like the characters, so far. Although it's nothing like it in premise, Castle reminded me of Life (which I like) because it seems like it's going to be more of a character-driven show than a ~*freaky cases*~ driven show.

Anyhow, I'm going to watch it again next week and see how things go.

Watching this episode was taxing, as I have just reconfigured my entertainment doodads with digital converter thingys. This means that I can no longer watch what I'm not recording. Like when cable first started, remember? Oh, who the fuck am I kidding, there's like two of you out there who remember that. Anyhow, it's going to take some getting used to.

But I has thoughts! Thoughts on this episode, whatever it's name was. Something with "Gray." Was it "Gray's Anatomy?" "Shades of Gray?" "Touch of Gray?" SOMETHING!!! But clicky for thoughts, mkay?

( Sooooo… )

Oh, and I like bunnies. The End.

…it's almost as if I have something else I should be doing. Something I'm avoiding. But never you mind about that. For now, it's MEME TIEM

This is from hobbit_eyes and goes a little something like this:

1. Put your music on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Tag 10 friends who might enjoy doing the memo as well as the person you got the note from Fuck that, do it if you want.

( Doing memes where you listen to music beats watching golf, any day. )

RIGHT NOW? RIGHT THE FUCK NOW? AT ELEVEN AM ON FEBRUARY THE 7TH, IN THE LINCOLN PARK NEIGHBORHOOD OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, IT IS 54° FAHRENHEIT. OR 12.2° CELSIUS, IF THAT'S HOW YOU ROLL.

FIFTY-FUCKING-FOUR DEGREES!!!!!

THIS IS WONDERFUL. MELT, YOU STUPID SNOW! MELT AND NEVER COME BACK!

Ahem… that is all.

HOLY FUCKING FUCK, THAT WAS SOMETHING RIGHT THERE!!!

It took me forever to see it because I try to wait for the show to come up on scifi.com, which happens about 1 AM Central, right after it finishes airing out west. But today my connection sucked so bad that I couldn't watch it for more than 5 seconds before it would stall again. So then I looked on ibroketuesday's little megastic site, but it wasn't there yet. Eventually I found it somewhere, but the connection was too bad to use my DiVX thingy and I had to wait for the darn flash version to load.

The point is, I finally saw it just now and IT IS AWESOME.

( Let's see if I have any coherent thoughts, shall we? )