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.

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.

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.

…because dear LORD, do these guys suck. I had been extremely pissed that CBS refused to cut away from the Memphis vs Georgetown game, which went into overtime right as the IU vs UK game was starting (I mean, really—I understand they're both ranked, but does anyone in this market actually care about those teams? [answer: no] Indiana is at least right next door and should have a fair amount of fans in the Chicago market. They are a Big Ten team, after all), but when we FINALLY joined the action, the Wildcats were up 24-4. That's what I like to see.

( Yes, this is all basketball related. You should probably only click this if you're K (unless I have other hoops fans on my flist that I'm unaware of). )

Georgia? Seriously? Georgia?! That's just fucking great. So now the team with the worst conference record going in to the tournament—the #6 (read: last place) team out of the east—has won the SEC and gets an automatic bid. This pretty much bounces us out of the NCAA tournament, because I do not see how the SEC gets 6 teams in. I mean, they haven't announced anything yet, but I'm not optimistic. Fuck you, Georgia. You have screwed us for the second time in two days, and it's not like you're going to win a tournament game, anyway. Have fun losing to Marquette, or whoever, in the first round.

Oh yeah, and I also turned thirty today. So the hits just keep on coming. Thanks a lot, fate; you've really done me a solid. Way to look out for me on my birthday.

*hates*

ETA:

HA! WHOO-HOOO!!!!</falsetto> WE MADE THE FUCKING TOURNAMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND YOU KNOW WHAT'S FUNNY? WE ARE PLAYING MARQUETTE IN THE FIRST ROUND!!

LOLOLOLOL

But our fate will be the same as that I was wishing upon Georgia; I have no illusions. I'm just happy to have made it and to keep our streak alive. It's funny how much better I feel now.

~*~TRALALALALA~*~

So, as many of you know, I have like, 50,000 unposted quizzes to share. But for awhile, I'd forgotten. Until this goofy boyfriend quiz came around, that is. Which, why are these always boyfriend questions? Where are the girlfriend questions? I am feeling a little ~*under-appreciated*~ by the Gods Of The Internets. Luckily, however, there were a few quizzes worth doing on that site. And then I got caught up answering Pushing Daisies and Alias trivia questions for like, an hour. True story.



( Cut for many, many, many more of these )

In other news, my Wildcats won again, today. They have been playing much better since conference play started (even their two losses have been well played and closely fought—one went to overtime) and I am starting to regain confidence with regards to this season. If the 'Cats can keep playing like this, I think they'll make the tournament for sure. The selection committee tends to favor in-conference performance over early poor play and, as the winningest team in college basketball history with one of the largest fanbases in the country, UK will be given every benefit of the doubt.