Between Impossibilities

Oh, hectic week. I got back from Phoenix (where I had a WONDERFUL time with horizon_greene) on Tuesday and had to rush to get ready for school tomorrow. So, because I don't want to think about that anymore before I go to bed, and because I think the trip to Phoenix and the two basketball games while there inspired me, here's a Nuggets picspam.

Starting here:



With AI's "come hither" thing.

( and so on. )

The Nuggets are playing some basketball, apparently.

( there has been awkward groping )

( unbearable cuteness )

( a KENYON MARTIN sighting )

( and then this: ai dancing. with a basketball. only it's not what you think. )

1. There is a rumor that AI was with DJ on Saturday. I can't confirm or deny it.

2. The person in question did indeed call. I feel a case of the hiccups coming on.

3. Serious question on RPF Ethics: Since one of the passengers in the SUV that JR was driving died (and despite early reports to the contrary, JR was driving), is it inappropriate to include the accident in fic?

So if you're scoring at home that's 2 out of 3 Nuggets shooting guards in trouble with the law this past weekend. No reports are in as to the whereabouts of Yakhouba Diawara, but word is that Nuggets officials are in the process of tracking him down somewhere on the mean streets of Paris, and forcing him to punch a baby or solicit a prostitute. The Nuggets are not happy with Diawara's lack of effort this weekend, and have given him a deadline of next weekend to be accused of a crime or he may face disciplinary action.

This little Nuggets weekend crime spree got me and a friend named Stretch talking about the thuggish nature of our Nuggs. Stretch suggested a reality TV show that featured the Denver Nuggets and Cincinnati Bengals, an island, a crate of guns, a crate of drugs, and a bevy of hookers. He thought it should be called "Detroit, Michigan".

Colorado Homers

In other news, it FINALLY got hot today.

If you thought that there wasn't anymore news involving Nuggets with initials for names, you were SO wrong!

"Denver Nuggets forward DerMarr Johnson was arrested after he and two women were involved in a public disturbance, according to a report on the Denver Post web site Sunday.

According to the report, Johnson was charged with resisting arrest and interfering with a peace officer outside the Purple Martini nightclub and was later released. He is set to appear in Greenwood Village Municipal Court at a date to be determined.

"DerMarr was breaking up a fight between two women," Johnson's attorney Dan Recht said in a statement released to the newspaper. "There was a great deal of confusion and the police mistakenly believe he was interfering with them. However we are confident when all the facts come out it will be clear that DerMarr is innocent and did nothing wrong."

horizon_greene: "am i the only one who thinks this sounds like DJ was at a gay bar and his fag hags got in a cat fight?"

No. Indeed not.

I mean, we all remember DJ, don't we?



Randomly, and hysterically, from the kids over at slushy gutter on Kobe's recent bouts of indecision and whether or not Denver should trade for him:

"Kobe for Jake Plummer: Jake’s kind of a free-spirit weirdo, so he could move to Venice Beach, eat tofu, feed pigeons day old bread, and wear a hemp knit hat. Maybe he would even leave his Honda Element for Kobe to tool around the Mile High City. If the Lakers balk at getting traded a football player who is retired , we can just tell them it’s the Teen Wolf, who could freaking ball."

EDIT: Apparently, the police had to taser DJ to "calm" him. Oh. My. God.

Apparently, JR is still in the hospital, but he's going to be okay. What is it with this kid and car accidents? Melo wants to know.

Seriously. I thought that I was done with Melo and JR and car crash angst. Clearly not.

Also, something you may not know about Eddie:

"The former Dallas Mavericks player and University of Oklahoma standout also is well-connected. He's close to the family of Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican mogul Forbes magazine has dubbed the world's third-richest man."The Rocky Mountain News

Okay. There might also be a chance that I have a Rockies rookie!slash bunny. Which, holy crap. I should finish the epic AU and then move onto "JR Isn't Allowed in Another Car Ever" first.

( except that i can't get these guys out of my head. dammit. )

The family got together for dinner tonight to celebrate my mom's birthday. My brother came in late and he looked ... funny to me. I figured it was the light and I didn't say anything about it until he drove me home when I noticed something else.

Me: Dude. You smell like flowers. Jasmine-y.

Roo: Um. Well. I bought some lotion yesterday --

Me: *snickers*

Roo. I HAVE DRY SKIN, OKAY. Anyway, the lotion I bought was actually *mumble*self-tanner*mumble*

Me: What?

Roo: *big eyes* It's a self-tanner with added shimmer. Whatever.

That's right. He's slightly orange right now with bits of glitter around the elbows.

And, hey! Check this out. megyal wrote me something and it is a great big awesome cake made of Pete/Patrick in the Wild West. There are guns and saloons and Patrick is a badass. It is: many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.

( the story of the nuggets east coast road trip thus far: the triumph and the heartbreak. featuring melo in a variety of fun and perhaps compromising poses, cameo appearances by eddie and jr, and, of course, ai making faces. )

One of my students asked me the other day if I thought that AI's press conferences were so bad because, secretly, he isn't wearing any pants during them.

I don't know why not. Anyway.

Nuggets 113 - Lakers 86

( there are too many pics of kobe under this cut. but, also melo, ai, and a certain sinister looking lithuanian in a chokehold. i mean, what? )

Also. KU plays tomorrow night.

rock chalk jayhawk KU.

Those willing to maintain a strained sense of humor about Frank Miller (and his misogyny and homophobia), should check out this review of 300: Throw in a war-rhino, some silver-masked ninja magicians, and an 8-foot-tall godking who looks like RuPaul beyond the Thunderdome, and 300 is not without its treats. (Note: I could care less about the movie's historical accuracy. It's Frank Miller's baggage that makes me wince.)

( Also, my brother and I went climbing in The Garden on Sunday. )


The Nuggets won again tonight. Which is awesome. That's two in a row. They've got the Lakers at home on Thursday, and I think they can handle that okay, since apparently, Jesus himself can't save the Lakers season now. Speaking of, I have the first two sentences on the next NBA fic. That's always the hardest part.

Midterms tomorrow. All I have to do is sit and stare pointedly.

There was a family thing last week, and my brother and I had to leave mid-day on Friday for Nowhere, Kansas.

We were about half-way there when it started getting dark, and I was reminded that, sometimes, Kansas has its moments.

( I also realized that I had my camera. So, here's my horrendous weekend as seen through the viewfinder - just places and things; no people. )

Can I have a "do over?" Like, start the year again, somehow? No? Alright. Well, at least tonight ended on a high note.

Melo made his big comeback, and he and AI did their thing.

( Like this. And then people talked about the brawl + racism. Because you haven't heard enough about that. )

Here's my reasoning: I'm sick--like hacking up a lung sick--and I'm tired, and the Nuggets? They're just playing the Knicks, right? I can stay at home and sleep, no problem. They can make it through a game without me.

Only, really? They can't. Because at the end of the fourth quarter, Melo, in the process of defending his shiny new BF JR, got into a brawl with the Knicks that ended with 10 players from both teams ejected from the game, including Eddie. Melo threw the hardest punch, and therefore may be suspended the longest, although fines and etc. may include people as high up as Isaiah Thomas (Knicks Coach) for ordering the hard foul on JR.

( Have some visual aids: Pissed!Melo, Pissed!JR, Saving the day!Eddie, etc. )

Also, a general fandom question (which comes from that glut of A7X fics): does the amount of misogyny inherent in a band's image/songs/lifestyle (She's a dwelling place for demons, wtf?) make the fanbase for said band more likely to inflict violent scenarios on the band members? I mean, man, in A7X there isn't just a lot of guys beating each other up (although there IS that, certainly) but there's rationalized, institutionalized violence in the context of general BDSM themes: master/slave (various AUs), prison fics (of all kinds) and master/captive AUs, and just so much rape.

I have another band in mind (that I like) that leans towards the "we hate women" spectrum, with their lyrics about vain, lying, cheating whores, and, again, there's a whole lot of abuse in that fandom. Could be no correlation. Could be the age of the fanbase working out other issues. I don't know. This is just me thinking through a haze of NyQuil. *ducks*

Good class discussion today. See, a couple of weeks ago an exploratory school (or whatever they're called) took a class of highschool students out to the Japanese internment camp and reenacted a day there.

There was a minor BOOM from the more conservative portions of out local paper's readership. A lot of "OMG WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IF YOU DO THAT THAN YOU SHOULD REENACT THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH SERIOUSLY YOU ANTI-AMERICAN FREAKS."

So I asked the class, since we were in the middle of my lecture on the war in the Pacific, what they thought. An unusually articulate and relevant discussion ensued. They talked about freedom in education, the value of a hands on education, the many issues that lead to our nation interring over 100,000 of it's own citizens, and the question of whether or not it could happen again.

None of this means that I'm not beside myself with joy that the semester is over next week. I already have one class of papers graded and one obvious case of plagiarism. Gotta love that.

( But hey, it looks like LeBron appears to have caught Melo-itis. I can't say I'm sorry. Also, how 'bout them Avs? )

After beating the Blazers tonight, the Nuggets won the Northwest division for THE FIRST TIME IN 18 YEARS. The last time we won the division Melo was 3 years old. Everyone kept reminding him of that while they re-ran clips of the '88 team in their short-shorts and the old rainbow uniforms and Doug Moe screaming from the sidelines. Everything is suddenly very, very good.

Also, Julius has been released from the hospital and we're all very relieved that he's alright.

Just before the trade deadline I came across a Melo interview in which he tried very hard to be grown up and mature and leader-of-the-team and all those things, and while it was very “aw” he kinda still failed miserably. Especially when he was asked if he ever thought about playing for another team and responded very enthusiastically that he did not. He stated, unequivocally, that he was, in fact, a “Nugget for life.” Which is all the context you need to understand the following YIM conversation. That and the fact that the Nuggets beat the Sixers tonight.

( Really, it’s an excuse to post Melo pics with commentary. )

All right. Firstly and MOST IMPORTANTLY the Nuggets won last night. In triple overtime. Yes you heard me triplefuckingovertime against the Suns. I have never in my life felt more invested in a game and it didn't help that Melo and Eddie and Steve were just so . . . so. Ack. I can't even describe it.

Melo was already in pain from a bruised rib and he still scored over 40 points. But, as if that weren't enough, at the end of the second OT Melo drove to the basket, ran over Marion, and then (in real time) he suddenly fell down and was writhing on the floor on top of Shawn.

The replay showed Melo shoot (he made this basket, btw), fall on top of Shawn. And off to the side there is Steve GRABBING EDDIE WITH BOTH ARMS AND PULLING HIM BACKWARDS OMG. So, Eddie was off balance and he kicked Melo in the face. Melo couldn't seem to get up, he was bleeding, everyone was yelling, the clock was running down, Karl and the trainers peeled him off of the ground and stuffed cotton in his nose; he was CRYING, and Karl told him to keep playing. Melo didn't even understand what Karl was saying. His eyes were swelling shut, but he went back out anyway; the Nuggets kept the Suns from scoring and we went into the third OT.

It was back and forth until Steve fouled out and then AND THEN with a little over two seconds left, they got the ball to Melo and HE MADE THE FUCKING SHOT.

At the end of the game, he and Eddie were lying on the ground about mid-court and Melo was just kind of hitting Eddie on the back and when they tried to get Melo up, he grabbed onto Eddie and wouldn't let him go.

And then I died.

( Wanna see? )

horizon_greene can find better pics than this later, I'm sure.

( And I'd like everyone to take a deep breath and relax. I wanna talk a little bit about Supernatural. )

I'm not so laid back about the Broncos, though. I will be rabid come Saturday night and very unpleasant to be around until they either win or, or . . . I won't even contemplate the or.