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Re: The NBA
I love Inside the NBA on TNT. Charles, Ernie and Kenny. The Rockets sent the Trailblazers fishin '! Yeah!

Re: Photography
I'd been looking for this rather excellent article for a while. Boy do I know some of the let's-talk-about-our-equipment-rather-than-use-it types! Seven Levels of Photographers

Re: This website
I am going to be making some changes in the near future. I want to change blogging software, so the look of this site will probably change. Though I want to avoid it looking too bloggish. We'll see. Blogger is great, but it doesn't have some of the features I am looking for right now. So anyway, be on the lookout, ye three people who actually read this blog. Oh, and Anonymous, who loves to make nasty comments -- you too.

Re: Annabelle
We spent hours in the pool today. She's a little water baby. So funny and adorable and unique and precious.

Yesterday? Serious. Today? Not.

I feel the need to share my excitement at hearing the old NBA on NBC theme song again for NBC's coverage of USA Basketball during the Summer Olympics. That rockin' song was written by John Tesh (!) and is called "Roundball Rock." (Enjoy it here and here.)

You know how a certain smell or feel in the air can bring back a specific time in your life? "Roundball Rock" is like that for me. It just brings back happy times. Watching basketball with my Dad. Playing basketball with my Dad, which I did quite a bit. Larry Bird. Magic Johnson. Hakeem Olajuwon. Marv Albert. Mike Fratello -- the Czar of the Telestrator. Ahmad Rashad. Steve "Snapper" Jones. Showtime. That's also where my crazy love for Bob Costas started. He was the halftime anchor for the NBA on NBC and I've loved him ever since.

Those were good times.

Public Service Announcement

OK. I have just seen two commercials that just made me laugh for all the wrong reasons. The first one began thus...

Man: I have genital herpes.

Woman: And I don't.

Man: And we're trying to keep it that way.

[cue voice over in which a trustworthy voice tells everyone all about this wonderful drug that can prevent breakouts and transference or whatever then...]

Man: I still have genital herpes.

Woman: And I still don't.

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Me: Well good for you!

Now, what I really want to know is how much they have to pay you to go on television and declare "I still have genital herpes." It just makes me laugh to imagine the casting calls. "Wanted: Good looking man to portray guy with herpes." Or the negotiations. If I was the actor, I'd be like, "if I am going on TV and telling everyone I have herpes, you better be paying me damn well."

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The other commercial was for this ridiculous little item called "The Fish Pen." It's for those times when you "just don't have time for bulky equipment." And, did you know, with the Fish Pen, you can go fishing on your lunch hour! Wow!

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So, really, this is my warning against watching ESPN Classic. I'm watching Game 6 of the 1993 NBA Finals: Chicago vs. Phoenix, and apparently these are the only advertisers interested in sponsoring old basketball games.

On the plus side, NBC still had the NBA back in the early 90s, so I get to hear one of my all-time favorite TV theme songs "Roundball Rock," which was the NBA on NBC's theme song. Perhaps you remember it? duh duh duh, da duh da duh, etc...

Fun fact No. 1: "Roundball Rock" was written by John Tesh. Yes, that John Tesh.

Fun fact No. 2: Kelly and I were on the same flight as John Tesh and his wife, Connie Sellecca. We were going from LAX to IAH and they sat in coach and ate Big Macs. OK. So, perhaps, that wasn't a very fun fact. Oh well!