The biggest thing is that Howard is no longer playing like a giant ****** and playing up to his potential. He's not taking many step back/fadeaway jumpers that seriously tilt me or half assing it on D. He's played like an All-Star lately and not just a talented guy thats happy cashing paychecks.

awesome movie imo...at least for its time.

Yea every time I watch them I seem to have these three thoughts:

"Barea is better than I thought"

"Wow J Kidd can shoot....man it would've been awesome if he could've shot like this in his prime."

"Is there any player more forgotten about this season than Josh Howard? Two years ago he was considered a rising star and a top ~30 player in the league, no?"


But you're being a huge homer to think they beat Houston > 50% of the time. I actually have a $100 bet with Clark about who gets further in the playoffs between those two teams(and if they reach the same round, then whichever team won more games). If you want, I'll bet you $100 on the series if they match up, so I'd just be laying the bet off on you.

Nah, I'm not expecting the Mavs to actually be the betting favorite when the lines come out or anything. I'll be happy to bet at least 5K on the series at +150 or better if that's the actual line though.

First things first though, the Mavs really need to beat New Orleans tomorrow. They should have a good shot with no Chandler playing. There's still a chance they could get the 6 seed anyway as NO finishes @HOU and @SA, but winning Sunday is clearly their best shot. Like I said, I don't like the Mavs' chances against Denver or LA at all.

lol at that Kobe demotivational poster.

And on Josh Howard, I really don't know what to make of him. He has borderline all-star talent, but he's just ridiculously inconsistent, and has had some really bad playoff series. At least this year, he's fully rested, and I think (hope) that being a little more forgotten this year might take some of the pressure off and allow him to play better in the postseason.

"Bryant scored 32 points for the Lakers, but in the final minute alone he missed a key 3-pointer, had a crucial turnover and was off on another 3. "

CLUTCH KILLA WILL STEP ON YOUR THROAT DURRRRR

They say missed like he didn't airball it or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY06eaFaplw

Enough, scrubs.

CNN) -- Woody Harrelson defended his clash with a photographer at a New York airport Wednesday night as a case of mistaken identity -- he says he mistook the cameraman for a zombie.

The TMZ photographer filed a complaint with police claiming the actor damaged his camera and pushed him in the face at La Guardia Airport, according to an airport spokesman.

"We're looking into this allegation and if it's warranted, we'll turn it over to the proper authorities," said Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Ron Marsico.

The photographer, who was not identified, captured the encounter on a small camera after his larger one was broken.

Harrelson, who is being sued by another TMZ photographer for an alleged assault in 2006, did not deny his involvement.

"I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character," Harrelson said in a statement issued Friday by his publicist.

"With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie," he said.

TMZ.com posted two videos of the incident, including one recorded by the larger camera before it was damaged.

The first video shows the photographer following Harrelson and his daughter down an escalator and out of the terminal. It ends with Harrelson apparently reaching for the lens.


After Harrelson returns the camera to him, a scuffle appears to ensue.

"Woody, this is assault. Woody, this is assault," the photographer is heard saying. "Woody, chill out. Would you please chill out?"

The photographer continues to follow Harrelson for another four minutes as the actor and his daughter walk to the airport parking lot. At one point, Harrelson again turns toward the cameraman.

"I'm being chased by Woody Harrelson while I'm talking to you," the photographer says as he talks to an unidentified person on a cell phone.

"He hit me in my face, he broke my friggin' camera, he broke the camera in pieces," he said.

Harrelson, his daughter and a driver get inside an SUV and the encounter ends.

In the movie "Zombieland," Harrelson plays "the most frightened person on Earth" looking for refuge from zombies, according to the Internet Movie Database

Filming on the movie wrapped in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, according to director Ruben Fleischer's Web site.

TMZ photographer Josh Levine filed a lawsuit against Harrelson last year for an alleged attack outside a Hollywood nightclub in 2006.

Video of that incident, which is also posted on TMZ.com, also appeared to show Harrelson grabbing a camera and clashing with the photographer.

Los Angeles prosecutors declined to press charges against the actor, but Levine filed a suit last summer asking for $2.5 million in damages.

"Woody Harrelson has a history of anger management issues with people and we intend to put a stop to this," Cyrus Nownejad, Levine's lawyer, said Friday.

evan in the oc writes:

anatta,

you speak about following your dreams what is your dream?

evan.

dear evan,

if you recall the great one advised worldings to follow their dreams, and prefaced the advice by saying this is not the height of his great wisdom. anatta lives the aimless life, knowing that all goals dreams and desires are empty as is life itself, the becoming, birth, and death come and go constantly. we are born, live and decay, and die every moment. to understand the big you must know the small, to understand the entire universe you must smash together atoms, to know this entire life its origin and is dissolution you must know what is going on in this very body at this very moment. knowing this you see that there is no birth, life and death, either in the moment or expanded to this very life or further to the innumerable rounds of samsara.

anatta is said to live the aimless life because he knows that goals and dreams success and failure appear to exist in the uninstructed mind, but upon closer inspection they too dissolve into empty thoughts and desire which are constantly changing and one can never grasp hold of the thing in itself which is called the desire. for example the mental image or actual physical image of a girls ass might appear in the mind and the thought with it "i want that" and the goal or obsession might be such that the thought arises craving and it continues and plans and such (more thoughts) come and go to achieve this so called "aim" which was just a series of different thoughts and desires changing from moment to moment, nothing really to call a goal of ****** her ass in other words, no essence, no thing in itself other than the name which is an empty thought, no thing in itself. and later the thought "i got it" or "fail" will arise and with sadness or pride all empty.

like a flock of birds in the distance anatta's ken is hard to track.

love, anatta

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it really never gets old.

I just had the best workout of my life I don't know if it was a result of being several weeks into starting strength my car being towed the Lakers losing or the hot piece of ass I kept seeing every time I looked at myself in the mirror But man was that a good workout.

Anatta has to be one of my 5 favorite things about the internet

The cartel putting the hit on D'Angelo might have ruined the series for me. That was a bum decision. D was going to take his time and not make a peep.

Stringer/Avon have lost their anti-hero status, which sucks b/c I'm really enjoying the series so far and don't want it to become a simple good guy/bad guy cop show. It's sort of a similar theme to The Sopranos, in that there is all this talk about family family family, but its really just about looking out for number one. The game's got rules and when the people at the top are breaking them it can't work.

I'm half hoping D was just unconscious b/c dude didn't choke him for very long, but that's probably just wishful thinking. Omar's courtroom testimony scene was amazing though. Omar. Oh well, time for the next episode!

I don't know where you are so won't say much.. but the D scenes are all very important steps in the development of the characters and really makes a lot of sense in the whole story of the series.

Hey String, how's business?

Ya, I'm taking care of some business myself.

gotta say, now that im in season 4, the music has steadily gotten worse. as far as intros go, S1>2>3>4. AINEC.

Don't worry, S5 music is the best.

Yeah, Omar's testimony is unbelievable. I'm saying this as a friend: It just keeps getting better. (I, too, hated the fact D got killed, and no, he's not unconscious, he's D E D). Soon you'll get to Marlo!

ok, good, because it's come to the point i skip over the intro, which is sad

Big FU to nba.com. FFS I don't need to see a 30 sec add about WHERE AMAZING HAPPENS before watching every 2 minute highlight clip.

I watched the first 4 seasons of The Wire.

I'm considering buying all 5 and getting the girlfriend to watch them over with me now that u guys keep talking bout it

Just watched the next one, I had a hunch maybe Stringer did it w/out the pope's blessing. Drama drama drama. I love me some Sobotkas.

any other pistons fans praying for a first rd matchup with the magicccc