liberation & basketball

two unrelated topics

first, i wanted to present an interesting piece from hometown baghdad. it's called liberation. i felt that it was a good reflection on the situation, especially presenting a few, brief ideas about the history of the situation while still presenting the question of, "where is the liberation?"



second, it was somewhat surreal, sitting @ home, surfing the 'net, watching basketball, and then watching that video (among a few others i hadn't watched yet on their site). i had already planned a post about basketball, and decided to make it a brief double post. so, here's my basketball take: congrats to my favorite team, the bulls, for sweeping last year's champ. the bulls lost last year to the heat in round one in a hard fought, 6 game series. one year later, we're ending their season in 4. awesome. nicely done gents. nicely done. something that inspired me very early on to post about this game is how lame pro sports can be, especially trying to motivate fans. american fans are relatively uninspired, show up late, and only cheer when told to. this always bothers me. anyway, something that i noticed was that miami's fans were all in white. i'm sure they bill this as some sort of, "you're wearing the same color as the home team." also, miami's other color is red (the bulls away color) so you don't want your fans all decked out in red. but, here's what i also think is motivation for having your fans wear white. the seats are white. so, for the first five minutes of the game, i played an enjoyable mental game of differentiating between the people dressed in white and the empty seats. and you know what, the seats were winning for a good while.