my mind is possessed with burning man possibilities. everyone says to go, and everyone is making it easy to go: places to camp with elsewhere or blyss abyss, playa bikes offered from allyn & jodi, maybe even meal options! not that i actually eat anyway. but it’s nice to have the option. plus, it’ll be fun, and there will be a lot of naked people there. and who doesn’t love naked people? everyone is telling me to go, and no one’s saying no. so, what then?
of course, we will talk about basketball instead.
team usa just finished their pre-olympic run of games, where they trounced puerto rico, and then embarrassingly lost to italy, barely beat germany, and had to fight hard to win two games over turkey. there’s been lots and lots of talk about how usa basketball still can’t assemble the right team for international play, namely getting people who play as a team, and specifically, players who can just out and out shoot, which is the key to the international game. where’s michael redd? where’s rip hamilton?
but anyway, quick impressions:
solid:
don’t go to burning man. it’s hot and dusty and your feet will crack and your nose will bleed and you’ll feel so lethargic in the sun but be unable to sleep and you’ll need to jack up on freaky drugs to stay awake at night and eventually you’ll get kind of disgusted that so many people with so much disposable income and energy spend it on creating things that will just burn up instead of, say, creating a better world or saving the seas or just on spending a week in hawaii with someone they love.
that’s just in case you really didn’t want to go and needed some back up.
i went. i loved it. i’m never going again.
also, i hope the US loses in basketball. we’re too damn cocky and i hope we get trounced by sri lanka or something humiliating.
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