RIP -- Consequential Person Has Passed Away

For me the signature moment of his career was the Bucks-Ce;ts elimination game where the bucks had a one point lead and were inboundsing after a made basket against them with 2 seconds left; all they had to do was inbounds the ball to start the clock and the Celtics were out of the playoffs. So they did, and Bird came from his normal position like a lightning bolt, stole the pass and in one motion passed it to DJ who put it in the hoop and won the game.

Someplace in all the games before that one Bird had realized that if the pass was just a little bit casual, he could actually get to it-- and he saved it for when it would mean something, instead of just winning a regular season game, or shocking somebody. And here the situation was, and he did it, and saved the season-- and nobody ever was casual about inboundsing with him on the court ever again. The barn door was now locked, but the horse was with Pancho Bird, in the deserts down in Mexico...

"He wore his gun outside his pants/ for all the honest world to feel."

 

Michael Ray Richardson, an NBA player who had a huge cocaine problem, and who also was the father of Moroccan international Amir Richardson.

 

I remember one time when Bird grabbed the ball that was going out of bounds and took a shot from midair as he was falling out of bounds, He was behind the backboard, but got nothing but net. Only Bird would even have the audacity to take a shot like that!

 

Bird would call a shot like that playing HORSE

 

Knowing Bird, he'd been practicing that shot, from both sides of the basket, with his left and his right hand, since he was 15.

 

That was one of my go-to trick shots in HORSE.

 

I was in French Lick a couple days ago. It's a fairly nice place now, but was pretty rough when he was young.

 

The French Lick Golf resort is phenomenal. Two of the three courses have been around since the early 1900's, but the resort expansion has largely taken place after 2009 when a third course opened and the casinos/hotels were finished.

How long ago was it a rough place?

 

You lose a bet?

 

Essentially before the West Baden Springs hotel reopened and before the Medicaid expansion, which were fairly close together. Like Hot Springs, AR, it was a big center of activity for Capone. After the hotel closed back then and the springs were plugged, things got pretty bad.

 

Fly fishing and scouting some woods

 

For those who celebrate, it's rifle-Dick-Cheney-in-the-ground day

Apparently the only presidents attending are Biden & Dubya

 

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82

A charismatic orator in the 1960s, he called for armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of murder in 2000 and died in detention.

An admirer of the Cuban revolution, he preached armed resistance and separatism, declaring: “Violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America’s culture. It is as American as cherry pie.

 

Rest in peace, sir. You deserved to live free, but at least you didn't get shot in the neck, lol

 

Jimmy Cliff, reggae music and Jamaican cultural icon, dies at 81

 

Step out of limbo and roll on rolling stone... no more obstacles in your way...



("Pneumonia following a siziure")

 

Check out the movie "The Harder They Come." I saw Jimmy Cliff back a long time ago at an outdoor concert on a sunny summer day. These high school kids asked me if I had any hemp. I was tempted to tell them to go smoke that-thar piece of rope, but nah, that wooda been mean.

RIP Jimmy

 

I never got past the soundtrack...it wasn't until "Natty Dread" that i got a real feel for the genre, that and "Sinsemilla..." Oh and "Black and Dekker..."

 

The movie is a very fun watch. I love movies that are “real” depictions of a place and time, and the movie was made so on the cheap that you saw where they lived, how they lived.

 

Mother Viola Fletcher, 111 (wow). Oldest known survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre

TULSA, Okla. — Mother Viola Fletcher died on Nov. 24, 2025 at the age of 111 after spending the majority of her life fighting for justice after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-new...eaves-legacy-of-fighting-for-justice-in-tulsa

 

I’d like to celebrate a survivor’s life and triumph, but instead, I’m waiting to see how Trump will divide us with an offhand Truth.

 

Read that earlier this afternoon. She lived long enough to see it come full circle.

 

111. Wow. I guess that's what a willingness to discharge old karma can do for you...