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WKCR.
Today they're doing the Charles Mingus birthday bash. 24+ hours of nothing but Charles Mingus.
Tomorrow they honor the recently departed Andrew Hill. Again, 24+ hours of Hill's music.
Next week, Duke Ellington. 24+ hours of Ellington.
In May, ONE FULL WEEK OF SAM RIVERS. No other radio station in the world can do stuff like this. Not one.

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Sam Rivers Festival Broadcast

89.9 FM in New York
Streaming live online at www.wkcr.org
Starting Friday, May 18, 2007 at 12 noon
Ending Friday, May 25, 2007 at 9 p.m.

WKCR is proud to announce a week-long festival broadcast honoring the musical genius of Sam Rivers, set to air continuously for 177 hours during May 18-25, 2007.

In a career which spans over 60 years, multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers has been an extraordinary force in the world of jazz and creative music. Whether through intricate composition or stunning free improvisation, his music synthesizes a broad spectrum of styles into a unique and forward-looking sound. Equally important to history was his proprietorship of Studio Rivbea, a vibrant performance space in lower Manhattan which nurtured exciting new expressions of jazz in New York's musician-driven renaissance of the 1970s. As a community-minded mentor and facile performer alike, Sam Rivers represents the highest level of artistic achievement and, remarkably, continues to innovate at the age of 83.

In a unique round-the-clock format, the festival will thoroughly explore Sam Rivers' fascinating musical world. The broadcast centers around a presentation of Rivers' complete recorded discography, supplemented by interviews with his fellow musicians and in-depth features on particular aspects of his music-making. Additionally, Sam Rivers will join us in studio to reflect on his career and share with listeners his living history.

In a tradition spanning over 35 years, WKCR's jazz department again presents a signature radio event: a multi-day salute to an under-recognized legend of the art form. In May of 2007, tune in to WKCR for Sam Rivers Radio.

A Major Victory for the NYC Cycling community?

If Bloomberg isn't just blowing smoke up our ass, this could mean less cars -and more bikes- in the city!
Power to the bikes!

Scott Skiles was always a piece of kaka

"From everything I hear, the Knicks are on the verge of becoming a great team," Skiles said sarcastically. "So they are probably a team we will be playing over and over again in the years to come. Something like this should not fester."

Fuck the Lower East Side

Fuck the lower east side, or what has become of the lower east side as of late, bunch of Goddamn rich stock brocker assholes moving in taking over shit. they're closing tonic! Tonic was in trouble a few years ago, this time they really are closing, and they only have one week left of shows.

tonicnyc.com

Every time I walk past that bullshit high rise luxury apartment building next to tonic, I'm going to fucking spit on the window or do some other kind of insiginicant vadalism, because that was place for beautiful music to be heard, and now it has to make way for the ugly, hiddeous people that are going to live there. Also fuck you to the bullshit high rise apartment building that supplanted what was once Luna Lounge. Better yet,FUCK YOU to all the new Lower East Side condo assholes. You think you're so cute putting up indoor swimming pools where artists once lived. You regard your life to be an episode of in sex and the city. Fuck your SUV, fuck Prada and fuck you. You took the coolest neighborhood in manhattan and turned it into yuppie SHIT.

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from the website of tonic:

Dear Musicians, Fans and Friends:

After more than 9 years as a home for avant-garde, creative, and experimental music, Tonic will reluctantly close its doors on Friday, April 13th, 2007. We simply can no longer afford the rent and all of the other costs associated with doing business on the Lower East Side.

The neighborhood around us has been increasingly consumed by "luxury condominiums", boutique hotels and glass towers, all making the value of our salvaged space worth more then our business could ever realistically support. We have also been repeatedly harassed by the city's Quality of Life Task Force which resulted in the debilitating closing of the ))sub((tonic lounge in January. Coincidentally, this campaign began as our immediate neighbor, the Blue Condominium building - a symbol of the new Lower East Side - prepared to open its doors.

As a business, we take responsibility for mistakes made along the way. If profit had been our chief motivation we could have changed our programming to something more mainstream and financially lucrative. Instead we were more committed to a certain type of music and loyal to the community that supported us. As a result, we've always just survived but never really prospered. It is, however, unfortunate that it is so difficult for small businesses to operate in this city and that a chain store that can afford a high rent is more desirable than a place like Tonic that has a different kind of value.

While this is certainly the end of Tonic at 107 Norfolk Street, we remain committed to what Tonic represents and plan to try again in some form as soon as possible. In the interim, Tonic will make efforts to present new music in existing venues such as the Abron's Arts Center located just a few blocks away.

We invite you to join us as often as you can over our remaining days to help us celebrate Tonic and more importantly the amazing artists, our unwavering staff, and the nurturing community that made Tonic possible. It’s because of you that we’ve stayed open as long as we have. Thank you!

Sincerely, Melissa and John

Contact: tonic [at] tonicnyc.com

April Schedules for the four teams that would make it in the east

There are many who at this point do not believe the knicks will make it. I am not one of them.

Ben Wallace to Endorse Starburys

Okay we know that the new Starbury II shoes are coming out this April 1st (not too far away!).
But did we know that Ben Wallace is now endorsing Starburys, is wearing them this season on the court and will have his own Ben Wallace Starbury next season? Nice!
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press release
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Four-time NBA All-Star Ben Wallace is best known for a strong work ethic that has resulted in four Defensive Player of the Year awards, multiple NBA rebounding titles, and an NBA blocked shots title. With today's announcement that the Chicago Bulls center is the first athlete endorser of Starbury, he will put that legendary work ethic to use on and off the court by helping get kids and parents to join the Starbury Movement. Wallace - aka Big Ben - will wear Starbury basketball shoes on-court this season. Wallace's Big Ben signature Starbury sneaker is currently being designed and will debut next season during Wallace's games. "
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And thanks to my girlfriend Robin, I've learned that Steve and Barry's are going to do a line similar to Starbury for Sarah Jessica Parker, a low-cost fashion line for the ladies. Good for Sarah. Respect!

I love it when Americans do good things for Americans. I know that some hippie will bring up sweat shops and try to bring all this positive energy down, but I believe in what Steve and Barry's are doing and I don't give a rat's ass what hippies think beyond that.

so you call yourself a fan?

I wrote this email in response to an article posted online on the famous realgm website. Obviously I'm as frustrated with Knick negativity in the media as this chump is with the knicks tanking every other game.
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Subject: that lip service you call an article

hey
i must admit I didn't read all of your article because I've seen it all before from the media these past 5 straight years from the likes of Frank Isola, Mike Lupica, Mitch Lawrance, Marc Berman and Mike and the Mad Dog, I guess we can add you to those lowly ranks now too. And now that the knicks are half a game out of the 8th seed with 21 games left, I really wonder if people like you are going to start changing your disposition with regard to my knicks. you may call yourself a knick fan if you like, taking shit about my beloved team, but before you start to change your tune for your next piece go back and read the article that you just wrote again and just try not to consider yourself a sellout. you think you're struggling with the knicks by writing that article out of frustration but you're really just putting more negativity against all their efforts to turn this season around. Don't go throwing around phrases like "disgrace to the franchise" about my team!

By the way, the celtics just beat New Jersey and Minnesota, making it 4 wins in a row, 3 of those coming on the road, so that "mail it in" garbage was obviously pretty far off. and the utah game was a loss by the refs, not the knicks. and you dare mention the chicago trade? That nazi Paxon is ruing the day he gave away their legitimate low post threat for fat Sweetney, Ty Thomas and a player that has yet to be determined. you must be the only person on earth that still thinks chicago got the best of that deal. give me whoever isiah picks with the lower bulls pick in 2007, i guarantee it will be a SUPERIOR player than whoever chicago gets with their "higher" draft pick. Eddy Curry was an all star this year, and if your average NBA fan wasn't such an complete idiot as to have voted an undeserving player a starting position (shaq had played all of 7 games when the ballots were tallied) Eddy would have got his just due. he is a good kid, he earned that fucking spot and he was robbed of it by the masses of idiots who belive things that people write just because it is printed.

its sad. they win 23 wins all of last season under next town brown, have their fucking spirits broken and come into this season with all you doubters against them, turn empty seats at the garden into late-season sell out crowds doing the wave for the first time in 20 years, and you expect them to win 13 straight like Dallas and compare them to the likes of Phoenix? they're 28-33 with 21 games remaining, so what if they win one loose one, you have to learn to walk before you can run! If you were a knicks fan last year (I'm sure you think you were) AND you watch games this year IT IS CLEAR that this is a more fun team to watch and cheer for. a young team still learning how to win, a team learning how to communicate on defense, a team that if they could cut just 2 turnovers per game would winning even more games than they already have. stephon is leaving it all on the court these days, the man is playing his soul out to try for the playoffs -you might want to include that in the next article you write for real gm.

see you at the gaden. i'll be up in the nosebleeds cheering for my team. God knows were the rest of you "fans" will be. and if you don't like the tone of this email, i make no apologies to you, go back and read your article again and learn the definition of karma.

shows, shows, show

damn i need to start writing here again.

shows (not to mention killswitch engage and also lamb of god, but I guess those don't fit in with these)---

Thu 3/01 7:30 PM Rob Crow, Genghis Tron Rebel 18+ $12

Fri 3/02 9:00 PM The Vincent Black Shadow, White Hills, Weird Owl Club Midway 21+ $8

Fri 3/02 8:00 PM Rob Crow, The Glorytellers (ex-Karate), Cave Singers Southpaw 18+ $12

Sat 3/03 8:00 PM Nakatomi Plaza Matchless(Benefit for J. Robbins & family) 21+ tba

Mon 3/05 8:00 PM The Thermals, The Big Sleep, Meneguar Studio B(Todd P Presents) $12a

Thu 3/08 8:00 PM Detachment Kit, Lonely China Day, Rebuilding the Rights of Statues, The Hecklers
Cake Shop 21+

Tue 3/13 8:00 PM Au Revoir Simone, Metronomy, Hot Club De Paris Union Hall 21+ $10

tue 3/20 8:00 PM OOIOO, I.U.D. Knitting Factory All Ages $12

Sat 3/31 7:30 PM Walter Meego, Oxford Collapse, Dragons of Zynth, Del Rey, DJ Creature!
Knitting Factory(Oh My Rockness' March Radness 2 Party!!!) 18+ $10

Fri 4/13 8:00 PM Enon, Cheeseburger Mercury Lounge 21+ $10

Tue 4/17 8:00 PM Art Brut Bowery Ballroom 18+ $16

Wed 4/18 8:00 PM John Vanderslice Maxwell's All Ages $12

Wed 4/18 8:00 PM Souls of Mischief Southpaw 18+ tba Tell A Friend

Wed 4/18 8:00 PM Art Brut Studio B All Ages $12

Thu 4/26 8:00 PM Acid Mother's Temple Knitting Factory(Main Space) All Ages $13a/$15d

Fri 5/18 8:00 PM Tapes 'n Tapes, Ladyhawk, The Harlem Shakes Irving Plaza 16+ $15a/$16d

Sat 5/12 8:30 PM LCD Soundsystem Studio B 18+ $25 Buy Tickets

Mon 5/14 7:30 PM LCD Soundsystem Webster Hall 18+ $20a/$25d Buy Tickets

Tue 5/08 Blonde Redhead Webster Hall 18+ $22a/$25d

Sat 5/05 6:30 PM Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Love of Diagrams Webster Hall 16+ $19

Sun 5/06 7:30 PM Beirut Bowery Ballroom 18+ $16

Sun 4/29 7:30 PM Yo La Tengo Webster Hall 18+ $25

Turnovers Knicks' Biggest Obstacle to Victory

Yes, its been a long time since I blogged here. But I want to post my conclusion about this 06-07 Knicks team: we only need to shore up on our turnovers.

You say, "KMC, the knicks' perimeter defense blows!"

And I can't disagree with that.

You might even say "KMC, the knicks have no shot blockers."

This I can not argue with.

But when you look at all the statistics (we're number one in the league in rebounding, get to the line more than the opponents, shoot a better percentage than our opponents, we only get outscored on average 1.8 points per game) the only one that needs to be modified to consistently win is turnovers. I do believe that if we can cut our turnovers per game, lessen them by say, 2, that it will result in victory on a regular basis. This can be hard to do, especially when you're adding francis to the mix, a career high-turnover player to the likes of Crawford, Marbury, Curry and Richardson. Nevertheless, if a few of those guys can develop some chemistry and learn where the others are going to be and what the like to do with the ball, the knicks will be the ONE team that makes the playoffs in the atlantic.

yes, only one team in the atlantic will make the playoffs this year. hopefully it is the new york knicks.

Free Beer, Saddam's Laywer zings foxnews, and Eddy Curry

I was thrilled to catch NPR's coverage of free beer, an open-source concept applied to beer.

Was watching foxnews last night when they announced saddam's execution. greta van straten interviewed saddam's lawer, and asked about Saddam's guilt(i'm paraphrasing here):
"what about the 150 people saddam killed in 1982, did he ever talk to you about that? and what about the 5000 he gassed in 1988, did he ever talk to you about that?"
to which saddam's laywer zingned back about America's guilt,
"And in 2006, 750,000 killed in Iraq."
to which Greta quickly changed the subject. Wow.

And finally, and probably least importantly, last night's loss in Phoenix. Stephon was off, but he took 17 shots, curry only took 11. I didn't see the game, but if they are collapsing down on curry and he can't get into his groove on the post, then outside shooters MUST make their jumpers, if we are to have any chance. Make the jump shots, defense stays honest, then get the ball back down to curry. but it is phoenix, they're a great team. nash, bell, stoudemire, matrix, that guy from the hawks whose name ecapes me, they have endless amounts of offense. knicks need to continue to improve on both ends of the court.

Knicks beat another top team, this time in triple overtime

As my lovely girlfriend robin said, it was a beautiful game.
Jeffries took Lee's starting job tonight but it didn't matter, lee still got his double double, his 6th straight.
WE BEAT THE PISTONS. the best team in the east. we just lost to the sixers, the worst team in the east. what is going on here? well, out of the last 5 games, it seems like most of them have gone into extra sessions, or brawls, the team has had recent suspensions, and injuries.
but we fight hard, we play together.
steph was great 41 points. clutch free throws, clutch drives to the basket, he made his lay ups tonight, played like the mvp of the game, was better than hamilton but fouled out in the first OT.
curry 30+ points AGAIN.
Jamal finally found his shot in the third OT, 26 points.
Frye had over 20, including some clutch shots in the overtime.

So, we just have to learn to win against the crappier teams. We need Q back, but we don't need francis nor robinson to win. in fact, its beginning to be clear to me that we win more without francis and nate playing for us. its nothing against them, we just have better chemistry when they don't play.

Q better start to like marbury or he should sit too.

Knicks win third strait at home, break Chicago's 5-game winning streak 103-92

Well it feels great to see my Knicks play so well together. We have to keep this lineup when everyone comes back from suspension and injury.
Tonight Steph had his career averages of 19 and 8, Frye and Lee BOTH had double doubles, and Crawford with the big 30 point outing against nemesis Ben Gordon. Curry showed up Ben Wallace with 20 and 6.
What does this mean for the New York Knicks? It means that both Nate and Francis are not needed on this Knicks team. It means that since we've got a great young fundamental player like Mardy Collins, that he can fill in for Steph or Jamal when they need to rest. It means that Quentin and Jeffries need to earn their minutes because although they both play great defense, three victories in a row speaks louder than statistics, the players who are playing now deserve to continue to get the minutes. This is the only three-game win streak this season for the Knicks, why try to mess with a good thing when everyone comes back?
Steph will be 30 in Febuary (as will Francis) BUT he is playing great ball with the extra minutes. Balkman is so versatile he's been able to guard some of the NBA's quickest guards and most powerful forwards.
bottom line is when the chemistry is a big problem -as it has been over the past two years- once you find something that works you stick with it.
Great chemistry tonight with 9 players available to play.
David Lee is becoming a leader for this team. With all these double-doubles, Lee seems prime to be a future all-star.
Eddy Curry really does deserve to be an all-star candidate THIS YEAR.
I'm happy for Steph's recent success.
Jeffries is the only guy I think deserves any minutes when he comes back, everyone else's minutes should be reduced (francis, nate, quentin), and they can earn their minutes back should the knicks start loosing again. Quentin is a great team player, a great shooter and defender but he doesn't like Marbury and doesn't play well with Steph, plus he has chronic back problems that force him to occasionally miss games. If it isn't broken Isiah, please don't fix it.
Nets lost tonight, which is a good thing for the Knicks and their playoff aspirations! Kristic got injured, which is bad for them, but good for us.
Fire Isola!

Live Music Archive

I stumbled upon this incredible site from a link on the bardo pond website, hummingbird mountain.
There seems to be many, many live shows of interest available for FREE download. They even have shows in various formats, ogg vorbis (my format of choice) or vbr mp3, flac, its crazy.
This is what the Internet founding fathers (who must be all of 40 years old by now) had in mind. Okay, perhaps not but I'm sure they wouldn't object.
Share the love!
The larger Internet archive has audio books and several other forms of media from all over the place.

New shows for the new year

If I see frank "kkk" isola at any of these shows I'm going to beat his ass.

Man Man Jan 5th Bowery $14
The Dears Jan 19th Webster Hall $20
Camera Obscura Jan 24th Warsaw $15.50
Deerhoof Jan 26th Irving Plaza $16
Trans Am Feb 24th (two shows) Knitting Factory $13
Acid Mother's Temple April 24th Knitting $13

George Karl calls Isiah a Jackass? An open letter to George Karl

Well you bald prick George Karl, at least Isiah has two championship rings (three including college at Indiana University) that he earned, what have you earned for yourself beside your subscription to hairclub for men and an annual pass to the Denver Nuggets all-you-can-eat 24-hour buffet? that's right, nothing, you fucking Larry Brown asshole-licking tub of shit.

You couldn't win with Shawn Kemp,Gary Payton, Nate Mcmillan and Ricky Pierce, all in their prime, you can't coach worth a lick and soon you'll be fired from your position with the Nuggets just like all the other positions you've unsuccessfully occupied in your career.

Here is a prediciton for your lousy team, should you make it as an 8th seed in the Western conference: your sorry ass team gets knocked out of the first round of the playoffs just after Marcus Camby goes down with another season ending injury. Carmelo, due to HIS OWN ACTIONS, will not be chosen for MVP, and you'll be searching the classifieds once again trying to convince someone that you once knew Dean Smith.

You swear on the lives of your children that you didn't leave your 4 starters in during a 20 point blowout to run up the score? Do you not think your children will someday be smart enough to deduce how much of an asshole you are by reading your quotes?

Let's see. Both the Knicks and the Nuggets were both fined $500k each. Know what this tells me Mr. Karl? Perhaps David Stern does think that you ran up the score by leaving your starters in. If Isiah ordered the hard foul, it doesn't mean he started the riot. Nate and J.R. Smith started the riot.


***Addendum 12/19/06***
The above comments were made prior to the Allen Iverson trade. I still don't think any George Karl lead team can amount to shit, but they probably can make it to the second round now due to sheer talent. Karl, go polish that bald yet empty head of yours you tub o lard!

Marbury leads Knicks to overtime victory over Jazz

I knew that Steph and Jamal would have a big night tonight against the Jazz because, lets face it, they are the only two active guards for tonight's game.

I was at the garden tonight wearing all my knicks colors and looking for those punks Frank Isola and Mike "the Larry Brown puppet" Lupica but those cowards were nowhere in site. They were probably so dissapointed the Knicks won tonight because it doesn't further their agenda of controling the team through their newspapers to ultimately have Isiah Thomas fired.

What I did see was an 8-man team go into a war with one of the top teams in the NBA and come out on top.

David Lee, you are a true Knicks warrior and you have the fighting spirit of Knicks great Charles Oakley. It is a shame any night where you don't get 40 minutes to display all of your skill and hustle (please learn how to shoot free throws and throw decent passes, btw).

In 45 minutes, Lee was 8-12 from the floor, had 17 points and 20 rebounds in addion to two steals and three assists. Congrats, hopefully Isiah will realize you need MORE minutes reguardless of how deep this team already is, you can't please everybody.

Congrats to Channing Frye for putting up a double double and coming up with the defensive stop of the game, blocking Carlos Boozer on the low post! 10points, 10rebounds, and 2 blocks.

Also congrats to Jamal Crawford for shooting his way out of the slump and coming up big in the final quarter and overtime with 18 points.

But mostly congrats to Stephon Marbury, who put the Knicks on his back tonight and let it ride with a big game, 29 points, 8 assists, and the game winning, buzzer-beating, drive-the-length-of-the-floor lay-up. Though they had to review the tape and the garden sat and anxiously awaited the decision, Marbury ran strait to the locker-room after the winning basket.

I also want to mention Renaldo Balkmen's tremendous defensive hustle throughout the game, getting blocks, getting deflections, what a great energy pickup for the Knicks! 15 rebounds for balkman tonight, also 7 points and two blocks.

Eddy Curry was a no show tonight, but he did a good job on Boozer when he covered him.

Kelvin Kato had 4 blocks! I like the players that played tonight. We just need Q and Jared Jeffries back. I like Mardy Collins too, he's a true Knick warrior and when he gets more playing time after we trade Nate and Francis people will see that he is a fundamentally sound player, particularly on the defensive end, where the Knicks need help on the perimeter.

Go to hell to all the Jazz fans (also known as the NY Beat writers) in attendance tonight at the Garden.

Fire Mike Breen from MSG Network!

Hey you uncle tom traitor Mike Breen, get the hell off my Knicks games, you anti-Knick, you watered-down ABC colorless commentator. Get somebody with some passion to call the games, I've been to insurance seminars with more emphatic speakers.
I'm sick of hearing you side against the home team during games that you call, saying bruce bowen doesn't take cheap shots at players and when a Knicks player does it on orders from the coach, you condemn him and are so disgusted.
Now you're siding with George Karl and Carmelo Anthony after the brawl. Who are you? Go call games for the Denver Nuggets, you swine.
Why don't you just resign your position if you hate the Knicks so much? NO-ONE like you, you politically correct asswipe, get the hell out off of MSG!
Let Gus Johnson and Clyde Fraiser call all the games, and when one of those two needs a nite off, let Kenny Smith call some games, but treacherous Mike Breen has got to go, because I can't stand his point of view, always siding against the Knicks when they're fucking paying him to call the games.
By the way Breen, you're fucking boring on top of all your anti-knicks sentiment.

Knicks versus Nuggets: Carmelo Anthony shows his true colors

Carmelo Anthony, with all his millions of dollars, couldn't buy class tonight at Madison Square Garden.

Carmelo Anthony, you fight like a bitch. Let me clarify that, you coward, Carmelo Anthony. You don't call yourself a man, Carmelo Anthony, and then punch somebody in the face, who isn't looking, doesn't have their hands up ready to fight, and the run away as fast as you can. Let me clarify that Carmelo, you, are a pussy. But how can I expect you to act civilized, you are an animal, Carmelo Anthony, and if you ever set foot in NYC if I'm around, I'll happily punch you in the back of the head when you're not looking, your over-paid son of a bitch. You have lost any credibility you've ever had as being a professional or a New Yorker and I now consider you as honorable a player as Latrell Sprewell after his "feed my family" comment.

The foul by Mardy Collins was a hard one, and the garden crowd over reacted with an "ooohhh." They're thirsty for blood, they're thirsty for anything, the knicks never win so they want to see a fist fight. But if you are a professional basketball player, J.R. Smith, you take the hit and take your free-throws and move on. You could do that or you could show your true colors as a common thug who happens to get 90 million dollars from Nike, as Carmelo Anthony did tonight. It seems early criticisms of anthony after he entered the NBA unfortunately were right. And ESPN, probably at the behest of commish David Stern, is selling this sucker punch as a half-punch, half-slap! I'm not buying it! That was clearly a closed fisted punch, and should be viewed as such when its time to dish out punishment. Anthony's publicists have tried to change his ghetto image with $1.5 million donations to kids and what have you, but in the heat of the battle Carmelo, we've got evidence of your character deficiency.

Class is not what happened tonight. Tonight was for the animals, it was for the cowards. And I say I applaud Mardy for fouling J.R. hard because he shouldn't be doing reverse dunks while up 30 at the end of the game. He should be on the bench, so should Carmelo, and this is an indictment on the coach of Denver, that looser George Carl. You disrespect us in our home, George Karl, we foul you hard. However your players react after that is your fault, because you shouldn't be playing them anyway when your team is up by that much with so little time left in the game.

That bald cocksucker George Carl is Larry Brown's best friend. He probably left the starters in the game to humiliate the Knicks as revenge for NY's humiliation of Larry Brown this summer. Too bad he has lost his star Carmelo to suspension just to appease his mentor.

Kudos to Mardy Collins and Jared Jeffries, you are true Knick warriors and I will cheer for you next time at the garden.

No love for Nate, because although he was fighting for the knicks, this is not the first time, not even this season, that he has escalated a situation on the court. He is proving to be an instigator, because he always talks and doesn't back down like a pit bull about to tear you a new asshole. Nate, you are out of control.

PETA are a bunch of assholes

I have been a strict vegetarian for about nine full years, but never during this time did I identify or sympathize with the group PETA.

I have witnessed PETA attacks on New Yorkers who wear fur, and although fur isn't something I'd ever wear, I always thought this extreme kind of violence to be the wrong way to get a point of view across. They seem to me extremists. They are not nice, animal-loving people, but human-hating people. The people that eat meat need awareness and information, not preaching, and in this country you have the right to eat meat if you so choose. Throughout the nine years of vegetarianism, during meals, I've been made fun of and persecuted by people that eat meat but I still don't think this kind of movement is the right approach to a solution.

I have never advocated my own dietary habits, because to me it is a matter of choice, and just because I chose a certain path doesn't mean that I think everyone else should choose that same direction in life.

I know if everyone was vegetarian it would be better for the world in terms of animal cruelty, energy, water supply, health, but should that Utopian society occur where everyone abandons cars and rides fixed gears everywhere -including to the local vegan-only restaurants, it should come by the free will of the people, not by absolutist doctrine enforced by some holier than thou hipsters trying to change the way people live. I predict that in the future this kind of evolved society will come eventually. Its just too bad that PETA is impeding progress by giving vegetarians negative publicity. They think they're raging against the machine but in reality they're polarizing prospective vegetarians.

Scroll down to the bottom of this link to see what PETA recently had to say to the players of the NBA.

go Veggie

Knicks beat Johnsonless Hawks

No Joe Johnson that is. A win is a win, right?

Well I have to make this remark reguarding tonights mintues allocation:

David Lee's minutes better not, at all, decline because Jeffries is back.

Magic Johnson was at the game tonight and during an interview he referred to Lee as a Knicks hero. That's high praise from one of the best players EVER. Also, the other night Rick Kamla was concerned Jeffries would steal Lee's minutes as well.

Tonight Lee got 21 minutes, but its tough to say his minutes reduced because the game was a blow out.

David Lee is double-double guy, and he can do some things that Jeffries can not. They should both play, along with Quentin, Curry and Stephon. Isiah, mess with everyone else's minutes (Crawford, Frye, Francis, Nate, Balkman) but please, give your main players the minutes they deserve: Lee, Stephon, Quentin, Jeffries, Curry.


Lee's numbers in recent games are loaded with double-doubles and are as impressive as Curry's as of late.