What do I know

My last post from January cursed this team.
What was I thinking.

God damn the spurs

God, a veteran ball club.
Looks slow. Real slow.
Can't make a shot.
Tries for fouls.

Rafer Alston.

Shit.

I hate this team right now.

Austin

Went to Austin this weekend,
Caught Tommy's Band Quiet Company play a set at Emo's as part of a Battle of the Bands Competition.
They sounded alot better than the last time I saw them.
Unfortunately they got shafted, Losing by a half a point was tough.
But if anyone is out there reading and living in Texas check out

Then we went to Brad & Lena's for the Game.
Disappointing But I thought Texas played well for the first half. They'll need a stronger secondary, as well as a bigger contribution from Colt in the future, especially as they get into Big 12 competition.

Then we went out to Don's Depot, I'd talk about that but i was d-r-u-n-k, drunk.
Oh well I now have a camera full of blurry pictures from that night.



Awesome.

Labor Day

up late, working on a spreadsheet, instead i'll write a bit.
I'm very much looking forward to this weekend, this whole taking the LSAT class plus working is really draining. I need a stiff drink or four.
Carl and Lindsay are coming too, should be very good to see them. I wonder how their planning is going, g-d am I glad I'm not going through that again.
We'll see if we go to the Drive By Truckers, CCR show tomorrow. I could go either way.
It'll also be nice to see Mr Trent.
Ok, It's off to bed, get up tomorrow and finish off the spreadsheet, make some charts, fight off the sleepiness then get lit, I mean go out. No. I mean what I say.
Thus ends the stream of conciousness blogging.
Have a safe and happy Labor day and thank the unions, you ungrateful fucks.

Cinema

Paradise Now
An heartwrenching take on Suicide Bombers, powerful yet left me wanting just a little bit more. I appreciated its attempt to elucidate the reasons that one comes to be a suicide bomber, but I had trouble identifying with the characters.
I would recommend Paradise Now to anyone interested in Palestine and Israel's strained relationship.

American Splendor
I liked this movie. Expecting it to be funnier I was surprised at the sadness that Harvey Pekar was able to sustain. The movie had great style, and the meta nature of the film was a little mindblowing at times.
definitely one of the most interesting movies I've seen in a while.

-Matt

Back to the Future

So I am going to try this blogging thing again.
Why not.
Well a better question would be, why?.

Well as I troll around the tubes looking at all the cool things everyone posts I think, 'that could be me.'
but it's not.

So then I say to myself, well you should just go ahead and do it, right?. wrong.

But enough of that nonsense and back to blogging (at least until I get bored of it and quit, again.)

The Ever Present Terrorist

I was reading over at the Washington Note by Steve Clemons (by the way I really like Steve's work) regarding an article by Nir Rosen , which seems to be a well informed picture of Iraq right now (minus Candy Cane Mountain and Children with Flowers).
But there was a comment in Mr. Clemon's reaction to the piece that struck me,
I'm paraphrasing now(by the way I love the Wash Note, but it doesn't let me highlight and copy which is a bummer) but Clemons asked a Saudi foreign minister what kind of trouble he evnisioned for the future and the Saudi official remarked that the dilemma was going to be what do we (the Saudis) do with the foreign fighters now in Iraq if Iraq is ever pacified.
I think this is a discussion that we need to discuss.
This seems to set up a situation awfully similar to 9/11 where even if we pacify Iraq the overflow of jihadi influenced youth will remain (we can't kill them all) and where will they go. If this sounds too familiar to the rise of al Qaeda after the Soviets left Afghanistan than you're on the same page with me.
The questions as I see them are where do these foreign fighters (very often Saudi) go after Iraq?
Do they target Saudi?
If not Saudi, where? America?
What would an attack on Iran do to these Sunni partisans, would they be wiling to fight for the Shiite Iran, or would they take advantage of regional instability to expand their terror campaign.
Would a pullout of American troops from Iraq play a role in spreading these terrorists throughout the mid-east?
Or does our presence help keep these fighters from terrorizing the Shi'ite population of Iraq?

In the end I agree with Mr. Clemons in that we need strategic thinking about the aftermath of theIraq war in regards to the jihadi element we have drawn to Iraq and thus benefited with advanced training against the u.s. army.
Answers, I don't really have any for now.

Happy Dog

Hey What're ya Doin? Wanna Play? I've gotta Bone.