http://www.fearthebeard.org The East Bay culture blog with a high basketball IQ. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:56:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I rented a Chrysler. For some reason it seemed to fit. My official work here is a subject of some personal reflection, so I chose to start with appropriate transit. This would be a trip of perpetual dusk. Any good theme needs to be extended. So, the hotel of choice was ... http://www.fearthebeard.org/2008/07/23/la-noir-the-night-is-always-young/ Friends of Fear the Beard stretch far and wide. So it is with pleasure that esteemed colleague and former resident of the Bay Area and greater California, Ms. Buzzy Jackson, is introduced as a new voice. Author of a critically acclaimed history of women and the blues, she submits the ... http://www.fearthebeard.org/2008/07/22/letters-from-exile-the-musings-of-a-landlocked-expatriate-landlocked-californian-part-icalifornian-part-i/ With reports out of Phoenix indicating that Matt Barnes is close to an agreement with the Phoenix Suns, female season ticket holders are planning an impromptu protest at the team practice facility in Downtown Oakland tomorrow. Details are scarce at this late hour, but when reached for comment, a representative ... http://www.fearthebeard.org/2008/07/22/matt-barnes-next-to-leave-bay-area-womenfolk-angered/ Newest Warrior, Ronny Turiaf, is set to at least partially fill the massive void in Warrior bearditude since the departure of Baron Davis. It is also clear from this photo taken during his stellar four-year career as a 'Zag, that Turiaf is capable of putting up Ben Wallace-like numbers in ... http://www.fearthebeard.org/2008/07/20/its-official-warriors-sign-hair-apparent-ronny-turiaf/ I don't know if this is hella corny or hella awesome. I'm leaning towards awesome, but you be the judge. M. Meschery http://www.fearthebeard.org/2008/07/17/fine-art-fridays-skateboard-crutch-dancing/ It might tell you something about my competitive nature that I was motivated to enter a "Cookie Bake-off" at my work. I don't even bake. I mean, I once baked some "magic" brownies in 7th grade, but that was a different kind of "bake-off." No, tonight I'm trying to get ... http://www.fearthebeard.org/2008/07/17/azubuike-to-the-clippers-team-swap-2008-continues/ I used to watch a lot of television. And in the course of that viewing, a few things stuck. Like this infomercial. Was it really named after a daughter named Nadine? We can only guess. But the perfect symmetry of the moment lives on, give or take an apostraphe. Possessive ... http://www.fearthebeard.org/2008/07/16/old-school-nads-infomercial-pogonophobia-overload/ A couple of weeks back, we drafted Donté Greene in a mock draft conducted by our BFFs at WWOD. Somewhat more recently, Donté Greene had his summer-league debut. Donté Greene went for 40. Donté Greene was five for ten from beyond the arc. He also had a nasty alley oop ... http://www.fearthebeard.org/2008/07/15/donte-greene-goes-berserker-for-40-in-debut-ftb-says-yep/ No, "game theory" is not some regional offshoot of pimpology. Game theory is actually a respected branch of applied mathematics, where the application in question is frequently the social sciences. Given the seemingly inexplicable chain reaction that sent Boom Dizzle south, Elton Brand east and Corey Maggette north, let's see ... http://www.fearthebeard.org/2008/07/14/what-happened-with-baron-brand-and-maggette-game-theory-explains/ This isn't a particularly well-edited highlight of tonight's summer-league win for the Warriors, but it's enough to get the point across. For those without NBA TV, you're missing out. Summer-league ball is sort of like watching some sort of crazy melange of YMCA dudes and future stars. One guy throws ... http://www.fearthebeard.org/2008/07/13/marco-belinelli-the-king-of-summer-league/