neverbeencool

Just assorted, random crap today.  For whatever reason, I can’t seem to pull my head out of my ass long enough to put together anything close to a coherent post.

God, I hope this isn’t my super power.  Maybe it wasn’t a spider bite yesterday after all?  Maybe it was a Republican?

Anyway.

1.  Elton Brand is a Sixer.

Might read like code to some of my readers, but that one’s significant.  Elton Brand (Dukie, Power Forward/Center, consistently classy 20/10 guy) reached a verbal agreement with the 76ers that will apparently keep him in Philly for the next 5 years or so.  Great for the Sixers, par for the course if you’re a Clippers fan.

The Clippers get screwed.  They go out and sign Baron Davis, thinking they’re satisfying Brand and making themselves a contender in the West.  This after Brand tells them:

We’re opting out. It definitely doesn’t mean I’m leaving the Clippers. We’re trying to work it out. My intention is to stay.

That was a little over a week ago.

Can’t really blame Brand, though.  Classy or not, it’s gotta suck balls to play for that organization, one with a reputation for a tight wallet and that will always play second fiddle to that other shitty LA basketball team.  I’d go all KG and jump ship for a young, talented team in a weaker conference, too.  This totally makes the Sixers a threat in the East, at least during the 20-30 games Brand will manage to stay injury-free next season.

2.  Free museum admission

Just noticed on the Bank of America site a little while back that they offer free admission to various museums during the first weekend of the month.  Their list of museums is fairly small right now (nothing in my local area), but they add new ones regularly.  For instance, if you happen to live in NYC, you can get in free to:

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The Jewish Museum
• New York Hall of Science
• International Center of Photography
• Bronx Zoo
• The New York Aquarium

All you have to do is show up on the first weekend of the month and flash your BoA card (check, ATM, or credit).

3.  Another book list

This one came across my RSS reader from Literary Rejections on Display last month, but I’m just getting around to sharing it because it reminds me of how I’ve dropped the ball on posting the rest of The Amazing Justin-o-Tron Book List 3000.  But since I need a third thing for this post…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2138827/To-Kill-a-Mockingbird-voted-Greatest-Novel-Of-All-Time.html

Couple things to note…  First, their list is “The Greatest Novels of All Time” whereas mine is limited to 20th Century English fiction.  As such, they get to add Hosseini and Tolstoy to their chart.  I get hosed on that one.

Second, their list, like one of the three I used as a source for my own, makes the mistake of assuming that you can trust teh interwebs.  The Da Vinci Code is the 5th greatest novel of all time?  Really?  And One Hundred Years of Solitude doesn’t even make the list?  Yeah.

Still, though, it’s worth checking out.

And while we’re on the topic of lists, here’s another chunk from mine.  And since we’re talking about the shitty books that somehow make the cut, I think I’ll throw out the ones at the bottom of my list.  Enjoy.

RANK	TITLE	AUTHOR
198	Rabbit, Run	Updike, John
199	Sometimes a Great Notion	Kesey, Ken
200	The Ginger Man	Donleavy, J.P.
201	Where Angels Fear to Tread	Forster, E.M.
202	Mulengro	de Lint, Charles
203	Suttree	McCarthy, Cormac
204	Holdstock, Robert	Cather, Willa
205	The Magnificent Ambersons	Tarkington, Booth
206	Illusions	Bach, Richard
207	The Cunning Man	Davies, Robertson

Seriously, the whole thing will be posted by the end of the month.  For realsies.