Valentines Week Excitement

Well it all finaly over. For those of us unlucky enough to have that someone special (myself included) we have to find other ways to spend that time...lucky for us guys there was such and event that happened this weekend...NBA All Star Weekend. What a savior this was, a reason for me and the boys to go out to a few bars this weekend and watch some great ball action.

The festivities for us started at fridays to catch the skills challenge. Fridays was filled to the brim with the lovers but lucky the bar was mosly free which is what we came in for. So we ate and watched the skills challenge which was quite entertaining. Derrick Rose ccame out ontop and he looked real good making all the passes on the first shot...very fast runs. To my suprise Tony Parker did not make a great showing. I think he was overly confident because he was already running to the next station before the balls went in and when he missed this cost him some major time. After that we left there on to our next venue.

We then walk into an old favorate(term used loosely) spots...Dugens. We watched the 3 point shootout there but when we were there they also had what looked like a 45+ singles even which was quite interesting so we stayed there only long enough to watch the first round of the 3 point shootout. Nothing so spectacular to here other then Jason Kapono the winner 2 years running with ver impressive shohing both times with a 24 then a 25 this time was out in the first round. This let Deaquan Cook walk away with the title with a 19.

We finshind are viewing at Hooters with there many tvs, beer, and "scantily clad" women was a proper choice. A friend of mine works at the particular establishment so we sat with her. so we got some drinks and watched the stupidity that ws this years dunk contest. To my eyes the whole thing was fixed to get Dwight Howard and Nate Robinson to the final round. Last year was no better with Howard winning with doing that non dunk of his...crap. Once the final round was underway it got a little better because Howard and Robinson can both dunk great. When Robinson came out with the Kryponite uniform, ball, and sneakers and jumped over Howard that really was great to see...that short guy can really jump. He deserved to win and im glad the majority of the fans agreed with me with 52% of the vote. On other notes i really want that Kryptonite ball and those sneakers are hot. Next year we can expect Labron James in the contest which we saw a little of at the end of the All Star game(more on that later). I would love to see him and Kobe mix it up.

We did go to a club after hooters where i saw one of my boys. It was an ok time...alot of girls without BFs but i did not see anything that was so outstanding atleast to my eye. There were a few funny times during that time we had there but i dont think i need to say those here lol.

Now on to sunday night with the Allstar Game. Desiding to eat before the game we went to one of are standby Hibachi restaurants. The meal was great and we were on our way to a local bar RJs to see the game. Watching the game there was actually quite good, good screens, decent food, not to crowded but had people still. The game itself was alot of fun to watch. Great players doing what they do best and having a little bit of fun which was cool to see. There were alot of great plays and i cant go through them all but i must say that Chris Paul really came with it and i liked alot of the moved and plays he put together...he was gunning for that MVP. Ofcorse Kobe was great with 27 points. He and Shac got Co MVP which i did not think was needed but i gues the fan voting was very close.

All in all a good weekend. Like i said at the start good thing for the NBA to take the heat off of an otherwise uneventful Valentines. Until we next meet again.

NYCC aftermath

Well its all over and im kinda sad. This was by far the best comic con i have attended. Perhaps the reason is that i am following more comics now then i ever have and got to speak with and get autographs some of the talented people on the DC team such as Geoff Johns (Upcoming Flash:Rebirth, The Flash, Green Lantern:Rebirth), Peter Tomasi (Nightwing, FC:Requiem) and Tony Daniels (http://tonydaniel.blogspot.com/) who is actually the reason i am starting to blog here because i had to check out his blog. I also went to a few panels and a few that i wish i could have gotten into but was to late.

I got to talk to Geoff for a bit on friday and little more on sunday at his signing at the DC booth. Very cool guy and actually seem to care what his fans had to say and happy to hear from them. His writing on The Flash was top notch and he has not disapointed me in any of his writing. I also found out he writes on Robot Chicken which is awesome(didnot get into the panel sadly) and he wrote the Legion episode for smallville...best episode of the year BTW. Dont want to forget to mention his work on Legion of three worlds...thanks for bringing back Bart...cant wait to see what your going to do with him. Because of him i am now going to start reading all the new and crazy Green Lantern stuff.

I talked to Peter and had him sign Nightwing 150 for me. He was another guy who really seemed to want to connect with his fans...i was not so familiar with him before the show but now ater seeing what he did with nightwing and on other books i did not know he was a part of that i red i will be now following his work as well.

He is writing and penciling Battle for the Cowl now but my first look into his talent was Flash: Fastest Man Alive where he did the penciling for 11-13 and both covers for 13. I actually was at his BFTC panel on saterday and i was able to get him to spare a few moments after the panel and talk to me which was very cool of him. I told him how much i loved the art in those books and how great the cover art is on 13...The Black Flash is awesome. He was very happy to hear that i loved the books and i told him i read that he was not happy with some of his work on those books but i stilled loved it. He resonded with 11 and 12 were very rushed for him and he did not have much fun with those but he really liked doing 13 even though he was upset that they were killing off Bart a hero that he liked very much and i agreed with him. I also had him sign both covers of Flash: FMA 13 for me which was very very cool. I told him i was very muhc looking forward to what he does with BFTC.

All in all a great experiance im just sad that i will wait a year and a half till the next one...well atleast it looks like i will have plenty of great reading material to keep me busy till then. Well im off...until next time people.