Fashion Board 5-7-04 to 6-9-04

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
My anti-drug is John Stamos.

Strange. He has the exact opposite effect on me.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I see two recommendations for Levengers (r's?) bags, and no one speaking against them. Anyone else? I've thought about buying one from them, but didn't know whether it would be junk or not.

I recommended 'em based on the portfolio I bought, which, as leather goods go, is sex on a stick.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Sorry. I know it was necessary for art to evolve, but that doesn't mean that I have to like it or appreciate it. Okay, maybe I can appreciate it b/c I appreciate rebellion.

I appreciate ham.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._fe_st/ham_art

(Brooklyn artist makes a bed of ham)

"Cavallaro says his cheese period ended two years ago, after he had sprayed five tons of pepper jack over a vacant house in Powell, Wyo.


'I was cloaking myself in cheese. I had started getting comfortable,' he explained. 'I always need new boundaries.'"

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
I totally diagree with the criticisms of Phil Jackson. Obviously he doesn't have the same type of playbook as some other coaches (Flip Saunders comes to mind), but what he does better than any other coach out there is manage egos.

You can have the best players in the NBA on your team and lose hugely if their egos get out of control. Controlling superstars and making sure they all stick to their roles is what Phil Jackson does best.

The reason why Phil Jackson "manages" these superstar egos is because he has three rings and because Michael Jordan has vouched for him (which means little more than that he was Michael's bitch while in Chicago). He didn't cultivate this ability to manage egos. The reputation was handed to him by Michael and he's been sliding by on it ever since.

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
At that level of play, coaching is more about personnel management than it is about running tons of plays and making adjustments after every game. It's about getting your players to all hit their stride and to know what their role on the team is.

That is complete bullshit. When you have the best players in the league on your team, it isn't about running plays, sure. But for the other teams in the league, it's about executing plays and adjusting game plans and strategy. Van Gundy is the perfect example. He's not exactly known for his ability to manage big egos. But he's an amazing Xs and Os guy who draws up game plans so that his team can compete with whoever they're up against.

It's even more important now that the NBA basically allows teams to play a zone defense.

TM

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
'I was cloaking myself in cheese. I had started getting comfortable,' he explained. 'I always need new boundaries.'"

this is kind of like some advice I pm'd to nfh. he needs to move past the "I'm a woman schtick, and do something different, but as an admitted guy.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by ironweed
. . . but I am actually a huge international drug lord . . .

Yeah, Slave mentioned the weight problem.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
The reputation was handed to him by Michael and he's been sliding by on it ever since.
TM

didn't he replace Doug Collins? Collins is the most extreme control freak. Jackson let Michael make a lot of decisions as to who/when guys play. He is easy going in comparision to Collins and because he realized fighting Michael would get him fired.

On the other hand, in a sense he "realized" that doing this would get the team championships. And he* did get a few good years out of Rodman, and he* got Pippin to become a reliable 2nd option.

* the last 2 hes could have been as much Michael as Jackson.

It would be interesting to see his big skills sitting on the 76 or Magic bench. somehow I don't think we'll see him anywhere rebuilding though.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
The reason why Phil Jackson "manages" these superstar egos is because he has three rings and because Michael Jordan has vouched for him (which means little more than that he was Michael's bitch while in Chicago). He didn't cultivate this ability to manage egos. The reputation was handed to him by Michael and he's been sliding by on it ever since.

That is complete bullshit. When you have the best players in the league on your team, it isn't about running plays, sure. But for the other teams in the league, it's about executing plays and adjusting game plans and strategy. Van Gundy is the perfect example. He's not exactly known for his ability to manage big egos. But he's an amazing Xs and Os guy who draws up game plans so that his team can compete with whoever they're up against.

It's even more important now that the NBA basically allows teams to play a zone defense.

TM

I agree with much of what has been written about Phil, it certainly isn't as hard to look good when you have superstars on your team. But, and I'm not positive about this, but I don't think Jordan & Pippen or Shaq & Kobe ever won a championship before Jackson "coached" them. Other coaches had the same or roughly the same personnel, and weren't nearly as successful with these players. Like the guy who coached the Lakers, Del Harris (looks kinda like Leslie Nielsen)--he had Shaq and Kobe, and he didn't do squat.

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Van Gundy is the perfect example. He's not exactly known for his ability to manage big egos. But he's an amazing Xs and Os guy who draws up game plans so that his team can compete with whoever they're up against.

Jeff Van Gundy! [clap clap clapclapclap] Jeff Van Gundy! [clap clap . . .].

Ahem.

Do I ever miss him. When will our long nightmare be over? When, Jeff, when?

Oh, and

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
[How do the Lakers suck? Let me count the ways]

2.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I see.

www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/TRONcostume

The link, although boring and unrelated to anything at all that I could think of, still failed to hold my attention. I wouuld have made this observation sooner, but I had to go take my nap.

Glarf.

Originally posted by bilmore
Yeah, Slave mentioned the weight problem.

It all started when I first began cloaking myself in cheese. But what sacrifice is too great for that cruel mistress, Art?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by ironweed
But what sacrifice is too great for that cruel mistress, Art?

Stop calling me Art. I told you, it's Arthur to you.

[ltl/fb]

it is so not fun to email someone saying "wow, I wish it were time to go home, is it time to go yet" and have them email back saying "now that it's summer, at my company we go home at 1:00 on Fridays."

If I were not so stupid as to have friends who are not lawyers at firms, I would not have to endure this kind of inadvertent taunting.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
it is so not fun to email someone saying "wow, I wish it were time to go home, is it time to go yet" and have them email back saying "now that it's summer, at my company we go home at 1:00 on Fridays."

If I were not so stupid as to have friends who are not lawyers at firms, I would not have to endure this kind of inadvertent taunting.

Come work for the greedy plaintiffs. Nice Friday between Memorial day & Labor day = NO ONE IN OFFICE.

Originally posted by bilmore
Stop calling me Art. I told you, it's Arthur to you.

And to think I was going to hire you as my latex salesman.

Is it time to go home yet?