12.30.2007
2007 RiskBall World Champions, Da West Side Nasty Riddims
Here's what happened: my team was okay. I talked some trash. My team became awesome. I crushed all of my opponents. I will spare you the details of how awesome my roster played in the Super Bowl, but Jesus may have been throwing to Anquan Boldin.
12.06.2007
Da West Side Nasty Riddims: Born Champions
In a television interview Ji-Soo Park responded thoughtfully to the question: Do you think that your fantasy football team, Da West Side Nasty Riddims, truly belongs in the postseason, given that its roster is headed by a lackluster Peyton Manning and is otherwise composed of inconsistent has-beens?
"If our squad resembles a bunch of pretenders, we offer this defense: we, the royal first person plural, have squeezed every drop out of that squad. We have barely outscored our opponents by a total of 4.3 points the entire season (1182.8 to 1178.5), and yet managed to pull off a 9-and-4 record. We fielded Kenton Keith for all of his breakout games, and had the balls to pick up and play Kenny Watson from free agency when no one had heard of him. We found Nick Folk off waivers and saw more points from him than some top running backs on other teams. In the wildcard round, we are starting the unknown Fred Jackson (Buf) at running back and Bryant Johnson (Ari) at wide receiver. We are finely tuned to the celestial harmony and confluence of injuries to regular starters, the politics of a season close to its end, and other beautiful circumstances that can lead to a miraculous performance. You will watch SC and marvel at this "unexpected" performance. You may bother to look him up in the league, and see that we have already invested, and have already enjoyed the returns. We will dissect your hopes and burn your dreams, because LaDanian Tomlinson is going to the bench in the third quarter near the postseason, and you will watch helplessly as I play Kyle Boller (playing for Manning, also benched for the playoffs) for four hundred yards, three passing and four rushing touchdowns against the Dolphins."
"If our squad resembles a bunch of pretenders, we offer this defense: we, the royal first person plural, have squeezed every drop out of that squad. We have barely outscored our opponents by a total of 4.3 points the entire season (1182.8 to 1178.5), and yet managed to pull off a 9-and-4 record. We fielded Kenton Keith for all of his breakout games, and had the balls to pick up and play Kenny Watson from free agency when no one had heard of him. We found Nick Folk off waivers and saw more points from him than some top running backs on other teams. In the wildcard round, we are starting the unknown Fred Jackson (Buf) at running back and Bryant Johnson (Ari) at wide receiver. We are finely tuned to the celestial harmony and confluence of injuries to regular starters, the politics of a season close to its end, and other beautiful circumstances that can lead to a miraculous performance. You will watch SC and marvel at this "unexpected" performance. You may bother to look him up in the league, and see that we have already invested, and have already enjoyed the returns. We will dissect your hopes and burn your dreams, because LaDanian Tomlinson is going to the bench in the third quarter near the postseason, and you will watch helplessly as I play Kyle Boller (playing for Manning, also benched for the playoffs) for four hundred yards, three passing and four rushing touchdowns against the Dolphins."
12.01.2007
License to be really abstract
In a radio broadcast Rothko responded thoughtfully to the question: Are not these pictures really abstract paintings with literary titles?
"If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas. They are the symbols of man's primitive fears and motivations, no matter in which land or what time, changing only in detail but never in substance....Our presentation of these myths, however, must be in our own terms which are at once more primitive and more modern than the myths themselves--more primitive because we seek the primeval and atavistic roots of the ideas rather than their graceful classical version; more modern than the myths themselves because we must redescribe their implications through our own experience....The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life."
"If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas. They are the symbols of man's primitive fears and motivations, no matter in which land or what time, changing only in detail but never in substance....Our presentation of these myths, however, must be in our own terms which are at once more primitive and more modern than the myths themselves--more primitive because we seek the primeval and atavistic roots of the ideas rather than their graceful classical version; more modern than the myths themselves because we must redescribe their implications through our own experience....The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life."
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