Nobody Daily – 6/21/08

SATURDAY POTPOURRI

Nobody Asked Me But:

I recently picked my all-time Laker team, and since the Celtics bombed the purple and gold it is only fair to choose Boston’s all-timers.

And my all-time Celtic team:

PG – Bob Cousy
SG – John Havlicek
C – Bill Russell
SF – Larry Bird
PF – Kevin McHale

First off the bench

Robert Parish
Sam Jones

Robert Crais, who has a new Elvis Cole book coming out next week, has an interesting take on the novel as art. He says that the art and the novel are incomplete until the reader reads it.

Our daily bread is sometimes not so simple, especially if you are like me, are standing in total confusion at Trader Joe’s I just wanted a loaf of plain wheat but before me was Leviticus, 3:19 bread, barley bread, cheddar cheese bread, Swiss cheese bread, cottage cheese bread, wheat bread made without wheat, flourless bread, super flour bread, sea salt bread, sea pepper bread vitamin enriched bread and vitamin deficient bread – to name a few.

Finally I just closed my eyes and grabbed a loaf. I suppose I ended up with flat bread, because it sure tasted flat in our tuna sandwichs.

British historian Simon Schama said it, and I won’t say he is wrong – America’s moral rhetoric is too often a cover for self-interest.

In gasoline-subsidized Egypt, gas is about $1.30 per gallon. That’s cheaper than Blythe. I guess I know where to go for my Sunday fill-up.