UPDATE: Well, we’re pretty excited, because we can now offically retire the thought/speech-bubble portion of the site.
No longer will we use that device in any way, shape, or form.
You see, when we see a funny bit that’s used frequently by another person in a similar area of creative pursuits as us, we immediately put it on an unofficial list of “things we won’t adopt in our own work”.
It’s a thing called “creative integrity”, and you’ve seen it rile us up many times before (see: Lupica, StopMike & Roundie, Orange). We’re this close to unleashing our rant. THIS CLOSE.
But we won’t, because it’s not the right time.
When the time comes, we’ll be sure to reprint the block of text that sums it all up, wherein a now prominent NBA blogger sent us an email asking all about how to Photoshop, because he “wants to start a site exactly like yours. You’re okay with that, right?”
Imagine, if you will, our attempt to answer that question. Somehow, we managed to only get out something to the affect of, “sure”. Basically, this is because we couldn’t believe someone would actually write that.
It’s like Live-blogging the NBA Draft – WHY?
Why would you possibly want to do that? That’s totally Bill Simmons’s “thing”. He didn’t invent live-blogging, and he didn’t invent the NBA Draft, but he did pair the two and make it a signature piece, to the point that any NBA Draft live-blog is a knock-off. And why would you chose to do a knock-off, full-well knowing it’s a knock-off? (If you don’t understand what that last sentence really means, you shouldn’t be trying to do creative things.)
(Also, parody is different than a knock-off – good parody is a challenge unto itself and also perfectly acceptable.)
Look, we don’t mean to set ourself up as the moral authority of creating blog content, but the fact is, we’re usually right on this stuff, so we ARE the moral authority of creating blog content.
All that said, we may quit blogging until the movie is released. Why keep doing this? We’ll decide by Friday – we know we go back and forth on this all the time and we’re a baby about it, but really, it’s just gotten old. (We’re sure we’ll keep going – we’re just having a moment.)
Of course, between now and then, we’re sure someone will announce they’re shooting a movie called “Who Is the One Who Killed the Snake With a Gun?”, at which point we don’t really know what we’ll do.
***PRE-UPDATE SECTION***
Oh man – we finally did it. MCBias (We think? Was it Jordi?) told us once he was dying for us to go off on how we really feel about the sports blogosphere and blogs in general, and we did it. It was brutal, AND it called sites out by name, accompanied by our specific criticism and/or beef.
But THEN???
Then we found these two pics of Chris Bosh, which lightened our entire mood up. The thing about them is, they’re about ten times funnier in Photoshopped form if you see the originals. Thus we post them below, with our work to come in a bit.
Gah – we don’t know what to think – we didn’t quite get to those Bosh PSs.
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Dear lord…maybe I should rewrite my rant. Do they do that every day over there?
does who do what every day over where?
are you hearing voices again?
Don’t blame me for this incoherence. It was all the other guy’s fault.
First time I’ve seen it but I don’t check that site much any longer, my tolerance for bad comedy is very low
There was a comment by Fios – where dost ith goeth?
In ze Ben Wallace post
where is the brutal rant ?
is it in an older post ? is it yet to be posted ? or it’s just another over hyped thing that never gets to been seen by those waiting for it, like WSM ?
*to BE seen
Yeah, it was my fault. I tried to provoke The Cavalier into Rantocalypse 1.0, in which he quits Yaysports.com after flaming every sports blog in turn, ha.
wish i saw that … he doesn’t have to quit yaysports, just rant on all the blogs. let’s start an all out blog war. Boo ya.
what the hell, Cav?
sack up and speak your piece.
if you don’t want to, just say so. don’t mess with our MINDS like this!
So “Who Hugged Naja Ashei?” and my “red orb-eee” are still cool? You are the coolest, Cav.
come on, the cavalier!
think of all the little cakes who dream of growing up one day and being in the vicinity of kwame brown and somebody who is having a birthday.
they need you.
we need you.
So….yes or no on me shooting a movie called ‘Who Tasered Cobra’ with an inflatable Chris Bosh starring in it with Kareem?
C. Vivian Stringer is one ugly bitch… christ… shocker the first initial of her name is “C”, be she is one in real life.
Boney is a garden tool with hair that is difficult to comb.
Dear The Caviar,
Rumor has it Boney is trying to be an On-tray-poo-newer. He has stolen a bunch on farm animals, bought a panel van, went to CVS and bought a buncha candy and is planning on having a mobile petting zoo. The authorities are looking into this. Maybe Det. Stacy Riggs ought too as well.
Love,
Greg Odens tonsils (who can’t believe it ain’t butta)
Has anyone acknowledged that the thought bubble use is a blatant rip-off? I noticed it a couple times this week, how long have they been ripping it off? It’s almost so obvious it has to be a joke, pretty sad.
ever heard of ‘the calm before the storm’?
hahaha even the Inflatable Defenders showed up in today’s Closer!
he’s totally fucking with you on purpose, LC! (that’s Le Cav, in cool initials form)
I have a crush on Becky.
I use Photoshop to make thought bubbles for my own personal pictures and email them out to my “undiclosed recipients” list instead of actually working. In other news, I made reference to the Orange Roundie in front of my mom and she called me original and witty.
Thanks Cav!
Dear You’s Guy’s…
You should all check out http://www.basketbawful.com, it’s great, they have all these HIGHlarious photoshop bubbley things. It sort of reminds me of…scoop…er…cav…well…I forgot…but I guess they think that Dwight Howard looks like a poodle. Sometimes the bubbles say “woof” and have dog faces on his enormous basketball body. Those guys are great. Check em out. It may just be the official favorite site of scoop jackson. They ought to coin that idea too. Those guys are clever like that.
Love,
Greg Odens tonsils (using minimal apostrohpies”””””””””””””’)
I had no idea Shaq was winded until that very thing was alluded to in a humorous photo caption
I wonder if the first guy to actually photoshop a thought or speach bubble onto a photo back in 97 is totally screaming at his computer screen every day “I DID THAT FIRST, I THOUGHT OF THAT, GIT OFF MY KOOL AID!!!!!!!!”
I doubt it. But it’s fun to imagine the comb over flaring wildly in air as he stomps the ground and shakes his fist at nothing in particular…
Have you thought of creating a website that, for instance, chronicles all the “terrible” or “awful” things about the NBA? You could point out things like bad stat lines, and call NBA players silly names for not having a good day on the court. This is the business model for basketerrible.net; are you in??
Also: It doesn’t have to be funny!
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