Dan,

You’re looking at Howard the wrong way.  If we can get him and keep him then I don’t think anyone would disagree with you.  But to trade him for this season and then hope that he sticks with the Bulls is a bad move.  No center has ever gone to a team and won the championship that year.  It took Shaq 2 years after going to LA to win, same thing when he went to Miami. Took Moses Malone a year after going to the 76ers.  Took Wilt Chamberlain 2 years after going to the 76ers and 4 years after going to the Lakers.  It took Kareem 5 years after he went to LA.  Why trade for a player who isn’t going to commit to the team and thus there’s no precedence for that trade being a good decision.

Sports radio fires me up sometimes.  For those who don’t know who Dan Bernstein is, tune in to 670 The Score from 1-6p [listen here].

Paste posted their 100 best movie posters of the past 100 years [see the story here].  Pretty interesting.  I don’t know that I agree with the all, but I pulled some favorites.  Scope them out below.

The Landfill | Jessica Edwards & Gary Hustwit from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.

My friend Mike Durr turned me on to this really interesting looking documentary, Being Elmo.  I REALLY want to see it, wish it was playing here.

For one of the places I freelance I asked them to pay me in stock instead of cash.  Why?  Because I believe they’re going to be a huge company and it’s worth the gamble to me.  Time for potential payout.  Unfortunately they wouldn’t do it, but I read this about the Facebook IPO and it reminded me of why you should do it if you believe in a company…

The graffiti artist David Choe, who took stock in place of cash for painting murals on the Facebook office walls six years ago, is expected to be “worth upward of $200 million when Facebook stock trades publicly.”

More interesting facts here… Inc.com

I’m looking for some new stuff to spice up my desk in my office.  Specifically a radio (I listen to AM talk radio all day) an a clock.  Came across some Braun stuff I really like and pulled a couple of images.  Now if I could only find the T-1000 for under a grand.

Letterheady.com has some pretty amazing letterhead.  Sometimes I wish people actually wrote letters these days.  Some of my favorites below…

 

[a photo editor]

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Lifer

Dan,

Every day someone calls in and says something about the fact that they don’t like what you’re talking about.  Your response back to them is to tell them to change the station if they don’t like it.  I do that all the time when I’m not enjoying what you guys talk about.  But what I don’t understand is that you spent days rambling on about how you dislike Tebow and his talking about his faith during interviews and after games.  Why didn’t you just change the channel and save yourself days (and weeks) of complaining?
Your response when you’ve been asked that has been that you’re there for football and you want to see football and have people talk about football.  You’re on a sports talk radio station.  When people tune their dial to 670 they’re expecting to hear about sports.  Not about your distaste for someone’s religion or rambling about child rapists and those who enabled them.  The people who call in to complain have the same standing that you did with Tebow.  Listeners tune in to hear about sports so when you spend a day talking about something other than sports, they have just as much standing to waste their time complaining to you as you do to complain about the things you don’t like to hear about while watching sports.
Thanks,
Cal