You Wouldn't Like Him Angry
Mar. 21st, 2008 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drpaisleyAn absolutely hilarious blog post on the myth of the "angry Kareem," by, oddly enough, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* his own bad self.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/kareem/2008/03/common-myths-ab.html
A sample, but you do want to read it all:
"One of the common myths about me was repeated last week when a friend of mine was playing in his weekly basketball league and a teammate asked him, 'Why was Kareem always so angry?' That’s not the first time I heard this charge. What’s weird about it is that every morning when I get out of bed, bluebirds, squirrels, and deer help me get dressed while we sing 'We Are the World.' By the way, squirrels really suck at tying shoes. And deer often mumble the lyrics."
Via Oliver Willis, who is indeed Kryptonite to Stupid.
*For those who can't quite place the name, Kareem starred in Airplane!, fought with Bruce Lee in Game of Death and played the title character in the Tales from the Darkside adaptation of Harlan Ellison's story "Djinn, No Chaser."
Oh, yeah, he also played some ball.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/kareem/2008/03/common-myths-ab.html
A sample, but you do want to read it all:
"One of the common myths about me was repeated last week when a friend of mine was playing in his weekly basketball league and a teammate asked him, 'Why was Kareem always so angry?' That’s not the first time I heard this charge. What’s weird about it is that every morning when I get out of bed, bluebirds, squirrels, and deer help me get dressed while we sing 'We Are the World.' By the way, squirrels really suck at tying shoes. And deer often mumble the lyrics."
Via Oliver Willis, who is indeed Kryptonite to Stupid.
*For those who can't quite place the name, Kareem starred in Airplane!, fought with Bruce Lee in Game of Death and played the title character in the Tales from the Darkside adaptation of Harlan Ellison's story "Djinn, No Chaser."
Oh, yeah, he also played some ball.