vetivers

This coming Saturday (April 21st) marks my debut with the Vetivers...well that's not entirely true. I may or may not participate in a battle of the bands this wenesday at JCCC (Johnson County Community College) around 10:00 am. I doubt anyone I know will go to that since it's in the morning and all. But I doubt anyone I know will come to the concert on the 21st since it's all the way in Manhattan. Well if any of you do decide to go (or know people who live in the area who might want to go) come check out this site for all the information. And besides it's Earth Day, what else are you going to do on Earth Day? Gather around a globe and sing christmas carols?

Once upon a time there was a man named Pastor Sean who asked a prince named Clyde Aaron Kim to update his church's webpage. Clyde agreed and promised to make it the best KMC webpage ever. He requested all the materials that he needed to take on this task (ie: The software, passwords and server space.), but weeks went by with out any reply. After asking around several other people and getting no response, Clyde decided to call it quits and kick off the link to the old KMC homepage on his page until it gets updated by himself or any other person. If you want the KMC webpage to be updated on a regular basis (by Clyde or anyone else), and also have some suggestions please send them to [email protected]. Online newsletters don't usually mean regularly e-mailed forwards.

There are many things that can annoy a person in this world. One of the most annoying and frustrating things that gets to me is being invited to play basketball. Intentions are usually friendly when this request is made, but the actual act always seem less fun when the game begins.

First: they comment on how bad everyone plays to build up your confidence level.

Second: When you show up and the teams start to form, two captains are designated to systematically humiliate the last person picked.

Third: Everyone is ten times better than you when you start playing. After a while you don't seem to be in the mood to participate and for some reason (maybe out of pity) they decide to pass the ball to you. This is where you panic and just chuck the ball away. Either that you decide to dribble the ball down the court in hopes that you will some how change into some kind of wolf man and score a point. However, you only manage to hit your feet and the ball just rolls out of bounds.

Fourth: After the game is done whether you are apart of the losing team or winning team people comment on your skills. Comments such as:

1. "Stick to video game basketball"   For some reason if you're not good at the sport they assume you're good at the video game counter part.
2. "Ball got away from you there didn't it."   Intended as friendly banter that usally results in a response of "yeah I guess so," or "Oh F--- off you stupid piece of sh--!"
3. "You want to get something to eat?" This usually isn't too bad of comment or quip, but usually this leads off to a whole evening discusion of other things you don't do or think about. Most of the time it's cars, car parts, differnt prices of cars, how chicks would dig my car and so forth.

   So what's the solution to this friendly invite to an otherwise unfriendly game? Either get really good at basketball (ie: Teen Wolf "three cheers for lycanthrope!"), make some kind of excuse (ie: I have to be...some place else) or start going on a cursing rampage until the person leaves and decides never to ask you to play basketball again. The last one usually works all the time.