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6 days 8 hours ago	Barclays tickets	I can't start my own thread, but this is basketball related. I came across this in an Mlive article: Tickets for Michigan's matchup against Stanford will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, May 17. They can be purchased through Ticketmaster at www.barclayscenter.com or, www.ticketmaster.com or by phone at 800-745-3000 Thought it would be of interest. I know I'm going. .
1 week 3 days ago	Tonight I'll be putting away	Tonight I'll be putting away laundry with the wife to the taste of vodka-cranberry cocktails (sometimes stuff gets to the right drawer, sometimes it doesn't!). Then this weekend it's little league action and editing my next novel.
3 weeks 3 days ago	I'll be checking out the	I'll be checking out the cherry blossom festival at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens with the family this weekend, with various little league activities before and after.
3 weeks 6 days ago	I will be there with my older	I will be there with my older boy, as well. It's right down the street from me. We went to the WVa game, too. Great experience.
7 weeks 4 days ago	women's bball	I can't start my own thread, but this is basketball related. There's a women's basketball tournament in late november at Barclay's arena in brooklyn featuring Michigan and 3 other teams, Texas Tech, LSU, and Rutgers. Tickets go on sale tomorrow if anyone's interested. http://www.barclayscenter.com/events/detail/barclays-center-womens-invitational
11 weeks 3 days ago	It's straight water right	It's straight water right now, which is funny cuz in the fridge at work there happens to be like 3 cases of beer left over from a company function last week. Of course no one's drinking it. Tonight, though, it will be Brooklyn dark ale. The wife and I like to have a beer or two as we put away laundry. It makes the children so much more tolerable! Yes, friday night is laundry night at my place, pretty exciting, I know. I honestly don't know whether I'm going to watch the game on sunday or not. Not sure I want to put myself through that. It's already giving me a bad feeling. At least I will have more edits to go through on my novel to keep me occupied. :)
12 weeks 3 days ago	It's a crime thriller. Think	It's a crime thriller. Think James Ellroy, though I could never approach that level.
12 weeks 3 days ago	Weekend plans: taking	Weekend plans: taking youngest son to baseball clinic; watching basketball game on sunday, working on edits to first novel Does MGobackbacking count if there's cable? probably not then I went to the UM game vs. W. Va in Brooklyn, heard some younger guys a few rows up talking about MGoBlog and the rampant discussion at the time over whether we would get Treadwell and Green. I just smiled to myself. Favorite grilled cheese variants? Man, I can't remember the last time I had a grilled cheese. Now I wants one!
22 weeks 1 day ago	Very glad to hear Horford	Very glad to hear Horford didn't tear something. He looked like he was in major pain when he came off. I was sitting not far from bacon guy, he was hysterical. There was a loud WVa presence there, also their band! We did not have ours, which is too bad. Not sure if they usually travel to these things, but whatever.
22 weeks 3 days ago	I'm on the corner of 8th Ave.	I'm on the corner of 8th Ave. and Carroll.
22 weeks 3 days ago	I live just a 20-minute walk	I live just a 20-minute walk away. I'm bringing my older boy (he's 13) for his first live ball game. We'll see if he makes it through the whole thing or not. Regardless, I will be there for the duration.
22 weeks 5 days ago	I'm psyched. Will be my first	I'm psyched. Will be my first time in the new arena after having watched its construction over the past several years.
41 weeks 5 days ago	Played soccer through high	Played soccer through high school, pulled a rare double my sophomore year, won state championships for my high school and club teams. Then my senior year lost both state title games. Played with a couple high school all americans, one guy on my club team who went on to MLS as both a player and coach. Walked on and played with the UM soccer team my freshman year (back before it was a varsity sport) until I blew out my knee. then decided I had more important things to do, like drinking.
47 weeks 5 days ago	No one was more disappointed	No one was more disappointed in the end of BSG than me. Great series right up until the last hour which then went pfhsssst! However, this eased my pain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lEQ_yNJTZ0&feature=related (I don't know how to embed stuff, so feel free)
1 year 3 weeks ago	I read that in the paper when	I read that in the paper when it came out. Aside from the incredible disconnect from normal everyday  people, it was an interesting portrait of a grown man with all the resources and time in the world and yet completely lost and at his wits end with what to do with himself.
1 year 5 weeks ago	Thanks for the shout out.	Thanks for the shout out. Glad I could contribute something. I have to say I'm pretty excited about the game. I've been watching the arena progress since it was just a gaping hole in the ground (and it stayed that way for quite a while). I"m not even sure I realized the tickets are for a double-header. I think the other game is Fordham and somebody, not that it matters. My seats are in the floor section in one of the corners (basically just outside the real expensive ones). I live just a 15-min walk away, so don't even have to take the subway, which, BTW, I would avoid at all costs since I can't imagine what it would be like going to a game. It's a zoo on those lines even when nothing special is going on. Hope to see lots of UM fans there!
1 year 5 weeks ago	I can't make my own threads,	I can't make my own threads, so I posted this link on another basketball-related thread a few days after they went on sale, but it was pretty far down and I'm sure nobody saw it. Anyways, here it is again: http://www.barclayscenter.com/brooklyn-hoops/brooklyn-hoops-winter-festival/
1 year 5 weeks ago	My tickets for the December	My tickets for the December UM vs. WVa game arrived within hours of this announcement. Fortunately, it is not bittersweet. Just sweet.
1 year 6 weeks ago	That was my sophomore year, I	That was my sophomore year, I stole a traffic sign post along with some buddies of mine. Pretty tame all and all. The people jumping on the awnings were real lucky nobody got hurt bad. It was obvious to most onlookers some of those structures were going down.
1 year 7 weeks ago	Brooklyn Hoops	I can't start my own thread, so I just thought I'd post this on a basketball related thread to be helpful. Tickets for the Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival on Dec. 15 featuring Michigan vs. W. Virginia went on sale a couple days ago. Here's the link for anybody who wants to buy some. I didn't see this announcement anywhere, so if everybody already knows this, then sorry for being redundant: http://www.barclayscenter.com/brooklyn-hoops/brooklyn-hoops-winter-festival/
1 year 9 weeks ago	It was a terrible,	It was a terrible, uninspiring speech. Just because it was from the president doesn't mean it didn't suck.
1 year 9 weeks ago	Old Bush	My year, '91, was pretty bad. We had George Bush The Elder, who gave a speech based on "The Great Society" which was not even remotely relevant to anybody sitting in the audience. Then right afterward he had a heart attack and went to Bethesda Naval Hospital for treatment. All his speech did was basically give the student protesters a last chance to be obnoxious, which wasn't terribly impressive either. This was especially frustrating since the rumor going around was that we could've had James Earl Jones, which would've been cool. I mean, who would've cared what he said? Just the voice! [Insert deep voice] This Is U of M {instead of CNN}