Back from Hiatus

It has been about a week and a half hiatus since my last blog. Much has happened since then. The purpose of this entry will be to catch up on the latest significant occurrences in my world. First off, a follow-up to my previous entry about the Detroit Pistons.

The Pistons went on an eight game losing streak. It was their longest since the 1994-95 season. They looked to be in absolute disarray when the improbable happened. With their next two games against two of the top five teams in the league on their home floors it looked as though the losing streak was bound to reach at least ten games if not more. But on Friday night they handed it to the Orlando Magic, a team that despite having its best season in more than a decade, cannot seem to find an answer to the Pistons. Detroit won 93-85. Then today an even bigger upset occurred as the Pistons beat the defending champion Boston Celtics. Detroit had an all around impressive game as they won 105-95. How can a team lose eight in a row and 17 of 22, look on the brink of disaster, and then turn it all around in three days to beat two of league's best teams? Well, the aforementioned (in previous blogs) Allen Iverson did not appear in either game with a back injury. This put Richard Hamilton back in the starting lineup, a place where he has been a fixture for the past six years in Detroit, until this season when he was bumped to accommodate Iverson. Hamilton scored 31 and 25 points respectively and had a great all around game against Boston adding 9 assists and 6 rebounds. Is there a correlation between losing against every opponent that came the Pistons way over the last two and half weeks then Iverson goes down with an injury and they beat two great teams away from home? I don't know. You do the research and tell me.

The university that I attend holds an annual Spring Sing where the fraternities and sororities each put on a ten minute show that follows a certain theme. It is a competition with prize money. This year the theme was children's books and my fraternity did Where's Waldo?. The premise of our show was that Waldo is a valliant hero who has just received an award for his acts of bravery. He subsequently disappears without a trace and his girlfriend Wenda hires Detective Gum Shoe to try and find him. It featured other classic "Waldo" book characters such as the troublesome convict Odlaw and the quirky, Kramer-esque Wizard, played by me. The show had a 1920s mystery feel, centered around Detective Shoe's witty monologues, and featured live music reminiscent of classic mystery films. As it turns out the detective was just a scapegoat for Wenda to look innocent as she and the other characters try to get rid of Waldo for good by shipping him to Antarctica. Our show was comical, intelligent, suspenseful, plot-twisting, and just plain entertaining. In addition to original live music played by members of the fraternity, it featured dancing, a rap, and an edge of your seat fight sequence - all in ten minutes! Everyone that witnessed said we would either win or at least get second place. According to the judges, however, our show was only good enough for third. That still won us $300 in prize money and more importantly it built a sense of comradery and accomplishment among the fraternity. Despite the results (which were still pretty good) we were still very proud of our performance. I could write an entire other entry on the travesties of mass appeal and popularity that seem to fit the criterion to win a competition such as this but I'll save it for later.

That is about enough updating for now. The Detroit Pistons seem to be a recurring theme in my blogs. It is the golden mean of basketball season what can I say? My school's spring sing was fun and rewarding even though I thought my frat was robbed by the judges. Soon I will give an update on my experimental study as mentioned in a previous blog titled Frustration into Experimentation.