How To Beat The Lakers... Train a Dragon!

It's hard, but I try to keep basketball references to a minimum here. However painful the truth is, I understand that most people don't share the same affection for the painful minutiae of the Toronto Raptors franchise or Manu Ginobili's latest heroics.

This analogy though, I couldn't resist. It came to be like a (tiny) bolt of lighting. If you think of the Los Angeles Lakers as the NBA's dominant, invulnerable dragons, then the Phoenix Suns just might be the workmanlike dragon slaying vikings! Steve Nash is Hiccup... and Kobe Bryant (The Black Mamba) just might be his Night Fury!



Confused? Have you seen How to Train Your Dragon? Well, if you haven't, trust me. The basic underdog plot transposes nearly perfectly to the Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and Suns.



My apologies.

Rock Challenge - Remote Edition [Vol. 1]

Favorite Supergroup Song Titled after a Girl's Name (from a debut album).

1. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Guinnevere
2. The New Pornographers - Jackie
3. The Traveling Wilburys - Maxine

Still wondering what a Rock Challenge is? It's an age old tradition pioneered in the sweaty attics and dingy basements of Kingston, Ontario, Canada in the early Noughts.

First rule of RC is that there are no rules in RC (but that's always kind of been a lie).

Could sound daunting or overly competitive, but the challenge is really the listener's, as he or she is meant to pick their favorite in a category of three or more similarly themed or somehow connected songs. It's all quite simple, although certain Rock Challenges have been known to incorporate other media including books, video games, and strobe lights, but nothing is compulsory... just rock and awe.

So relax, smoke a j, and listen to the songs in consecutive order (right click to download) and then pick one that sticks out based on whatever criteria you see fit (on the poll in the top right of the page).