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On a less serious note, if you care at all about that game where they try to put the ball in the hoop-like thing with the net, then you should be following Bill Simmons’ LA Clipper Götterdämmerung. Here‘s the latest instalment. (He remains to be convinced about Luke Jackson.)

  1. WWB says:

    Twilight, definitely twilight.

    Also, Bill Simmons hates every player from or associated with Oregon. I’m not even sure that he’s aware of this, but it’s true. Or it seems like it, which is good enough for me.

  2. Olly says:

    Um, Liz, I could be wrong, but I think it’s the exact opposite. “Dämmerung” just doesn’t sound that upbeat. Of course, it’s German, so that doesn’t necessarily signify anything.

  3. Liz says:

    G?terd?merung = “dawn of the gods”

    Thank you, German minor.

  4. Melissa says:

    Gladiator…Passion of the Chirst…Troy…Alexander…the big-screen debut of Phantom of the Opera…

    I belive that “G?terd?merung” should be next. We can cast Matt Damon as soon as he’s done screwing up Robert Ludlum fiction to films, he can be Siegfried. Kate Beckinsale can be Brunnhilde, Christina Ricci can be the main Rhinemiaden, and James Earl Jones as the voice of Fafner… question is, can we fit Tom Hanks and/or a random NBA player making his film debut into this circus?

  5. Sho says:

    Ah okay. Wagner’s Ring Cycle and all that. I think the NBA should have more analogous relationships to 19th century viking opera.

  6. Olly says:

    Try reloading the page. I’m experimenting with my umlauts.

    Here is a (see if this works) Götterdämmerung page. In this rigorously-worked-out metaphor, the conclusion (“Flames engulf Valhalla, leaving a human world redeemed by love”) corresponds to the second round of the NBA playoffs.

  7. Sho says:

    I apologize that I’m not up on my German (is it German?) but what is G&oumltterd&aumlmmerung?

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