Quickies

- Aaron Brooks was named the T-Mobile Rookie of the Month in the NBA. Are you serious? Man, he must be making a huge impact on the Houston Rockets! Oh, what? The season hasn't started yet? Oh, what? The regular season doesn't start until November? Thanks T-Mobile. Thanks NBA. Can't wait to find out who the next Rookie of the Month is.

- Also in the NBA, a couple of tidbits that describe where my beloved Boston Celtics are:

Allred makes noise: Celt’s 75 percent deaf

Is Danny Ainge sure that Allred didn't contract deafness from him?

- Speaking of deafness, Kevin McHale likes the Ray Allen deal.

If the guy who's basically suffocated Kevin Garnett with one cap-crippling, draft-pick-draining trade after another likes your trade, you're toast.

- The benevolent use of the N-word by a university benefactor. "We really need a more diverse board folks. We really need more [N-words] on the board." Oops. "What else can I do? Kill myself?" Ralph Papitto said in response to the controversy.

Good question. He is already 80.

- Michael Moore v. Sanjay Gupta: much ado about nothing.

- The death of accountability spread to my San Francisco Giants. Three losing seasons. Perfect time to throw the future all-time homerun champ for all the old players Brian Sabean has signed. Perfect time to sign Sabean to an extension.

Did I mention that in this age of sabermetrics, OPS and 30 year-old statistician GMs, Sabean reportedly doesn't use email?

- And finally, from Flight of the Conchords, "If you're into it."

Highly Recommended for Unintentional Comedy: Making the Band 4

If you haven't seen Making the Band 4 yet, Diddy's new MTV show about 20 Boyz II Men hopefuls makes MTB 3's girls Danity Kane seem bland. Where else can you see Michael Bivens (separated at birth with Baron Davis?) play good cop to Diddy's bad cop? And how did that happen? Wasn't BBD plowing groupies before Diddy could shave?

Where else can you watch adult men whip off their sideways baseball caps and stand toe to toe in a "sing off," only to have the winning guy lifted up by his housemates joining him in a Boyz II Men song?

Dare I say: ghey?

Spoiler Alert - Hollywood Kills The Black Transformers First

There's been plenty written about the new Transformers live action movie by indie auteurs Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg. I was personally disappointed on the whole. But just so you know, Hollywood even kills the black Transformers first. Bumblebee loses a leg and gets the heroic war veteran treatment. Meanwhile, Jazz gets ripped in half and dies by the hand of Megatron. Jazz is voiced by Darius McCrary (pictured above). You may recognize him from Family Matters.

In Michael Bay's world, you're either Bernie Mac or Anthony Anderson, or you're Jazz.