Yesterday my kids had music classes at HSU in the morning and indoor soccer in Samoa in the afternoon. In between we stopped in to Petes New York Style Pizza (the best restaurant pizza I’ve had in Humboldt County!) for lunch. They have like five televisions with sports on and they had the Georgetown/Duke game on several of them. We were waiting for our meal when Obama came onto the screen with the commentators to do some play-by-play. I couldn’t hear the conversation over the background noise and the kids playing Fussball, but it looked like the commentators were having a good time. At one point towards the end they started laughing hard, and I was curious as to what it was about. So this morning I found the clip on Youtube. When asked about his being left handed and favoring it in play, he responded that he’d been to the Republican caucus meeting yesterday to prove that he could go to his right, but admitted that his left was much stronger. Here it is:
Georgetown clobbered Duke.
Obama’s a genuine fan. Biden not so much apparently.


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January 31, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Anonymous
Smug’s has the best pizza.
January 31, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Anonymous
Smug’s has the best pizza.
Btw, awesome work. Can’t wait on the next one!
January 31, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Eric Kirk
Smug’s is good, but the crust doesn’t have that slightly crunchy membrane of Pete’s.
January 31, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Spare me
The only reason Obama is interested in basketball is to stay popular with young people and blacks.
January 31, 2010 at 3:49 pm
mresquan
Well for forever and a day I’ve thought Arcata Pizza and Deli was the best,but the last time I was there I had a pretty sub-par calzone.
January 31, 2010 at 4:40 pm
joe the plumber
“Spare me” has the appetite of a dung beetle. Poor fella. Thanks Eric, that was a fun clip. And no teleprompter, must have the haters wringing their soft little hands.
January 31, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Mitch
Thanks for the clip. I’d been wondering how anyone was going to demonize that one, but Spare Me proves I’m still not cynical enough.
Oh: Live From New York’s my favorite. I’m from Queens. I haven’t tried Pete’s yet.
January 31, 2010 at 6:42 pm
moviedad
Hey Mitch, whats with the swastika?
January 31, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Anonymous
The best pizza is at the Mateel Cafe.
February 1, 2010 at 8:19 am
Mitch
Excellent question, moviedad. Random assignment, I’d guess. I’ll see if there’s a way to change it, but it’s probably pegged to an IP address.
I’ll bet wordpress never thought of this problem.
February 1, 2010 at 9:01 am
Eric Kirk
I’m not even seeing it in the pattern.
February 1, 2010 at 9:05 am
mjtrac
Rotate it 45 degrees, Eric. I’m never sure whether the points of the swastika roll clockwise or counterclockwise.
February 1, 2010 at 9:14 am
Mitch
It should change now. I’m not sure if it’s retroactive. Here’s the note:
Hello.
I’m sorry that you ended up with that truly unfortunate random image. Gravatar keys those images off your email address, and you can actually sub in any graphic you want by signing up for an account at http://gravatar.com using the email address you were using to comment on that post. You can then upload anything you would like and it will replace the “identicon” that was generated for you.
–
Ryan M.
Happiness Engineer
WordPress.com | Automattic
February 1, 2010 at 9:16 am
mjtrac
Test.
February 1, 2010 at 9:16 am
Eric Kirk
Happiness engineer?
February 1, 2010 at 9:16 am
mjtrac
Grrr.
February 1, 2010 at 1:28 pm
janelle
Nice clip, Eric. Obama does impromptu very well, shows himself to be very real, personable, and, well, nice. Sad to say, but sometimes he shouldn’t be so nice.
I hope the ol’ saw, nice guys finish last, is proved wrong.
February 1, 2010 at 8:47 pm
moviedad
“Happiness engineer?” Hey, doesn’t that belong in that thread about what makes a good pot club? I mean, the Happiness Engineer has got to be the most important person in any club.