there's a reason why people go ooh and ah

it's because kareem abdul-jabbar is awesome.

in his newly available blog on being an over 50 athlete in the latimes he wrote (OT!)

"American music has such a rich and varied foundation it is really grotesque to try to define it as R & B or rock or pop or metal or Latin or Reggae or country or blues. For example, the blues and country evolved in exactly the same environment-- i.e. the Mississippi Delta, West Texas, Nashville, Tenn., and New Orleans, to name a few. But for some reason, the music of Elvis must be regarded as different from Chuck Berry even when both artists embrace the same regional and artistic roots."

w00t! big up to kareem for being as cool as he seemed to me back in the 70s.