Tuesday, May 24, 2011

I think Ron Artest May Be A Hipster (video evidence)


You know how I know Ron Artest is truly crazy (you know, aside from the normal visual evidence he provides)?

Ron Artest posts his phone number on Twitter. He has met up with fans to play Monopoly. He met his next door neighbor and found out she was a musician and recorded a country music song with her. He asked his fans on twitter one night what they were all doing and then showed up at a random Filipino family’s home to have dinner with them and sing karaoke (legit video footage above). And he tracked down John Green, the man who threw the drink on him in Auburn Hills that sparked the fight that nearly derailed his career, and called him up on the phone to apologize and to see if they could work together.

Turns out he's more than just crazy, huh? Ron Artest is a full blown hipster.  Meeting up for beach bbq's with random vato's, karaoking at some Filipino families house (I'm just glad they were Asian and had a spare digital camera or 4 to record this moment), and recording country music songs?   That's as Hipster as it gets my friends. Sure he might not dress the part, but then again he has a real job and real money so he doesn't have to shop the local thrift stores.

In all seriousness though, Ron Artest is the most interesting man in the NBA, right?  He presumably bowls overhand and pounds Dos Equis? I mean I used to assume his career would end in a homicidal rage but now I just kinda feel left out not living in the same area as he does.  Any chance the Celts could trade for this guy so I could hit him up on Twitter and see if he'd like to share a Scorpion Bowl at Kowloon? I think he'd be down for that.