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I watched the Cavaliers play the Hawks after the trade show ended on Saturday, and it was amazing how distinctively Southern an experience that Atlanta was able to make something as upper-middle class as an NBA game. The pregame and halftime entertainment was a step show performed by a bunch of little kids and the national anthem was performed by a children's choir with a children's drum line. I wouldn't say that any of the kids were rhythmically challenged, but they were still little kids, and the quality of the performances was what you would have expected from them.

I'm not going to come out and say anything explicitly about black people and the stereotypes associated with them, but the audience was probably 70% black, and it was going off, cheering for these kids. This was like the kind of cheering you hear when the t-shirt cannon comes out, and the crowd goes nuts, basically whoring themselves out by feigning enthusiasm for a chance at a free t-shirt.

Speaking of that, I had the privilege of witnessing that kind of prideless, greed-induced enthusiasm at the trade show today. The FHI Heat booth has a stage, on which shows and demonstrations are performed, and we were tossing out free t-shirts and hair clips--items that cost us less than $2 apiece. What is it about free shit that turns people into complete prostitutes? This crowd was probably composed of the same people I saw at college who would go to ANY club recruitment meeting if the flier for it advertised free pizza.