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Sunday, December 09, 2007

She Gets It
Current mood:

blessed
Category: Friends

In my 43 years, there have been few people who, "get it."

I met one last week.

We were doing benefits for Autism.

To say I was blown away by her would be an understatement.

The woman has stimulated my creativity, boosted my self-esteem and stolen a piece of my heart.

Unfortunately, it was the left artery, so DAMMIIT, I NEED it back.

My sense of humor often either flies over people's heads or receives a poo-pooing thumbs down by the politically correct.

SHE GETS IT

As a man in a wheelchair I have heard it all.

From the people who think I'm courageous in everything I do.

To the ones who think life has handed me everything on a silver wheelchair.

In reality, it's somewhere in between.

SHE GETS IT

I've met thousands of wonderful women.

Many have the problem of loving me more than themselves.

Others just pretend to care for the looks of it, or the few bucks or notoriety I can give them.

SHE GETS IT

I've had women who wanted to get married on day one.

Then those who could never see a future past Cerebral Palsy.

SHE GETS IT

Will it go anywhere past this mutual admiration and respect.

And the giving each other the hell that only friends who love each can.

It's nobody's business, except the clock, the calendar and the hearts.

SHE GETS IT

Currently listening:
Wave on Wave
By Pat Green
Release date: 15 July, 2003

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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Movin’ On
Current mood:

pensive
Category: Life

There are moments that smack you right in the face, no matter what you put up as a guard.

This is one of them.

Five years ago when I moved in to this cheap apartment, it was to re-group.

A year after my 2nd divorce, I needed to start over.

Since then I have gone through various roommates, girlfriends, and assorted others.

Given my druthers, I'd be leaving this joint to marry and start a life with a lady I met a year and a half ago.

But, God has other plans, it seems.

As I sit here staring at boxes and bare walls, except for a picture of Jesus and the smiles of my threee babies, I pray for guidance.

I have not and will never feel sorry for myself for being handicapped.

To me, it's just the "flavor" God made me.

So, it's my job to promote, distribute and help people swallow the acquired taste that is this farm boy who won't take no for an answer.

Helen Keller said, "Life is an adventure or nothing at all."

Well, what an "adventure" I've been served thus far.

The tales in the following chapters of this book, will serve not only to tell my story, but also to back-up the hard drive of my life so to speak..

In the following weeks, some of you will recieve snippets of my chapters, although only a few will get full access to everything I write.

The bottom line on that is why would anyone buy a book they've already read?

So, enjoy my ramblings and wish me well on the next stage of my "adventure."

Currently listening:
Countrified
By Emerson Drive
Release date: 19 September, 2006

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Thursday, April 26, 2007

KISZLA MY ASS
Category: Sports

Here was his response --

THE FOLLOWING WAS AN EMAIL SENT TO KISZLA

Mr Kizla,

I am Vice President and Co-Founder of SOS-AD.org and Chris Fonseca is one of our board members, he is the one who placed the challenge below, which he emailed you the other day. He is pretty well known around the Country, but he is very well known in San Antonio and is a friend of the Spurs. Most of the Media in San Antonio have gotten wind of this bet, I was wondering, as a Nuggets fan, if you are going to accept his challenge? This exposure if you accept will mean a lot to our organization and will help Autism awareness, by the way April is Autism awareness month. Check out our website and what we are doing for Autism, www.sos-ad.org

OK Home-boy, here's the deal. Nuggets win series, I'll publicly shave my head. When the Spurs win, you'll donate $1,000 to SOS-AD.ORG (A non-profit for Autism) I've called you out. Chris "Crazy Legs" Fonseca Comedian with Cerebral Palsy www.comedypro.com/fonseca CFONSE7@AOL.COM

Respectfully,

Gregg Whelen

VP/Co-Founder SOS-AD

From: "Kiszla, Mark"
To:
Subject: RE: Challenge from Chris Fonseca
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:51:53 +0000

Greg:

Thanks for writing.

But, if you're going to call somebody out, don't you need to have your story straight?

I wrote that this series is not over..

I wrote the Spurs won't win the NBA title.

For Fonseca to pound his chest and tell lies on behalf of a fine charity like yours is a discredit to the charity.

I'll stand by what I wrote.

Spurs won't win the NBA title.

And I'll make a bet on what I wrote.

If Spurs win NBA title, I'll shave my head (heck, there's not much hair left on it anyway).

If Spurs don't win the NBA title, you and Chris will both donate $1,000 to my favorite charity, the National Ski Center for the Disabled.

You game for that?

Let me know.

Have fun with the series,

Mark Kiszla

Round TWO -- Fonseca

Votives with a motive

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By Mark Kiszla
Denver Post Staff Writer

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SAN ANTONIO

It was time for breakfast. Stomachs growled in hunger. Or was that the sound of indigestion from worried Spurs fans? Deep in the heart of Texas, basketball was the hot topic on everybody's plate.

"Here's the deal," Carlos Villarreal, the friendly manager at San Antonio's El Mirador restaurant, told me Wednesday morning. "You guys from Denver let the Spurs win one more year, then you can take over. Our team is old. All we want is one more championship run."

The old, gray San Antonio Spurs ain't what they used to be. And everybody, including Denver, knows it.

Despite the fact San Antonio earned a 97-88 victory in an NBA playoff game the home team desperately needed, it was the Nuggets who were singing in the shower Wednesday night, because Carmelo Anthony and Allen Iverson have spied the distress in the eyes of the Spurs.

"They know they're in for a battle," Iverson said after the game was done. "They better know."

Oh, the Spurs know, all right. Anyone with an IQ above the average daily humidity reading in Texas knows.

All of San Antonio realizes the beloved hometown team is going to need all the help it can get to survive the Nuggets in this best-of-seven series.

"We're scared," Villarreal had explained at the breakfast table. Then, he added something truly revealing: "I'm going to light some candles."

Say what?

The Spurs really must be religion in San Antonio. A true fan is not hesitant to stop by church and fire up a votive candle on the way to the arena.

What did we learn from Game 2? Never underestimate the power of prayer.

Of course, having Spurs star Tim Duncan on your side doesn't hurt, either.

Duncan scored 22 points, and San Antonio hung on as a fourth-quarter rally by the Nuggets fell short. There was a time, back when the Spurs were a legitimate championship contender, when they could scare Denver. No more.

"We didn't back down," Nuggets coach George Karl said.

No directions are required to assemble the key components of this Denver loss, which tied the best-of- seven series at a victory for each team.

The Spurs brought the intensity.

The Nuggets supplied the bricks.

Denver could not shoot straight until it was too late, with Anthony and Iverson missing 29 shots between them. The Nuggets nearly wiped out a 17-point San Antonio lead in the fourth period, only to watch in disbelief when center Marcus Camby flubbed a dunk that could have cut the visitors' deficit to four points in the game's final two minutes.

So why were the Nuggets singing without a care in the shower?

"Missing the shots I can make with my eyes closed, I just feel good about that going into the next game, because I know I'm not going to miss those shots," Iverson said.

"How the heck do you know?" said Anthony, happily needling his teammate.

"It's a given," said Iverson, the league MVP in 2001. "I got an 11-year history of this."

"Oooh," Anthony sang, in a neo-soul voice that could've make D'Angelo cry.

Denver will probably have to win another game in Texas to eliminate the Spurs, and that won't be easy.

But the Nuggets are loose.

It's the Spurs, trying to cling to fading glory, unable to run with the more athletic Denver team, who have tense lines etched on their faces, knowing they must scratch and claw and hope for divine intervention to survive.

If you ever travel to San Antonio, make sure to stop by El Mirador, where if you have not had the chilaquiles for breakfast, you have not lived.

And talk basketball with Villarreal, a restaurant manager who once dreamed of being an NBA referee. He knows the score.

Between sips of coffee, I had asked Villarreal how many votive candles he would need to light to save his Spurs in Game 2.

"Only 10. We are talking about Denver here," he said with a laugh. "If we were playing Dallas, I might need to ask the priest to open another room at the church."

This figures to be a long series. I don't pretend to know whom God is rooting for, but youth and talent is on the side of the Nuggets.

Better stock up on candles and prayers, San Antonio.

Staff writer Mark Kiszla can be reached at 303-954-1053 or mkiszla@denverpost.com.

Posted By: Chris (26/04/2007 2:16:25 AM)

Comment: Mr. Kiszla I grew up Catholic, we light candles for everything. Maybe I can light one for you to see your head up your own rear? "Youth and talent is on the side of the Nuggets. Better stock up on candles and prayers, San Antonio." Sorry non-believer, Spurs win series and more than likely the NBA trophy again. My bet still stands on the series. And yes if Nuggets win the series -- I will donate $1,000 to your favorite charity, the disabled ski program. An as a gesture of sportmanship, this proud Spurs fan will do a fundraiser show for the ski program, anytime this year. CFONSE7@AOL.COM WWW.COMEDYPRO.COM/FONSECA

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Monday, April 23, 2007

GO KISZLA GO!
Current mood:

pissed off

Following is an article that appeared in the Denver Post and my response.

I'll update you on his response.

Spurs are on their way out

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By Mark Kiszla
Denver Post Staff Columnist

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San Antonio - With a 95-89 victory everybody else in basketball will regard as an upset, the Nuggets sent an unmistakable, undeniable message to Tim Duncan and the once-great San Antonio Spurs.

It's over for you.

It has been a great run by the Spurs, including three NBA championships, but it's done.

If Sunday's victory by the Nuggets in the postseason opener was so shocking, why didn't anyone in the visiting locker room look surprised?

After Denver claimed Game 1 in this best-of-seven series, someone asked center Marcus Camby if it was reason to party.

"We're not content," Camby insisted. "We ain't happy."

"That's what I'm talking about, M.C.," chimed in Jack Murphy, the team's video coordinator. "We're businessmen on a trip, here to do a job. We don't need to celebrate."

I'm not saying this series is over.

And the Nuggets certainly know better than to count out San Antonio.

"We know how serious it is," Nuggets point guard Allen Iverson said.

But what was revealed Sunday night is the Spurs are too thin, too gray and too vulnerable to be considered real threats to win it all.

So Denver might as well knock them out now and save San Antonio the inevitable disappointment down the road.

After Duncan clanked shot after shot under relentless defensive pressure by Nene, the normally unflappable San Antonio superstar was spied during the first half rubbing hands across his mug like a fuming child who could not believe what was happening to him.

"You're playing against a Hall of Fame player, and you can't stop a guy like that, all you can do is contain him," Iverson said of the intensity Nene employed to rattle Duncan. "Nene did a great job of just taking the challenge."

If Mr. Robot Face is what you normally see from Duncan, then his display of frustration means the Spurs are in real danger, Will Robinson.

After watching Carmelo Anthony and Iverson combine for 61 points, taking over at crunch time in a raucous arena, you must acknowledge Denver possesses as much or more talent than the Spurs.

There's only one Bruce Bowen, San Antonio's designated defensive pest, and he cannot be a gnat buzzing in the ears of Anthony and Iverson at the same time.

Once, as every bone in the body of San Antonio big-shot artist Robert Horry creaked as he raised himself from splatting on the floor, I swear you could see the AARP card slip from his pocket. The Spurs are old. They're ornery. They won't go quietly. But their roster has too much mileage to make a long playoff run.

Maybe the only thing really shocking about Denver's victory was how workmanlike it was.

Unlike two years ago, when the Nuggets teased us by stealing the opening playoff game in San Antonio when Andre Miller played out of his head and the Spurs missed 17 shots in a row, Denver has found a new formula capable of repeat success.

This time, the dream of winning a playoff series for the first time since 1994 is real.

Anthony and Iverson, not Duncan and Spurs point guard Tony Parker, were the best two players on the court.

It was the Nuggets who appeared more composed with the game on the line, going on an 11-0 run late in the fourth quarter to take control.

"We didn't panic," said Iverson, who started slowly only to score eight crucial points in the final period.

After trading for Iverson in December, it took so long for the Nuggets to find an identity and learn player roles that you worried they might run out of name tags.

"We had some struggles. But there's nothing you can do to fast-track things," Denver vice president of player personnel Rex Chapman said.

The pain of discovery is paying dividends now.

The Nuggets are no longer a classic running team. Those rainbow uniforms are in mothballs, and the soft running jumper of Alex English is a fading memory.

But, maybe, just maybe, Iverson has taught the Nuggets how to win the gutter fights and halfcourt battles in the dirty little wars that define playoff basketball.

What is that annoying chant fans scream incessantly in San Antonio's arena?

Go, Spurs, go.

And turn out the lights when you leave.

Staff writer Mark Kiszla can be reached at 303-954-1053 or mkiszla@denverpost.com.