Lost Time Is Not Found Again is what the MPS blog crew has been reading today. Maybe.

+ Greg Oden chilling in Hawaii. {Blaze of Love.}

+ Ron Artest’s rather awesome tribute song to Michael Jackson. {Horace Grant Halftime Report.}

+ Hey everybody, I’m Tyler Hansbrough! {Bill Simmons’ Twitter.}

+ Former IU  and current Xavier guard Jordan Crawford dunked on LeBron James. {CBS Sports.}

+ Non-sports: Twitter suggested for Nobel Prize. {Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.} Death Cab for Cutie on Conan last night. {Stereogum.}

Quotable:

“Look, people will always have strong feelings about the Second Amendment, and prominent shooting deaths will always bring that issue to the fore. Fine, let the editorialists editorialize, but can we keep that stuff out of Section D? People who already agree with Lupica aren’t getting much out of this column, and people who disagree sure as sugar aren’t changing their minds based on this.

Look, obviously McNair = page views for a lot of folks. If readers are talking about something, writers like to write about it. But sometimes a tragedy is just a tragedy, and doesn’t necessarily come gift-wrapped with some larger meaning about modern American society. Being sad is enough.” – Dan Steinberg