2) For the most part I’ve been staying away from talking about a candidate in this year’s election. Mostly because in American politics, if you say something good or bad about a candidate you must say something equally good or bad about the other candidate in the very next breath. Failure to do so means you are working for “the man”. That said, I’ve decided to post this story because it predates his eye on national politics and, quite frankly, how many people do you know that are willing to part with a hundred bucks to a person that is clearly leaving the country?
3) What an odd day for MMA. Kimbo Slice was supposed to fight Ken Shamrock, but cut his eye during a practice session earlier in the day and the league (fearing it had lost its main event) pulled a fighter off the undercard by the name of Seth Petuzelli and slipped him into Shamrock’s place. The only problem with this is Seth is exactly the type of fighter Kimbo’s managers have been avoiding. With no other option, the fight is patched with Seth taking Ken’s place and he puts Kimbo down in all of about ten seconds. Odds are, Kimbo avoids a rematch, and we may have just seen the last of the Slice on national television (at least, until wrestling gets a hold of him).
Just finished watching the Vice Presidential debate. There’s 4 billion sites you can take a look at for spin, and this won’t be one of them. Here’s a few observations though:
-By tomorrow, you’re going to hear about how the ratings were huge for this one. Not because we wanted answers, but because the low-balled this conversation so much that most were tuning in to see Jerry Springer as the moderator and a ‘doctor’ to come out half way through to tell is if “skipper” or “sled” oh whatever the hell Palin’s oldest son is named, is or is not a love child of hers and Biden.
- I know it wasn’t possible, but I think it would have been awesome if Tina Fey came out and took the first question. Side note: this has to piss Fey off. Almost as much as this has to piss Palin off.
- Dear Mr. Biden, do you own a tv? Because Katie Couric did this interview with your opponent… I only bring it up because it was LOADED with jabs you could have mentioned tonight. Russia as a neighbor? Name a paper?? Good stuff…. but… I’m sure you have something else witty to bring up inst….. wait, it’s over?
Do yourself a favor, DON’T watch anyone giving an opinion on who won or who lost. It’s a waste of your eyesight. If you want some real information, wait a day or so and check out this site. They focus on the conversation better than you or I ever will, and manage to correct all the mistakes so that you can actually get some honest information.
Here’s something that will eat up some of your day. Someone took the time to start a google map of the actual locations that album art was photographed.
I used to think that it was cool to say I lived near the place where Attack Of the Killer Tomatoes was shot. Now I can say I live near where the Fugazi album cover was shot. Yay for progress!
Imagine you’re a little kid again, and you’re in the Boy Scouts/Cub Scouts/whatever the hell kid group you were a part of that dressed you up in “future mailmen of America” looking uniforms and sent you door to door selling crap no one wanted to friends your parent’s didn’t really like.
One of the big events in those badge-achieving mini whores had to get involved with every year was (at least in my town) called the “Pinewood Derby”. This is where you were given a block of wood and some plastic circles and were told to make a car out of it. The “cars” would then be placed on a track and pointed downward. Fastest one to the bottom wins…. I think another badge. Greedy badge-achieving whores….
My guess is, someone was a really big fan of the derby designs, and they’re making adult sized versions. The concept is genuine, in that it is more of a true hippy hybrid using “human power”. I know. I KNOW! But, please…. save your gas jokes.
It’s human powered because you steer it by leaning your body, you can go up to 60 MPH without using gas, and it is powered by people rowing.
In the worst way imaginable, I want to buy this for Anthony.
One day a guy has an idea. He decides he wants to be the bearer of everyone’s secrets. So he sets up a website and a mailing address and invites people to unload their joys/demons/crimes/fetishes/etc.
The result of this idea leads to over 200,000 postcards mailed to him, over 184 million visits to his site, 4 books books, and currently is on a college tour.
There are moments that define music history; The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, Woodstock, Clay Aiken’s runner up performance on American Idol season 2… I mean… eh, screw it.
(FYI: I had to look up that Idol reference on Wikipedia, then immediately had to delete it from my search history, least I should die suddenly in the night and someone does a search on my drive to search for answers and find… that.)
But, Suzanne Vega? HUGE part of musical history. If you’ve got ear buds on while you’re reading this, then you can partially thank Suzanne. Well, her and some German engineers, but mostly her.
-it was written in a crappy restaurant in New York City in 1982, even though it wasn’t a hit until 1990
-the diner she’s talking about was also the same one the tv show Seinfield used
-the ‘actor’ reference in the song was about William Holden
There’s a bunch of other tidbits that make for an interesting history of a song, but towards the end of the article we find out that a guy by the name of Karl-Heinz Brandenberg overheard the original (read: a capella) version of the tune and became obsessed with breaking it down into (what became) the MP3 form that we all know and love today.
It’s a long read, but a really good and well written one. By the time you’re finished, you’ll have enough interesting facts to start an intelligent/random conversation with that hot girl you’ve been eying on the bus every morning. Assuming she’s wearing earphones to listen to some bubble gum synth pop, as opposed to having them in to avoid a conversation with you, the creepy guy who won’t stop staring at her.
See? Mother of the MP3, AND Wingwoman. How is it that you haven’t sent Suzanne Vega a thank-you card yet? Selfish jerk.
1) I’m assuming there was only one “American flag” hankerchif, and that’s why he never lets go of it.
2) So, America = Angles?
3) They spent all their budget on graphics, so he had to wear his Salvation army t-shirt to the big video shoot?
4) Is it just me, or are all of the beach shots from the exact same chunk of beach?
As many of you know, one of my side projects is a weekly video game show. We produce a couple features for it, and one of them is a news segment done in our typical style. It’s voiced and posted by our friend Kate, and you can find this (and previous) week’s segment here
