They Fought With Expert Timing

It's funny and I like to laugh...











From JM.

Somewhere In The Amazon

I saw this on MSN. Pretty crazy story...

Straight From the Page...

Here's another Flashing Lights video. This guy just doesn't quit.

From The Fader.

P.S. It's late, I'm tired. This fairly new Blogger scheduled posts feature is probably why I'm staying regular with my posts (not that anyone reads this). I'll be hard at work or hardly working when this goes up. I'm so on top of things, I blog in the future...

(Jitterbug)

The Lakers x Orange Mocha Frappuccinos!!!

I stole this from Tomasu's blog. Congrats Lakers and Lakers fan.

Good Things

Everyone once and a while a story comes along that reminds me that message boards and forums are more than just a place for anonymous, arrogant, closed-minded shit talking. Read about how this guy got his stolen bike back.

Watch What You Say

Shawty Lo has been beefing with T.I. about guess what? His street cred. Apparently, Shawty doesn't think T.I. is from Bankhead and he found a picture to prove it:


T.I. laughs at Shawty Lo on MTV:


Another part of the MTV interview touched on T.I.'s legal problems. He admitted to making a mistake and talked about not thinking straight because he was concerned about the welfare of his family and friends. It's unfortunate that he's going to prison (especially for doing something so dumb) but what's even more disconcerting is that he's pulling a Lil' Kim by doing the reality series thing leading up to his jail time.

I've read a few interviews that had me thinking T.I. was ready to take his music to the next level. Supposedly, his upcoming album is going to be more introspective now that he's writing down his lyrics, rather than rapping from memory (which I think is overrated anyway. Just because Biggie can do it, doesn't mean everyone else should). On top of that, he's got confirmed tracks with Danja and Kanye, and the first song is pretty great. I've been waiting for him to make a record that legitimizes him as one of the greats (like Jay did with The Blueprint) but now I'm not so sure. I know the two aren't related but how many great albums have been even remotely associated with a reality show???

I'm still going to buy the album and watch the show, for sure. Let's just hope they don't disappoint or make a complete mockery of T.I.

What Do I Know?

Probably my favorite song from last year gets a new video. Apparently, there's going to be three videos, a la Jesus Walks but I'm not sure if this is the first or second one. Featuring a really attractive woman:


Here's the Spike Jonze directed video from earlier this year, which I may or may not have already blogged. I'm not sure if this one is considered the first video, but it also features a really attractive woman. I think we may have a running theme...

We're All Actors

Still wondering if this will be any good or not...

Say Goodbye To Love

Kenna and Lupe the killer: Remiiiiiiix!!!

Paint A Perfect Picture

I've seen this video on several blogs recently but I never got around to watching it until today. This is what happens when street art comes to life. Simply incredible.

Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Clap

Today, I made my first iTunes purchase ever. (I copped The Cool Kids' new EP. I'm only three songs deep but so far, so good. It's exactly what I expected, in a good way.) I'm an idiot though. I bought the album rather than using the $25 iTunes gift card that I've had lying around since Christmas. I'll guess I'll get around to using that soon but I still prefer having a compact disc with liner notes. Anyway...

Who knew trying to find the release date for the CD version of The Bake Sale would be so hilarious? Searching for "The Cool Kids" on iTunes and amazon.com resulted in this gem:

So many questions, so many things to say...

First of all, did Rachael Ray kidnap the girl in purple? I can't tell if she's sad or embarrassed or what. She doesn't look too happy that's for sure.

What's with celebrities throwing together their favorites songs and calling it an album? Rachael Ray is to Too Cool For School Mixtape For Kids as Zach Braff is to Garden State OST.

She's 2 for 2 on bad album covers. Rachael must be friends with the graphic designer. How else would you explain this? (But more importantly, can someone tell me how Rachael Ray has two albums in the first place?)

When are people going to be okay with saying "mix CD" or "CD mix"? Only the realest of the real still use mixtapes and I don't know any of those folk. If you use one of these, you might be able to call it a mixtape but even that's a stretch.

Too Cool For School? Those kids? Really? Really?


Okay, I don't particularly want to close this out with Rachael Ray talk that doesn't involve food so here's a link to an old Cool Kids post: Click click click.

Is That Yo' Car?

How do you explain to your insurance agency that your car was hit by a giant Lego boulder during a crazy Indiana Jones reenactment?


As blogged by some Fatlacer

I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time

This was last week's news, but it's still incredibly awesome:

That's some super hero type stuff right there!

Yo, Stop At The Deli

Even though I live just outside of North Beach, I rarely go down there to hang out. It's not that I make a point to avoid the place, but I usually just head down to Polk or Union Square for some reason. Anyway, on Saturday I walked to Columbus with some folks to grab lunch. After some painful decision making, we ended up at Molinari Delicatessen. I haven't been to that many delis in the city but this one might be the best.

Everything looked and smelled pretty good when we walked in. I was starving so it was hard to pick what to eat but I settled on the Basil Turkey Special (Turkey, Fresh Mozzarella, Sweet Bell Peppers, Sun Dried Tomatoes, Basil Garlic Spread) and some tortellini salad. I traded half of my sandwich to Wendy for half of her South Beach Special (Turkey, Provolone, Artichoke Hearts, Sun Dried Tomatoes, Basil Garlic Spread). Both sandwiches were really good, with tons of turkey and fresh toppings, but the Basil Turkey was the better of the two (maybe the best sandwich I've had in SF). The peppers were excellent and so were the tomatoes but it was the fresh mozzarella that put things over the top. The salad was good too, except for the celery. I don't like celery.

I'll have to go back soon to try some other stuff so if anyone wants to check it out, let me know...

It Was A Good Day

Yeeeeah, I was hoping this would be on youtube already. The absolute best thing about Season 4 of The Office:

Google Me Baby

Apparently Google has been having this competition to draw the Google logo. It was open to K-12th graders around the nation and now the regional finalists are up and open for public voting. The winner gets his or her drawing posted on the Google homepage on May 22, 2008.

Out of the 4 aged-based categories, I liked the K-3 and 10-12 grade drawings the best. It's cool seeing the work of kids who obviously haven't had any formal art schooling yet and I like looking at the more seasoned artists' work too.



I liked this K-3 entry. I admit part of it had to do with its awesome write up. For some of the other entries, it was obvious that a teacher or parent helped out with the blurb, if not wrote the entire thing. This one was clearly different:

"A Fish Swallowed a Google

What if a fish swallowed a Google? He might oogle, zoogle, or boogle. He might get full before the gle and eat only the Goo. Poogle! The Goo comes out. And the fish goes swimming about."

Remind me to start saying "poogle" more often...

I thought I'd post this one because it's really hard to draw hands. It's from the 10-12 category.



This one was one of my favorites of the 10-12 group, and from the contest in general. Maybe it's because I'm a nerd but I like the blueprint angle.

All of the finalists' logos are pretty good so you should check them out.

1234

The man with the funniest first name in baseball bags himself a triple play:

So Incredible

My ma was telling me about Stephen Wiltshire so I had her send me a link. His work is amazing but I'll let the video tell the whole story.


Here's one of him doing Tokyo:

Frisco Staaand Up!

When I was passing through Chinatown this morning, I saw this tourist tee for $1.88, so I bought it.

Who Did You Think I Was?

John Mayer x Judd Apatow


And because Kristen Bell is nice to look at...

... but maybe not with that helmet hair.

Bad Mouth Kid

Ozzie Guillen had an awesome bleep filled rant the other day. Aside from reminding me of the Jimmy Kimmel skit that Jamie pointed me towards, the curses brought me back to my childhood. Way back when, I went to a Little League Day at the Oakland Coliseum. (For those that don't know, Little League Day is when all the little leaguers get to walk around the field in their uniforms before the pros play.) This particular time, the White Sox were in town. When passing by the visitor's dugout, Ozzie Guillen came out and shook my hand. Out of hundreds of kids looping the field, he came out and said what's up to me. I thought that was cool.

Are You Ready To Play The Game?

A bunch of years back, I saw an ESPN story about some kid named Chris Paul who scored 61 points in a high school game to honor his grandfather. Since he joined the NBA (after two years at Wake Forest), he's been one of my favorite players. His performance and success this year have launched him into my list of top 5 players or top 3 even. I know the Hornets are the bandwagon pick but I don't care. I may want to see them in the finals even more than I want to see a Lakers/Celtics series. The finals are still a ways away but a 2-0 lead over the Spurs has the Hornets in a pretty good place.

I had been looking for the ESPN clip on youtube for a while now and today I found it. This one isn't the whole story but it was the best I could find. If anyone has a link to the entire segment, let me know.

She's Been Callin' Me Again

Found this on Prolly during a quick mid-morning break: