No One On The Corner

"Tha Carter III" won 'Best Rap Album' at the Grammys a few days ago. That album is over-rated especially compared to the second "Carter" and in general, Lil Wayne is over-rated too. I like him almost as much as the next person who likes mainstream rap but I just feel like people hype him up too much. With all that hype, of course there is a backlash, as evident by this (old) clip. In Wayne's defense, some of these cuts were taken from mixtapes and the "jacking" is more paying homage to the song he's sampling and/or rapping over than stealing. Also, hip hop is all but built on making new music with other people's old music so who cares if he's using snippets of different rappers' songs? People who love Lil Wayne and people who hate Lil Wayne both need to tone it down a bit.

I Am The Real

This is the guy who made Santogold change her name to Santigold??? This is the stupidest thing I've heard in a while. If anything, Santi White is giving this guy some unintentional exposure with the name confusion. He should be elated. Danny McBride didn't have to change his name because there was another Danny McBride in Hollywood. Well, he added the "R." but he was filling out an official document. Santogold and Santo Gold probably don't sign up for things using stage names so who cares if there's more than one Santogold? In the end, Danny had the last laugh, on national television, and I'm sure Santi will have the same.

Freshmen!

This song is going to rule frat and sorority houses across America. It's not terrible I guess.

Mighty Ighty Ighty O!

These are much funnier than they have any right to be...

Wait A Minute

There's been a few things I've been meaning to post these past several days. Rather than posting a bunch of stuff at once, I think I'm going to trickle them out (or fail to post them at all) over the next week or so. And I'm only saying this so you know why I'm later than the rest of the Internet with these things, if that happens to be the case. So stay tuned, I guess.

Anyway, here's this comedian, Nick Kroll, on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Apparently, he's on the CollegeHumor show on MTV, which is sitting on the DVR, waiting for me to watch it. This set starts out somewhat weak but gets really funny. You should watch it:

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This one

is the full song version of this one

which is just like this one

and they were both based on this one

I Think I'm Goin' Crazy

About a year or so ago, Arsenal topped the Bucs as my favorite team in all of sports. Since then, hours of reading about the Bucs has been replaced with hours upon hours of reading about the Gunners, even when I get to watch roughly a game every two or three weeks (far more than I ever got to see of the Bucs). It didn't take long to grow accustomed to the absurdity of the transfer window, manager and player gossip and pretty much all so-called "news" in the EPL and other top flight football leagues. While I got used to reading the latest rumors, which entirely contradicted the previous rumors, it has almost become too much to handle.

It all boils down to Arsenal's attempt to sign Zenit St. Petersburg's Andrei Arshavin, possibly the best Russian international at the moment. The Gunners "problems" run deep and while Arshavin might not be the answer to the most important questions at the club, he could definitely help us get back on track. As you can see, he's good, an ideal candidate to play Arsene Wenger's style of football and lift them up offensively during a disappointing season:



Over the past few weeks, the Arshavin saga has been off and on so many times, that I could have sworn journalists were just flipping a coin to determine what news to report each day. Now, knowing what I do about the transfer window, pointless gossip and unreliable sources, I should have avoided reading all soccer news until today, the close of the transfer window. Maybe I could have saved myself from this roller coaster ride of good and bad news. Sadly, predictably even, that's not the case. Today alone, the deal has been on and off and on again. Check out the running log on Gunnerblog. Ridiculous right? On the very last day to sign new players, there are still stories going around about the transfer being up in the air. Ugh.

The final news of the day is that the paperwork is in, after the original close of the transfer window which was extended because of the weather, but it won't be reviewed until tomorrow. Assuming there's nothing fishy with the documentation, I guess Arshavin is an Arsenal player. Yay. I'm just glad it'll be all over even if the deal falls through because this was far too frustrating. There were times when I thought Arshavin was exactly the player we needed to put us over the top and win the league. And there were times when I thought he was over-rated and not worth the trouble of dealing with the difficult Zenit representatives and Dennis Lachter, Arshavin's agent. In the past few days, I've grown hopeful of the transfer so this was supposed to be the happy ending to an exhausting story. But even after spending the better part of this morning refreshing websites and blogs, I still don't really know anything more than I knew yesterday. Or a month ago. So the deal is probably on but maybe not... It seems the exhausting story is the never ending story, a story that will hopefully end tomorrow, for better or for worse.

I think Arshavin's agent, who was a major part of the difficulties with this signing, sums things up nicely:

“It was completed in extra-time but we must wait for confirmation. In 16 years this has been the most difficult transfer ever.”