I've actually been taking notes on stuff I want to blog about, so you best believe I'm taking this blog to the next level. Hopefully, the classic Brent Barry "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit" adage does not apply...
Charles Barkley:
Speaking of basketball players, (Brent Barry was a white guy who somehow won the slam dunk contest by the way... more on this later now that I think about it) Charles Barkley gave one of my new favorite quotes last week. He's usually pretty hilarious, but this is probably his best work to date. I wish everybody who said something offensive would make "apologies" like this. He also insulted Shaq and Twitter.
More Brent Barry as Promised:
In my search for that Brent Barry link I came across this site, which I had been to before and forgotten about. Just go there and enjoy that article yourself and if you're hesitant about clicking a link that will take you away from this magical place, note that the name of the site is Tirico Suave... Holy shit that is amazing. Tirico Sauve aside, I remember watching that entire slam dunk contest, and at the time I didn't think it was a big deal, but now that it's not 1996, the dismay I should have felt is starting to sink in. How did a mediocre small forward with a fucking mushroom cut beat Michael Finley and Jerry Stackhouse (and several other non-mushroom cut participants) in a slam dunk competition. Those guys must not have wanted to be there at all, and once Barry landed that dunk have said "whatever, let's let this dumb ass looking dude win... it'll make all the white kids in the crowd happy." There's a lot of contrived "made for tv" sporting events, but the dunk contest has to be, by far, the worst and that Brent Barry thing is exhibit A... When a white guy from the Clippers is getting a standing ovation from a stadium full of people, you know something is horribly wrong.
Cracked.com:
This is another site I've been to before thanks to this article, but I came across it again and have a new found appreciation for it. This guy in particular. When things like this are written, you know it's a good site...
"Coppola making this movie is like Alex Rodriguez showing up to play in a Little League game for some reason ... and then striking out. Or, better yet, if Alex Rodriguez struck out in a Little League game, shat on home plate, kicked an orphan and then made a movie about a child in a hairy man's body."
It's stuff like that that make me realize how not funny I am.
Google:
This isn't a new feature, but when you start typing in a search, Google gives it's search hints as you type, and if you haven't noticed, there is some weird shit that comes up. I had to google how to do something (I forgot what) but here are some of the things that come up with "how to..."
get pregnant, grow weed, get a girl to like you... you get the idea. Also, China agrees... I don't know how I feel about that.
I rode a scooter:
My roommate got a scooter yesterday and I went out on a spin with him. There's no way not to look gay on one of those things. The same idea kind of goes with motorcycles, but at least those guys have a reputation for being bad asses so there's always a perceived chance of getting stabbed if you make fun of those guys. The same does not go for two smiling dudes wearing track jackets riding to the grocery store to get a frozen pizza and cookies on a motor scooter. Latent gayness aside, it was fucking fun. I've never ridden on any street-legal motorized bike and there is an undeniable rush that goes with it -- and that rush has nothing to do with gayness.
Music Video:
I'm going to go way back and ultra obscure for this one... Trent Reznor before his NIN days covering "Eyes Without a Face" (more on the real version of that song and its amazing video in a later post). There is a lot of awesome stuff here. First and foremost, it's just hilarious to see the guy who is responsible for some of the greatest music in the 90's (including the best song from that decade) covering Billy Idol long before his day was to come. Furthermore, he's shimmying behind a keyboard with a Lyle Lovett hair do... awesome. With all that said, he and his band do a great cover of the song. The poor quality 80's home video exentuates all these things, and this is now one of my favorite YouTube videos.
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