Championship

Since the Seahawks are currently trying to entice this gentleman, I thought I'd post one of Stefan's favorites. The comment is something I can hear coming out of Tanner's mouth.



limelightsystems (1 year ago)
Ok I count at least 12 guys and at least 10 teams on the board so if this is the 5th pick, 6th round, who are the 54 players better then TJ? Now that is funny.

I saw Danny do this once

One time at a party Danny really did this. Except he threw up on a chick, who was hot.



Everyday at work I have thought about trying to do something like this. Just run around throwing up on everything and watching people freak out. It would be really cool, I think, for like a minute and then it would probably get really gross and I would regret it.

Gol! Gol! Gol!

Running the 40

I hate Duke

Mantage

I know that I have posted this video way too many times but the lady who sits next to me at work hasn't seen it yet.



HoodLuver (1 day ago) 0 Reply
the meat looks like sumthin else

It's not Mother's Day but I also like this one.



kjenz5 (6 hours ago) 0 Reply
put down the yard stick

Oscars: Stefan Style

Tanner has already posted his picks and predictions, which were pretty good, so here are mine. I will be doing mine semi-live as the show goes on. I will not be drinking as the show goes so my writing shouldn't get weirder or anything but I probably will get bored so my writings will get shorter and less interesting.

Of the Oscar films, (nominated for anything that is) these are the ones that I have seen: Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler, Tropic Thunder, The Dark Knight, In Bruges, Wall-E, Wanted, Iron Man, Kung-Fu Panda, Vals Im Bashir, and Presto

The Red Carpet. I don't care what people are wearing but I will say that Taraji P. Henson is kind of hot, I never noticed that before.

Frieda Pinto is also wicked hot.

Miley Cirus, seriously? You have that much money and your teeth are that busted?

I can't find the order of the awards, as in when they are announced, so this is going to be a bit more difficult now.

Oscar stage set up, pretty cool lots of lights and Hugh Jackman looks amaaaazing, but why does he talk funny?

Hugh's intro song, actually kind of funny. I am already impressed.

I will put an * by the winner

Supporting Actress...
Amy Adams for Doubt (2008/I)
Penélope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)*
Viola Davis for Doubt (2008/I)
Taraji P. Henson for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Marisa Tomei for The Wrestler (2008)

I am gonna say Taraji P. Henson wins, but it would be cool if Tomei wins, cause she is looking good. So Penelope wins, cool, she also talks funny and I am still not that attracted to her.

I am watching this with Danny and Kenny (Tanner's room mate). Kenny is totally on Rourke's nuts. already getting annoying and only one award has been awarded.

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Frozen River (2008): Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008): Mike Leigh
In Bruges (2008): Martin McDonagh
Milk (2008/I): Dustin Lance Black*
WALL·E (2008): Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Jim Reardon

I say Milk, but I really liked In Bruges. Bam! First one right! Milk just has so much momentum. Really great acceptance speech.

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Eric Roth, Robin Swicord
Doubt (2008/I): John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon (2008): Peter Morgan
The Reader (2008): David Hare
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Simon Beaufoy*

Frost/Nixon will win. Man, this is a close one, they could all be winners. It could easily be The Reader, I will stick with my gut though, Frost/Nixon. Ahhhh but of course it goes to Slumdog Millionaire, I have to remember that everyone is on that movie's taint. With the way the economy is, people like an uplifting film.

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Bolt (2008): Chris Williams, Byron Howard
Kung Fu Panda (2008): John Stevenson, Mark Osborne
WALL·E (2008): Andrew Stanton*

Wall-E has to win this. It was really amazing, great animation. I think that this was no contest.

Best Short Film, Animated
Maison en petits cubes, La (2008): Kunio Katô*
Ubornaya istoriya - lyubovnaya istoriya (2007): Konstantin Bronzit
Oktapodi (2007): Emud Mokhberi, Thierry Marchand
Presto (2008): Doug Sweetland
This Way Up (2008): Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes

Presto, this is the only one that I have seen but it was really really good. Of course I am wrong though, Kunio Kato does not sound French at all, but props for saying Domo Oregato Mr. Roboto.

Best Achievement in Art Direction
Changeling (2008): James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo*
The Dark Knight (2008): Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
The Duchess (2008): Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway
Revolutionary Road (2008): Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt

I say it goes to Dark Knight, I am personally very interested in Art Direction and with my expertise I say Dark Knight. Benjamin Button wins...I think this will be one of the only ones they win, they have to win something and they won't win any of the big ones.

Best Achievement in Costume Design
Australia (2008): Catherine Martin
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Jacqueline West
The Duchess (2008): Michael O'Connor*
Milk (2008/I): Danny Glicker
Revolutionary Road (2008): Albert Wolsky

No idea for this but The Dutchess, those costumes look pretty nuts. I get another one right! Whoooo! I am nailing the big ones (that's what she said). We are now almost done with the lame awards just a few more to go.

Best Achievement in Makeup
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Greg Cannom*
The Dark Knight (2008): John Caglione Jr., Conor O'Sullivan
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008): Mike Elizalde, Thomas Floutz

They all used lots of makeup but I will say the Dark Knight. Oh this is intense. So Benjamin Button wins another lame award. They have to show something for 13 nominations.

Best Achievement in Cinematography
Changeling (2008): Tom Stern
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight (2008): Wally Pfister*
The Reader (2008): Roger Deakins, Chris Menges
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Anthony Dod Mantle

Ben Stiller coming out as Joaquin Phoenix, I should have seen that coming. Stiller's shtick gets old quick but that is funny. Winner, The Dark Knight, it has to win for something other than Heath Ledger. Damnit! Slumdog again. I want to clearify that I liked Slumdog but I don't think that it should win as many awards as it is going to.

Judd Apatow's short film with Seth Rogen and James Franco was pretty funny, especially when they showed James Franco's kissing scenes in Milk. Nothing awkward there.

Best Short Film, Live Action
Auf der Strecke (2007): Reto Caffi
Manon sur le bitume (2007): Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont
New Boy (2007): Steph Green, Tamara Anghie
Grisen (2008): Tivi Magnusson, Dorthe Warnø Høgh
Spielzeugland (2007): Jochen Alexander Freydank*

New Boy, my friend Ames saw it and said it was good. I should have picked the German one! I should have known it would be the master choice.

I'm not really into this musical medley thing. Tuxedos, top hats, and canes don't interest me. Nevermind this is awesome now that Zac Effron and Vanessa Hudgens are in it. Looking into Zac's eyes is like seeing Allah for the first time. Oh shit they are steppin'! Everyone in the audience just got served. Jackman says the musical is back, and I say, please no.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Josh Brolin for Milk (2008/I)
Robert Downey Jr. for Tropic Thunder (2008)
Philip Seymour Hoffman for Doubt (2008/I)
Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight (2008)*
Michael Shannon for Revolutionary Road (2008)

Heath Ledger has to win this. This new format of past winners talking about current nominees is kind of weird. Seriously, why is Cuba up there? What has he done since Jerry Maguire? His career has gone nowhere since that movie. It is funny though that he is talking about Robert Downey Jr. I can't take Christopher Walken seriously at all, please say, "I need more cowbell." Of course Heath Ledger wins. Kind of lame that he doesn't show up for the show though. Show some respect for the Academy.

Best Documentary, Features
The Betrayal - Nerakhoon (2008): Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath
Encounters at the End of the World (2007): Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser
The Garden (2008/I): Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Man on Wire (2008): James Marsh, Simon Chinn*
Trouble the Water (2008): Tia Lessin, Carl Deal

I hate Bill Maher, good job plugging your own sh*t right off the bat. Winner, Man on Wire, it looks really cool. Of course Maher plugs his own movie again, what a douche. Nice, I get another one right.

Best Documentary, Short Subjects
The Conscience of Nhem En (2008): Steven Okazaki
The Final Inch (2009): Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant
Smile Pinki (2008): Megan Mylan*
The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306 (2008): Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde

Don't plug yourself again Bill, don't do it. I say The Witness.. and as I am typing this I get it wrong. Smile Pinki wins. I'm just happy Maher didn't plug himself again.

The little montage sequences of the year are kind of cool. They are showing clips of some interesting films though. High School Musical? The action film montage is ho hum, mostly car chasing scenes, and way too many clips from Wanted.

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron*
The Dark Knight (2008): Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Timothy Webber, Paul J. Franklin
Iron Man (2008): John Nelson, Ben Snow, Daniel Sudick, Shane Mahan

I say Iron Man, the effects to make his iron suit was crazy...but once again you gotta expect it to be Benjamin Button. It is killing the lame awards. Yawn.

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
The Dark Knight (2008): Richard King*
Iron Man (2008): Frank E. Eulner, Christopher Boyes
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Tom Sayers
WALL·E (2008): Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
Wanted (2008): Wylie Stateman

I will stick with Iron Man but it's probably gonna be Slumdog. I am waaay off, The Dark Knight. I guess I don't have a good ear for that catagory. Courtesy laugh please.

Best Achievement in Sound
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten
The Dark Knight (2008): Ed Novick, Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty*
WALL·E (2008): Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt
Wanted (2008): Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt

Slumdog, gotta win it. Got it! It's been at least 15 minutes since they have won something. Whoa, an Indian guy who wasn't an actor! I thought it was just white guys behind the camera.

I think Will Smith has some Soul Glo going on. His hair is shiny!

Best Achievement in Editing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter
The Dark Knight (2008): Lee Smith
Frost/Nixon (2008): Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill
Milk (2008/I): Elliot Graham
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Chris Dickens*

Slumdog is gonna win but it would be cool if The Dark Knight wins. Bam got it right again. People are still hanging on it's nuts.

Well now we are really done with the lame ones. I guess the music awards could be considered not that cool but they are certainly more interesting that Sound Editing or Live Action Short Film or Costume Design. So far the Oscars have been pretty good, Hugh Jackman hasn't really done too much though. He has done his two big musical pieces but other than that, kind of out of the way. I wish Oscar commercials were more like Super Bowl commercials, nothing but animals and football.

My prediction for the Jean Hersholt award, Jerry Lewis. Bam! Got it! I am really good. Pretty impressive that he helped raise over $2 Billion for charity.

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Alexandre Desplat
Defiance (2008): James Newton Howard
Milk (2008/I): Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): A.R. Rahman*
WALL·E (2008): Thomas Newman

I'm thinking Slumdog again, I really liked it a lot, very different music. The score for Wall-E though was impressive, so much of that movie was just the music as there was not a lot of dialogue. Yessssss, Zac Effron again. Alicia Keys is alright looking as well. A.R. Rahman is very musically talented so I am glad he won. It is good that he sticks to music though because he is not a good speaker.

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): A.R. Rahman, Sampooran Singh Gulzar("Jai Ho")*
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): A.R. Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam("O Saya")
WALL·E (2008): Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman("Down to Earth")

Gonna go out on a limb here, A.R. Rahman again. O Saya, specifically. OK who does A.R. Rahman think he is using auto-tune, T-Pain? Hope he starts singing about being on a boat. So John Legend is performing Peter Gabriel's song because he was upset that he couldn't do his full song. While the song is important in a film it's ok that they perform a short version of it, for best actor they don't show the whole film do they? So I got this one right and wrong. A.R. Rahman did win but not for the song I thought. Sampooran Singh Gulzar? Sound like a bad guy in He-Man. Yo, where is Sampooran Singh Gulzar? Oh he is in his castle Greyskul.

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008)(Germany)
Entre les murs (2008)(France)
Revanche (2008)(Austria)
Okuribito (2008)(Japan)
Vals Im Bashir (2008)(Israel)

I want Vals Im Bashir, a great movie, but I think something else will win. I haven't seen the other ones so I don't know if I should be upset that Okuribito won but those guys seem pumped. I like acceptance speeches in broken English, they are somehow adorable.

Best Achievement in Directing
Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire (2008)*
Stephen Daldry for The Reader (2008)
David Fincher for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Ron Howard for Frost/Nixon (2008)
Gus Van Sant for Milk (2008/I)

I'm gonna Slumdog this pick (haha ugh) and say Danny Boyle. You can't stop this momentum. Wow, did not see that coming. Slumdog wins. I do give him credit for thanking the choreographer who wasn't in the credits. Classy move, you crazy little man.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Anne Hathaway for Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Angelina Jolie for Changeling (2008)
Melissa Leo for Frozen River (2008)
Meryl Streep for Doubt (2008/I)
Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008)*

I think that Kate Winslet is going to win. This personal message thing from past winners to the nominees is kind of funny, none of these women can not cry. Anne Hathaway is not an attractive crier. The women did this as well during the Supporting Actress announcement. Meryl Streep is like a robot though, there is no way she is going to cry. She has done this 14 times before, this is nothing new to her. She has no expression right now, she looks like she doesn't even care if she wins. Angelina also won't cry, she is too hot to cry. Oh Kate Winslet is going to give a terrible speech right now, she is going to be crying the whole time. So she isn't actually crying she is just really out of breath or something.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Richard Jenkins for The Visitor (2007/I)
Frank Langella for Frost/Nixon (2008)
Sean Penn for Milk (2008/I)*
Brad Pitt for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler (2008)

Sean Penn totally deserves this, his performance was unreal. Rourke could walk away with this but I'm thinking Penn. Is Adrian Brody getting ready for another Holocaust film? He looks terrible, shave and get a haircut brother, oh and eat. Good intro to an acceptance speech, Penn...you commie, homo loving sons of guns.

Best Motion Picture of the Year
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Ceán Chaffin, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall
Frost/Nixon (2008): Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Eric Fellner
Milk (2008/I): Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
The Reader (2008): Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Christian Colson*

Slumdog Millionaire, there is no doubt in my mind that this wins. I do like the way they are showing these nominated films by clipping it with past winners. Kind of a cool take on it. Slumdog wins! Nobody saw it coming! Pretty cool though that the whole cast came up with the producer.

Overall I have to say I am kind of surprised with the lack political acceptance speeches. A couple of mentions to gay marriage but not many other mentions. Good job Hugh Jackman, he didn't do a bad job, he really wasn't on that much but his opening song was really god.

So that is it...probably nobody is actually going to read any of this.

A Warning in the Form of a Burger

Or: What Good Burger tells us about the modern sports era

In 1997, Nickelodeon Movies released a 103 minute masterpiece of comedy. Based on the highly successful skit from the critically acclaimed adolescent sketch comedy show "All That", Good Burger stars Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson as a Ed and Dexter, pair of miss-matched burger salesmen who must team together to save the local fast food joint from failure. The film also features a bevy of other stars and starlets, including Abe Vigoda, Linda Cardellini, George Clinton and Shaquille O'Neal. A modern day reinterpretation of the Neil Simon's classic The Odd Couple, the movie is a wonderful piece of entertainment that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. But Good Burger is so much more than one of the greatest comedies of the 1990s. It is a timely warning about the issues of performance enhancing drugs in athletics.

These days, it is hard to finish a viewing of Good Burger without immediately feeling that its poignant message resonates with current events. Released just one year before the drug-fueled home-run race between Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa revitalized Major League Baseball, the film recounts how Mondo Burger, Good Burger's primary competition in the local fast food market, uses an illegal meat enhancing substance to create bigger burgers. When our heroes discover this travesty, they work to expose Mondo Burger and its diabolical manager, Kurt Bozwell, and protect the health of its customers. The parallels between this plot and the recent outing of a number of leading athletes using performance enhancing drugs seems obvious. Good Burger is clearly warning us: "Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Floyd Landis, Roger Clemens, Shawne Merriman... these people are not to be trusted. Take heed!"

But not only does the movie make it quite apparent that using such substances is both immoral and illegal, it also seems to point out how these sports stars would react when caught. Instead of simply grabbing the illegal substance and giving it to the police, which would have allowed Kurt to impugn Ed's honesty and use expensive lawyers to fight the charges in court, Ed overloads Mondo Burger's burgers with the substance, causing them to explode and destroy the restaurant. This action brings the police to the restaurant, where they find the rest of the illegal substance and arrest Kurt. Similarly, many of the athletes caught using performance enhancing drugs have impugned the honesty of those accusing them or have used their massive wealth and influence to complicate and delay the legal process. Most players being punished are being punished for lying about about their actions, rather than for the act of using performance enhancing drugs. Had those charged with regulating and enforcing drug policy in professional athletics followed Ed's example, it is likely that we would have seen more effective enforcement and more fitting punishments for those that violated the rules.

Overall, the moral we can take from Good Burger is clear: Emulate Michael Phelps rather than Alex Rodriguez. You won't improve your athletic performance, but you will probably enjoy your viewing experience more.

Oscar Picks

I am pretty confident that I will go 6 for 6 on the main ones. I will list all the nominees and then pick the one I think will win and give you my reasoning. Then I will say who I think should win.

Best Supporting Actress:

Amy Adams. DOUBT

Penelope Cruz. VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA

Viola Davis. DOUBT

Taraji P. Henson. BENJAMIN BUTTON

Marissa Tomei. THE WRESTLER

Gonna win: I am gonna go with Taraji P. Henson. I have a feeling that Penelope Cruz is not gonna win. Marissa Tomei already won one for My Cousin Vinny, and the two actresses from Doubt will split votes. That leaves Henson, and Benjamin Button has to win at least one Oscar, right? Also, I thought she was the most interesting character in the film.

Should win: Henson

Best Supporting Actor:

Josh Brolin. MILK

Robert Downey Jr. TROPIC THUNDER

Phillip Seymour Hoffman. DOUBT

Heath Ledger. THE DARK KNIGHT

Michael Shannon. REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

Gonna win: Heath Ledger. Easiest pick on the board.

Should win: David Kross. THE READER. He gave an amazing performance, better than Kate Winslet in the same movie. Plus, he was only seventeen years old for most of the filming.

Best Actress:

Anne Hathaway. RACHEL GETTING MARRIED

Angelina Jolie. CHANGELING

Melissa Leo. FROZEN RIVER

Meryl Streep. DOUBT

Kate Winslet. THE READER

Gonna win: Kate Winslet. She could have been nominated for Revolutionary Road, too, if the Academy didn't have a rule against it. Plus she has been snubbed so many times that the voters will feel she is due.

Should win: Winslet.

Best Actor:

Richard Jenkins. THE VISITOR

Frank Langella. FROST NIXON

Sean Penn. MILK

Brad Pitt. BENJAMIN BUTTON

Mickey Rourke. THE WRESTLER

Gonna win: Mickey Rourke. He was better than the movie. And Hollywood loves a come back story. Plus he's gonna die soon (my theory is during the filming of Sin City 2).

Should win: Rourke. Especially because he had sex with his daughter.

Best Director:

David Fincher. BENJAMIN BUTTON

Steven Daldry. THE READER

Ron Howard. FROST NIXON

Gus Van Sant. MILK

Danny Boyle. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Gonna win: Danny Boyle. He's swept the other directing awards this season.

Should win: Clint Eastwood, GRAN TORINO. Slumdog was a great movie, but it had too many holes in the plot and weird coincidences that made it seem too contrived. The best part of the movie was the use of music. Gran Torino, on the other hand, flowed so well, and the story seemed so seamless. Plus Clint Eastwood got so much out of unknown actors. Eastwood may be considered a one-trick pony, but I am still captivated by every movie he directs.

Best Picture:

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

FROST NIXON

MILK

BENJAMIN BUTTON

THE READER

Gonna win: Slumdog Millionaire

Should win: I don't think any of these movies should win. Slumdog Millionaire had a sloppy story structure, Frost Nixon is a movie based on a play based on a book based on a series of interviews, Milk is just another forgettable biopic (see Ray, Ali, Walk the Line, JFK, Malcolm X), Benjamin Button was a slow and boring version of Forrest Gump, and the Reader was great but not top-notch. My favorite American movie this year was probably Gran Torino, but I don't think THAT was best picture worthy either. I have heard great things about The Visitor and Rachel Getting Married, but I haven't seen them yet. For now, I am gonna have to say The Dark Knight. It was huge in scope, beautifully shot, captivated every audience, and had heart, brains, and guts. I am not a snob that thinks a super hero movie shouldn't win best picture, and when we look back ten years from now, there is no doubt to me that The Dark Knight will be viewed as the most important moie of 2008.

Other picks:

Best Foreign Language Film: gonna and should - Waltz with Bashir

Best Animated Film: gonna and should - WALL-E

Music: gonna and should - Slumdog Millionaire

Song: gonna - "O Saya" Slumdog Millionaire, should - "The Wrestler" The Wrestler*

*supposedly there is some bullshit rule where the best song is supposed to be taken in context with where it appears in the film, so The Wrestler was inelligible because it came over the closing credits. Boo. O Saya is a close second, though.

Adapted Screenplay: gonna - Slumdog Millionaire, should - Gran Torino

Original Screenplay: gonna - Milk, should - The Dark Knight

Snoring and Babies

Daddy Wakes Baby @ Yahoo! Video

Giambi playing for the A's

I just found out that Jason Giambi is now playing for the A's. I thought this was a funny thing to say at one of your first press conferences.

Giambi (age 38) signed a one-year $5.25 million deal, and the club has an option for 2010. Giambi hopes he's playing far longer than that, saying he won't leave the game, "'til they tear this uni off me."

Seriously?

"What am I going to do -- seriously?" he said. "Maybe be a bouncer at a strip joint. That's all I'm qualified to do."


At least he is honest with himself...

Mostly dumb but also funny

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by madatoms

Stephon and Me

Here is how these came to be...

i was driving home… and i spot stephon marbury sitting at the bus stop talking into his blackberry half a mile from my house. confused as to why starbury would be riding the bus - had the economy really bitten him that badly?

i grabbed my camera and hustled back to where i saw him - turns out he was waiting on his car to be fixed at a shop right behind him - and asked him if he’d shoot some improv stuff with me at the bus stop. i was a little surprised he said yes but he did and we rolled.

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   JT said this on February 19, 2009 at 5:35 pm

My Oh My!

This should make every Seattle sports fan smile. Here's a little bit more. And one more.

If you can't tell, I'm a lil' bit excited about Junior returning to Seattle. Call me nostalgic, but if those clips don't give you goosebumps, then you're probably not a Mariners fan.

Griffey!!

I see that Tanner has already posted about The Kid coming back to Seattle, but I thought I would also put my two cents in.

When I first saw a week ago that Jr. was going to come back to Seattle I was ecstatic. It was great watching him play when his career first started and now I would get to see his career end as a Mariner. This would certainly make me go to at a couple more games this coming season.

Then the news started coming in that Griffey was considering going to the Atlanta Braves.

Initially I was a little bit insulted that Griffey would play Seattle like that, but once again I took a step back and thought about the situation. For Griffey it would make sense to go to the Braves. Their training facility is 20 minutes from his house and this way he could easily see his daughter play high school basketball. The Braves would also be willing to let him play left field more full time than the Mariners. For the Mariners it would also be ok, yes you would lose out on a Seattle superstar, but this would give you the opportunity to develop more of your younger players and Griffey is not going to turn your sh*tty team into a contender. It probably would be better for the M's.

Now that Griffey has announced he is coming back to Seattle. I am happy...happy that it is finally over, but also happy that he is a Mariner. Jr. will be making between 2 and 4.5 million dollars, which really isn't that much and he will definitely put enough people in the stadium that the contract will be paid for. Pretty much every male between the age of 25 and 100 who lived in Seattle when Jr was a Mariner the first time will go to at least a couple of games to see him in an M's uniform. The Mariners, and MLB for that matter, need something good to happen and a reason to celebrate. The Mariners had one if not the most disappointing seasons ever last year. Griffey will help people remember what it was like when the Mariners were good. MLB is dealing with A-Rod confessing to using steroids, no surprise on my part, and their image is terrible. This is a good chance for MLB to hype Griffey coming back to Seattle and doing a sort of farewell tour. I hope that the Mariners have made it clear to him that he will mostly be playing DH as he cannot physically play in the outfield everyday. He will be doing some LF but he should mostly be in the DH spot. He is a seasoned veteran that can provide some leadership to a clubhouse that was very divided last year. As I said before, he is not going to make the M's a contender but he can still hit and should provide some HRs and some RBIs.

Griffey coming to the Mariners is mostly a reason to remember the good old days as opposed to actually becoming a winner again but I will take it, happily.

YES!

http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090218&content_id=3846072&vkey=news_sea&fext=.jsp&c_id=sea

When Great Art Meets Great Art

From the January 12th edition of The New Yorker. Enjoy!

Alien vs. Predator

by Michael Robbins

Praise this world, Rilke says, the jerk.
We’d stay up all night. Every angel’s
berserk. Hell, if you slit monkeys
for a living, you’d pray to me, too.
I’m not so forgiving. I’m rubber, you’re glue.

That elk is such a dick. He’s a space tree
making a ski and a little foam chiropractor.
I set the controls, I pioneer
the seeding of the ionosphere.
I translate the Bible into velociraptor.

In front of Best Buy, the Tibetans are released,
but where’s the whale on stilts that we were promised?
I fight the comets, lick the moon,
pave its lonely streets.
The sandhill cranes make brains look easy.

I go by many names: Buju Banton,
Camel Light, the New York Times.
Point being, rickshaws in Scranton.
I have few legs. I sleep on meat.
I’d eat your bra—point being—in a heartbeat.

Eastbound & Down

Eastbound & Down is a new HBO series that premiered this weekend. It stars Danny McBride as Kenny Powers, a washed up pitcher who becomes a PE teacher. Danny McBride has been in some pretty funny stuff, Pineapple Express and The Foot Fist Way. The first episode was really funny and I think that it will only get better. Here is the first couple of minutes of the show. It did seems fitting too that he would end his career in Seattle, how sad.




BoratFan3454 (13 hours ago) 0 Reply
Every single show should have it's opening credits start with a punch to the face. It's the only way to do it.

Love the show so far, Danny McBride is a genius.

I am so excited...and such a nerd.

Who says big men can't surf?

These are two pictures of  Miami Dolphin Linebacker Joey Porter surfing in Hawai'i after the Pro-Bowl.  In the second picture you will also see Steeler Linebacker James Farrior. 

Mmmmm large half naked football players in the water.  Uhh I mean, I hope they punched a dolphin while they were out there.

Can't wait for the official announcement that Griffey is coming back to the M's.  Oh please happen!

Good Burger!

So neither of us has written our review yet of the movie but I figured I would go first as mine will probably be the worst and the least detailed.

In case you haven't seen Good Burger in the last week to 12 years, here is the preview.



Now I know what you are thinking, "Why didn't this win any Oscars, or even get nominated?" It would have been nominated if it wasn't for these other movies that came out in 1997... Titanic, LA Confidential, Good Will Hunting, Amistad, and Home Alone 3.

I won't go into the whole plot, characters, or anything really to do with the movie because I'm sure that the other two will write about that. I am going to write about my experience watching Good Burger.

The three of us decided before hand that we were going to drink 40's while watching the movie. Tanner's friend (to protect him I will not use his real name, let's call him Nolan), Nolan, was in town for the weekend and he is always willing to do something that involves drinking so we became a group of 4. We decided that each of us would drink two 40s of the same kind but each person's would be different. While Danny and I went and got the movie, Tanner and Nolan got the 40s. We came back with the movie and they came back with 8 40s. The four different varieties were Steel Reserve, Mickey's, Old English and Old English High Gravity. We drew bottle caps out of a hat to see who got to drink what. I was blessed with the gift of Mickey's.

While my 40 did have the least alcohol content I did drink it the fastest. I believe that I was done with both of my 40s about 20 minutes into the film. The other three were barely finishing theirs by the time the credits were done.

Now after the film, that is when things got weird. Nolan really wanted to do Karaoke so he started singing, "Take These Broken Wings." by Mr.Mister



Now as he was singing this song, Tanner and Danny started to do an improv interpretive dance. Now this would have been fine except that neither of them were wearing anything but shoes, socks, and t-shirts. Now I don't judge, if that is how you like to dance that is cool, but it was a little awkward. Around this time I grabbed my camera from upstairs to take some pictures. By the time I got back downstairs things had gone from funny to a little bit scary. Nolan was passed out spooning a pillow under the coffee table, still humming the synthesizer part in his sleep. Tanner, on the other hand, had not turned peaceful but instead had become wolverine. Tanner had shredded his shirt and run off into the bushes while punching anything in sight (i.e.. women and children and puppies).



Danny had started doing something completely unexpected. Danny was sitting in the corner rocking back and forth mumbling to himself, "I don't have to always wear striped sweaters, I don't have to always wear striped sweaters." Mind you, he still wasn't wearing pants, but as we were at Tanner's place he had raided his closet and put on all of Tanner's sweaters.

So of course you are now wondering, "Where are the pictures?!?!!!!1!" That's right, you are so excited your forgot to hold down the shift key one time there. Unfortunately, the battery was dead on the camera so I wasn't able to capture any of the beautiful moments. You will just have to take my word for it. Which is totally true, I can't make this all up. Nolan eventually did move to an eventual bed and slept the rest off. Danny also sobered up and put his pants on, Tanner is still missing all of his striped sweaters, however. Tanner also eventually sobered up; he was found sleeping on the stoop with a dead squirrel in his mouth in the morning.

So that basically sums up my experience watching Good Burger. Great movie. Fantastic experience.

Time for things to get serious

Paul Rudd used to do serious movies, and this movie is genius. Gen Y Cops is a 2000 Hong Kong film starring Paul Rudd about fighting a robot or something. This is a good summarization of the film, all of Paul Rudd's parts. He has some pretty sweet lines. Sorry it is like 8 minutes long.

Norm MacDonald on Conan

I love this clip. It's a little long and a lot of build-up, so I apologize for that. It's well worth sitting through, though:



crhurley (3 days ago)
Best moment in Conan history

Atmosphere - You (Alternate Version)

I guess this post is mostly for Danny.



I've been trying to figure out if this video was filmed in Seattle. There is a Seahawks beer glass and a Pink Elephant Car Wash sign in the background and one of the shots makes me think it's either at 99 or near Safeco Field. It was also directed by Christian Hansen, from Seattle, and has done some videos for a couple of Seattle hip-hop groups (Grayskul and Chicharones). So um yeah, good talk.

Sorry for all the vids

but this Radiohead song is pretty cool

Radiohead - 15 Step
by Alisvideo

I agree with all of that.

Better than Paul Blart?

Get your towels ready

Billy's Balloon

bastman (10 hours ago) 0 Reply
I like this video!
Yes, I like cartoons in general.
Yes, I don't ... I hate children in general.



prodrifterandrew (4 hours ago) 0 Reply
whoever made this deserves to burn in a ditch along with my dead saggy wrinkly fucked toothless granny

A Special Friday Treat

For our number one fan:















For your health!

First Girl I F*****ed

I saw Michael Ian Black do this routine at Nuemo's about a year ago. So funny.



TheAjentJ (4 days ago)
when u said MIB i thought u ment men in black... i wuz confused

Like Clubbing Baby Seals?

Really Drexler? Wow.




Speaking of stupid things...how about this? I really like Spongebob playing with fire.



David after he had his tooth pulled...I kind of feel bad but this is funny

Vids

Stefan is calling me a douche because I don't write anything. So I guess I'll just find a bunch of videos on youtube and post them like he does:

Microsoft Doing Cool Things

All I have to say is wow. The way our grandchildren use technology to interact and share information is going to be totally and completely different than anything we can even imagine.

Babies and Doritos

I find these a little bit creep but also funny. I plan on actually writing something here at some point (wouldn't it be cool if the other two douches ever wrote something?) but I haven't had a chance too yet. So here are a couple of Super Bowl Commercials and one outtake.

Outtake



One Commercial



Beer Doritos



Magic Ball