Monthly Archives: December 2005

Friday

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Family Finds Raw Meat Instead Of iPod Inside Sealed Box

tender This is possibly the worst ad campaign by the Meat Industry Association of America ever. Back in 2000, they dropped meat products from helicopters all over Manhattan, and last year, they put raw meat under every seat at the Super Bowl. This has to stop.

Chart of the Michigan/Nebraska final play (.pdf)

If they drew all of the Nebraska sideline players, it would look like a big, delicious plate of spaghetti.

“Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job” voted Dubya’s most memorable phrase of 2005

My fave was “Those who enter the country illegally violate the law”, but 2005 was kind of a slow year, compared to “Fool me once…” and other classics of the past.

Related: dubyaspeak.com

Illinois basketball fans duped by really bogus tickets

Not only were there no seats listed on the tickets, but each had “Illinios” on there twice, and there are no seats in the arena even close to the $50 face value. As if it wasn’t bad enough watching your national runner-up turn into a practice squad in the off-season, you lose 50 bucks and don’t even get to see them play.

Best Names in College Basketball

Those are pretty good, but these are better.

WordPress 2.0 Sucks

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I just upgraded to WordPress 2.0 and of the new features, I’ve disabled the rich editor, hacked the toolbar, and I’m trying to hack the new, horrible upload feature so that it actually works the way I want it to.

wordpress 2.crapBasically, the new inline uploading is pissing everyone off, including me. It’s useless. Do not freaking upgrade. Arrggghhhh.

For Those of You at Work Today

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much, much hotter than david brinkley

Knight Fighting Styles

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Swordplay

Knight 1: “I shalt verily chop off your noble head.”
Knight 2: “Wrong you are, good Sir, as I will feast upon your horse at supper tonight.”
 
Clubbing

Knight 1: “How doth thee fare today, Bill? How ’bout those Knicks?”
Knight 2: “My wench confesses that you slept in my bed last night! Die, mongrel!”
 
Flagging

Knight 1: “Hey, watch it, uh, I have a flag!”
Knight 2: “Very well, my sword will rend both your flag and gut, Frenchie!”
 
Screw It

Knight 1: “Ho! I propose that instead of murdering each other, we share a barrel of our King’s ale!”
Knight 2: “Righteous thou art, Sir. Drink, drink!”

Rondo

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You may not realize it, but the word “rondo” has a bunch of different meanings. Other than ma boy Rajon, I can’t explain why any of them use the word:
jambo, rondo
Rajon Rondowe’d be lost without him.for ma booty

Rondo chair – I really want this for my room

Rondo products – the Kombi 3k is awesome.

Steve Howe: Guitar Rondo – he sure is!

Rondo music – time to start some indie rondo hype

2005 BET Awards Re-run Re-cap

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Last night, I had the good fortune of catching the replay of the BET Awards, which were held back in June . I had high expectations, and I was sorta not disappointed:

still the kingFugees reunion medley. Lauryn Hill’s voice is shot. Not to mention her sense of style.

Hosted by Will & Jada. Coming out in a carriage with spinners was ace.

Tom Cruise presented Best Actor. Called Foxx’s cell to get the speech, then hurled out “much love”. Freaking WEIRD.

Destiny’s Child serenaded Magic Johnson, Nelly, and that guy. You could practically see Jay-Z’s sniper put his target on that dude’s forehead.

Gladys Knight outperforming and correcting everyone.

Cover Girls attacking Anthony Anderson. Hi-larious.

Stevie Wonder schooling the chump that is John Legend.

Ludacris rolling out on a Caddy. After all, he’s the one who dirtied up the sOUTH.

Bands I’ve Recently Discovered

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Portugal. The Man – Slick post-punk – Hot!

Long Blondes – Cheeky chick-punk – Fun

Film School – Dense flight-rock – Adrenalizing

Goldmund – Sleepy piano noise – Soothing

Destroyer – Silvery strum-pop – Charming

Islands – Crazy ex-Unicorns shizz – Spiffy

Hard-Fi - Dirty lad-rock – Kickin’

And, a couple good music links:
Stylus Magazine Inaugural Haiku Marathon 2005
The Onion’s Least Essential Albums Of 2005

Thursday

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Mariah overtakes 50 Cent in best-selling album race

whaaaa?Music’s most-famous ho really had a good year in 2005. She may have the #1 album, she performed at numerous awards shows, she didn’t have a nervous breakdown, and she was allowed to adopt over 400 cats from the Phillippines. On second thought, nevermind about the nervous breakdown.

Sox in hunt for Tejada; Ramirez, Clement involved

In other news, an army of walruses has captured the Finnish capital, Helsinki.

Colorado man dies in wood chipper accident

Police say Korean whiskey was involved. Btw, has anyone heard from Ben lately?

Experts say Gen Y will need serious direction in the workplace

Not since Generation E (c. 1825-1845) have America’s youth been so coddled. The baby boomers of the Revolutionary War notoriously overparented, causing their children to start the Civil War. Is history repeating?

Police: Meat Bandit Nabbed in Golf Cart

Old & busted: “butt pirate” – New hotness: “meat bandit”

Man robbed after he bought suspects beer

That’s pretty low. Those guys’ beer karma is in the crapper. They’ll probably all drink an AIDS-tainted 12-pack of Crapweiser and die.

Fashionably Short

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fare thee well, little ones

New Year’s Bomb

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boom now your new years gone