July 2006 Archives

The above is what you get in a three alarm fire when you live about five blocks from Haight street.
In all honesty, they are a very good fire department.

I went to see "Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest" a couple of days ago. Not so good. Not that I expected it to be very good. They did the wink and nod at any and everything they could from the first movie--scene after scene. Sadly, because the film runs long, and feels longer because it isn't actually a story, they end up cutting short small sight gags and, in doing so, render even mildly amusing jokes cheap.
Spoiler Alerts ahead mates!

A common odd-job around my neighborhood is for older men to wash and shine peoples' cars. The weather is nice and all of the apartment/homes have driveways and parking lots/garages.
Here's a highlight of one of those business transactions just overheard today:

Man: Well hello. I'll be by this weekend to wash the car.
Woman: Yeah, I've been wondering when you were gonna come by and sodomize my car?

Here's a story about Keith Olbermann...sort of. It's not a story. At all. It's sort of a piece that, as far as I can tell, is only kinda, possibly about how Keith Olbermann is still third in ratings to Bill O'Reilly.

CNN: We run with transparent news plants--from FOX news.
OR
CNN: Our collective jaw hurts.

Yesterday, ESPN "Broke the Story" that Barry Bonds would be indicted by a grand jury today for perjury in the previous federal investigation of the BALCO/steroids/Narcotics/Professional Athletes of yesteryear. Today, ESPN is "Breaking the Story" that the grand ole jury will not be indicting Barry Bonds today.
So, ESPN "broke" a false story and then "broke" a retraction--fucking amazing.

Son or daughter just "come out" to you during a particularly stressful family dinner? Don't you worry about it--let Sherman explain science to them.

This one about Shows pitched to VH1 is great.

I might have to add the "What did you expect?" category for stories such as this.

This is the new trailer for the long awaited (?) Rocky follow up to the one where the finale fight happened out back of a bar. The emotional scenes in this movie are going to drip of stinkitude, Rocky will very likely die, all of the cliche elements from the previous films will be in this one (i.e. cocky-jerky young fighter/champion, loved ones that don't want Rocky to get "hurt", wildly ridiculous brutality in the actual fight, and of course "TRAINING MONTAGE"); but Sylvester Stallone is going to be really really good in the film--seriously...you heard it here first.
If the movie makes 120 mil in the first couple of weeks Sly will be nominated for best performance.
Disclaimer: This is NOT TO SAY that the film isn't going to be sad and lame. Just to say that Stallone, as Rocky, is going to blow your mind--cause you forgot how good he is at acting that role. Admit it. You did forget. Trust me. You forgot.

Click the above image to listen to the sweet fantasy realized. Or you can click here

Thanks to Tim for the link.

Click this link and play the game:
"Is this an article? A Newstory? A slice of life? Something that would be better with Robert Stack doing a voice-over?"

and what the hell is happening in New York????

Click on the above image to check out the dunk.

Source: deadspin.com

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