Here’s a nifty video of MotoGP star Casey Stoner taking a corner at 1000 frames per second.
Daily Archives: July 19, 2011
10 posts
I hope you all had a great day. It’s Lizzie Borden’s and Vicki Carr’s birthdays. Who says astrology doesn’t work? Continue reading
Today, during the hearings before the British Parliament during which Rupert Murdoch, his evil (yet slightly hot) spawn James, and precious Rebekah Brooks said nothing testified about the shameful phone-hacking scandal, a man in the public gallery decided to throw a pie of shaving cream at Rupert. What I’m guessing is that this man, identfied as Jonnie Marbles aka Jonathan May-Bowles, didn’t count on was slight woman sitting just behind Dr. Evil to be his greatest foe. As the attacker approached, Mrs. Murdoch, Wendi Deng, rose faster than nearly everyone else in the room, cocked her right arm back to yesterday and then proceeded to land a fierce head-correction slap to May-Bowles’ forehead. Point: Tiger Mom. Watch and learn, after the jump. Continue reading
Hi! I’m assuming you are still reading this and haven’t gone off somewhere in disgust at my previous post. Let’s review the three basic guidelines for the NBA Rules of Comic-Con: Not Being an Asshole:
- Don’t Be Creepy
- Don’t be “That Guy/Gal”
- Be Honest Continue reading
Not so long ago, VH1 had a great series where it tried to reunite bands that long ago went their separate ways. It was revealed that there were often major underlying personal issues that lead to the break-up, making it that much more difficult to get everyone in the same room, much less to agree to perform together. Berlin started touring after they reunited. Klymaxx only got a few people back together to perform after a meeting in the ladies room that didn’t end well. If you could reunite any band, which one would it be? Continue reading
I finally finished watching all five seasons of The Wire. It’s unquestionably a great show, but after the months I spent with it the series left me not wanting to discuss everything it does right, but one thing it does very wrong: Why, in a show so concerned with race and ethnicity, is the only identified Jewish character a stereotypical money-grubbing, scumbag lawyer?
Ahhh, Texas. Just when you think Florida and Arizona are the last bastions of deep fried insanity, along comes Texas with its own can of hobo beans.
In a story that will make you weep for humanity, officials in Dallas last week sat back and watched as thousands of desperate applicants found themselves in a human stampede to get Section 8 housing vouchers on the waiting list for Section 8 housing vouchers. More than 21,000 people applied for 5,000 vouchers. The DMN story shows how most of the people who showed up are workers with low-paying, minimum wage jobs or are older, handicapped and unable to support themselves. Continue reading
Do you know what those damn cats did to me today? They conned me out of two breakfasts. First the Papa-Kitty came home from his overnight shift, and fed them. Then the little fuckers woke me up with their sad, plaintive meows, and I fed them, not knowing the Papa-Kitty was home. This, after yesterday’s Drug Incident, where it looked like the Buster and Amelia downed one of my anti-seizure pills, a medical emergency that wound up costing me $125.00. This is why I have to work. So here are your headlines. Continue reading
Good Morning! It’s apparently hot many places in the US; I wouldn’t know – I’m on the Vineyaahd and the weather has been absolutely perfect. But for you guys in the heat, how about a little Christmas in July? Continue reading
(Editor’s Note: Since ThereWillComeSoftRains did this excellent update on all the goings-on of Murdochageddon, I’m making this your open thread for all things News Corp.-related. Uncle Rupert is scheduled to appear before Parliament this morning. The fun begins at 1 p.m. GMT on BBC Parliament. ~Bots)
Week two of the News Corp. fiasco continues
Have you resigned yet? No? Well you just aren’t keeping up with the latest fashion trends coming out of London. So many people have now resigned in the phone hacking scandal, UK unemployment has been pushed up to 95%. Nobody is left to run the country; we’ve had to become an absolute monarchy again. Until next week when the Queen is caught hacking Kate Middleton’s phone trying to find messages from her hairdresser revealing the secret of her shiny locks and she quits as well. The only thing left for us now is to give the whole country back to the druids, which is why I have built a large wicker man in my front garden (well that is what I am going to tell the police should they ask).
So it’s been two weeks since the NOTW scandal broke and for some it has dominated the news since then, which to the ADHD-suffering UK media makes it the greatest epic since the Iliad, starting, as sagas are wont to do in medias res, years after the initial accusations. But it has proven to be the Marmite of news; Continue reading