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Who updates this thing?

2007-08-06T14:43:00.000-07:00

Geez, this blog seems to be dying a slow death. Is it just the slow summer months? Any ideas on how to pick things up around here? Anybody have anything they want blogged about? The Linker is taking requests. Have the days of redonkulous-linker-generated-content come to an end?

I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac.

2007-07-13T11:32:00.000-07:00

Now that my treadmill is finally repaired, I have watched a ton of sports on the big screen in these past few weeks, but I have not watched one single minute of the traditional summer sports -- baseball, golf, or tennis. Nope, my summer sports viewing is been shifted to almost all Soccer all the time, and some MMA, and these sports pack 20 times the excitement of a 9 inning baseball nap, or following around Tiger in person.

In just the past couple weeks we have seen USA Soccer’s Gold Cup victory, the U-20 World Cup matches starring Freddy Adu, and DC’s only perennial first place team DC United. The US sent a young inexperienced team to Copa America, with little intent on winning, and yet I still watched all of those games, even in freaking espanol. Thats right, Id rather watch a spanish broadcast of soccer that I don't understand than another Yankees Bosox matchup. Traditional summer sports could not be more dead to me.
Thanks to Goff at the DC Post Soccer Insider blog, I realized that the US-Brazil U-20 game was shown on ESPN last week and Freddy Adu was nothing short of brilliant in beathing Brazil. Not only that, but in the prior game against Poland Adu had racked up a hat trick including this sweet goal.

This week, the U-20s advanced to the final eight in the World Cup in an ugly game against Urugauay, with the best highlight ive seen being the brouhaha at the end. Her is to hoping that ESPN realizes that this is the future of summer sports in the US and the rest of the world cup is shown on channels that people actually receive instead of ESPN-UV or the Ocho.
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I am no longer 12 years old, and therefore, unlike the rest of my generation, I have no burning desire to see the Transformers movie. The Gobots movie, however, is a different story. (The only person less interested than me in the transformers is Optimus Prime’s GEICO agent).
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In case you were wondering, the iphone does blend.
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Bill-O gets his ass handed to him by a 16 year old kid..and obviously it is great viewing
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Through the magic of the youtubes, David Cross debates Rudy Guiliani. Do I need to tell you that “Mr.9/11" loses.
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via spoony D: 30 Rock Top 10 Moments starring Tracy Morgan
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DocLinks continued: Fimoculous finds links to the entire “This Film Is Not Yet Rated” and yet another link to “Sicko” (for now).
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In a strange way I am almost glad that Bush pardoned Scooter Libby (commutating is effectively the same as pardoning in this case). It doesn’t really do anything for me if a mega-rich asshole spends 2 years in a country club prison before getting back to his mega-rich country club life. On the other hand, with the pardon out in the open, we get to see the total hypocrisy of the Bush Republicans. If someone opposes lengthy jail sentences for kids caught with marijuana they are soft on crime, but if your friend gets caught obstructing justice ...pardon him. If you are want an “illegal alien” to not be deported you are all about “amnesty” and don’t understand what “illegal” means. But if your friend lies under oath, that is not really that illegal... so pardon him. If someone from one party lies about sex they should be impeached and jailed, if one of your friends lies about the outing of a covert CIA agency and obstructs justice to prevent the facts from coming out...give em a pardon. Give me a freaking break with this “tough on crime” nonsense. Also, watch the republican hypocrisy continue in this video
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Flowers and old legionaires

2007-06-18T19:07:00.000-07:00

Once again Agent Steinz, from the Washington Post’s D.C. Sports Bog, promotes and defends the Redonkulous Linker, this time defending our hero from the evil thieves at Mike and Mike In the Morning.
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Speaking of brilliant sports bloggers, Unsilent Majority eloquently explained in Deadspin early last week why Gilbert’s announced decision to opt out of his contract was just a smart business decision and does NOT mean he is leaving:

Simply put, there's no reason for to go anywhere else. This is his home, it's where he's raising a family, it's where he's loved, and it's where he reigns supreme as The Black President (which makes him more powerful than Eleanor Holmes Norton) . And if does leave he knows that we'll find him. Remember, we're a bunch of crazy fuckers [with a cite to the crazy fuckers at Wizznutz]

Later in the week Gilbert personally and completely confirmed the thoughts of UM on his own blizzog.
Anyway, why would Arenas have signed a personalized jersey to the “R. Linker”if he planned on leaving us.
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DC’s best pound-for-pound blogger, the DCeiver, has nailed my feelings exactly on the latest incarnation of total-whackjob, Perry Farrell. Yes Jane’s Addiction was great, but as I rediscovered in a recent Ron and Fez podcast, the man is a complete lunatic, Satellite Party will undoubtedly suck and DCeiver rightly explains why. Money quote:

Take this Satellite Party shit. To hear Farrell talk about it, it's like he's unlocked the Arc of the Covenant of something. He talks about his shitty band in these terms that you'd have to have ingested two huge Aaron Sorkin-loads of shrooms to even halfway believe. He tells interviewers that on UltraPayloaded, he's more or less created the music that will instantaneously unlock the mysteries of the celestial spheres and douse the listener in fluffy bunny rabbits and orgasm-inducing ambrosia and that the experience will be tantamount to seeing the face of God. In the first place, Fergie is a collaborator on this record, so you know this is just an impossible claim from jump, but sadly, his prize gimmick is some moldy old field recording of Jim Morrisson, saying only fuckadoo knows what. Christ, I'm surprised there isn't a whole room full of tapes with Morrisson blabbing on them--if they don't exist it's only because someone who loved him burned them.

DCeiver is harsh on the 90's icon, but the guy has got a point.
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A few years ago, the geniuses at the Pentagon were actually planning a “Gay Bomb” to turn our enemies, well, gay. Dont believe me?...

Alex Blagg at Best Week Ever did some fine investigative reporting and found the schematics for the top secret gay bomb.
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Interesting remix video of T-Pain's .Let me buy you a draaaank
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After last weeks in depth discussion on the rise of Douchiness in our popular culture, I stumbled across this Manfred Man song playing somewhere. (check the video ) Hearing Mr. Man repeat the chorus about 20 times in the song (including 3 straight times to begin the joint, I became convinced that the subject of this ditty was proclaimed to be “wrapped up like douche.” After a minimal amount of digging around on the intertubes, my thoughts were confirmed by the Wikipedias.
Under the subheading "Deuce versus douche", I learned that the song was actually written by Bruce Springsteen and referenced to a duece, a '32 Ford Deuce Coupe. The song was then covered by Man and changed to 'revved up like a douche', "which is a feminine hygienic procedure." The Boss even attributed the popularity of the cover version to the repeated use of the douche wrapping. Nice.
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Thanks to Fimoculous, here is the entire new Michael Moore, doc Sicko.
And don’t worry about watching it online, I remember Moore saying he doesnt mind the file sharing on teh internets. Since he doesn't mind, here is the full Farenheit 9/11
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Skeptics Guide to the Douchebaggaverse

2007-06-04T20:38:00.000-07:00

Another two week delay, but since I received no comments or emails regarding the lack of posting...I will just assume that nobody cared
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Big psuedo-scientific news last week as the Loch Ness Monster was finally filmed terrorizing Scotland. At least according to CNN, whose breathless headline read “Fabled monster caught on video.” The text of the article was no less hysterical: “The Scottish media is skeptical of Nessie stories but Holmes' footage is of such good quality that even the normally reticent BBC Scotland aired the video on its main news program on Tuesday.” Ooooh I couldnt wait to see this high quality video so I found the Scottish newscast on the Gootube. The CNN article continued: “Loch Ness Monster watchers say is among the finest footage ever taken of the elusive mythical creature.” Ok, it is settled, “Loch Ness Monster watchers” are fucking idiots. The only thing shown in the video was a long black line moving through the water. This is what passes for a monster these days?

I knew the skeptics would have a field day with this nonsense, and the message board of my favorite skeptical podcast, Skeptics Guide to the Universe, did not dissapoint. Quickly a more suitable headline was created
RECANT YOUR SKEPTICAL POSITIONS FOR I HAVE PHOTOGRAPHED AN ELONGATED BLUE-BLACKISH BLOB !!!!
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Speaking of believing in stupid shit. Cracked.com has an excellent list of the top 10 celebrities whose belief in the alien Xenu are most disappointing. Jason Lee, Beck, Seinfeld....dagger.
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Finally almost 15 years after high school, the lyrics to Yellow Ledbetter are explained on the gootube.
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I have pretty much avoided the guy-in-basement-talking-into-webcam side of youtube, but this ol' skeptical bastard ranting about religion on about 30 podcasts kicks much ass
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Resident Donkies(eys) Paparazzi Spooony D got himself in Gilbertology recently with a ton of Agent Zero and other Wizard-themed photoshops. If I really cared about this blog I'd procure his magician like services to fix up this damn thing again as with his brilliant rendering of Billy Donovan eating children - Coach K style - back in March of '06
But still have "edit me" links in the right margin. Give me a reason to care, I dare you.
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Holy Shit The Bees Are All Dead
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Matthew Mf-ing Yglesias linked to this highlarious and pseudo-intellectual examination of the modern day douchebag
He has seen the douchebag, and it is us.

The surprising thing about douchebag, which has become the current default term of disparagement—deployed with relish by everyone from Jon Stewart to every other blogger—is that most likely your grandfather used it too...Over time, the word has come to denote “somebody who can’t help but to be an asshole

Although the douchebag described in that article may be be me, at least I am not the type of dbag prominently featured on the Hot Chicks With Douchebags Blog
and I have yet to buy an douche cologne

glumbert.com - The Douche Cologne

Shouldn't have left you

2007-05-21T15:41:00.000-07:00

I missed a week in posting. You can all feel free to dock my salary 100%
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A great weekend was made greater by my decision to skip out on Preakness once again. A couple of years ago, I realized that I was about 10 years too old to ride the durnk bus to the Freakness infield and have since retired. The videos surfacing today of all the Port-O-Racing have confirmed that my decision was wise. Much better to drink in my backyard and watch the Preakness nonsense on Youtube, without having to worry about 12 ounce metal projectiles full of Natty Light whizzing by my head.

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Port-O-Racing is almost as dangerous for Bmore necks and fratboys, as break-dancing is for babies.......keep watching until the end

And as with every great video on the internets...Here is the remix and in the words of With Leather, with more baby-kicking.
I think the only little kid I would trust around the breakdancers is this guy
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Jerry Falwell is now in a box, and while Christopher Hitchens is one wacky drunk, he sure gives an amazing euology
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I think I stared at Flickrvision for twenty minutes straight last night, and I have no idea why. Flickervision - watch worldwide pictures get uploaded onto Flickr in real time
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The other day I arrived at work without an essential ingredient for my work day -- the almighty ipod. It was like arriving at Preakness without your tribal tatoo or at Falwell's church without anything to bash a gay person with. Anyway, I was immediately unsure whether I could function through an entire workday of helping rich people fight other rich people over money, without constant acceptable music playing in the background. Luckily, I had the ingenious idea of using the Google Gootube search function to find full length concerts all over the Gootube. By using the time settings and the rating settings I was able to find a bunch of great shows, each at least 20 minutes long, and the day was saved.

Here are the jounks I especially enjoyed

Redonkulously good full set of My Morning Jacket at Austin City Limits

1971 Neil Young Acoustic BBC Concert

Pearl Jam - in a Tower Records - just after releasing Ten

Radiohead, live and doing a ton of Kid A material

Bright Eyes on a morning radio show

Foo Fighters trying to save mainstream rock.
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Highlarious article on Airborne. I guess since people in my law office already believe in Feng Shui, Astrology, and Noah’s Ark, believing in Airborne isn't all that outrageous
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Months ago I had a conversation with a former NSA employee who tried to convince me that our government would not have authorized the warrantless wiretapping unless they were confident that it was legal and effective. Right. Last week we got the real story, as James Comey testified before Congress about how Bush’s incompetent cronies attempted to convince a hospital bed-ridden and drugged-up attorney general to approve the illegal program because the acting attorney general already informed these pathetic clowns that it was unconstitutional. Comey had to race to the hospital to stop Gone-zalez and Card from taking advantage of the guy recovering from surgery by getting him to sign off. If you want to see how low the Bush administration routinely sinks, watch the video of the testimony

If that is not lively enough for you, as with all great internet videos, check out the Godfather remix of the testimony

As Josh Marshall points out, one of the most stunning developments in this story was that Ashcroft almost comes out as a hero. Crazy I know, but the point really is that compared to Gone-zalez and the rest of Bush’s recent cronies, even total idiots like Ashcroft seem like heroes in comparison.

"I wish that I believed in fate"

2007-05-08T11:42:00.000-07:00

With the Wizards season over and Agent Steinz now having to resort to covering pro lacrosse, I was sent the best cross-over website for both the D.C. Sports Bog and Bog-TV Cheddarvision. While it may simply be a way to watch cheese age (it’s the new watching grass grow) it is still almost as exciting as a midlevel boxing match. Go there and watch the cheese age LIVE.

Best of all the, Bog Show can now get its "You Tube Clip of the Week" and its "Artisanal Cheese of the Week" all in one single exciting package. Regional television will never be the same

Mmmm cheddar aging.
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If you watch the office, you know you cannot resist the sweet sounds of Andy Bernard. Luckily the Thigh Master has collected all of his a capella song stylings in one place. Check out the greatest hits....and drift awaaaay
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For some reason Spoony D sent me this video of real life dungeons and dragons warriors, so I had to show him what happens when these guys get arrested.

I'm wearing boots of escaping!
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I soaked up the hype and watched the big fight this weekend. If that was anywhere near the best that boxing has to offer, then it is finished as a major sport in the US. Unlike just about every MMA fight that I have ever watched, there was never even a threat of one fighter knocking the other one down during any of the 40 or so rounds. I don’t need to see blood or broken bones, I just want a chance that one guy will knock the other guy down or at least into the ropes. De La Hoya simply chased Mayweather around the ring while Pretty Boy Floyd danced around and jabbed him in the face when he got tired of chasinge. How exciting. The fight ended in a split decision with each fighter claiming victory, and even Pretty boy Floyd’s own father stating that De La Hoya should have won.

From watching the full broadcast, and the hype leading up, it was clear that boxing knows its in trouble, and has already developed a complex with regard to MMA. If you watch an MMA or UFC event you do not see some clown like Jim Lampley claiming that boxers don’t have nearly the skill of MMA fighters. But for some reason Lampley felt like he needed to take time out to bash the UFC in what had been billed as the superbowl of boxing. Watch a UFC event and the only time boxing is mentioned is as one of the many disciplines involved in MMA. Give it up Lamps and go back to beating your wife.

Also to say that a top flight boxer would defeat an MMA fighter in a mixed martial arts fight is redizzonkulous. A boxer would win in a BOXING match but a top level MMA fighter would destroy the boxer in a cage. Yet leading up to the fight, Mayweather began running his mouth and saying he would beat any MMA fighter. Lightweight champ Sean Sherk immediately accepted any challenge by PBFloyd and SAT RINGSIDE to remind Mayweather of that fact that he would elbow him into unconsciousness if PBF fought in a cage. Here is how a fight between PBFloyd and Sherk would go...Sherk charges at PBF with his hands in front of his fact, Mayweather lands a couple of huge blows to the top of Sherk's hard head as he rushes in, Sherk takes down PBF to the ground and proceeds to hold him in place while he takes his face apart with elbows. Mayweather would, however, win in a jump rope contest.

UPDATE: Mayweather apologizes and smartly claims he does not want to fight in the UFC.

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AND NOW FOR OUR CON-IDIOTS OF THE WEEK

When I saw this headline pop up on the RSS feeder, I did not even read the story.
"NRA opposes bill to stop gun sales to terror suspects."
I just figured this was an overzealous liberal blogger doing what partisan supporters often do, re-writing the headline with significant hyperbole.

Then I was sent the same article by semi-republican Gerard G. under the headline “I need a new party” and I realized
...holy shit, that was the actual real headline, and the intention of the NRA...the NRA is really trying to block a bill that would restrict the sale of guns to TERROR SUSPECTS.

Why do we even have a gun lobby anymore? Do they really think that terror suspects should have a right to hunt with uzi’s if they feel like it. Really, terror suspects should have a right to hunt with automatic weapons? I don’t even know what else to write. I think we can now start commenting freely on Va Tech, this shit is so stupid.
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This just in, 3 out of 10 (30% for you non-math majors) of the Republicans running for president likely believe that Noah actually built an Ark and collected two of each and every animal, including aardvarks, elephants, and single cell amoebas before sailing around the world

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“As the Bush administration's so-called "AIDS czar," Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias was criticized for emphasizing faithfulness and abstinence over condom use to combat sexually transmitted diseases.

Tobias was one of these religious right wackos who believed that teaching kids, in both the US and in third-world countries, only about abstienence with no mention of that icky safe sex. Want to stop disease and unwanted pregnancy, just teach them about abstinence, and how to be religious. Tobias even thought that preaching Christianity would help convince everyone to stay in committed relationships like his. So guess what happened last week... the dumbass hypocrite was found on the D.C. Madam’s list ordering hookers like they were netflix movies.

Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation.

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I'll be the water wings

2007-04-27T07:42:00.000-07:00

I forgot to post this for the last couple weeks, but if you are getting back into Sopranos this seven minute video rolling through every single plot-line for each and every season in 7 total minutes is a must.....outstanding

Much better, although not nearly as ass-kicking as this musical asskicking video summary of the Die Hard series...yipppekayyaaa mutherfucker.
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I know this Landlord video is a couple weeks old, but I had the pleasure of heairng Donkey McDonkerton attempt to recite it from memory about 8 times last weekend, and it is still good

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Gilbert went off again on his blog last week and even gets into his potential co-presidency with Obama.
I will be in the Verizon Center tomorrow when Agent Zero hopefully unveils his surprise and makes 4 million dollars rain from the rafters. I also appreciate the Wizards tanking the first 2 games so I can get cheap tickets for the home games, as the Wizards prepare to win 4 straight and take out the Cavs.
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Gerard G is a big fan of this video where a woman breaks down the details of penis power
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This week the SCGiant, blogger of all design products and other assorted useless crap that I need, points me to a badass matchbook. Despite the fact that I have no need for matches, I might get one to keep in my pocket next to my money switchblade comb...those really impress the ladies.
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Thanks to Gorilla Mask here is a link to the top ten Howard Stern gootube videos, and that site contains a link to over 200 other Stern clips. That Uber site also has a boatload of other top ten video lists including holloywood’s breast actresses. Ah the magic of the gootubes.
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At the request of Mease and others I have to post this Cro Cop video. The Croation guy in this fight is the head of an Anti-terrorist swat team and a member of the Croatian parliament, in addition to being a professional asskicker, but you gotta watch this fight

Mirko Cro Cop vs Gabriel Gonzaga
Uploaded by snatchGTT

This fight headlined a card that seems to have finally brought the sport of MMA into the sports and internets’ mainstream. The UFC couldnt get an HBO deal completed in time for this event, so they decided to air one of their regular pay-per-view shows on regular basic cable. I’ve been on this MMA/UFC bandwagon for a couple years now, and most other peoples didnt seem to notice, but after this free show my RSS reader started blowin up with sports fans who usually never mentioned the sport...first local sports talker Czaban was hyping the fight, also the twin kings of sports blogging With Leather and Deadspin jumped on board. As if that was not enough, I noted that the boxing section on CBS sportsline has become MMA/Boxing.
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I wanna know what's in.

2007-04-19T19:47:00.000-07:00

Its tough to live in the DC area not be touched in some way, and have some connection to, the horrible tragedy at Va Tech. I thought about taking a week off from posting stupid videos, telling bloggy jokes, or publishing expletive filled political rants on the internets, but what good would that do. What I will do unlike so many others is hold off on jumping in with my policy remedies. I agree with Governor Kaine, before we start debating gun policy, or any other political solution, we need to simply step back for a bit and let people grieve. There will be plenty of time to assign blame and propose policies in the coming weeks and months. Now is NOT the time to pull an O’Reilly and try to use a tragedy to boost our pet issues. Even though I went to JMU, we are all Hokies this week.
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With this Tech news, Iraq literrally blowing up, and everything else, at least one video from last weeks post seems pretty damn relevant

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Now we will rejoin our regular Re-Donkosity, already in progress.
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There are these so-called Kiai and Chi masters who believe that their mastery of the natural/supernatural martial arts is so strong that they barely need to touch their opponent to defeat them, and sometimes can knock them over without even touching the opponent. These guys have brainwashed their students and apparently brainwashed themselves. Here is what happens when one of those "masters" faces a real MMA athlete who is not brainwashed

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The WizARDS literally limped into the playoffs, starting this weekend. The good guys were without 4 of their 5 best players for a few of the final games and this upcoming series with the Cavs could get ugly, but I still have faith.
Here is the missing wizards rundown: 1) Agent 0 - hurt, 2) Caron ToughJuice - hurt, 3) Jamison - only healthy star 4) Haywood - benched for attitude, 5) AD - hurt. Is it really possible to stay healthy all season and lose all your stars in the last month. As Buckhantz would scream... No! Not Possible! (Amazing YTMND link via Arvinomics, an untribute to the J-less Jarvis Hayes)
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You wanna know how boring baseball is. In this video the announcers spend over three minutes breaking down a fan’s throwing of a pizza slice. High-larry-ish, and it beats any real baseball commentary, thats for sure. I could watch pizza throwing breakdown for hours more than baseball commentary, check the direction of the pizza - back and to the left, back and to the left.
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I bet this is not the reaction that this kid wanted when he told him mom that he was an atheist. As punishment, maybe she will force him to eat some shrimp scampi on the way to hell, because as we all know – God strongly dislikes, no sorry, God HATES shrimp.
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Don’t feel like checking your inbox for the latest goofy videos that people send? This single video collects a ton of them in one place

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If your desk has a grommet hole, you gotta get these grommet accessories discovered by the SCGiant. I just doubled my lifetime use of the word "grommet".
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It is finally supposed to stop raining and warm up this weekend. About damn time. I actually think the old Donkies(eys) softball team could blow these guys out, although we never got a full keg out onto the field. Maybe Ill watch the video for this outstanding song about 6 times on Friday and try to make it come true, outdoor sports are a must this weekend, either that or convince Agent Steinz to lead a pack of Wiz fans to Cleveland to trounce LeTravel James, only 6 hours to the home of the Dawg Pound.

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30 years of the Song of the Year - with video

2007-04-15T20:05:00.000-07:00

Behold, the best song of every year from 1963 to 1993, with every damn video. This list is totally subjective, but totally accurate, although it changes every day. Let me know where you think I’m right or wrong, even though I'm never wrong.

1963 - Blowin’ in the Wind - Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
1964 - Don’t Worry Baby - Beach Boys - Shut Down Volume 2
1965 - A Change is Gonna Come - Same Cooke - Aint That Good News
1966 - Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
1967 - A Day in the Life - Beatles - Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
1968 - Sympathy for the Devil- The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
1969 - What Is and What Should Never Be -Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin
1970 - Northern Sky - Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
1971 - Imagine - John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band or What’s Happening Brother/What's Goin On - Marvin Gaye - What’s Goin on
1972 - Heart of Gold - Neil Young - Harvest
1973 - Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & the Pips - Imagination
1974 - No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley - Natty Dread
1975 - Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
1976 - Hurricane - Bob Dylan - Desire
1977 - Dreams - Fleetwood mac - rumors
1978 - So Lonely - The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
1979 - Refugee - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
1980 - You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC - Back in Black
1981 - Waiting on a Friend - Rolling Stones - Tatoo You
1982 - Man Out of Time - Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
1983 - Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
1984 - You Might Think - Cars - Heartbreak City
1985 - I Want The One I Can’t Have - The Smiths - Meat is Murder
1986 - Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes - Paul Simon - Graceland
1987 - Caribou - Pixies - Come on Pilgrim
1988 - Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
1989 - Lovesong - The Cure - Disintegration
1990 - Been Caught Stealing - Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
1991 - Come as You Are- Nirvana - Nevermind
1992 - Nuttin’ But a G Thang - Dr. Dre - The Chronic
1993 - Creep - Radiohead - Pablo Honey

You ain't, principally cause you not.

2007-04-08T19:48:00.000-07:00

As of my last post, the Wizards were slightly sputtering but still had high hopes for the playoffs and were holding on the #3 spot in the entire Eastern Conference. In case you live under a rock, or in Australia, you might not have known that the Curse of Les Boulez has sadly struck again and the Wizards have since lost both of their all stars- Tough Juice-Caron Butler, and the Internet’s Fave - Agent Zero. I have gotten over the intial depression of losing the half of the team within one week, and now I can remember what its like to be a real Bullets fan again

As you can I have not lost the faith and come playoff time you will be able to cath me at thePhone (Cal) Booth supporting Cal Booth, as the Wiz take down the Raptors (hopefully not the Heat) and wearing my own version of Wizznutz’ 98 bench shirt
Antonio & Deshawn & Jarvis & Antawn & Etan. I still believe.
As always for continuing coverage of the Wizards collapse, see the DC Sports Bog
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I'm hot 'cause I'm fly/You ain't 'cause you not." Brutal and unassailable in its simplicity. Consider the reasoning, first, of just "I'm hot 'cause I'm fly": Mims is hot because he's fly. But it raises the question: Does being hot guarantee one's being fly? "You ain't 'cause you not" would seem to clear that up: ........

Truer words never spoken...from this article in the Village Voice
The article provides extensive graphic illustration of how one can be classified as alternatively either a) Fly/Hot or b) Not.
Including a flow chart..

and several Venn diagrams

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Rockstar Joe found this surefire way to never lose your beer again at a party. The beer pager.
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If you are somehow still a loyal Republican you may want to skip the rest of this week’s installment of the redonkulous links. But if you can stomach it, I guarantee you will be entertained...there is even an appearance by Snoop Dog on TV in Holland...check it
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I know it is almost too easy to bash Bill O’Reilly. Sure it is kinda like mocking mentally challenged person for their SAT score, but he gives the hatas so much damn good material and in these next two stunning videos from the last week make it much easier to post Snoop Dog's critique in good conscience.

In THE FIRST VIDEO, Bill O’Reilly goes totally apeshit and gets into an insane screaming match, at one point I wondered if he was gonna go all UFC style and bust out the mixed martial arts ...incredibly the voice of reason in this battle is none other than former jackass Geraldo Rivera, who actually calls Bill on his BS and exposes him as a racist, protectionist, nonsensical lunatic, spouting on about law enforcement when really only looking for a way to bash brown people, This episode even provoked Olbermann to reward Rivera the actual Best person in the world last week.

In the next video, Bill-O doesnt go nearly as crazy, but still exposes himself as just as much of a non-reasoning bully, as he shouts down and cuts the mic of a retired Army Colonel who is actually speaking the truth to Bill. When Colonel Wright tries to explain to Bill that he needs to be careful in chastising the Iranians for "unprovoked acts of aggression", to be careful in not “ratcheting up” the rhetoric, and to act like a rational person instead of an insane lunatic warmonger. Bill-O goes on another childish rant and accuses her of "blaming America first," good one. I don’t think it is any coincidence that Britain listened to Colonel Wright in dealing with Iran, and as a result they were able to successfully negotiate the release of the hostages last week WITHOUT bombing innocent people all over the world and without looking like unhinged O'reillys.

After both of those instances, I think the most appropriate response to O’Reilly was given by Snoop Doggy Dogg on Dutch television (even though the Dutch host somehow has a much better grasp of the English language than either Bill-O or my boy Snoop)

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Meanwhile the MC Karl Rove rapping video was all over the internets and the youtubes this week. I think John Stewart, channeling the Beastie Boys in a dead-on impersonation of old school Mike D, provides the best response. He may be a “fly MC” but he is still .....still Jeffrey Dahmer

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Stewart is hot because he’s fly, Rove ain’t because he’s not. Simple logic, totally irrefutable. Again refer back to the Village Voice to see it broken down graphically
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Anyway, maybe this post bashed Republicans a little too much (haha yeah right) but better be careful because Dick Cheney is often lurking in the bushes. No really ...he lurks...seriously...this is an actual video from a speech last week.
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Who will be the FIRST to comment.
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My empire of Dirt.

2007-03-30T06:48:00.000-07:00

Johnny Cash’s cover of Nine Inch Nail’s “Hurt” is an amazing song and video. I have played it about 100 times and it just gets better. I even jumped on GooTube and watched it again after finally seeing Walk the Line last month.

Well it turns out there is a much better and even darker version of that song and video by KTF, man his life was fucked up:

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Speaking of cartoon characters doing blow off of a bar (HOW IS THAT FOR A SEGWAY/SEGUE) I cant get enough of the PacMan Jones story from All Star weekend in Vegas, in which PacMan “allegedly” made it rain, beat up some strippers, choked a bitch, and shot a bouncer. Well now we have video, but remember this is only a re-enactment and not the actual footage

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Why cant more athletes just be more like Gil and spend their nights on the road penning thousand-word manifestos on their blogs instead of doing coke off strippers. Although, now that I think about it, they are equally entertaining. Catch Gilbert’s latest here. Like I said a couple weeks ago, Gil is strange because he is a normal blogger. Pretty damn strange.
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Speaking of bloggers. Behold the hotness that is...Blog Show.
As Agent Steinz is one of the few major media outlets to give the Redonkulous Links some love (thanks also Deadspin), I am pretty much expecting the RDL to appear as a screen shot at some point in the show’s future, unfortunately only a small percentage of these links are sports, and my posts are way to schizophrenic to stay with one topic, so I'm not holding my breath. Anyway that Jamie guy is actually really good and Steinz is also...entertaining. Seriously, if you ever want to kill 30 minutes by watching a tivo'd show about the internets that airs at the end of an hour-and-a-half show on mid-Atlantic regional television, this show is the single greatest way to do just that. How is that for an endorsement Steinz?
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Stop bitching and start a revolution...at least that is what the T-shirt says

The Che shirt may be the funniest sketch performer with that exact voice since Adam Sandler's goat.
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Last week ended in one wacky weekend. The weekend started early, at about 4:30 p.m. on Friday, as I prepared for our client outreach program. When you represent bars and restaurants, client outreach is not quite the same as sales calls by the Dunder Mifflin crew. A few hours, about 10 vodka/tonics, some sushi, an irish car bomb (geez), a couple shots, and some fajitas later, I was prepared for a two day hangover. But I still had the double birthday celebration to run the next night. Spoony D captured the party in pictures. I started off relatively sober-looking, despite the hangover, I tagged everyone with my SR symbol for easy access to the bar, watched a few of these get passed around, and ended up by simply signing my name to a nice-sized bar bill. The payment in brain cells substituted for any cache payments for that weekend. Good times.
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I don't even like liver

2007-03-22T08:39:00.000-07:00

This is certainly closer to a link dump than a blog post, but look what Rex from Fimoculous says about link blogs in Wired Magazine:
“The link is its own genre: sparsely worded, underlined, a discrete distillation of a new world that lies on the other side of a click. Such a simple form, yet it connects two universes. By filtering and condensing, the link blog turns online chaos into a tidy little stack of clickable potential.”
So there. I’m not just cutting and pasting crap, I’m connecting Universes.
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I was March madder than hell when Maryland got screwed by the refs on Saturday night, but a few more vodka tonics at District Chophouse quickly erased that anger, and you have to give it to Butler, they played well and probably deserved to win.

There is no doubt, however, that MD got jobbed by the refs, and even the joe-lieberman-loving-fake-democrat-political- bloggers at the New Republic could see that (Pity the Turtle) -
Also the Terps lasted longer than Duke, so that is always win.
Don’t hate the player, hate their evil rat-like coach. Go here for a good dose of Coach K haterade.
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With Leather comes through again. This time finding a link to the greatest (beer pong) game ever played

From the FAQ on their website, the game was played over one night, using a keg and half in Ann Arbor Michigan
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Will someone else who watches 30 Rock, tell me if this is Tracy Morgan being Tracy Jordan or just Tracy Morgan being Tracy Morgan

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Is there a better way to totally waste 10 minutes than by listening to Weird Al’s - Trapped in the Drive Thru. The video is pretty weak, but the song is not.
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Yo Donkies(eys), its Dominic the Dahnkey
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Everyone knows the Star Wars Kid but I have never seen this other “Prisoner of You Tube” - Fat Mom Singing on Beach
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I finally got my hands on that Idiocracy DVD. I havent watched it yet but this design blog lets me know that it is worth watching just based upon the background stills.
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Forget iphone...here comes google phone . Gimme.
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Lance Mannion explains why glowing reviews from the right-wing-nutjob-land have soured me on any desire to see 300:

You would have to be incredibly paranoid, in addition to being afflicted with crippling self-pity and narcissism, to see the position of the United States today as analogous to that of the three hundred Spartans surrounded and about to be overwhelmed and annihilated by the the well-trained, well-equipped army of the most powerful empire in the world.

And you would have to be entirely deluded by a homoerotic hero-worship to think that Leonidas, an actual warrior-king who personally led his Spartans into battle and lay down his life along with theirs, and George Bush have anything in common.

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Those wheat donuts must be good.
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Who said that once you become a Republican candidate for President you must disavow any knowledge of science. It is amazing that this transcript of an interview with John McCain is real, and did not come from the Onion. The reporter gave McCain about four outs to try to let him recognize that condoms can help stop the spread of disease, but with the Christian right watching, McCain wont dare acknowledge science.

Q: “What about grants for sex education in the United States? Should they include instructions about using contraceptives? Or should it be Bush’s policy, which is just abstinence?”
Mr. McCain: (Long pause) “Ahhh. I think I support the president’s policy.”
Q: “So no contraception, no counseling on contraception. Just abstinence. Do you think contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV?”
Mr. McCain: (Long pause) “You’ve stumped me.”
Q: “I mean, I think you’d probably agree it probably does help stop it?”
Mr. McCain: (Laughs) “Are we on the Straight Talk express? I’m not informed enough on it. Let me find out. You know, I’m sure I’ve taken a position on it on the past. I have to find out what my position was. Brian, would you find out what my position is on contraception – I’m sure I’m opposed to government spending on it, I’m sure I support the president’s policies on it.”
Q: “But you would agree that condoms do stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Would you say: ‘No, we’re not going to distribute them,’ knowing that?”
Mr. McCain: (Twelve-second pause) “Get me Coburn’s thing, ask Weaver to get me Coburn’s paper that he just gave me in the last couple of days. I’ve never gotten into these issues before.”
This went on for a few more moments until a reporter from the Chicago Tribune broke in and asked Mr. McCain about the weight of a pig that he saw at the Iowa State Fair last year.

Are you fucking kidding me? You have to check with your political stance before you can go out on a limb regarding whether condoms help prevent AIDS. Straight talk express my ass. Goes right in line with this weeks news about Republicen Congressmen having to deny science on global warming before getting on a committee. Sickening.
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But at least we have Fitzmas, Abramoffakuh, and now New Years Roving Eve.
I was on the Fitzmas train on this blog since ‘95, and it was a success in nailing Cheney’s Cheney, Scooter Libby. Then Abramoffakuh spread Republican corruption around so nicely that they lost control of Congress.
Now this US Attorneys General scandal may be the New Years Roving Eve that finally brings down KKarl, and almost certainly will nail AG “torture memo” Gone-zalez.
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Even a caveman could beat Duke?

2007-03-15T19:26:00.000-07:00

March Madness is finally back. Today, the sweetest day of the year to take a three hour lunch, was a rousing success. The Maryland win made my three hour lunch all the sweeter, and tonight has ended spectactulary.

I am one day late to the game by embedding everybody’s favorite Duke hate video one day after it was passed all over the internets, but I was on this Rosenberg game for weeks so I can post the damn thing one more time. I first introduced Peter Rosenberg to you redonkulous-readers a few weeks ago with his “Throw Some Cheese on It” video, and now the Hip-Hop-Weird-Al is back again with this ode to Duke hating...Is this why Duke lost? Any chance Pete can come up with a "This is Why Butler Sucks" video

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One thing missing from this tournament on CBS are some new Caveman commercials. However, with Leather has found a ten minute long Caveman skit which bodes extremely well for the caveman sit-com. The Caveman is freaking golfing with Phill Sims:

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If the casting director for the Caveman is reading right now, I’ve got the perfect girlfriend for the caveman... Antonelli Barb, um Antonell Barba, Antonella um you get it by now, people cannot spell her name but that hasnt stopped them from searching, at least according to Yahoo Buzz Meter.
Anyway, she would be great in the role and there is even a perfect tagline for Ms. Barba:
SO EASY EVEN A CAVEMAN COULD DO HER
OK, maybe the line nt that great, but tell me she wouldnt be great in the role.

You see right now Antonella is fielding some lesser offers like Playboy, Girls Gone Wild, and soft-core skinemax-style porn, among others. When asked about Playboy Barba answered. "I'm definitely not opposed to [thinking about] other offers, whether it's acting or modeling or something."
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To fill time until the Caveman & Idolslut Show, here are loads of deleted scenes from The Office
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Courtesy of Czabe.com I will now leave you with Duke’s home Court - Cameron...um...Dixon Indoor Stadium

Atonella Barra Barba (with dunks)

2007-03-08T08:32:00.000-08:00

The Linker is gettin some love in the traditional media, thanks to awe inspiring The Washington Post Sports Bog Blog.

Apparently Dan and Mrs. Bog had a child last week, so Steinz is on a break, and the Bog is being run by guest NCAA bloggers during march madness. Therefore, the Bog is mostly nuts-and-bolts march madness news for the next month or so. But make sure you check back to the Bog once Steinz returns from paternity leave for some of the best sports blogging evah.
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Meanwhile the Linker’s traffic only continues to remain at a redonkulous level thanks to Antonella “Anotella” Barba and the spelling-challenged parno seekers who are searching for her pictures. If you think I am exaggerating the number of seekers, I will have you know that Ms. Barba just passed Myspace as the number one search term in all of the internets.. “'American Idol' Contestant Antonella Barba Bumps MySpace as New Number One Search Term With Web Users”

I only knew that Idol was on again last night because the site meter starting going nutz like the internets. So since this is the reason that 99.9% of you, who I do not know, got here --

this is the best place I can find for the scandalous and racy pictures of Anteater Barbarella, or Antonella Barbra, or whatever her name is.
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So now that Barba fans and Agent Steinz fans are flocking here I thought maybe I could combine the two fan groups with a La Barra Barba fanclub, with the banner up above, hit me up Steinz.
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With all of that out of the way I give you the:
Ode to the Failed Slam Dunk (with video)

The slam dunk. More than just a maneuver employed by tall people during basketball games, it is also one of the most famous lines from the Bush administration’s bungling of the lead up to the Iraq War. As reported in Bob Woodward’s book, when President Bush asked then-CIA Director George Tenet about the prospect of WMD’s in Iraq, he replied that it was a “slam dunk.” News came last month that in his memoirs, George Tenet is now defending his “slam dunk” comment by asserting that what he really meant was that it would be a “slam dunk” to convince the American people that there were WMD in Iraq. Riiight.

Anyway, I always wondered why Tenet didn’t just defend himself by saying, “I told him it was a slam dunk, not a sure thing, even NBA players miss a certain percentage of slam dunks.” So a slam dunk doesnt mean they had weapons, everyone got my comment wrong. Better excuse than sayin it was a slam dunk that we could convince them...right?

Its true, slam dunks do NOT always work and here is some pretty compelling defense material for Mr. Tenet (with thanks to Deadpsin, Videosift, and WithLeather, among others)

Many slam dunks are difficult to pull off, especially if you are white, and try to hurdle a cheerleader.

Even if your name is "Bird Man" it is difficult to pull off a showstopper, even after 20 or so comedic attempts

sometimes the slam dunker need to get some help from his friends

See George, even with help from a chair, a slam dunk clearly not a sure thing.

But even run of the mill slam dunks, by real athletes, are often flubbed...if you offend the dunk gods. Tyrus Thomas said he was only entering the NBA the dunk contest for money, and looked what happened that same week

If Bush really wanted a CIA director who knows about the “slam dunk” he should have hired this kid. He's got skillz.

Welcome to Costco, I love you

2007-03-04T15:26:00.000-08:00

Thanks again to Videosift, I just stumbled accross the latest movie that I MUST see. Mike Judge’s Idiocracy. This movie apparently pissed of the studio so much (Fox) that it was pulled from theaters shortly after release and made approximately $35.

The plot, as best I can tell, involves an average man and woman being frozen in a government experiment in the present, and mistakenly left frozen for .about 500 years - until 2505. During those five generations, stupid people have continued to breed like crazy, while intelligent people have decided not to continue breeding nearly as a much. As a result we are left with an incredibly stupid population, run almost entirely by commercial interests, and our language has devolved into a mixture of hillbilly and inner-city slang.

Just take a look at Fox News of 2505 (the dude sounds EXACTLY like Shephard Smith by the way)

Also, my law school diploma would mean nothing when others have graduated from the prestigous school of law at Costco. which is the size of a small city..Costco rocks. I think the next couple entries in this post may demonstrate why this future is possible.
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The President in that future will likely be today’s, and everyday’s, worst person in the world....Ann Coulter.
Three days ago Coulter took the stage at the Conservative gathering CPAC, and called Democratic Presidential contender John Edwards a faggot. This is actually a top political conservative conference (this week not in some dystopian future), in which a bestselling conservative author and pundit: introduced a Presidential candidate, got a standing ovation, and called the oopposing party’s candidate a faggot

If you watched the “joke” she didnt directly call him a faggot, said she cant talk about him, because she cant say “faggot,” which apparently is some kind of Republican joke. I only know this is supposed to be some joke because the “conservatives” in attendance cheered and laughed...loudly. Go GOP go.
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A couple posts ago, I brought you the Caveman’s Crib, featuring the only commercial I currently enjoy, the Geico Caveman. Now the hype has built and the Caveman is going to get his own sitcom on ABC. (I don’t know if they will be able to pull it off, but it cant be worse than “According to Jim.”) Also in the works, I hear that the Aflac Duck and the Geico Gecko are getting a three-person Crossfire-type political show on CNN with Tucker Carlson. Woot.
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Glbert Arenas continues to show why he should be everyone’s favorite NBA player, regardless of his recent play. His latest blog entry is chock full of reasons why blog readers and geeks must hold him in the highest regard, and even includes reference to Redonkulous favorite Chuck Klosterman. For some reason Gilbert even seemed excited that Klosterman calls him a rockstar. NBA players are not supposed to give a shit about Chuck Klosterman.

Klosterman then penned a great story on Gilbert for the new New York Times Sports Magazine, and started a debate with the great Post Sports Bog on whether Arenas is weird or not. The debate was furthered by this True hoop Klosterman interview on Gilbert

I think the basic consensus is that Gilbert is extremely weird for a NBA superstar, but only because he is not a boring and one-dimensional product placement marketing scheme, which most NBA superstars are. Its ok to be a quirky blogger and still be considered “normal,” but if you retain that quirky bloggerness as an NBA superstar, then you are instantly weird. NBA superstars are supposed to be MJ, King James, and Tiger Woods style pitchmen and not have emotions or personalities, otherwise they would be weird.
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Agent Zero and the Wizards have been missing Jamison and Butler, 2 of the “big 3", up until their last couple wins, so they have been in a mini-slump...... but the Terps have more than picked up the slack.

Yesterday the Terps completed the sweep of the entiere state of North Carolina (inluding two recent victories over Duke as the Dukchebags in the stands were left trying to heckle Greivis Vasquez in Spanish about Hugo Chavez – it didnt rattle him one bit)

Meanwhile Mease is loving this recent Maryland turnaround
and has directed me to the GARY WILLIAMS SONG webpage on "You’re the man now dog" as a tribute to Garyland. HIT it, YTMND gary song.
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In fake gangsta news from BWE, Scott Storch goes after Timbaland with the worst diss video since Jin dissed rosie o’donnell . Way to keep it gangsta Jin, I myself will hold back on any Rosie diss albums as long as she continues to make Elizabeth Hasslebeck cry
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Finally, I remarked a couple posts ago that almost 10,000 people had looked at this site thanks in large part to a .gif of a college basketball coach biting the head off of a child. Although in the past I have drafted long and though-out posts regarding politics, religion, the Washington Wizards, science, and documentaries, that shit gets absolutely no traffic - and I am totally fine with that.

But something else changed here and about another 600 people have clicked on this site since last weekend. Internet lurkers have now flocked here in search of incorrectly spelled parno material. The phenomenon I speak of, is the Antonella Barba story from last week.

It seems that my misspelling of Ms. Barba’s first name as “Anotella” instead of “Antonella” has caused this blog to be a hot destination for the spelling challenged parno seekers.

Well, I hope the link to the site for the racy pics, satisfied all of the horny lurkers for nude american idol contestants, and this week- as an experiment in readership - I will again link to another Antonella Barba site.

The other popular site to featuring nude and topless pictures of Antella Barba, um topless pictures of Anotella Barba, um topless pictures of Antonella Barbara, um topless pictures of Antonela Barba, um topless pictures of Atonnella Barba, um topless pictures of Antonella Barbar, um pictures of Anotela Barba.... the nude photos are right here.

Better grab an umbrella

2007-02-25T17:34:00.000-08:00

Despite the apparent fandom of American Idol’s Antonella (and her toe), the Terps hung on last night defeat the ACC’s top team, the UNC Tarheels. The win almost certainly cements the Terps entry into the NCAA tournament after a couple of years in the wilderness. Having some sloot from American Idol rock the jersey failed to help out the Heels.

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Before you criticize me for knowing about American Idol and Anotella, take a look at the pic above and, more importantly, all of the rest of the NotSafeFordaWork images that are popping up all over the interwebs. My girl watches Idol (for what seems like) four nights a week and this gummy girl is now sure to be a star (on that show or Skinamax). Her name is Anotella Barba, she lives here in DC and goes to Catholic University, but apparently she broke up with her boyfriend after making the Idol final rounds, and the boyfriend is out for revenge - by leaking some money NSFW pics.

Soon after she made the finals pics of Anotella topless on a beach began to surface, but thanks to the tireless reporting of IdontLikeYouInThatWay.com a new pic has leaked oonto that site every few hours since late Friday afternoon, just dont look at work.
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I now present you with one of the most high-larry-est IM exchanges in history. He Man is finally forced to lay-off Man-E-Faces and he eventually works up the courage to break it to him over the instant messenger. Good stuff.
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According to this news report PacMan "Fever" Jones really shouldn’t have made it rain.
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I just started watching the Showtime show “Weeds” online. Pretty good.
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Great fight last night (which I watched online today). This guy Gomi is the lightweight champion in Japan’s Pride Fight Championship, where they pack 70 thousand people into stadiums to watch MMA. Nick Diaz is some wacked out American who just likes kickin' ass and happens to be a jiu jitsu champion. After Diaz lost a few controversial decisions in the UFC, he decided he wanted to drop down to lightweight, and for some reason Pride FC gave him a fight with their lightweight champion -- probably in a misguided attempt to embarras the UFC. After getting pounded in the beginning of the first round, Diaz collects himself outpunches Gomi for a few minutes and then breaks out some sick move in the second round called a “google-plata” (or some shit like that) and chokes out Gomi. Check out the video here.
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Obama in '08. Sounds good to me.

"I want to eat his children"

2007-02-19T18:59:00.000-08:00

Welcome Deadspin readers. During last year’s March Madness, I posted a link to a gif that I found of Coach K biting the head off of a baby. The king of all sports blogs, Deadspin, has now linked to this gif twice, including once last week, accounting for approximately 99.9999% of my 10,000 total readers This site is really just a place where I post interesting and/or stupid links for my friends to read, and I never attempted to achieve any kind of mass readership, or sought links from other blogs. However, if I ever wanted a redonkulous link to be representatve of all redonkulous links, it is hard to top Coach K devouring a live child. Anyway, if you came from Deadspin last week, hang around and drop a comment sometime.
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I again ignored the sage advice of Chuck D, and believed the hype on Valentines day last week, by going to one of D.C. finest restaurants, Ten Penh, and overpaying for a pretty good meal.

Meanwhile, the Thighmaster (who is inexplicably included in the Sports Bog’s local Hoops Poll) disregarded said hype and spent the “holiday” at a much more palatable establishment, engaging in an extra-special reservations required romantic Valentines Meal at White Castle.
Too bad this deal does not exist in DC.
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This is one of the best collection of Craigslist entries ever. Almost every entry delivered a laugh.
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Will wanted me to link to this video his girl Ashley getting profiled by Alison Starling. Who wouldn’t want to get "profiled" by Alison Starling, if you know what I mean. And I’m pretty sure you know what I mean. I don’t mean interviewed, if thats what you thought I meant. Although an interview would be cool too. But I meant a different kind of profiled, if you know what I mean. Right?
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Has anyone seen the Norbit previews and not said “What the fuck happened to Eddie Murphy.” The on-going Norbit coverage over at Best Week Ever Blog is top notch.

I endorse the words of Alex Blagg

#1 MOVIE OF THE WEEK:
“The people have spoken, and thus it shall be so: in the future, Eddie Murphy will act in every role of every movie, utilizing the miracle of prosthetics to portray human beings of all different body shapes and sizes (especially hilariously obese - and usually angry - black women) to the delight of moviegoers far and wide. Simply put, we want - nay, demand! - more fat suits - $33.7 million
#2 MOVIE: “Despite having no stars and no significant marketing campaign, simply having the word “Hannibal” in the title of a movie seems to guarantee at least a #2 opening at the box office. Coming next summer: Fat Hannibal, starring Eddie Murphy - $13.4 million

more norbit goodness

And then there was this video from with leather, Martin Lawrence at a basketball game being mistakenly labled by the sideline reporter as the star of Norbit. Come on anonymous sideline reporter, everyone knows that the pride of Roosevelt high school was Big Momma I and II and not the actor skillfully portraying Norbit, geez.

The really funny thing is that this same thing happened at the acedemy awards. Eddie Murphy was being given a lifetime achievement award for Dr. Doolittle 3 and was mistaken as Lawrence by Dame Judy Dench. Dench could not stop raving about Big Momma’s House, even though that was Martin Lawrence and not Eddie. How embarrasing for the academy, the motion picture association, and all of us.
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Last week I was asked to stop saving up links and dumping all of the linky goodness in one mega post each week. Apparently this is too much bloggy goodness for some of you to handle, and thus you dont read to the end or drop a comment. Would you rather I go with the standard method of trying to throw up a mediocre post each and every day, or save up a bunch of substandard links into one semi-respectable megapost?

My quesiton to you the reader: A little bit every day, regardless of quality, or a nice respectable collection of crap once a week???? Please drop a comment and let me know your preferred method of blogging.

Cheese up in my 40 too

2007-02-10T08:38:00.000-08:00

I really don’t have anything against Mexicans or the “Mexican invasion.” Will hot dogs soon be replaced by tacos? Baseball replaced by Soccer? and jim beam replaced by tequila? .....I hope so, tacos are fucking delicious, baseball is more boring than C-span, and jim beam makes me want to puke. So generally I would welcome our new Mexican overlords, but the crap they are pulling on the international soccer stage is starting to piss me off. Great game the other night as Mexico again failed to score on USA soil (or semi-US soil as the game was in Phoenix), however after Landon Donovan put away the clincher in the closing minutes, the Mexican keeper tried some idiotic cleats-up slide to take out Eddie Johnson. Luckily just like on Donovan’s goal, the keeper missed miserably, otherwise I’d be goin to help build that border fence.

Check out the pathetic move at the end of these highlights:

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I hate commercials. Hate. I do everything in my, and my DVR’s, power to avoid them. I steadfastly refuse to watch live television, because instead I can watch a one hour show in 40 minutes by waiting 20 minutes and fast forwarding through the commercials. I have pop-up blockers on top of pop-up blockers. In fact, I don’t even think I laughed even once during the few Super Bowl commercials that I actually watched. I was lucky enough to watch the entire first half of Super Bowl on my own personal flat screen 7-inch television on a jet blue flight from Fort Lauderdale, and yet without DVR I still flipped channels instead of watching the commercials (Since everyone around me had the game on, it was incredibly easy to switch channels, see when the action returned, and then flip back to the game).

With all that being said, I actually do enjoy the Geico Caveman that runs 20 times a day on comast sportsnet.

I must admit that I chuckle each and every time he orders the Roast Duck with Mango Salsa. Best Week Ever has found a nice link to the Caveman’s crib and it is pretty hooked-up - take a look. If you look closely you can even find a recipe for the Roast Duck.
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Don and Mike come off as such humongous dicks, there is no doubt that they helped in having Peter Rosenberg banished from JFK ....all the way to to DJ’ing at the McDonalds in Adams Morgan.
Hardy har Don Geronimo, laugh it up fucker, Rosenberg has more talent in his ipod than your hack-ass has compiled in 60 years of radio. Don’t believe me? peep the new (sand)Which Boy video tearing up the you tubes

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So on Wednesday night with the Wizards game, the USA-Mexico tilt, and the return of Lost I had to keep myself in a little media bubble until Thursday night when I finished watching all three. Sure enough, Lost gave no new answers, but now this video from inside the writers meeting explains it all....oooohhh the smoke monster created the magic turtles
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Anyway, I’m (not happy to be) back from the Bahamas. We had a good time brown bagging beers at the Atlantis Hotel in the bahamas, riding scooters around Freeport even when our friends were watching, wearing scooter helments onto the beach, hanging with scuba steve,
watching people make out with stingrays over their heads, hanging on the big boat deck, showing off my skills at cutting a rug, watching the professional photographer coax the girls into holding each others’ arms, and just generally pimping it out on the boat. Great times (all photo credit goes to Spoony D the head paparazzi).

Gootube: A lazy blogger's best friend

2007-01-29T20:57:00.000-08:00

I haven’t much time to post lately, and I will be heading to the Bahamas on Wednesday, but I haven’t forgot about you...oh anonymous lurkers of the internets you... and I have done what any lazy blogger should be able to do, hastily throw together a video-heavy post of every gootube flash video and almost every other webside that I bookmarked in the last week (thank you VideoSift queue)

Without further Freddy Adu, I give you:
This amazing video, which shows how our troops are forced to drive in Baghdad just to avoid slowing down and thus getting blown up ...bring them home now

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also... Drunken German Midgets Ghostriding a Whip

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If this was real I’d jump through all the hoops and sign up immediately

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Until that GoogleTV is invented, I am forced to use web based video collections, but at least I keep finding more good ones.

First there was FindthatShow, then I found SimplisticLinks, and now it seems I have hit the motherload with this collection of websites that each collect movies and shows from all over the web. Wow.
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From finddashow, The Subcontinental Giant reccomended Red Vs. Blue, but I just didnt have the patience to load each individual three minute movie. Luckily they have been collected on GooTube into hour long seasons..niiice
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Atheist genius Richard Dawkins gave a speech in Lynchburg Virginia, home of Jerry Fallwell’s Liberty University, and the question and answer period after the speech was amazing, if you want to see religious questions dismissed deftly and homourously, check the (long) video
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Everyone knows there is plenty to mock Ted Kennedy for (he does appear to be the real life Mayor Quimby) but he is spot-on with his outrage in this video. The guy is absolutely right to be angry about Congress’s refusal to raise minium wage...
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GOT THE INTERNET(S) GOIN NUTS

2007-01-23T08:12:00.000-08:00

I am going to continue leading off with the Washington Bullets/Wizards until I am given a reason not to do so. Behind Agent Zero and Caron Butler, the Wizards continue to keep the internet goin’ nutz like Paul Wall. As of this moment they have sole possession of first place in the entire eastern conference, and are ranked as high as three in various power polls.

I was given great seats to last Wednesday’s buzzer beater against the Knicks, and Donkey McDonkerton got us skybox tix for tonight’s sure-to-be-blockbuster game against the streaking Phoenix Suns. This game truly has the net goin nuts as I have seen about 15 articles just this morning, Bill Simmons has already called the Suns the greatest thing since MJ’s Bulls, the Post's Sports Bog has promised a full day of coverage regarding this game. The buzz for this regular season, monday night, meaningless, pre-allstar break, regular season, game is beyond almost any basketball game in this town since Maryland's last National Championship run.
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In what Stephen Colbert referred to as the greatest crossover since the Fintstones met the Jetsons, Colbert and Bill O’Reilly appeared on each others shows last week, and it was just weird. It was difficult to tell if O’Reilly even actually realized that Colbert’s whole shtick was to simply mock him It was almost as if Bill-O thought that they were a couple of comedians riffing with each other and not one guy laughing AT the other.

“SC (with a smirk): Its the New York Times Bill! They are haters.
B.O. (deadly serious): “They are. They are scum.”

Here is Colbert on Bill-O, Bill-O on Colbert, and a long interview with Colbert at the Harvard institute of politics, in which he presents them with a framed picture of Bill-O.
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This guy was just signed by the UFC and is fighting on Spike TV this week, it may be an exciting fight, but not if someone tries to kiss him before the bell....then its over.

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Here is a lengthy video of Ricky Gervais interviewing Larry David, including some highlarious clips from Curb . Comedic geniuses they are.
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I have heard rumblings about a local documentary on drug kingpin Rayful Edmonds, and have finally found it online. The re-enacted portions are horrible, part 2 or 8 is missing, a lot of the dialogue is cheesy, and the doc tries way too hard to make Rayful look like a hero, but despite all of that it is pretty entertaining for any resident of DC, at least to hear the stories of Rayful dating moses malone’s girl, closing down Georgetown stores, and hanging at Houston’s in Georgetown. I have yet to watch the whole thing, but if you want to here is your link.
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For years we were hearing about all the scary things that those wacky libruls would do if they took over Congress, and I called bullshit from the beginning. Months ago Democrats announced what they would actually do if they actually won IN THEIR FIRST 100 LEGISLATIVE HOURS, and it was the biggest chunk of sensible legislation that I had ever seen - (1) Expanding stem cell research (thus promoting science over extremist religion); (2) Enacting the recommendations of the 911 Commission (I have no freaking clue why the Republicans could never manage to do this); (3) Increasing the minimum wage (the republican congress could only give themselves continuous raises and not the average working Americans they actually worked for); (4) Negotiating for lower prescription drug prices (instead of merely giving subsidies to the big pharmaceutical companies, at least this is a step in the right direction); (5) Cutting interest rates on Student Loans (I am personally grateful for this one); and (5) Ending subsidies for big oil and investing in renewable energy (these, again, are no-brainers).

Well if you look over at the checklist on Stenny Hoyer’s website you can see that the Democrats were successful in passing all five of these measures, but not in 100 hours...soner. The clock is now at 40 hours and all 5 items are marked off the checklist, by my math that is actually less than half the time predicted to pass everything. Wow, politicians who actually go above and beyond their promises- isnt that a change.

TAKEOVER, THE BREAK’S OVER

2007-01-15T16:39:00.000-08:00

If findthatshow.com was not great enough, Fimoculous has uncovered Simplistic Links, a website that does findthatshow one better by also including FULL LENGTH MOVIES.
Although most of the movies are of the youtube variation and thus broken down into 10 minute segments, it is still full of great stuff. As an example, Here is the entire Borat movie which I have yet to watch.
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Some of the other Donkies(eys) and I have a yearly tradition of cutting out of work at 1:00 on MLK day to catch the Zards matinee game...but never before has it quite paid off like this... the “Takeover Season” continued today for Agent Zero as another Daggger was dropped. Gil Zero did it again droppin over 50 points on the formidable Utah Jazz and more importantly draining another deep three pointer at the buzzer to give the Wiz yet another win.

In the mid 90's HTS style - “Agent Zero - you da man you da man”

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At the last UFC pay-per-view, Chuck Lidell surprised few by KnockingTFO of Tito Ortiz and retaining the light-heavyweight belt, but the big news to me was the signing of the second best heavyweight in the world, Pride’s Mirko Cro Cop – a beast straight out of streetfighter...check it out below:

MIRKO CRO COP IN STREET FIGHTER
Uploaded by shoguntheboss

From one of the best fighters , here is Deadspin’s choice for the worst sports fight ever, and I cannot disagree.
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Tons of good NFL games this weekend, but the highlight for everyone I watched the game with was the featuring of the "Fuck Da Eagles" girl on national TV...who didnt rewind their tivo for that, fuck da eagles indeed.
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Since the last Iraq-centric post, Bush has announced his long awaited decision to “surge” more troops into Iraq. This is not just opposed by Democrats but by almost all reasonable people.

I watched another AMAZING Iraq documentary this weekend, Operation Dreamland, in which they followed about 10 of our troops during their time in Fallujah. While I havent been able to find the whole thing online yet, I did find this scene in which we get a glimpse as to how the soldiers are berated once they make it known to their superior officers that they do not plan to re-enlist.... "you’re gonna be sittin on the street homeless in a cardboard box". Riiiight.

The only argument left for the surge is that if we pull out of Iraq all kinds of horrible things could happen in the neighborhood including a region-wide Sunni vs. Shia war possibly involving Iran, Syria, and even Turkey. While this superficially sounds like a reasonable justification to support the President’s plan, the problem is that while this escalation throughout the region may occur if we leave, Bush’s plan to put in 25,000 more troops will not prevent it from occurring. Meanwhle, and more of our people will keep dying while we delay the innevitable. In fact, this “surge” only puts our troop level back to the same point it was a few years ago and will not reverse our fortunes in Iraq. The best that this surge can do is delay any potential disastrous consequences for a few months or years, while we continue to lose more and more American lives while we wait, and that is unacceptable.

The swag is truly phenomenal

2007-01-04T10:15:00.000-08:00

SPORTS SECTION (and entertainment)
I know this blog is starting to sound like a broken record of man-fandom (nh) but Agent Zero did it AGAIN last night. I know I blogged about Arenas when he used Lebron, when he dropped 60 Kobe, and when he lit up Nash and Phoenix for 50 more, but he found another way to amaze last night. With no time on the clock and the game tied, Gil casually pulled up on another 30 footer, drilling the shot, turning his back to “get his swag on” before the ball even went through the rim, and avenging the Wizards only recent loss to the bucks....phenomenal is right

So this is ANOTHER 30-foot DAGGER from Zero our Hero. Like Gil said he is “8 for 8" on those shots this year, and he doesnt know why we are surprised anymore. Arenas is now the most exciting player I can ever remember in this town - hands down.

Anyone, have an Arenas Express Card, I need a hookup to his birthday bash tomororw, which has its own WEBSITE Arenas Express Dot Com.

Finally the national media is starting to take notice of Gil and the Wiz as they are now the #1 team in the East according to the ESPN power rankings, and still in 1st place in the division
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LIFE SECTION
I have been calling bullshit on bottled water for years. I’m down with the convenience of the plastic bottles, but you cant convince me that the stuff actually tastes better and therefore needs to be bought from Pepsi and Coke. Instead just buy one bottle of water and refill that bitch with tap water. Anyways, Lewis Black says it all much better than I could

A couple years ago, Penn and Teller actually did the work in calling people on this bullshit, as they filled expensive glasses with hose water, and passed it off as delicious pure spring water. Catch it here.
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Politics/Entertainment (all rolled into one)

Here are some more full-length documentaries that you can watch online

Jesus Camp
What: Documentary on a youth pastor who trains a flock of young christian warriors as they prepare to become good evangelical Christian soldiers. No narrator or side commentary needed, this is some scary stuff. Actually a great comedy, horror movie, and drama rolled into one
Highlight: Hard to pick a highlight when there are sooo many bat-shit-crazy-scenes that your held may start spinning. A few of the best were:
- The Kids literally being told that Harry Potter should be put to death under Biblical law “Had it been in the old testament, Harry Potter would have been put to death...you don’t make heroes out of warlocks”
- Praying to G.W.Bush, yes praying...to ....President ....Bush -
- Ted Haggard making another guest appearance to bash gays (yes the same Haggard that was caught buying crystal meth from his gay prostitute

The BBC’s Weird Weekends with Louis Theroux Documentary -
Black Supremacists
What: Some crazy British MoFo comes to New York and decides to meet with black-power leaders on the week after Diallo was murdered by a bunch of NYC cops
Highlight: Going into the inner sanctum of Black Israelites. Its like some wacked out Wu Tang shaolin fantasy gone terribly wrong and played out in real life.

Baghdad ER
What: I actually saw this doc. on HBO. It simply focuses on one emergency room in Bagdhad as the injured come rolling in and out.
Highlights: There are no fucking highlights. This is just awful heartbreaking stuff.
Whit the news that Bush may be pushing for an additional surge, these types of documentaries must be watched by everyone. When the General’s don’t want a surge, the public doesnt want a surge, the troops don’t want a surge, and the Iraq study group called for a withdrawal, why would we want more and more of this Baghdad ER footage.

Once again, Olberman spits hot fire about this so-called “surge”

Why We Fight
What: Brilliant documentary exploring our military industrial complex and how it fuels our views on when, why, and how we fight wars. Maybe this explains the surge.
Current TV
When nothing good is recorded on my DVR (which is rare) I find myself watching Current TV more than anything else. The channel is basically a bunch of 5 to 10 minute documentaries, and a few other pods that rotate on a random playlist. It sounds pretty bad, but for my short attention span self it is great stuff.

In the past week or so I have watched pods on the World Series of Beer Pong, China, a Crab Shack in Baltimore, Saddam, a cartoon invloving Kim Jong Il and Jackass, a Somalian gun bazaar, and Dubai (by the way, Dubai is fucking nuts)

Internet? LAN? dialup? carrier pigeon? Squirrels?

2006-12-26T11:32:00.000-08:00

High-larious story time. A couple months ago, the communications director for a Republican Congressman attempted to contact two blogger/computer experts and hire them to hack into the TCU computers and change his old college grades on the system.

Upon receiving the email request from this clown, the guys at attrition.org decided it was the perfect opportunity to mess with him, lead him along, and post all of the communications online. The “hackers” had no intention of actually following through with the hacking, but that didnt stop them from messing with the guy for weeks and PUTTING ALL OF THE EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS ON THEIR BLOG.

You must read all of the emails to get the full comic effect, but you know it will be good when in the first few communicaitons, the “hackers” tell him that phone communicaiton is bad, and emphasize the need for certain wireless networks and carrier pigeons or squirrels. By the end of the emails, the guy was stalking squirrels around Capitol Hill, taking their pictures, and sending them to the "hackers," just to show that he was serious about the endeavor.

The whole thing was picked up by technology news sites, political blogs, and various other news outlets. Some of the comments on this technology site are comic gold -- "Everyone knows that squirrels and pigeons have a protection from FBI spell cast on them, and cannot be photographed or photoshopped by FBI agents or those in collusion with them."

And yes squirrel-boy was fired last week.
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In the greatest piece of writing that our law firm has ever produced, my legal assitant had an editorial published in the Washington Examiner last week that was signed by “Hugh Jazzole”. Sound it out . . .Hugh Jazzole. Here is the letter.
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Hipster hotbed, Wonderland -- pretty safe
Explain why its fun to live in hipster neighborhoods again?
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Patton Oswalt correctly identifies Bush and Cheney as the Duke Brothers
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What a week for Agent Zero. The play of Arenas and the Wizards has allowed me to totally forget about the NFL (are the Redskins still playing?). Arenas started the week by dropping 60 POINTS on Kobe and the Lakers in an overtime win, and finished it up by dropping over 50 on the MVP in Phoenix in another overtime win. Now that is some exciting basketball, and the wizards are up to Number 7 in the ESPN poll. After the Lakers game, Kobe tried to downplay G.A.’s performance, but Agent Zero outclassed him once again on his blog

For the best player in the league to downplay what I did … I guess, I don’t know. I give him all the respect in the world. He is the No. 1 player in the league, by far. It’s like that. You don’t need to try to shadow box my 60. It was one of them nights when I was clicking and everything was going in so, I ended up having 60. That’s all there is to it.

And the best line of the post

Out of that whole game I probably took two bad shots. And, for me not to have a conscience? You’re right. When you’re an assassin, you don’t have a conscience. At the end of the day I thought he didn’t have a conscience, but I guess he does.

HIBACHI!
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Every year, Rex of the Fimoculous blog compiles a gigantic list of all of the various year-end best-of lists out on the interwebs. I have poured through this year’s version and what follows is my temporary list of the year’s top eight lists from fimoculous’ list of lists. I like lists - they make for easy writing.

1. Gawker: List Blog-Media Cliches
This is a list of the most over-used cliches in blogging this year. I use all of these in my lazy writing, so I will now try to use them at once in commenting on this list. OMG. Best list ever. Thought it was gonna be a bad list, but not so much. Oy, I use all of these lazy cliches, yo. Seriously, I use every one of them. What’s next, a list of every phrase I use when speaking too. Seeing how close this resembled my own writing made my spleen bleed. Ok, I think I just threw up in my mouth thinking of bleeding spleens. This listy goodness of a list-gasm is the new black. Ok now I am finally... wait for it... done. Um, that was stupid.

2. Best Videos.
This was clearly the year of You Tube. Many on the highlarious videos on this list were obviously featured here (not first) throughout the last year, including: The Leprechaun (my number 1), Little Superstar (my no. 2), One Bank, Lady Punch, White & Nerdy, Big Tetris, to catch THE Predator.

3. Webster Dictionary’s Word of the Year
I would have probably put Macaca at number one, but truthiness and google are a pretty damn good 1-2 punch.

4. Top 50 Lost Loose Ends.
Lost is great, for a while it was easily the best show on TV, but when are they gonna start telling us what the hell is going on. Remember us, the viewers.

5. Poplicks: Best Quotes of 2006
It is actually an great list. All of my favorites are included, and a few new ones that I should have known. The quoted include Lil Wayne, Borat, Michael Scott, Johnny Drama, Bush, Jimmy Carter,
--"Occasionally. One of the things I've used on the Google is to pull up maps.” CNBC's Maria Bartiromo

6 Pitchfork: Top Tracks of 2006
Maybe not the best list, but lots of links indie rock songs to download.

7 The Late Greats: Top 2006 Songs of 2006
Just a cool idea for a list. I should have thought of it first.

8. Badger Herald: Top Five Comedians
All solid choices, all comedians I rocked out to this year or featured on Redonkulous, and no stinkin Dane Cook. --David Cross, Jim Gaffigan, Patton Oswalt, Demetri Martin, Zach Galifianakis. (Would have also liked to see Eugene Mirman and Todd Barry on the list- Word).
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Happy Holidays. Shabbat Shalom, motherfuckers.

Top Joints of 2006

2006-12-20T20:47:00.000-08:00

At the urging of SCG and RSJ, here are my top 10 albums of ‘06. I really haven’t listened to that much new music this year as I am still discovering the top joints of 05, and I tend to like a lot of boring-ass indie rock - but here goes nothing

Best albums of 2006

1. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
(Shakey Dog MP3) (Random Peter Rosenberg interview with Ghost)
- Most plays in my Ipod this year, most consistent MC in the game, and a required entry on every party mix I made this year

2. Drvie By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
(making of the album -- the video - featuring many of the album’s great songs)
(rockin live)
(acoustic live)
- Rock, Southern-fried but pure rock

3. M. Ward - Post War
(“Chinese Transalation” - live)
(And again live on Letterman)
- Amazin Folk-rock, really unlike anyone else out there

4. Josh Rouse - Subtitulo
(video)
- Not his best work. Dangerously close to easy listening, but I still dig it.

5. Pernice Brothers - Live a Little
(Live)
No amazing standout tracks that will blow your mind, but absolutely no filler. Maybe the only album of the year that I could listen to, on repeat, multiple times - without ANY track skipping.

6. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
(video)
More stuff that is really different. For starters the voice is not for everyone -- as evidenced by the first comment on the you tube video I posted, and I quote:

“seriously...god damn this is the most annoying shit I have ever heard in my life. The lyrics are retarded and the guy looks like he needs his ass kicked. If this is what music is coming to, then god help us all”

How is that for an endoresement.

7. Regina Spektor- Begin to Hope
(video one)
(video two)
(live with just a piano)
-no clue how to really describe her, once again a quirky one, watch video two and you will immediately love it or hate it

8. Small Sins - Small Sins
(doin wacky shit onstage)
- New Canadian Indie Rock - token completely under-the-radar band - that nonsense above was the closest I could find to a video with good sound

9. Radney Foster - This World We Live In
- The list needed a token country-ish record

10. Sparky’s Flaw - One Small Step EP
(Myspace)
-Ok, so I may be a little biased on this one

Cut and get the F out

2006-12-15T11:15:00.000-08:00

Via Spoony D, Here is one of the greatest websites ever. I often talk about the future where internet will replace your TV and cable service, but Find That Show Dot Com has actually taken a very small step tin that direction by tracking down links to dozens and dozens of shows on sites like Daily Motion - all one free-click away.

If you havent already, everyone should check out It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. (More picks to come later).

How many work hours (weeks) could I kill watching the three hour premeire and then all three seasons of Battlestar Galactica.
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I tend to stay away from commercial rock radio in favor of my Ipod. But has commercial rock radio been supassed by....actual commercials.
Blue by the Fruit of The Loom Guys kicks ass. Actually as good as anything put out by Coldplay
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10 Part roast of BaBa Boooey.
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Has anyone alerted the collective nerds of the interwebs to the video of Lonleygirl’s cover shoot with Wired.
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Because it is unquestionably established that bitches can’t hang with the streets

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Continuing with my earlier project of finding badass Documentaries on the internets and watching them during downtime, I have a few more choice-finds for you:

OutFOXed
What: Amazing documentary about how Faux News twists and distorts the news into some kind entertainment-propaganda-front for the Bush administration.
Highlight: Bill O’reilly claiming that only once did he say “shut up,” followed by about 10 clips of him doing just that. http://www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com Hah - an organization of hope.

The Root of Evil
What: Documentary by renowned atheist and author of The God Delusion. No mention of the spaghetti monster though.
Highlight: Dawkins meets with Megachurch Mega-Pastor Ted Haggard who has a “hotline to George Bush.” Haggard tells Dawkins that he is arrogant, that the bible is infallible, and preaches on how gays will be punished. You might recognize Haggard because a few months after this video, Haggard was caught buying crystal meth from his regular gay hooker. 100% True story.

Jeff Buckley BBC Documentary
What: Just what it sounds like, a documentary on one of the great singer-songwriter-guitarists of the '90s who couldve been one of the all-time greats if not taken from us too early
Highlight: Would have been this video if included.
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On to political news, as always -- stop reading if you dont care

For some reason we are still in Iraq. Almost all experts now agree that we are trying to police the Country during a civil war and that the Iraqi people themselves want us out. Yet we continue to be stuck in that nonsense, and despite the reccomendations of the ISG, Bush is probably going to send MORE troops. The only good argument for staying, has always been that a civil war will break out if we leave – too late for that. Well finally a Republican Senator has joined the many democrats calling for us to get out. Wow is this speech great - and amazing that it is finally coming from a Republican and not just democrats
Senator Gordon Smith: "I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal." .... "So let's cut and run, or cut and walk, or let us fight the war on terror more intelligently than we have, because we have fought this war in a very lamentable way."

Meanwhile the current republican congress has left our troops so underfunded that they are forced to write home and beg for SILLY STRING in order to detect trip wires in Iraq. How about giving our troops real tools to fight this war, or even better, getting them the hell out of that civil war.