Eminem hits a political nerve with his new video for the song “Mosh.” “In five minutes, Eminem manages a furious indictment of the administration that will likely resonate among many troops in Iraq as well as disaffected kids here at home.” [via]
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iPod-A-Rama
Apple announces two “new” iPods, firstly a iPod Photo with a colour screen and a special edition black U2 signature iPod. Hmmm, U2 or colour screen?… U2 or colour screen?… Dammit.
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John Peel 1939 – 2004
Veteran BBC broadcaster John Peel has died at the age of 65, while on holiday in Peru. Another sad passing. Somewhere, I’m sure, “Teenage Kicks” is playing…
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Things I’ve Done, Things I Wish I’d Done
Via Dawn Keyotie over at Still Tilting
***Bold Font- you have done it…..Regular Font – you haven’t…..Italics – you wanna.***
001. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
002. Swam with wild dolphins
003. Climbed a mountain
004. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
005. Been inside the Great Pyramid
006. Held a tarantula
007. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
008. Said “I love you” and meant it
009. Hugged a tree
010. Done a striptease
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Ashlee Simpson
For those of you who didn’t already know… Ashlee Simpson was caught lip-synching on Saturday Night Live…
Well, here’s the clip, some Monday humour for you.
The best bit is her band kicking it up a notch after she walks off, I’m sure the conversation went a little something like this:
Guy with black guitar: “Well, we’re being paid for the full three minutes.”
Guy with pink bass : “And now that revolting little whore’s gone, we have the show to ourselves.”
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Shaq Attack
Phil and I were offered free tickets for tonight’s Atlanta Hawks preseason game against the Miami Heat at Philips Arena, and with the possibility of seeing Shaquille O’Neal added onto the whole free tickets thing, we jumped on it…
So we took the short drive down the I-75 to Downtown Atlanta, found a sweet parking spot across from the CNN Center, met our contact in CNN, swiped the free tickets and went our merry way, after eating a damn fine (and filling) meal at the Jock & Jill’s Sports Grill located in the CNN Center… Philips Arena (which opened in 1999) stands on the site of the old Omni Arena (which was demolished in 1997) and is a fabulous arena, Atlanta is spoiled with great sporting facilities in Turner Field, Philips Arena and the Georgia Dome, and it has a unique configuration by having 5 levels of luxury boxes stacked on one side of the arena as opposed to circling the arena.
Anyways, onto the match, the Heat led from the tip off (scoring the first 6 points) and went on to win with a rather convincing 113-82 rout, with O’Neal and Dwyane Wade leading the scoring with 19 points a piece.
To be honest, we weren’t there to support the Hawks or anything like that, Phil and I are fans of basketball in general and have a line of thinking that goes like so… Atlanta Hawks are a crap team, they might be “on the bubble” as far as low seedings for the playoffs go, but they are not going to be overly successful, and because of this hardly anyone goes to see them play… BUT every team must play in Atlanta at least once… So we can pretty much pick and choose which teams we do want to see. Clever huh? We thought so too… Plus if we can bag free tickets for it, well, thats a bonus. Our tickets for this game we located just behind one of the baskets, 10 rows off the floor so they were not too bad.
But wait… Here come the obligatories y’all… The Philips Arena looking pretty empty before the game and reasonably full, about 2/3 or so, during the game…
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Cursed?
For fear of adding to the already infamous Boston Red Sox “Curse of the Bambino,” I’ve put off writing even a single character about their American League Championship Series showdown with the New York Yankees but now it’s all said and done… It’s about time…
It’s the kind of story that’s too far fetched to be true… down 3-0 in a best of seven series, having just been thrashed 19-8, the Red Sox do what no other team in history has done… Win the remaining 4 games over the next 4 nights cumulating in a 10-3 win at Yankee Stadium to finally send the team into the World Series for the first time in 18 years where they will face either the St. Louis Cardinals or the Houston Astros.
Now, the series has been staple viewing in our home, what with Erika being a damn Yankee fan and me, well, not liking the Yankees one bit… Now I don’t like the Yankees for a variety of reasons, their high payroll and their blatant disregard for the salary cap, the 26 World Series titles, the fans and their “who’s your da-ddy?” chants aimed at Pedro Martinez, but it boils down to one reason and one reason alone… Paul O’Neill… He was the right fielder for the Yankees during my peak baseball watching years (1997-2001, though I’m still in my peak, he just retired in 2001) and from 1998 to 2001, the Yankees were in the World Series and each and everytime I thought they might lose, Paul O’Neill would make an important catch or a big hit to save their pinstriped asses… My dislike for O’Neill got so bad that I could never win a single game against the Yankees in Triple Play Baseball 1999 on the PlayStation as I ALWAYS had to aim the pitches at O’Neill’s head thus getting my pitcher thrown out the game, a shitty one would take over and Tino Martinez would smoke the following pitch over the wall in deep center field, each and every time, without fail… ALWAYS!
Anyways, Erika is a Yankee fan and I had on my Red Sox hat, and we’d be watching the games, busting each others chops about the plays taking place (so far as to Erika getting Phil to call me on Sunday just to remind me about the 19-8 blowout the previous night), and it got even better as the Red Sox fought back, going so far as Erika saying she wouldn’t mind if the Red Sox won… A Yankee fan saying that, can you believe it? We watched pretty much every pitch, even in the game that ended at 1:30am and the monster 5:45 marathon, and it’s probably the most enjoyable thing I can remember, drumming my hands against a footrest, cheering on the Red Sox long after midnight, Erika spouting every excuse under the sun as to why the Yankees collapsed like a house of cards (while sneakily changing my avatar on a few message boards we run).
The World Series probably won’t be as enjoyable but I still hope the Red Sox win and break the “curse” once and for all… Though most will already say it has been broken, in the house that Ruth built…
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Help, I’m Stoned, Who Should I Vote For?
Help, I’m stoned, who should I vote for? “Short Answer: John Kerry.” High Times backs John Kerry for President. As good a reason to vote for him than any… [via]
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Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Any Worse…
If ever you needed proof about George Bush’s lack of world knowledge… (NY Times aticle, registration required, otherwise just use PW: greenies UN: greenies)
In the Oval Office in December 2002, the president met with a few ranking senators and members of the House, both Republicans and Democrats. In those days, there were high hopes that the United States-sponsored “road map” for the Israelis and Palestinians would be a pathway to peace, and the discussion that wintry day was, in part, about countries providing peacekeeping forces in the region. The problem, everyone agreed, was that a number of European countries, like France and Germany, had armies that were not trusted by either the Israelis or Palestinians. One congressman — the Hungarian-born Tom Lantos, a Democrat from California and the only Holocaust survivor in Congress — mentioned that the Scandinavian countries were viewed more positively. Lantos went on to describe for the president how the Swedish Army might be an ideal candidate to anchor a small peacekeeping force on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Sweden has a well-trained force of about 25,000. The president looked at him appraisingly, several people in the room recall.
“I don’t know why you’re talking about Sweden,” Bush said. “They’re the neutral one. They don’t have an army.”
Lantos paused, a little shocked, and offered a gentlemanly reply: “Mr. President, you may have thought that I said Switzerland. They’re the ones that are historically neutral, without an army.” Then Lantos mentioned, in a gracious aside, that the Swiss do have a tough national guard to protect the country in the event of invasion.
Bush held to his view. “No, no, it’s Sweden that has no army.”
The room went silent, until someone changed the subject.
A few weeks later, members of Congress and their spouses gathered with administration officials and other dignitaries for the White House Christmas party. The president saw Lantos and grabbed him by the shoulder. “You were right,” he said, with bonhomie. “Sweden does have an army.”
That’s the leader of the free world talking, y’all…
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Team America: World Police
Last night Phil, Robyn and myself went to see the new Trey Parker/Matt Stone film, “Team America: World Police,” and we all walked away thoughroughly entertained.
It’s basically a rip off of every action film ever made, but done with puppets, and they don’t even try to hide the fact that they’re puppets neither… It’s about a US-based team of anti-terrorism cops who patrol the world tracking down terrorists and WMD’s. So cue some insanely funny moments, literally side splitting on many, many occasions, which include, but are not limited to puppets engaging in explicit sex, a hero who vomits a disgusting amount of foul liquid and the brutal execution of several Hollywood liberals.
Even simply silly monents are inadvertantly funny, like the main female lead trying to point at the male lead’s heart, but missing and then looking down at her hand. The level of detail in each of the puppets is pretty extraordinary, all the celebrities look like themselves (and they really dislike Matt Damon, as the only words he says is “Matt Damon”). Another funny thing is the rocking soundtrack and the song “America, Fuck Yeah!” in particular.
This gets the highest recommendation I can give, as long as you’re not easily offended…
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Jon Stewart Tells it Like it Is…
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart appears on CNN’s Crossfire and calls Tucker Carlson a dick. No shit, serious… “You know what’s interesting, though? You’re as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.” Here’s the transcript…
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B to the izzE
Anheuser-Busch says it will introduce a caffeinated, sweet-flavored beer for twentysomething club goers. “The new beer B(E) — read as “B to the E power” — will roll out in several phases starting in November.” How long until it’s known as B to the izzE?
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What If Bush Won in 2000
What if George W. Bush HAD been elected in 2000. Will Shetterly devles into a hypothetical alternate universe, imagine if it really happened… [via]
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Google Desktop Search
Google launches a beta of a desktop search tool to search for files on your own computer. Because Start Menu/Search was too much of an inconvenience…
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Halo 2 Leaked
Halo 2 has been leaked onto the internet a month before it’s due to come out. I’m not so sure these kind of high-level leaks are that accidental anymore. As they say, there is no such thing as bad publicity…
