This looks like a scene from some alternate universe where Robocop exists in real life and Nixon is serving his 8th straight term as President of the United States in a dystopic future. Or it could be a scene from a buddy cop comedy film.
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Grantland's David Cho caught this brilliant moment during an Oilers hockey game a few weeks back. As any child of the 90's will quickly recognize, the team is running the most unstoppable...(or MIGHTY?) play in hockey: the flying V.
Jeremy Lin chatting with Wataru Misaka, the first Asian American NBA player. As I wrote back in 2009:
Three years before African Americans were allowed into the league and the same year Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, Japanese American Watura Misaka was drafted in the first round by the New York Knicks. He later served in the US Army stationed in Hiroshima three months after the atomic bomb devastated that city.
Here is the Simpsons writing staff circa 1992. One of them looks super familiar and the rest not at all.
While reading the featured wedding vow in today's New York Times (Yes, I read this, so what?), I was struck by the wedding announcement's concluding punch line from the officiating judge at the wedding between Cara Shepley and Genshi Ezawa:
Before the ceremony ended, Judge Legg, who is retiring in January, was moved to observe: “I have spent many hours in this courtroom, and this is the only time I’ve enjoyed imposing a life sentence. It’s wonderful that my last official occasion in this courthouse will be such a happy one.”
As for me, I wouldn't mind a life sentence in a room filled with Kit Kat bars.
Here's an update or rather apologies for the lack of updates here. I have been occupied but not with anything of import. It's not you, it's me: Over the past year I've increasingly shifted to using Twitter to share many of the links I previously used to post here on these pages.
If you liked those random tidbits such as videos, links, and lols from around the Web that you used to see here and want to see more then (plug warning) come and follow me on Twitter (@mattrod). Of course I will continue to occasionally update this blog, but in the meantime Twitter FTW.
[Image by William Eadon]
Just when you think you've seen everything there is to see in New York City...a goat proves you wrong.
President Obama 
Just Jesse Jackson and Marvin Gaye playing some hoops. Those shorts though...
[Hat tip @RobbChavis]
John Stewart, a soccer player at William and Mary would later find moderate success in the entertainment business.
In Internet time the election is already passé, but I thought 
We need more cat photos.
Obama's margin of victory is going to be this big. That's what she said.
After finishing too many mini bottles of alcohol, Bill Cunningham thought Snoopy was Jill Abramson. 
In case you missed it, here are some recent photos from my life including the one I snapped above during Hurricane Sandy when I (stupidly) ventured outside in the midst of it. You can see water from the river flooding slowly but surely into the streets. The water was about waist deep at the end of this block.
From the people at Gum Election: Here's a sticky way to decide matter of the presidential election. You can print out your own 11x17 poster here.
If you missed it last time, here's what these posters looked like during the previous presidential election starring Obama and McCain (Jar-Jar totally ruined it for me though).
And similarly, you could use a similar method to provide your own customer feedback to AT&T.
Download it This is what I've deduced about you:
You have a great need for other people to like and admire you. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage. While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them. Your sexual adjustment has presented problems for you. Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof. You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic. Security is one of your major goals in life.
Actually this is the "unique" personality analysis that was given to every single one of his student by psychologist Bertram R. Forer in 1948. This is called the Barnum or Forer effect.
At the grand opening party of Jay Z's 40/40 Club last night in the new Barclay's Center, the building's developer Bruce Ratner 
Don Draper (likely sexting or browsing r/gonewild) on his iPhone in the 1960's.