Bruno junior Alicia Sacramone (currently in Beijing as part of the US Olympic gymnastics team) apparently at the dude's request, delivers a SKRONG left hook and knocks him the fffffuck out! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QA6s7p-zU8]
I always knew the girls at my alma mater were strong women.
And of course no video or story of a guy getting knocked the ffffcuk out is complete without including this scene from Friday:
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Barack Obama gets rick rolled. Haha. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65I0HNvTDH4]
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I never was the biggest fan of his stand up, but I always enjoyed his roles in the Oceans movies and especially in Friday. This is probably my all time favorite Bernie Mac scene: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkpGBiSck20]
Host Randy aka RanMan is back in the second episode of Food Hacking with Randy. As the window for summer barbecues slowly closes, Randy demonstrates a quick and delicious way of having a barbecue, especially if you lack a couple crucial and necessary ingredients. It's a brilliant out-of-box solution.
You cannot fuck wit it. The (sneezing) panda gangsta: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcmamOcsm1M]
MRod here is sensitive to the dance and nothing is more sensitive than contemporary dancing to...John Mayer and I get that. I get that, man. For reals, it's pretty damn good. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr9cZk_ExVI]
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Today was very tiring as I woke up ass early to meet at 9 am in Soho with my co-cinematographers, actors and stills photographer to shoot the bellwether film, conceived and written by yours truly, from MRod Productions. This was such an amazing experience and suffice to say I have fully caught the bug, tossed back the kool-aid, and signed on the film-making dotted line. I'm hoping to get the final cut distributed by the end of the week!
No, it's not a Gap ad from 1999. Marvin (Ben), Hector (Anthony), Mike (Andy), Ian (Ted), Karynne (photographer!).
Jason and Patrick--Thanks guys. This obviously could NOT have been possible without the help of you guys!
This cabbie was interested in what we were shooting.
Last but not least: Thanks to RANMAN for the financing!!!
Before the main event for this entry, here are a couple throwaway pictures.
Lauren will probably ask me to remove this because she will absolutely hate the way she looks here, but last Sunday we met up at Aroma Cafe in Soho to mock the pedestrians passing by and catcall the fly model chicks.
On Wednesday I attended a work sponsored drinking session at a random outdoor bar on 105th and Riverside. One of my coworkers brought his groovy dog.
On Friday right as I was shutting down at work for the weekend and head home, Sophia calls with the offer of an extra ticket to a Mets game. When she said she thought the seats might be good on the phone, I didn't realize they would be THIS good. Field level good. They were definitely one of the best seats I've ever had at a baseball game.
The mascot Mr. Met came down to say hello to the kids. We. were. just. as. excited. OMFGMRMET!
These kids were definitely preventing us from being able to get our own photos with Mr. Met.
We tried to find an alternative way of getting a photo with him, except as Sophia helpfully pointed out, my large head BLOCKED Mr. Met...which is quite a feat considering the mascot is basically just a gigantic head wearing a jersey.
Finally we just opted for Soph pointed at the back of Mr. Met.
This fan had about 25 different signs, plus various prop hats and gloves that he wore and waved around.
A perfectly sunny baseball evening!
Kids in their privileged seats waving to Mr. Met for a t-shirt.
Not paying attention to the game at all. Someone revoke her ticket status.
That's what she said?
Something was happening above us.
I'm having a LOT more fun than I appear to be having in this picture towards the end of game, which the Mets easily won.
Bonus Video Segment Sophia demonstrates how she would call strike three.
Haha.
Thanks Sophia for the awesome tickets!
As a follow up to the previous conversation, the link that N sent me was about a Hong Kong 41-year-old man who was taken to a hospital after he tried to have some boom-boom time with a steel park bench and then discovered he couldn't extricate himself when he uhm, got stuck inside one of the gaps in the bench.
When doctors arrived on the scene they tried to release some of the pressure by removing some of his blood, but the penis was so swollen that they ended up having to cut the entire bench free and take it, with Xian attached, to the hospital.
Park bench sex FAIL right there.
Read more here.
Me: I'm looking at that URLMe: Is it safe for work? N: lol N: Yea N: Whatever you guys have stripper elmos come into your office Me: Stripper GORILLA
My brain is absolutely fried right now from being busy the past couple days. This is my excuse. So...onward and forward, and lets continue the below trend of superficial blog entries by taking a look at TheHill.com's Top 50 Most Beautiful People in Capital Hill.
They appear to only rank the top ten and then fill out the remaining in no particular order. Of the top, I could definitely get behind candidates, Kristina Spiegel (#10)...and gah, Republican Crystal Dollins (#7).
View rest here.
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So I tried to avoid watching Paris Hilton's spoof retort to a recent controversial McCain television ad spot that referenced her in their attack on Obama. That failed, and I wanted my 45 seconds back afterwards. Anyway, apparently Paris didn't memorize her spiel but read it off cue cards...blah, whatever. I thought about just deleting this entry but since I figured I had already written 75 percent of the previous sentence, I might as well post it. The takeaway here, Paris can read.
You can file this entry under "MRod wasted my time."
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Brazil has enlightened the world thanks to its citizens such as singer Bebel Gilberto, superstar model Giesele, and soccer god Pele. And now we can also thank Brazil for gifting us with Bia and Branca Feres, twin 20-year-old sisters who will be competing in Beijing in the duo-synchronized swimming competition. BRAZIL! BRAZIL!
And another semi-NSFW-depending-on-your-work-but-you-should-mos-DEF-look-at-this-next-picture-of-the-two. Two words: Gold bikinis
You're very welcome.
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This application for iPhones, which costs $1000, serves no purpose other than to demonstrate the buyer's ability to flush a thousand dollars down the drain.
The app does nothing but display a red ruby; tapping a miniature i in the corner will load a secret mantra enabling you to "stay rich, healthy, and successful."
Alas the "value" in some sense of this application should increase since Apple has since removed it, unjustly in mine and others' opinion, from their App Store.
Nike Commercial: Marvin Gaye sings a soulful rendition of the national anthem. USA! USA! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvVzaQ6i8A]
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Allegedly BlackBerry plans on rolling out a touchscreen phone (awesomly codenamed Thunder). It will only have four physical buttons and will launch as an exclusive on Verizon and Vodafone.
Disclosure: I'm an unabashed Apple fanboy (supershocker I know), but I think one of the positive consequences arising from Apple's entrance into the mobile market is that they are forcing other cell phone companies to focus on innovation. Or so I had hoped. So far, what I've noticed is a lot of copycats and (bad) imitators, without much out-of-the-box innovative solutions or features. I hope this new BlackBerry phone lives up to its name and brings the thunda!
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I looked up irony in the dictionary and found this: During National Banned Book Week, a Texas high school 10 grade class was assigned the classic novel Fahrenheit 451. Well, one stupid student, after reading a few pages, found the book's content objectionable and with her father's help and are petitioning to get the book banned. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUq2d2OFRkk]
I then looked up "low brain function" and found this girl and her father there as well.
One of my favorite features of The Economist is their Big Mac index. As they (always) succinctly explain:
Burgernomics is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity, the notion that a dollar should buy the same amount in all countries. Thus in the long run, the exchange rate between two countries should move towards the rate that equalises the prices of an identical basket of goods and services in each country. Our "basket" is a McDonald's Big Mac, which is produced in about 120 countries. The Big Mac PPP is the exchange rate that would mean hamburgers cost the same in America as abroad. Comparing actual exchange rates with PPPs indicates whether a currency is under- or overvalued.
Of course it's a rather expedient snapshot of the global economic condition, but I think it's still very illuminating.
As of their most recent posting, the euro and Norway's kroner, among others, is over-valued with a Big Mac costing, in dollars, $5.34 and $7.88 respectively per burger. That is some expensive fast food: by comparison, for those of you who haven't visited your local golden arches, the current cost in the US for a Big Mac burger is $3.57.
In Thailand however (the latest tourist destination du jour amongst all my friends it seems) the dollar is heavily under-valued by some 48% where a Big Mac will only cost you $1.86.
