[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWzrr__wYMQ] Heat for one minute, let sit for 5 minutes, then enjoy!
My geek and art side likes this piece titled "Powering Off...Quarter Moon...Six O'Clock" by Ken Solomon currently on display at Josee Bienvenu Gallery.
Dario Escobar, "Untitled." No need for a title. It's a crazy ass bat.
The original animatronic Energizer Bunny is on the auction block with bids starting at $10,000.
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In the first commercial in a new ad campaign focusing on the brand of AT&T with positivity and a feel good message, a voice over asks "Remember when you were 5, and anything was possible?" My immediate response is "No, I was in an orphanage at the time. This is awkward now."
This home video is a yet another reminder that my future kid will permanently walk around with a football helmet on his head until his 28th birthday. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMVfMT7Ejn8]
Artist Peter Schuyff's collection of carved bats is mighty impressive.
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Deadspin's round up from various people including Yankee fans on why Yankee Stadium sucks.
3) THE NEW YANKEE STADIUM IS NOT A PRIVATELY FINANCED. We paid for a large portion of this stadium. Why Bloomberg, who had no stake in seeing the Yankees get a new home, went along with it is a mystery to me. It's simply unconscionable for a city, with children attending classes in janitor's closets, to spend money on for-profit sports franchises.
Although this is a criticism that can be leveled at almost all professional stadiums.
Olde timey baseball hats made by New Era Japan from the era when our grandfathers had to walk to school each morning in 4 feet of snow uphill in both directions. Oh, and when people were CRAZY racist.
The classic baseball film The Natural starring Robert Redford was based in part on real-life Chicago Cubs star Eddie Waitkus who was "shot in the chest by Ruth Ann Steinhagen, an obsessed fan, on June 14, 1949, at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago." After being hit, he asked, "Baby, what did you do that for?" Man, people talked so cool in the olden days!
Interesting sports history from Smithsonian Magazine: In 1957 in front of 10,000 cheering spectators in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, a group of mostly poor kids from Monterrey, Mexico become the first foriegn team to win the Little League World Series. Not expecting to progress far in the tournament, the team often only had enough money for two meals a day and even dealt with expired visas. They eventually defeated the team from La Mesa, California in a win which remains the only perfect game in a Little League World Series championship game-a feat that stands to this day. Their victory lap included a stop at the White House where they met then-President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrrx5CgdZaA] And oldie but goodie: a "clueless" John Mayer does play-by-play at a baseball game where things happen.
The other night, I learned from my roommate's friend who is a law student at Columbia that Talib Kweli Greene's brother Jamal Greene is a professor of constitutional law at Columbia Law. There is entirely way too much talent in that gene pool!
Some pretty looking infographs and visualization of airplane crash data.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYWdLundJzU&feature=player_embedded] Sure, why not? First let me take care of the next twenty years of my life, then I'll be on the first flight out of JFK to Siem Reap, Cambodia.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dr2ZB36p9Y&feature=player_embedded] Screw that Hollywood shit. Here are ten real life crazy drop it low flybys. Number 3 in particular is some pant wetting, balls shrinking stuff.
Engrossing article in Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine on Nick Popovich, the repo man of airplanes of the $150 million jumbo jets and presidential variety.
A U.S. financier had hired Popovich to snatch a Boeing 720 from a tour operator in Haiti who was in default. Though the aircraft had a book value of only $600,000, an airport manager refused to release it unless a million dollars was deposited in a Swiss bank account. Having made arrangements with an entrepreneurial Port-au-Prince airport employee, Nick showed up around midnight with an air starter (720s lack an onboard auxiliary power unit to start engines). The field had been closed for hours when the team fired up the big turbofans. As he began adding power, Popovich says, “I saw the first tracer rounds streak over the top of the airplane.”
Coming to a theater near you in 2011 starring Nicholas Cage.
National Geographic explains:
St. Maarten—Landing at Princess Juliana International Airport, a looming 747 thrills those on Mahó beach. The white-sand stretch on the Caribbean island's Dutch side—the rest is French—is a famous plane-watching perch.
Have any of you been to this beach?
Your summer jam of 2010: This mash-up of Mos Def with Dub (reggae) music is blowing my mind. You can stream or download the entire album 