By now, you've heard about this hullaballoo from the College Football National Championship game. Of course, since there's an attractive woman involved, this story isn't going anywhere. Here's today's latest:
Musburger says F-U all.. I called the Celtics-Lakers finals in the 80's when you were all sucking your thumbs!
3. Board room
As someone who's been getting into these so-called "european board games" lately (not sure why that's "so-called". Theyre actually from Europe. Just seemed fitting)
This is a great read... and let me just say Ive added a few new games to the list of ones we should try, gentlemen!
Nerd Curious
is an occasional series in which Todd VanDerWerff tries the nerdy
things he missed as a kid, either due to lack of access, time, or
ability. He has a rough schedule planned out, but feel free to use the
comments to suggest more nerd experiences he needs to have.
No matter how many times my nephew tries, he can’t save the world.
One by one, cities fall to the dreaded blue plague sweeping across
North America and Europe. Paris. Essen. Toronto. Chicago. Atlanta, his
home base. He moves personnel in and out of these cities, cleaning up
disease, but also hemmed in by it.
And then South America explodes, as does Africa—with a completely
different disease. And he’s out of time, out of chances to develop a
vaccine, and out of cards. So he reverses time. Puts the cards back in
the deck, lets the disease take over Europe again. He tries his best to
stop the second disease before it pops up, but this time, the blue one
starts to bubble up before an entirely different plague seizes hold of Asia. Again, he reverses, to give the world another chance.
He’s playing a board game called Pandemic. My wife and I introduced him to it, and the three of us have yet to win a game.
Although it's very unlike the Jews to not just let go
of the past, director Jonathan Kesselman and actor Adam Goldberg have
spent the last 10 years attempting to mount a sequel to 2003's The Hebrew Hammer, their fluke cult hit about an overcoat-clad Jewish vigilante making the streets safe for everyone's bubbe. Now that sequel is finally set for a spring start date, thanks to a crowd-sourced fundraising campaign on Jewcer and the fact that Israel doesn't need any more money. (What, they want we should pay
them not to call us?). As you can see from the promo below, the
follow-up will find Goldberg's Mordechai time traveling to take on "the
Jewish Joker": Adolf Hitler, the Jewish archvillain who had a way with a
pun and an equally horrible way with genocide.
If you never saw the original, get yourself some latkes to nosh on and settle in:
At least nine Canadian patients have
contracted a strain of "incurable" gonorrhea, according to a study
released on Jan. 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Researchers
found that nine of the 133 patients with gonorrhea who were treated at a
Toronto clinic still had the disease after being treated with the oral
antibiotic cephalosporins. This marks the first time that
cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea has been found on the continent.
"We've
heard of such cases in Asia and Europe. Now it's happening in North
America," Dr. Robert Kirkcaldy, medical epidemiologist in the Division
of STD Prevention at CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral
Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, said to NPR. "It's very concerning."
Luckily, FZ wrote a song about it... like to hear it? Here it go:
"this is the kind of thing that our songs are made out of"
7. Viral Videos
Not to be confused with the Venerial Video above..
By Amos Barshad on
Randi Lynn Beach/GettyBack in February 2011, The New Yorker published Lawrence Wright's "The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology,"
one of the more expansive and informed explorations of the mysterious
workings of the organization to date. But that was just the beginning. Wright, the first-ballot journalism Hall of Famer behind the masterful The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, has now expanded his research into Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, a book that might just prove to be the defining account of L. Ron Hubbard's minions and all they have wrought.
My favorite part:
OK, on to Cruise, whose relationship with the church — more
specifically, with Church top dog David Miscavige — is much more
buddy-buddy.
Cruise ... fell under the spell of Miscavige's commanding personality. He modeled his determined naval-officer hero in 1992's A Few Good Men on Miscavige, a fact that the Church leader liked to brag about.
Meanwhile, Miscagive was busy making all of TC's dreams come true:
Miscavige heard about [Cruise and Kidman's] fantasy of
running through a field of wildflowers together, so he had Sea Org
members plant a section of the desert with them; when that failed to
meet his expectations, the meadow was plowed and sodded with grass. When
a flood triggered a mudslide that despoiled a romantic bungalow
specially constructed for the couple, Miscavige held the entire base
responsible and ordered everyone to work 16-hour days until everything
was restored.
The crux:
"So we need to have a long, serious national conversation, starting
right now, about where those events fit into the contours of the Hall of
Fame. I'm ready if you are.
Maybe we'll decide we want a Hall of Fame that renders all, or most,
of that invisible. Maybe we'll decide we want a Hall of Fame that
aspires to be a shrine, not just to greatness but to purity. I don't
know how we get there, but maybe that's where this conversation will
lead us.
But maybe we'll decide, once we think it all through, that's
impossible. Maybe we'll recognize that what the Hall needs to be, in
these complicated times, is a museum, and nothing more sainted or noble
than that.
Maybe it needs to be a place that does what other great history
museums do -- tell the story of a time in history, for better and for
worse, wherever it leads. Maybe that's not exactly what we would hope
and dream a Hall of Fame should be. Maybe, though, that's what it has to
be, because if we try traveling down that other road, we'll find
nothing but forks and detours and roadblocks."
I agree. Sadly it has come to this, but I think you just let em all in.. and you have just different wings. This is the steroid era wing. This is the deadball era. This is the whites-only wing... etc etc. You can't deny that a museum dedicated to baseball should have mentions of dudes like Clemens and Bonds.. even if they are in the Dirty Cheating Assholes Wing.
As perhaps you already know, Tom Waits and Keith Richards put their guitars together in 2012 to collaborate on a song to be featured on a pirate-themed compilation album put together by Johnny Depp (who gave life to the flamboyant swashbuckler Jack Sparrow) and his Pirates director, Gore Verbinski. The product of the Waits/Richards collaboration is a song called "Shenandoah," which is now streaming on NPR. The 36-track double album Son Of Rogue's Gallery, which also features songs by Shane MacGowan, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe and Courtney Love (together!), Iggy Pop, and many more, will be released on February 18. Can "Shenandoah" calm your anticipatory jitters until then?
RIO DE JANEIRO
(Reuters) - A cat carrying a saw and a mobile phone was "detained" as it
entered a prison gate in northeast Brazil, Brazilian media reported on
Saturday.
Prison guards were
surprised when they saw a white cat crossing the main gate of the
prison, its body wrapped with tape. A closer look showed the feline also
carried drills, an earphone, a memory card, batteries and a phone
charger.
All 263 detainees in the
prison of Arapiraca, a city of 215,000 people in the state of Alagoas,
are considered suspect in the plot, which is being investigated by local
police.
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Of course, if I was behind bars.. not exactly the pussy i'd be trying to smuggle in.. but that's just me.
Agreed on your take on the Hall of Fame.. to a certain extent. You certainly need to document the steroid era somehow.. but then I don't think you can really call the place "the Hall of Fame." And there, I think, is where you run into trouble.
At least nine Canadian patients have
contracted a strain of "incurable" gonorrhea, according to a study
released on Jan. 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Agreed on your take on the Hall of Fame.. to a certain extent. You certainly need to document the steroid era somehow.. but then I don't think you can really call the place "the Hall of Fame." And there, I think, is where you run into trouble.
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