While (newly-crowned and -coined) Candidate McNasty was touring Sturgis, relying on base, primal passions and instincts to stir up excitement for his pathetic attempt at a campaign, this first sighting of what I see as a future trend was made this week.
This is fantastic…I want to try it.
UPDATE - Thought I would post this NPR piece about the McCain girls, by way of update. So sad…
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I know this is Mark’s theme song, but I don’t think even his extreme affinity for the song would make him like this one…oh my.
My brother has made me aware of a new commercial with William Shatner. Now, I know next to nothing about the World of Warcraft (”WOW”), but as everyone knows, I worship the ground upon which the Shatner walks. This new commercial is hilarity itself. The funny thing is, I have always wanted to ask Shatner how you hurl bolts of lightning, for the simple reason that (1) who doesn’t want to be able to hurl bolts of lightning, and (2) if anyone were to know how to do so, it would be the Shatner.
For your enjoyment, another commercial, this time featuring Mr. T…also hilarious. Enjoy, fool…
Check out this last-second play in Division III football, for the win.
Down by 3 with seconds left and having time for only one more play, the Trinity Tigers stood on their own 39 yard line. Playing Millsaps College from Mississippi, the Tigers lateraled the ball 15 times before putting it into the end-zone for the win. I have just one observation…if Ron Turner had been their offensive coordinator, the Tigers would have either downed the ball and eaten the loss on their own 39 or tossed the ball up the field 5 yards, into coverage, for an easy and painless end to another Bears disappointment.
PS - the announcer gets a bit into it, so just go with it
Heard this on Mike & Mike this morning…
Forgive the Fox News link, but it’s the quickest link I found. I heard this while listening to Mike & Mike in the background just now. Apparently, PETA wants Kevin Federline to obtain custody of the couple’s pets. I, like Golic, found this hilarious.
Check out this sequence of six photographs detailing the rescue of a bear trapped on the underside of a very tall bridge out west…(yes, so it’s safe to look…the story has a happy ending).
Mark Starr, Newsweek’s Boston bureau chief and a national sports correspondent for NBC, wrote an article entitled America’s Next Olympic Hopeful. In it, he discusses 10 reasons why Chicago should be the USOC’s choice for the city America puts forward to the world and the IOC as our candidate for the 2016 Olympic Games. All are good arguments, but number 6 captures something I have said about the city for years now:
“6) Surprise! Chicago is a hidden gem, perhaps America’s most beautiful and certainly its most architecturally enthralling city. But a lot of people, here and abroad, have no clue. I am continually meeting people who visit Chicago for the first time and are stunned by how gorgeous it is, and at how truly nice and friendly the people are. Overseas, many folks still know little about Chicago beyond Al Capone. They are in for a pleasant surprise. Low expectations work well for bid cities” (emphasis added).
This lack of knowledge by people outside the area is exemplified by the two girls Scott and I met in Florida who, after hearing we were from Chicago, asked, “Isn’t that in Ohio?” How surprised they were to hear the City was actually in what they called “IllinoiZ.” I, for one, am excited about the prospect of Chicago hosting an Olympics…and I don’t care what other people say. Perhaps people around the world (not to mention more than a few right here in the suburbs) will finally get a glimpse of what I have been saying for years…given half a chance, the City really is a great place.
Just a little preview from 2005’s tourney…just to get in that “green” mood. I will, of course, be providing my annual diatribe on some obscure bit of Masters related trivia or knowledge in the coming days. In the meantime, enjoy…