cool cat friday

The "-day quickie" titles imply that posts of a non-quickie nature exist. Not true. Those posts only subsist in my imagination. Sorry for the shortness. You don't really want to read eight pages of me at a time anyway.

The previous paragraph is prime example of my ADD, not going more than two sentences before becoming distracted. Or is it Alzheimer's? Anyway...

One Laptop Per Child is a fascinating company. I remember watching something on the Discovery Channel about this many years ago. Glad to see it is coming together. Maybe you ED or CS people could help them out - baby steps, right idealists? Now if only I could get that k-os song out of my head.

monday quickie

Spent another weekend in the annarbor. Thanks to chike and company again for the hospitality.

A semibusy week, not that that has stopped me from not posting before. A few quick hits for now:

-Fascinating article on Manny.
-Grindhouse is pretty indulgent and shiny. Give it a go. I hope Tarentino gets bored and actually films Machete. I'd pay to see Danny Trejo any day.


*Update - I should do more research. Well here's to Grindhouse doing well enough to get Machete released in theaters...

snoop dogg vs billO

This is too funny to pass up, apologies for the lateness. Evidently a while ago, Bill O'Reilly insulted Snoop Dogg. Snoop was not pleased and spoke his mind during a recent interview.

Here's billO's response. Give a look if you like. Or if you're lazy - he extends an invite to Snoop to appear on the Factor. Then mumbles something inane about him being a drug dealer. But what's really weird is that last smarmy line, "heh...in the ghetto" as if billO was suddenly aroused by the notion of speaking about black people. Oh how dangerous.

I don't watch foxnews anymore. That Crooks and Liars site does a pretty good job summing up what I looking for - like someone compiling just the crashes from car races.

I promise these posts will not delve into just lists of youtube clips. I won't even embed them.

In which we are all starfuckers...

Westfailia was back in town for the weekend. So of course we all hit up the Tony's for some Friday evening fun. Two versions of a story, one true, one slightly more true:

#1 A friend comes over and tells me that Paul Sorvino is in the bar. Impressed that a recognizable actor is at one of my favorite watering holes, I go over and introduce myself. I politely ask for a photo and then let him be on his way, which was to be filming some scene, I think. We spend the rest of the night looking across at the bar imagining scenes from Goodfellas where Paul and Ray Liotta are beating the crap out of some shylock.

#2 Gimli-Akbar hobbles over and yells that Paul Sorvino is in Tony's. The Guinnesses and Jaegermisters tell me I'm in no mood to be putting up with bullshit. In disbelief I get up and stumble-shove my way through a posse of crewmembers to get right in the face of a burly gentleman in a dark suit. I demand to know if he's in the movies. He scans around with a panicked look like who is this clown? I quickly grab the nearest Asian person and make her take a picture of me and this celebrity. Walking away at the end of this 30 second exchange, I may or may not have said something about wanting to have sex with his hot daughter Mira.

Later, as we're leaving, a posse of people waited outside on the sidewalk, milling about, fawning over the brush with celebridom. One of my friends decides to yell, "Hey, I hear Robert DeNiro is at the Junction." Hilarity ensues as a mob of people rush two doors down to catch a glimpse of our bold face lie. Another polite evening marred by inappropriateness.

Photo to come, that is, if someone figures out how to use her crackberry...

sunday quickie

In which a weekend of restraint is marred by inappropriateness, again:

-Roy Hibbert from Georgetown looks like Kevin Garnett and Warrick Dunn had a kid.

-Did anyone else notice that baseball's Civil Rights Game had only one black person on the roster? And that the Indians were playing?

-I went to a fun party Saturday night at the browntown's place. Not knowing many of the attendees, I decided to participate in a local custom of playing games while drinking. The game was Never-Have-I-Ever. As the turns rotated slowly toward me, I noticed that the statements were decidedly sexual in nature. There's a fair balance of guy to girl ratio, so I'm thinking it'd be funny and kosher to drop the: "never have I ever taken it in the butt." There's a silence, then a giggle. I looked around and all the girls were still. Finally one dude in the corner took a swig and everyone laughed in relief. Shit, this was another party where the women wouldn't be interested. It turned out to be good times though.

-"Hey babe, come check out these stairs." A cookie to whomever figures out that quote.