Check this out

Some of you may have seen these guys on COlbert Report the other day, but in case you didn't, check this out. They have a really cool sound, even if you can't understand a word they are saying. Doesn't matter.







They are so new and unknown, check out there Wikipedia page, which was first started this week. I'm not sure if their album is even available over here. I'm not sure how Colbert found these guys, but he is taking an active effort in giving them the Colbert Bump.

Weekend Redux

Another eventful weekend with a few spots of interest.

On Friday I had some beers at a bar while watching the Brewers lose again. On the way out I saw a car parked as humanly close as possible to the car in front of them. The funny thing is that each car had plenty of room in front of them, see below:



On Saturday there was a street festival down were I live. They close off the street for about a mile and there is food, beer, and music all day. The down side is that it tends to bring yuppy f**ks from all over the city to a small neighborhood that they are not used to. Our group of friends spent8 hours sitting outside at the same bar, which is either bad-ass or sad. We had everything we needed there; food, beer, a place to sit, and we were still right by the action to see all the idiots when they walked by. The day was uneventful until walking home after the event and I saw a lady yelling at a tow truck driver about towing her car. He is just doing his job, you shouldn't park where you are not suppossed to park. Lesson learned.

On Sunday I went to the Brewer's game (no comment). After the game we went to grab a bite to eat. On the television was "The Jay Glazer Show" on Fox SPorts. It is a sad commentary that someone decided to give this guy his own half hour show to have diarhea of the mouth, in which he never makes any sense. We debated if he ever played football, so I decided to go to Wikipedia and found the following awesome quote, which has since been removed:

"Jay also knows nothing about football and he sucks dick for beer money. he's never played a game of football in his life so he should not be commenting on the sport period. plus the only thing that he should be good at which is MMA he does nothing but get his ass kicked (glazer vs jackson 2003) so jay for the love of god shut your mouth and do us a favor go kill yourself and leave oxygen for the people that really matter."

That is the greatest Wikipedia entry ever. Thank you.

Perfect Example

I meant to post this yesterday, but in all my anger, I forgot.

Wednesday's day game against the Pirates showed the exact reason why the Brewers suck, and will stay below .500 the rest of the season.

First Jeff Suppan gives up 5 runs in the first 2 innings to a horrible Pirates offense. Then our bats, mainly Braun, Fielder, and McGehee get 7 runs in the next 3 innings to lead 7-5. The next half inning Seth McClung comes in and gives up 2 runs. It's like Suppan and McClung were jealous of Burns becoming the worst pitcher on the team. The rest of the game saw the Brewers unable to score depsite a few times having men in scoring position with zero or one out. Sad. Eventually Stetter gave up a homer to the Pirates and the Brewers lost. Our offense just couldn't keep up with the s**tty pitching.

I personally think they should not sell the farm for starting pitching this season. Just stay competitive and fill the seats. Give McGehee more at bats and make sure he is the 3rd baseman of the future. Teach Gamel 1st or outfield in the minors, and hopes Weeks comes back next year. They must get starting pitching for next year though, otherwise they will have same results. However a team next year with Fielder (1/2 the year), Braun, Gamel, McGehee, Hart, Weeks, and Excobar could be sweet. (Full year end analysis and off season hopes will come at end of the year.)

Crunked Out!

If you haven't seen the Pacman Jones video on ESPN, here it is in all it's glory:


A few rants:

• I don't think there is anything that "offensive" in the video like ESPN keeps warning you. All the nudity is blurred and cursing is bleeped. The scene is so chaotic, you can't really see what is going on anyways. There is much more "offensive" scenes on primetime television.
• It's awesome that Nelly is there, even better that he waves off the guy videotaping this. Nelly knows that something stupid is going to happen, he doesn't want to be in on it.
• The scene with Jermaine Dupri yelling at the strippers is great. Who does that?
  
• Why does this club let people video tape this? Could you imagine trying to video tape at a strip club? I actually sat next to this guy at a bar 2 weeks ago that said at a bachelor party, a bouncer broke his friends phone because he thought he was taking a picture of a dancer, when he was actually trying to get a signal to send a text. Oh wait, I have the answer.....money.
• I love how ESPN explains what making it rain is to its culturally-ignorant audience. (here is a video definition)
  
• The amount of money being dropped at this club nightly is sick. You wonder how so many celebrities and rap artists go bankrupt, they spend ridiculous amounts of money.
• I laugh (and cried) at the end when ESPN said that Pacman has a daughter and a family to take care of. I pray for this kid.
  
• It was also humorous when they mentioned that Pacman was trying to get back into the NFL, the only career he knows. I believe he is still banned from the league, and which team would want him. Sad. He is going to have to quickly find another career he is good at.

This is my new favorite clip on ESPN, ever.

Here is my new favorite picture of all time. There is no story needed.

Laughter is the gateway to the soul

If you haven't been watching the new Comedy Central show, Tosh.O, let me tell you that you are missing out. It is quite funny. Basically he makes fun of all those people who put up clips on the Internet. The pace of jokes is pretty quick. The first 15 minutes are full of a laugh a second, but the second half does to slow down.

Here are some clips:

Each week he brings someone on the show who has an embarrassing video on the Internet, and has them redeem themselves. These people are good sports about it, despite him making fun of them. This week he brought on a dude who got a giant balloon, filled it with air and tried to climb out of it but got severely stuck in it. Here is the video of him trying to do it with the help of a comedian:

Tosh.0	Thurs, 10pm / 9c
Web Redemption - Balloon Guy
www.comedycentral.com
Daniel Tosh Miss Teen South Carolina Demi Moore Picture

Here is a clip that is funny by itself:

Tosh.0	Thurs, 10pm / 9c
Motorcycle Granny
www.comedycentral.com
Daniel Tosh Miss Teen South Carolina Demi Moore Picture

Here is a clip that they made. (I'm glad to see that the NBA is dead to someone else as well)

Tosh.0	Thurs, 10pm / 9c
NBA Where Amazing Happens Parody
www.comedycentral.com
Daniel Tosh Miss Teen South Carolina Demi Moore Picture

PS: The first episode of Michael and Michael Have Issues was pretty funny, looks promising. It's basically a show about these two guys who have a show together and are best friends but they hate each other.

1 Death, 1 Warning

Two major changes to my Dead to Me and On Notice Board Today:


First, Michael Jackson songs are dead to me now. I am tired of people playing his music everywhere now that he is dead. Its been 3 weeks now people. After he died he had 4 of the top 10 selling albums that week. Why would you go out and buy his music now that he is dead. If you liked his music, you would have already owned it, and if you didn't own it and didn't like it, why go out now and buy it? Makes no sense. Then there is the playing of his music on the Jukebox at bars. I understood that the weekend after he died, it would be everywhere, but three weeks later, it is still everywhere. Yesterday I went to grab a bite to eat and a beer at 2 pm at my local wateringhole, and some women put money in the Jukebox and played 45 minutes of Michael Jackson songs. Really?? On Saturday as well, I went to a bar with a buddy, and the bartender was choosing to play Michael Jackson songs all night. We left after 15 minutes. He's gone people, nothing has changed.

Second, the MLB All-Star Game Rules are on notice. If they want the game to mean something, like home field in the World Series, that is fine, but make it so those players who might make it into the World Series are playing at the end. The game is really only interesting in the first 6 innings, when the starters are playing, and then their immediate backups. After that it is scrubs who should have no determiniation of the outcome. It shows by the NL making 18 straight outs and 22 outs to end the game (minus one walk and a double). Look at some of the players in the game at the end and their team.

• Adrian Gonzalez (Padres)
• Health Bell (Padres)
• Justin Upton (Diamondbacks)
• Brad Hawpe (Rockies)
• Miguel Tejada (Astros)
• Brian McCann (Braves)
• Jayson Werth (Phillies)
• Ryan Zimmerman (Nationals)
• Orlando Hudson (Dodgers)

Only Werth and Hudson are on teams that have a shot at the World Series. Why are the rest of the a**-clowns allowed to determine the home field of the World Series? I knew it was a joke when they took out Pujols for Gonzalez at first and Fielder and Howard only pinch hit. If the teams really wanted to win, Pujols would have never came out of the game. They need to change the rules. Either don't have the game matter for s**t, or allow the best players to play at the end. Maybe once a player comes out, he can come back in the game later. Or softball rules, everyone bats in order, regardless of who is playing the field. They could even consider getting rid of the rule in which every team must have a player represented. I also thought it was a joke that Tim Wakefield doesn't make it into the game (unless the Red Sox didn't want him to). The guy is pitching great this season and has waited 20+ years to make it, and then he doesn'e even play. Joke.

What a rush!

So some of you may already read this article about a high school student dieing. They were playing this new "game" called space monkey. Sounds like fun doesn't it. Oh wait, it involved putting a plastic bag over your head until you pass out. Other variations involve people choking each other or sitting on someone's chest until they can't breathe. Wow, you thought the future generation was f**ked before..........

Now,I have done some stupid s**t before in my time, but I don't think it would have ever crossed my mind to maybe put a bag over my head until I pass out. Or, "hey EdGrimley, would you mind sitting on my chest for a while until I can't breathe. I'm trying to get a rush."

What ever happened like huffing spray paint?




Editor's Note: EdGrimley may already be dead, he has not posted a blog in 2 weeks. I know this Michael Jackson thing hit him hard, but now I starting to get worried.

Thoughts on a game

So I went to the Brewers game on Wednesday evening, and it was a great game, with the Brewers pulling through in the 8th to go up by one, and then Hoffman shutting it down. (How did he not make the All-Star team? What a joke.)

The enjoyable part of the game was that since it was a weekday game, everyone around you wasn't s**tty drunk and annoying. What a welcome change from usually going to games on Saturday and Sunday when people have been drinking for 6 hours before the game. We could sit there, relax, and actually watch the game; except for 2 exceptions.

• The family in front of us kept standing for some reason to watch the game. I didn't get it. They weren't standing to cheer for a great hit or a catch, just randomly standing for a pitch or 12 to watch the game. Do they not realize that no one behind them can see when they stand? Did they think that there standing had any influence on the outcome of the game. It was rather annoying.
• Next to us was a family as well, a dad with his sone and 2 daughters. His daughters were probably 12 or 13 (hold your jokes), and that was fine and well, until the 8th and 9th inning. This douche bag, my guess being 18, came by and tried to get everyone to start the wave, but to no avail. He later came back and went right to the 12-13 year old and tried talking her into starting the wave, all this with her dad right next to her. This guy then came back in the 9th and just got her number and gave her his number, again with the dad right there saying nothing. They then started texting each other about 5 seconds later. What is this dad doing? If I were him I would have slammed this douche bags head into the concrete ala American History X, no questions asked. I don't even no the nerve that this kid has doing this with a 13 year old right in front of her dad. Nothing good can come from this situation, unless an unwanted pregnancy and an STD is a good thing.

Speaking of baseball, here is the worst opening pitch in history; and I thought I threw like a girl.

Quick Reads

Surfing the Internets this morning I came across two interest newsworthy stories.

This article here talks about a professor that has cracked the Social Security Number system. I always new that the different numbers stood for something like what city you were born in, what date you were born on, and what not. HE says he can do with common information of birth date and birth city, all information available all over the Internet. It was only a matter of time. If you read the whole article, his predictions are not that accurate and are more likely to be correct for small states and more recent births. Nothing too freak out about. I still like my method of getting social security numbers, asking for it at gunpoint.

This article sounds as if another government body is trying to inhibit our freedom once again. They have ruled that Pandora and other online music streaming systems have to have some restrictions on availability of music. On Pandora now, you can only listen to 40 hours of free music a month, or you can pay for the premium edition and get unlimited. I personally think 40 hours is plenty, but don't understand why we need to have so many restrictions to listen to music. You can't download or save it or anything, it is essentially the same as having a radio. I feel that they are trying to tread on me.

Here's a funny little clip of a news reporter freaking out.

Rock and/or Roll

We all had a long weekend of celebrating every aspect of freedom possible, now sit back and enjoy these sweet videos.













Apparently there is this huge underground of people who bought these Rock-Afire Explosion displays from old Showbiz Pizza restaurants that went out of business. I don't care how big of a nerd you would have to be to buy one and program it to do these songs, but they are sweet. I hope they make "F**k the Police" next.

Look mom, I'm a douchebag

I'm currently blogging from a bus on my way down to Chicago.

I went to Summerfest last night to go see The Roots, who put on a good
show. The reason for this post is not that however. As always
Summerfest was filled with a mix of douchebags and meatheads and
skanks and as*-bags but they topped themselves yesterday. There was a
set up of bags, the tailgating game for tools. There were about 50
people standing around watching these 2 douchebags play. These guys
had spiking hair, Oakley sunglasses, dark blue jeans, and clubbing
shirts on. Of course they thought they were the s**t.

Anyone standing around waching them, Massive Fail.

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