Posts for Sunday, 6 April 2008
News to make New York area bars happy: According to the Boston Globe (via Y! and brooklynmutt) free agent pitcher David Wells is hoping the Mets or the Diamondbacks will ring his phone. “David is ready to go and could be ready to pitch in a major league game in two weeks,” said Wells’s agent, Gregg Clifton.
Noel Gallagher on The Smiths…this clip is ancient by internet standards, but it’s too entertaining to not share on a gloomy Sunday morning.
New Logo for Starz (via Brand New)
A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.
Matt Richtel, “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop” (New York Times)
Scene from JVCD: The Untitled Van Damme Project, in which Jean-Claude shows himself to have a sense of humor about his own Van Damage (via Twitch)
I did a steroids one, about, “How can you not think (Roger) Clemens is on steroids?” And, “He looks like an Escalade truck.” They took that out. They took a Michael Vick thing out. But other than that, whatever goes on, they’ve already filtered through it.
Gilbert Arenas, on what the league does and doesn’t let him say in his NBA.com blog (via FanHouse)
O’Reilly Goatse’d (via brooklynmutt)
The weakness in this movie is the script. … The script is weak, it does kind of meander, it needed a couple of re-writes.
Richard Roeper, on the script for Clooney’s Leatherheads, penned by former SI and soon-to-be ESPN sportwriter Rick Reilly (via FanHouse)
soupsoup: brooklynmutt:moderation:soupsoup:danielac:via peterwknox, happycap, moderation, brooklynmutt, djdescribeseternity:
Think the orange should be a little warmer? And since when are complementary colors clashing? -moderation.
Do you prefer the white or the blue BG?
This version is much better than the blue BG…better orange, good balance on the colors.
The Walkens — funniest part of last night’s SNL (via hulu)
The craziest thing I saw when I was in college was this LSU fan who was waiting for us by our bus. He had a real hog’s head stuck on a stick and was just standing there staring at us. I couldn’t believe it. Then our bench was only like 10-15 yards from the stands, so we could hear them yelling the whole game. They were cursing us out, telling us to go home, but all I could think about was that hog’s head.
1 Plays
“Life is White” by Big Star … an underappreciated classic from Alex Chilton (not to be confused with Alex Cintron)