Challenge: Pick out all the cameos in the Beastie Boys new video

Real games are depressing right now. Baseball teams are losing, we are out of any hockey contention, football may not be back... Yeah. So here is another game... pick out all the cameos in the Beastie Boys new video for "Make some Noise". For more fun, there is a half hour version of the video floating around on Hulu. The short version, in my opinion, is a bit better.
Maybe sports again tomorrow.

What did the 5 fingers say to the face?

True story from Saturday night. I went out for a few drinks with a coworker from Real Job Inc. last night. It was 2 for 1 and the music was good, so me and my buddy were standing near the dance floor, available to dance, but not really busting out the moves. I'm sure you now the mindset. At one point, a girl gets my attention and begins to gesticulate wildly. It's loud and I couldn't tell what she was saying. Her posture said either "hey, I'm here to have a good time, act like a fool with me" or "what the f*k was that?"
The message being conveyed was the latter. Seconds later, she wound up and smacked me right in the face. And she was wearing rings.  I felt every one of them.
Now, this is a pretty funny happenstance, getting smacked in the face for no reason. But then she went and found the bouncers claiming that I had touched her ass (I think, I don't know for sure. Like I said, it was loud). So then the bouncers come over and say "You can't be doing that man"
Doing WHAT?!
"Just don't let it happen again."
WHAT?!?! (Sidebar... the bouncer looked like Knowshon Moreno, mohawk and all)
So, from my perspective, this is what happened. A girl tried to move past me and brushed against me. Instead of saying excuse me, she slapped me in the damn face. From the perspective of everyone else in the bar, I was the dipsh!t that pissed a girl off enough to get slapped and bring out Bouncer Moreno. My night was over.
It was a pretty good allegory for the weekend. 2/4 on my picks. Seth Davis almost nailed the score on the Purdue game. I was getting slapped around all weekend.
Bitches be crazy.

Through the rabbit hole.

Yesterday, I was talking to someone about the smoking Indonesian baby. He frankly looks cooler than any adult I know (don't smoke, kids). Anyways, we had to look up the video...



There is also this one...


I thought smoking made you thin?

Anyways, we all wondered what was funnier/sadder... a smoking toddler or a smoking monkey. Keep in mind, the toddler could simply learn the technique by watching people. Someone pretty much has to force the smoking on the ape.


If I do say so, he looks a little like Abe Vigoda. Anyways, to go along with that, here is an orangutan smoking with purpose. The only way out of his cage is through emphysema.


If we can learn nothing else from watching videos of primates smoking, and the questionable morality involved, I can say with certainty that getting a monkey high is definitely wrong.

This is why I don't jog

First off, let me say this is a horrible story, and I offer my condolences to the members of both families in question. The story is that a man on a beach in South Carolina was out for a jog when a plane in distress tried to land on that same beach, clipping the jogger and killing him. The pilot is OK, except for the undoubted psychological trauma that he will endure.
The problem I have with the attached video is the man at 45 seconds who says "You hear about these type of things". WHERE?! Where do you hear about plane's crashing into the beach, taking out pedestrians then floating back to shore? Where, man at 45 seconds? To be fair, he DOES say that you never expect it to happen to you.
The video following the plane/jogger video is one of a horse being airlifted. Just another day at CNN.

Jay Leno is a tool

Say what you will about your favorite Late Night comedian, but personally, I can't abide by a man who lacks the self awareness like Leno does. During his Oprah interview (first off, ugh) he played the pity card for the entire episode, because it's not his fault that his show sucked and led to this mess.
He actually blamed Conan for the ratings slip that the Tonight Show saw. He thinks it's Conan's fault that everything is shifting around. Holy Hannah. Part of Leno's success was based on the fact that he had such a strong lead in. My parents, for example, watch the NBC News because they loved ER, Cheers and a few other NBC shows. They left the TV on the same channel because they are lazy, just like the rest of America. Right now, CBS has the top shows on it's network, while NBC keeps a mediocre talk show as the lead in to the news. Eventually, some of those same lazy viewers will watch the late night show. It's common sense.
Of course, if anything, Jay Leno has no common sense. He also lacks the ability to take blame for anything. It's OK if you seem like a nice guy on the surface. That doesn't mean you are one, and it doesn't mean that you always do the right thing. I don't think Leno has EVER done the right thing.

Why I hate country music

They have been playing a lot of country at work lately, and I haven't fully expressed my disdain for this as I would have liked there, and really, for the world, I figured I would go ahead and lay out the three primary reasons I do not like this particular brand of music.

- It is driven by singing and lyrics. Most other genres have an element of instrumentation, either performed or synthesized. I don't know that I can think of one good country guitar riff, just pained, bellowing singing with a not so subtle accent.

- There hasn't been anything revolutionary over the course of the past 10 years. Country just seems to have a sameness to it. Hip hop, Rock, Pop all of this sounds different than it did 10 years ago. Country? Not so much.

- I don't like fiddles.

So, to tie this into sports, at the top is the logo for the Stetson University Hatters, and also, my prediction for the World Series: Philly in 6.