Bushball

I was flabbergasted when I heard it myself, and NewsBusters has posted a clip of Kerri Walsh thanking President Bush after she and Misty May won the gold in Beijing. I thought it was awesome and it's nice to see the guy get a little public support.

Barely Legal

I just heard about this on NPR-

http://www.amethystinitiative.org/

The Amethyst Initiative was started by the former president of Middlebury. The organization's goal is to lower the drinking age in the U.S. to 18.

I don't know too many people who think you should be able to vote and die for your country but not buy a beer. The federal government has been pushing the states around for decades by threatening to withhold critical highway funding if they resist the 21 year-old drinking age.

I was pretty psyched to see Tufts president, Larry Bacow, on the list of signatories.

John Mayer Chillin' in His Bape S**t

This new Bape hoodie is awesome, but I'm fairly certain it will become too popular to be cool.

RidiQlis Is Back...

...Let the party get insane.

http://RidiQlis.com

Guess Who's Back...

Sneaker/tennis fans the world over are peeing in their pants at the sight of the throwback Nike Air Zoom Tennis Trainer, available at tennis-warehouse.com

Tennis on Grass

This is a wonderfully written article in Britain's Daily Telegraph about why tennis is so awesome -

Wimbledon Final: How We Fell in Love with a Beautiful Game

Federer and Nadal are such class acts. I read recently that Nadal had to drop out of the following tournament in which he was expected to play, so he flew to the tournament director to personally apologize for having to sit it out with an injury.

You don't see much of that character in hockey, where cheating and fighting (often among parents at their kids' games) are considered part of the fabric of the sport. In baseball, pitchers often throw pitches at batters heads. You get the idea.

Tennis, anyone?

OMG HC

American Apparel has brought back......................Hypercolor. Oh, day of days!

http://store.americanapparel.net/rsa6407tcw.html#i

From the Man Who Put the Sun in the Tate...

In December of 2007, I saw an Olafur Eliasson exhibit with my buddy Rand at SFMOMA. It's quite an experience to see his work in person. Like most great art, you can't really describe how it makes you feel or why it makes you feel. There's some invigorating aura it gives off. And a lot his stuff is really weird, like a black room with a light pointing at a board that makes waves.

I know a lot of New Yorkers think it's pretty stupid, but I think they're going to love his "Waterfalls". They are slated to be installed in mid-July and will be there until sometime in October. Here's an article from Bloomberg.

Not Sure This Counts As a Revolution

This is Newt Gingrich's American Solutions "Platform of the American People - A Red, White & Blue Revolution". It's a so-called tri-partisan plan for America, that includes issues on which a majority of Americans, including Democrats, Independents and Republicans agree. McCain seems to be following some of the recommendations...

RIP George Carlin

Carlin died over the weekend. He would have preferred that his death be described as such, and not "passing away", a euphemism he abhorred. He was a genius and a master of the English language. One of his most famous bits is "Baseball versus Football". It's an absolute classic.

Oh, the Great Lizard!

These snorklers would make Bear Grylls proud, after being swept away to a desolate island near Bali and having to fight off a monstrous Komodo dragon. This is from My Way News -

"Komodo dragons, the world's largest lizards, can grow up to 10 feet long. Attacks on humans are rare, but with its shark-like serrated teeth the Komodo's bite can be deadly. Their saliva is poisonous, with dozens of species of bacteria, so if a wound is not cleaned properly septicemia sets in within days."
The story reminds me of a haiku I wrote to accompany my 9th grade biology paper on the Komodo Dragon -

Oh, the great lizard
Its large jaws are open wide
Time to say goodbye

Ken Fisher. Quality dude. Lincoln International School in Buenos Aires. Good times.

President's Questions

If you've never watched "Prime Minister's Questions" on CSPAN, then you have really been missing out. Though most people don't watch as much CSPAN as I. Most people have probably never watched CSPAN. Nobody watches CSPAN.

Anyway, McCain is proposing a similar question-and-answer session with Congress should he become president. I think that would be pretty awesome. Plus he's likely to be cantankerous and argumentative. He's proposing going before both the Senate and House, unlike in Britain where those snooty Lords have relegated the commoner prime minister to the House of Commons. Pish posh. Balderdash. Talley hoe!

http://www.reuters.com/

Next Stop Somerville

The funding for the long-awaited Green Line extension to Tufts has finally been approved by Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick. I don't know why you'd be excited about this if you weren't a current Tufts student. I will likely never use it. It's still pretty awesome.

tuftsdaily.com

Yeah 'Bos.

Divorce for Dummies

I wonder if that's a book in the popular series? I suppose I can just go look that up. Just did. It is. I just chose it as the title of this post because of its alliterative quality. Rothchilds are no dummies.

Well, family friend Sascha Rothchild has been paying her dues for like a decade as a writer in LA (maybe NYC before that?) and has just signed a deal with Universal Pictures to turn her recently published LA Weekly article How to Get Divorced by 30 into a movie. Wow. That is pretty awesome indeed.

It's an excellent article. You should read it.

Pretty Awesome, Huh?

As far as I know, Sprint service still sucks on the East Coast (Left Coasters like my brother tell me it's great out there), but the new ad they've got going is pretty cool. $100 for unlimited everything on your mobile phone seems reasonable.

Those Gmail Nerds Are Funny

It actually took me a second to figure this out -

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html

Jackie Chan's Greatest Hits

Boden should recognize the narrator's voice. He even calls one of the stunts "pretty awesome". I assume he was trying really hard to get on our blog.

The Rock

This blog is so awesome, that we've managed to travel into the future to bring you this April 3, 2008 interview of Chris Rock in Rolling Stone.

"Bush has f**ked up so bad," he will posit to any and all congregants in braying loops of oratory, "that he's made it hard for a white man to run for president. 'Gimme anything but another white man, please! Black man, white woman, giraffe, anything!' A white man's had that job for hundreds of years — and one guy fucked it up for all of ya!"

Awesome Youtube Time Wasting

Whats more awesome than living in Miami? Working in Miami and watching totally awesome videos of the totally awesome songs that we hear every weekend when we're out having a totally awesome time.

hulu

Hulu is now open to the public. I missed last week's episode of the Simpsons, so I can just watch it there. That's pretty awesome. I was actually a member but I can't even remember the last time I logged on.

www.hulu.com