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

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Aaaah, this is just great. Busted Tees has done it again -

CebUUUUUUUUUU Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center Is Back

According to the note on the video, this was done by popular demand. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, inmates at a prison in the Philippines, made famous by their stirring Thriller choreography, can now take requests. What an age in which we live.

Sharks Are Awesome

Sharks clear out south Florida beaches

Exceptional water clarity makes annual migration very visible

Kanye and White People

This is just hilarious. Kanye West posted it on his blog.

stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com

He's also got a pretty amazing midget fight from Jerry Springer on there. Check it out if you can.

Ess En El

So, apparently those writers are actually pretty important. SNL is back and I wonder how many jokes we've been missing as a result of the recently ended strike by the Writers' Guild of America. The 3-month strike has been estimated to have cost Hollywood $2.5 billion.

NBC's Saturday Night Live website is pretty good and you can catch some of the funny segments from the most recent episode. If you saw "There Will Be Blood", you'll like the milkshake bit.

Support Denmark! (Here We Go Again)

Well, 3 guys were just arrested after it was discovered they were plotting to kill the cartoonist who drew this little number -

The intended victim? Kurt Westergaard, a 73 year-old man. I guess I'm going to have go back to the store and by some havarti cheese and some Carlsberg beer. Be careful, Carlsberg is strong.

This is an email I sent to friends just over 2 years ago. I can't believe it's been that long. -

This whole thing is so outrageous that it is hard to put my thoughts in writing calmly. A brief synopsis for those who don’t know what happened:

-A Danish newspaper published some cartoons (back in September of 2005) depicting Mohammed - blasphemy in Islam

-The cartoons have been republished in various publications across Europe, most notably a Norwegian paper as a sign of solidarity and support of freedom of speech

-Saudi Arabia, et. al. are boycotting Danish products and pulling their representatives from their respective consulates, issuing inflammatory statements, etc.

-Beatings and threats of violence and death to nationals of involved European countries have occurred

These threats and claims of outrage come from a nation like Saudi Arabia, where, if caught attempting to spread Christianity, one can be put to death. It boggles the mind.

We can pitch in and make an effort to buy Danish products like Havarti cheese, Carlsberg beer, etc. to counter the boycott. Check out this link for further information:

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/21097.html

I’ve attached the only funny Danish cartoon of the twelve that has inflamed such outrage in the Muslim world:

“Islam is a dynamite religion”

-Colin

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Bill Simmons has written a fantastic piece about Super Bowl XLII. It is undoubtedly more interesting than an article about a Patriots' win would have been.

This is the last item on Simmons' "I will forever remember eight things about Super Bowl XLII"-

"Finally, can you guess the last thing we heard as we were walking (OK, hustling) out of the stadium right after the final play? That's right, it was the sound of euphoric Giants fans chanting, 'Eighteen and one! Eighteen and one! Eighteen and one!' Yes, it's safe to say the Boston-New York rivalry has been taken to new heights. As a tennis umpire would say, 'Advantage, New York.'"

It's a funny chant, but I'm disappointed to say that New York is now Boston and Boston is New York. That is exactly the kind of "Yankees Suck" cheer you'd here from bitter Boston fans of not too long ago.

18 and 1!