Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Where's Your Brain? Why'd You Hit Me? Where's Your Brain?

370 Beech Street, Highland Park, IL is the real-life property that served as the home of Ferris Bueller pal, Cameron Frye. It's for sale. Awesome [Ferrari not included].

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Killer Dead Ringer

Holy crap this dude looks like Bale's Bateman. Song's not a bad Talking Heads cover. The original was, of course, featured in the classic "Wall Street," without which, there would not likely have ever been an "American Psycho."

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Friday, June 26, 2009

MJ

If you've always wanted to properly learn the Thriller dance and now you really want to because The King died, check out this amazing site. The instructor has broken down every little piece of the dance and you can download instructions and mp3s that are slowed down. This is the kind of stuff that makes the internet so awesome.

http://www.thrilltheworld.com/


Here's a great Thriller tribute that shows just how crazy people go over that song and dance -

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Who's Got the Keys...

To my Bimmer? This is the new Z4. Me likey this car very much.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

3 for 3

Kanye might be a gay fish, but he is on fire with his new foray into the fashion world. Maybe it's because he's a gay fish. I didn't love the third Air Yeezy colorway when I first saw it, but it has grown on me. I think it just might be the most interesting so far.

Click on the photo to see more photos submitted to Kanye's blog.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Steeeeee-rike!

This is the coolest thing I've seen a sitting president do. I cannot imagine the pressure he was under in throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game in front of a packed stadium and an entire country watching. At the end of the video, chants of "U-S-A" break out. Best...country...ever.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

$1,550/Month

This guy won a contest for coolest, littlest apartment in New York. It's only 210 square feet. I'm actually feeling a little claustrophobic looking at it. I just totally spelled "claustrophobic" right. From the Daily News -

Thursday, May 7, 2009

In Memoriam

From ESPN's Dan Raphael -

This one never, ever gets old. I could watch my DVD of the Showtime bout every week. But four years ago, on May 7, 2005, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Diego Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo waged the single greatest fight I have ever seen. It was a privilege to be ringside for one of the best fights in boxing history. They traded toe-to-toe for the entire fight in what was already a classic by the time they reached the 10th round of the lightweight unification bout. The 10th round, one of the greatest ever, sent the fight into legendary status as Corrales survived two rough knockdowns (helped, no doubt, by spitting out his mouthpiece twice) to rally for the improbable TKO victory in the final minute. It was jaw-dropping stuff. Fights simply get no better. It turned out to be Corrales' final victory. He lost his next three (including a rematch) and, sadly, two years to the day of the fight, Corrales died in a motorcycle accident. It's an anniversary I never forget.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Nerds Are Funny

Click on the photo to see some of MIT's best pranks pulled over the years -

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Tennis Elbow

Tennis elbow is NOT awesome. Not even "pretty awesome". What is awesome is a website I found called Discomfort Free that shows a self-massage technique that I just tried with great success.

She goes on for a while, but the basic idea is to place your hurt arm on a padded surface in front of you and use your other arm to make a sawing motion across the forearm and palm. This technique helps both tennis elbow and carpal tunnel syndrome. Try it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpJWI59eHI8

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Magnanimous

Everyone knows I love Kanye, so I got a few heads-ups that he was featured on last night's South Park. I haven't even seen the episode, but I assumed it was a pretty scathing portrayal. I expect nothing less from Stone and Parker. They are comic geniuses and Scientologists (I love that spell check thinks that's not a word) are the only people who take themselves so seriously that they don't think South Park is funny.

I just like this guy more and more. Kanye's reaction to the episode is nothing if not magnanimous-

SOUTH PARK MURDERED ME LAST NIGHT AND IT'S PRETTY FUNNY. IT HURTS MY FEELINGS BUT WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM SOUTH PARK! I ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON MY EGO THOUGH. HAVING THE CRAZY EGO IS PLAYED OUT AT THIS POINT IN MY LIFE AND CAREER. I USE TO USE IT TO BUILD UP MY ESTEEM WHEN NOBODY BELIEVED IN ME. NOW THAT PEOPLE DO BELIEVE AND SUPPORT MY MUSIC AND PRODUCTS THE BEST RESPONSE IS THANK YOU INSTEAD OF "I TOLD YOU SO!!!" IT'S COOL TO TALK SHIT WHEN YOU'RE RAPPING BUT NOT IN REAL LIFE. WHEN YOU MEET LITTLE WAYNE IN PERSON HE'S THE NICEST GUY FOR EXAMPLE. I JUST WANNA BE A DOPER PERSON WHICH STARTS WITH ME NOT ALWAYS TELLING PEOPLE HOW DOPE I THINK I AM. I NEED TO JUST GET PAST MYSELF. DROP THE BRAVADO AND JUST MAKE DOPE PRODUCT. EVERYTHING IS NOT THAT SERIOUS. AS LONG AS PEOPLE THINK I ACT LIKE A BITCH THIS TYPE OF SHIT WILL HAPPEN TO ME. I GOT A LONG ROAD AHEAD OF ME TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE I'M NOT ACTUALLY A HUGE DOUCHE BUT I'M UP FOR THE CHALLENGE. I'M SURE THE WRITERS AT SOUTH PARK ARE REALLY NICE PEOPLE IN REAL LIFE. THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO DRAW MY CREW. THAT WAS PRETTY FUNNY ALSO!! I'M SURE THERE'S GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN THIS... THAT'S HOW YOU KNOW IT'S ME!

Your Business Card is Crap

"I think this is pretty awesome." - Jeff Boden, PhD Candidate

Friday, April 3, 2009

They Even Glow in the Dark

Do you ever see something that you think is so awesome that you kind of hate it? Like when you live in Miami and there are gorgeous women everywhere and for some reason it's annoying? This is in spite of the fact that I'm super charming and sometimes even get to smooch those sexy ladies. My mother tells me I'm handsome all the time, so I know I am at least a little bit.

What does this have to do with sneakers? I think the answer is obvious, since this is like the tenth post I've made about these shoes and I'm clearly running out of good titles. I'm not telling anyone that the pink and black ones come out on May 2nd because then everyone will want to come and hang out with Larry and me when we camp out to buy them. We're going to make s'mores maybe. We won't even have to make a fire since it's like a billion degrees out already. In closing, I hate Kanye and his stupid awesome sneakers and all the hot women in Miami and the humidity in this town. It's only April! Dammit. (Pssst, click on the photo to take an awesome tour of the making of the sneaker on the Complex website. You'll love it.)

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

4 Door Coupe!

My wise guy little brother used to yell "4 door coupe!" whenever a Mercedes CLS would drive by. "Coupe" is an Americanized version of the adjective form of the French word "couper", meaning "to cut".

Anyway, I'm a Porsche purist and would own neither the abominable Boxster, the
Cayenne, the least-objectionable Cayman, nor the fakest-of-all-time 944.

I do, however, consider the 928 (of Risky Business fame) and the iconic 959 to be true Porsches along with the legendary work of art, the...911. I salivate slightly when thinking about the 911.

Anyway, due to the popularity of the CLS and Maserati's Quattroporte (not actually a coupe, but an imaginatively-named 4 door sports sedan whose name means "4 doors"), many other manufacturers are planning on introducing their own sports sedans or 4 door coupes(!). Here's the Porsche Panamera (I know, crappy name). Please click on the photo to view the rest of them on NYTimes.com. WARNING: they all have crappy, crappy names -



Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Sexy Shuffle

4 gigs for 79 bucks. Wow. Click on the photo for more info.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Lowell Boyers

He's my cousin. His art is awesome. Click on the image to be directed to his website -