Archive for April, 2008

Toss the Burner: April 9, 2008

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

The twelfth season of South Park has been oh so sweet, and yet another fresh episode airs tonight.

If you’re kind of a big deal like myself and can’t always be around at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, check out ALLSP where you can watch every single episode (beautiful) ever created.

Here’s a musical moment from the show’s past, I can’t remember laughing harder during South Park then the first time I saw this…

Concerning YouTube…The Today Show has been covering this story about the 16-year old girl who was beaten up on camera by a bunch of her supposed girlfriends.

The she-thugs then put the video on YouTube…shocking.

This morning, The Today Show put together a panel to discuss how awful this whole thing is, and the disturbing trend in kids posting violent video in search of their “15 MBs (clever?) of fame.”

Interestingly enough, on YouTube’s most viewed today page a news video of the beating loaded by user AssociatedPress has 226,065 views…today.

So, we’ve got trusted, reputable media source The Today Show condemning kids for doing this with violent videos, and trusted, reputable media source The Associated Press…What? Fueling the fire?

In their defense, AssociatedPress has removed the video.

…and some of my favorite (at least by name) YT users who have picked up the slack in posting these girls’ story include CuddlyNutBear, SockPuppetry101, and JUMPTHECOOCH.

An emerging voice of reason in this whole sordid affair…a YouTube comment posted 12 seconds ago:

WHAT THE F#$% IS THIS SH*T!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those girls should be punished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You don’t do that to some one just because you have a disagreement or she said something to offend you. COME ON PEOPLE THIS IS F#$%ED.

says lesbianloveaffair

NBADraft.net, is this a joke?

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

So I just checked out the NBADraft.net’s 2008 mock draft to see where Derrick Rose’s he-man NCAA tournament had landed him…found something way more entertaining:

Who you think they’re gonna take in the second round? Me?

Apparently, the site was only updated as recently as yesterday, and even then, the 2008 Mock Draft was NOT one of the things that was updated.

Something tells me Mario Chalmers will not be a Grizzly next year.

On a side note, I’d love to see Rose go number one overall. I think he commands the game ridiculously well for as young as he is.

Toss the Burner: Red Sox Home Opener

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Memphis collapsed.

Remember when Paul Shaffer (Artie Fufkin) demands that Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer kick his ass in This Is Spinal Tap?

Great part of the film. Kind of how you could sum up the last few minutes of last night’s game.

I’m not askin…I’m telling you to kick my ass

John Calipari and his team could not be reached to comment on what exactly went wrong at the end of game. However, long time Memphis fan (and a solid representative of the demo of the team’s fan base) Cletus the slack-jaw yokel had this to say…

I can’t possibly think of anything else that could’ve gone wrong.

Most importantly, we can now move on to strictly baseball season.


After an 18-day, tri-country, du-continent road trip the BoSox open up at home today against the winless-less team in baseball the 0-6 Detroit Tigers. The Sox kick off a 20 game in 20 day stint.

A savage road trip, then 20 games in a row. Is MLB giving them June off or something?

How to execute an April Fool’s Joke…

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

If you live in eastern standard time, you’re probably sick to your stomach about April Fool’s Day at this point.

I’m sure you’ve been rickroll’d several times by tragically unfunny coworkers, and just can’t stand it anymore. Not too mention, we all woke up today and apparently Brooklyn Decker is actually (not jokingly) engaged to that whinester Andy Roddick.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that all April Fools foolery should take place before 8 a.m. Here’s what transpired when I called my dad at 7:30 this morning…

….well, first a quick backgrounder on the old man.

Here is my dad*

He’s a Black Irish McBastard from South Boston. He’s whom I get my pale skin, and love of Jamison and the Jay Geils Band from.

Most recently, he spends most of his time consulting on mob movies. A job that is easy, yet requires years of experience with menacing violence. Typically, you’re not required to get up too early.

(phone rings, approx. 7:32 a.m. EST)

DAD: grumble…grumble…grumble

ME: Hello, pop?

DAD: What could you possibly…

ME: Dad, it’s me! Your first born son!

DAD: I didn’t mortgage your family’s illustrious criminal history so you could call me at dawn you degenerate.

ME: Well pop, as fate would have it, I’ve got something important I need to tell ya

DAD: Oh Christ, I knew this pansy was a gay this whole time…

ME: On the contrary, padre. I got a girl pregnant.

DAD: Right, you expect me to believe some girl let you do that with her

ME: I feel like the guy in that Usher song…. (singing) damn near cried when I got that phone call!

DAD: Man, your singing voice is horrendous…You don’t even have a girlfriend?

(playa for life, dad knows what’s up)

ME: She told me she wants to keep it, no question about it. What’s your take on this whole it’s her body, her decision argument

DAD: What?! Oh Jesus. I can’t believe this is happening.

ME: Are you crying? Pull yourself together man! I’m starting a family here.

DAD: You can barely take care of yourself.

ME: Agreed! So, you know how I hate asking you for money (cause it most likely attaches me to some sort of FBI paper trail), but can you say: maxed credit card?

DAD: Who is this dozey prat? What’s her name?!

ME: Her name is LaToya

DAD: WHAT IN GOD’S NAME….?

ME: Well, you remember how I told you I was becoming a pretty good dancer?

(click)

ME: Hello?

ME: Hello?

I’m gonna wait until I hear what he has to say about the credit card bill before I let him know it was a joke…

*Not actually my dad. That’s Mr. French from The Departed…credit him with the best line from the movie: “This is America. You don’t make more money, then you’re a f*ckin’ douchebag.” [pulls out gun]