It’s your standard turducken – a turkey, stuffed with a chicken and a duck, not necessarily in that order – wrapped in bacon. It’s something special. (via Holy Taco)
I’ve long been campaigning (lamenting to people with no authority or pull, whatsoever) in favor of the four day work week. It obviously hasn’t happened…yet.
In the interest of idealists nationwide, each Friday I’m going to draft a list of how I could be better spending my time if I wasn’t confined to the office.
Because I am nothing, if not overly productive, during freedom time.
A little light on quantity today, and for that, I apologize. And though 20 of these clearly exemplifies that I’ve grown lethargic, beyond the shadow of a doubt, 10 is still pretty despondent. Godspeed.
I’d put Johnny Depp in the top-10 actors of his generation. The guy has come a long way from playing Officer Tom Hanson on 21 Jump Street (that dangling earring. regrettable for Depp, I’m sure), and has shown versatility and longevity on the silver screen. However, when it comes to playing crazy people, Depp is in a class unto himself. Jack Sparrow, Willy Wonka, Ichabod Crane, Ed Wood, Ed Scissorhands – all certifiable. You give him a character with any sort of twitch, and Depp will give a smashing performance. Looking back, he’s been a rum swigging swashbuckler, a opium induced inspector (don’t see From Hell if you can help it), a slasher barber – it makes me wonder, why should sports star be the exception?
Hence, that is why I posed the question to sports blog intelligentsia: Which Athlete Should Johnny Depp Play in a Movie?
The creme appears below, with a poll daddy guy at the bottom for you to cast a vote. Anyone interested in participating in one of my weekly polling exercise, email me here.
My personal submission for this: McEnroe. The film will span Johnny Mac’s entire career, and then some – ending with that awkward hug he gave Federer after he lost Wimbledon last year. Federer will be played by the kid from that Twilight thing or somebody, BUT, more importantly Rafa will be played by Benicio, and the deleted scenes will include Depp and him driving through the desert in a ballbuster on the way to Vegas, hyped on mescaline.
…And just because they already made that movie, doesn’t mean we can’t do it again, because McEnroe actually did stuff like this. Now he just makes totally ridiculous commercials…
Good Magazine has a spread of prospective logos from candidate cities for the 2016 Olympics.
I guess ridiculously early contests like this are ways of telling places like Doha, ya still got a shot!
The Chi is going with a ninja star (kudos), and Tokyo has adopted the aerial view of the feared Rainbow Road course from Mario Kart 64.
Still, these all trump the London 2012 logo, in my opinion – which looks like Stewie Griffin’s crayola rendition of Pangeae. (what the deuce is that thing?!)
Take note of how the trademark stamp is even in Comic Sans font. Edgy.
A 10-year study at Oregon State University has revealed that Iditarod-competing Huskies are ridiculously well-oiled machines…
“A roughly 55-pound sled dog can burn up to 12,000 kilocalories per day – the equivalent of 24 Big Macs. A human athlete, to sustain Iditarod-level performance for just one day, would have to eat, *and* efficiently process, the equivalent of 72 Big Macs.” (DogBlog.com)
Though the stats are pretty staggering, knowing that the Iditarod is a 10-20 day race where the dogs mush for 1,100+ miles (temps, can be as low as -40 degrees fahrenheit), I wouldn’t say that the revelations here blew my mind. What is most impressive, however, is that these dogs can break down anything:
“Sled dogs eat a commercial race diet, but it can be supplemented by anything from salmon to congealed lard, all of which they’re able to convert to fuel.”
Hence, the relevance of the Big Mac analogy above. I can’t even jog after eating a turkey burger, by the way.
Short of going back in time and studying beasts that did battle in the gladiatorial arena, I think we might have found nature’s preeminent competitor here.
The Beijing Health Bureau thought this initial number was tailored more to a Young Life church lock-in, and decided let’s just bump that up to half a mil, shall we?
“About 400,000 free condoms have been distributed [by the Beijing Health Bureau] to 119 contract hotels of the Olympic Games to ensure that safe sex takes place during the fortnight-long event…Xinhua quoted Jin Dapend [Beijing Health Bureau’'s Party chief] as saying that condoms had been put in over 90,000 rooms of 424 hotels rated three stars and above.” (Freshnews.in)
Unsure if it’s related (it is), but Michael “Prowl-Mode” Phelps can’t seem to getthis look off his face since wrapping up…his competition portion of the games.
