Oh, but they can!
If you had told me, I never would have believe that Shaquille O’Neal could ever do a windmill spin. I wouldn’t believe he could have done it when he was young and strong, much less at his current age (he’s two months younger than I am) and decrepitude (he’s starting to get the Kareem Shuffle thing going).
Well done Shaq!
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Totally unrelated YouTube silliness: My generation’s answer to Ian Anderson — The Beatboxing Flautist (doing the Mario Bros. theme, no less).
Never bet against Boston University in the Beanpot.
After falling behind early, Boston College took control of Monday’s championship game halfway through the second period and outshot Boston University 26-10 through the last 40 minutes of regulation.
“We looked like we were waiting to lose,” Terrier coach Jack Parker said.
But in overtime — after playing relatively little through the last two periods following an injury to Eric Thomassian — junior Brian McGuirk picked an opportune time to score his first goal of the season, burying a high wrister glove-side off a faceoff at 5:06 of overtime to give BU a 2-1 win and yet another Beanpot championship.
Sweet! (I’m bummed that I forgot to listen to the game, but it’ll be OK.)
Man, I keep wanting to do a conherent post one of these days, but whatever…
- Brozo turned me on to the Amy Winehouse, and holy shit is she good! (She uses the lyric “What kind of fuckery is this?” How genius is that?) She may also be a train wreck, which adds some flavor. Lots of vids on teh YouTubes.
- The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls have announced their 2007 schedule. Good times for cheap, right there.
- Rod and I still swap snarky emails about the 24, but it’s just not the same as our old Tuesday IRC chats. I still think I need to set up a BBS or something. I miss my boys (and my Boo).
- That football games was crazy, eh? Good for Peyton. He can stop whining now. The commercials sucked eggs, generally, though I give the win to CareerBuilder. And Prince doing Hendrix doing Dylan for the halftime show… Surreal.
- My BU Ice Dogs are in the Beanpot final again. They shut out Northeastern yesterday and will meet arch-rivals, BC, next Monday.
- Check out this Desperate Astronauts soap opera. The details of it are awesome.
- Ryan O’Neal has quite a soap opera going on in his family, too. The money quote: “He hit his own girlfriend in the head.”
- Hang on… The name of Turner Broadcasting’s ad agency is “Interference, Inc.”?! No wonder they dig on the guerilla marketing!
- As far as iPod cases go, these little honeys are super hip.
There’s probably more in the buffer, but that’s all I can be bothered with for now.
Hugs & kisses.
Psst! Hey, did you know that Brozovich and I (along with some other friends) are talking sports over at SportsDumpster.com.
Check it, yo.
My first post covers the baseball bat attack on three BU hockey players.
Here’s hoping everyone had a happy and fruitful holiday. I certainly did.
Highlights:
- My darling mother got me a solar powered atomic watch, so not only does it never need its battery changed, it never needs to be set either. This is timekeeping heaven for me. Now I just need to read the manual to figure out how to use its other functions. And of course, I need to get it sized waaay down for my girlish wrists.
- The moms made out well: Mine got a cobalt blue Kitchen Aid mixer (she’d been eyeballing ours lately) and The Wife’s got an iPod Nano (which is ridiculously small).
- I got The Wife a Bella Umbrella. Without her realizing it, I noticed that she’d been talking about getting a parasol for the past year or so, so this was a home run for me.
- I also got my better half a Mac Mini, as her old iBook was having a hard time keeping up. That means I get to play with the iBook: So far I’ve reinstalled OS X 3 times and I plan to install Ubuntu as well (the third round with OS X was to get a partition for the linux).
- As for me, I got some woodworking and home improvement accessories, some DVDs (namely two big time personal faves: Pete & Pete and The Greatest American Hero, and a CBC history of hockey that looks awesome) and lots of other stuff.
So yeah, materialistically, we all did pretty well. Better yet, though, we had some nice time off at home thanks to the blizzard, and yet we were mobile in time to make it down to my mom’s house on Christmas Eve.
God bless us, every one, eh?
Thanks to Brozo and his dad, I had the extreme pleasure of taking in the Colorado Avalanche vs. the Dallas Stars on the NHL’s opening night from the Xcel Energy suite in the Pepsi Center last night. (Avs lost 2-3 in OT. They owned the first two periods - up 2-0 in the second intermission, and then Dallas took it all away in the 3rd and the extra frame.)
Freakin’ good times, yo.
Love the Bucket
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.
Highlights:
- Matty’s dad, Dennis asked “What happened with Leopold?” (the new Avalanche defenseman we got in trade for Alex Tanguay, who is starting the season on the Injured Reserve) Matt’s cousin Nels answered, “He broke his pussy!”
- The suite steward came in occasionally to make sure our free (to us) beer and nacho/fajita feast was well stocked. At one point he came up behind me as I sat in one of the plush leather chairs with a bucket filled with ice and beer: “Here, why don’t you just put this down by your feet.” I love that guy.
- There was a dude a couple rows in front of us who would occasionally stand up with arms raised and holler “AVS… RULE!!” We found this hilarious. He was obviously trying to start a chant, but instead he got catcalls and Macho Man-styled echoes from Matt’s buddy Aaron. One of the guys in the suite next to us was amused enough by our taunts that he suggested maybe “Beer… RULES!” would be more appropriate.
- That suite next to us belonged to ClearChannel and featured a veritable rainbow of alternate lifestyles and hipsters. At one point a gal joined the other weirdos and exclaimed, “How did all the freaks end up in the suite tonight?” Matty and I aggreed that her sentiment also applied in our suite.
Thanks again, Men of the Brozovich Clan. I had a hell of a time.
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