Monthly Archives: June 2010

Serious Eats profiles Skillet Street Food in Seattle. I liked it but I think my expectations were too high. I haven’t thought about going again the way I think about Marination Mobile. Probably because all my fancy burger craving thoughts … Continue reading →

At the Isle of Wight Festival in England, Kanye came out to perform “Run This Town” with Jay-Z. The crowd goes nuts. Actually, if the crowd just stood there not making noise it’d still be nuts. It’s massive.

iPhone 4 vs. HTC EVO & HTC EVO vs. iPhone 4. So ridiculously true on both sides. If I had to pick sides, I’d rather be someone who wants an iPhone because it’s an iPhone than that guy that spouts … Continue reading →

Hulu Plus is official. $9.99 a month for full current seasons of some shows and every season of others. Streams over 3G to the iPhone and iPad. Coming to the PS3 “soon” and the Xbox 360 in early 2011 (seems … Continue reading →

shitmykidsruined.tumblr.com showcases all the great things kids bring to their parents’ lives.

Here’s Ren?© Higuita performing a scorpion kick, where he blocks an incoming goal by launching himself parallel to the ground and kicking the ball with his heels (think of the lying leg curl machine in the gym). Ren?© Higuita was … Continue reading →

Kevin Pritchard was fired a few hours before the NBA Draft and still took care of team business during the draft as if, well, he wasn’t fired a few hours before. He wrote an open letter to Blazers fans. None … Continue reading →

Rumor was that Chris Brown was banned from last year’s BET Awards and wasn’t able to participate in the Michael Jackson tribute. He made up for it this year. Even if you felt saturated by Jackson tributes last year, this … Continue reading →

Nah Right talks about Drake‚Äôs Thank Me Later sales. It reportedly sold sold 462,989 copies. Hype is a helluva drug. It clouds the judgement of rappers, fans and critics alike. It can also hurt just as much as it can … Continue reading →

IGN gave Transformers: War for Cybertron a 9 out of 10. Seems like a good Transformers game shouldn’t have taken this long, but it’s good to know one exists now. I would put on headphones and play for ten or … Continue reading →

J. Cole’s “Who Dat” video. Great song, great video. In his 106 and Park interview he says he’s one song away from finishing the album and there’s currently no featured artists—most great debut albums seem to have few or no … Continue reading →

The origins of “my bad.”. Another link related to Manute Bol—he may have originated the phrase and definitely helped popularize it. Says Arneson, “I first heard the phrase here in the Bay Area when Bol joined the Golden State Warriors … Continue reading →

Rest in peace Manute Bol. Here’s SportsCenter’s video remembrance. Here’s a picture of Manute Bol swimming, which will probably be the most interesting pictures you see today. And here’s Charles Barkley pulling a prank on him.

Ron Artest – ‘Champions’. I’ll never listen to this again, but it’s more competent than I would’ve imagined. Really I just wanted to post an older song of his which is as incompetent as I expected: Ron Artest – ‘Workout’. … Continue reading →

‘The D.E.N.N.I.S System’ episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is available on Hulu right now. During season five, there was an impressive stretch of five or six straight great episodes. The first seven minutes is entertaining every time.

Here’s Roger Ebert’s Toy Story 3 review. He gave it 3 out of 4 stars: I expect its target audience will love it I don’t like reading reviews before watching movies (but I’ll look at the star rating) so that’s … Continue reading →

CBS Sports signed Steve Nash to cover the World Cup. They made a commercial showing Steve Nash being delivered to the World Cup. In a cardboard box.

This is a few weeks old, but ESPN has a great series of short videos with people who scored in World Cup finals talking about their goal—aptly titled I scored a goal in the FIFA World Cup final.

In 2006, Kix and the City interviewed Kevin Wildes. Now he’s an ESPN SportsNation producer and a regular on Bill Simmons’s podcast, typically presenting great half-baked ideas such as The Michael Jordan Channel and a physical WWE Hall of Fame. … Continue reading →

The last two weeks have been really good for music. J. Cole kept it going with two recent tracks (these are YouTube links): Higher and The Last Stretch. Can you ponder? Imagine what my s–t gonna sound like, if I … Continue reading →

Drake article in The Seattle Times. The best verse on “Thank Me Later” is the most direct one, from belligerent tough-talker Nicki Minaj on “Up All Night.” She follows Drake’s conceptual, complicated brags with 100 percent attitude: “F___k I look … Continue reading →

The UnMuseum: What Happened to the Brontosaurus?. Thousands of children knew this dinosaur by that name. It even appeared as the symbol of a major oil company and starred as one of four ancient, extinct reptiles featured on U.S. postal … Continue reading →

Marvel vs. Capcom 3 gameplay videos. Sold! Update: On second thought, the gameplay looks great but the models look kind of lifeless. It looks like they were pulled out of a Playstation 1 FMV. Maybe it’ll grow on me. I … Continue reading →