more Borat

http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2006/11/10/guide_to_borat/

what's real, what's fake, and how they pulled off the movie.

Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

"Borat tricked me! Can't I sue him or something?" From Slate.com:
http://www.slate.com/id/2151865


Newsweek article on the unsuspecting co-stars of Borat.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15175836/site/newsweek/

"I get a window from a glass, he must get a window from a glass. I get a step, he must get a step. I get a clock-radio, he cannot afford. Great success."

Wierd Al's "White & Nerdy." There's at least 4 scenes that made me think of The Big Man.

Giambi vs. the shift

good article from the NY Times on the shift that Giambi, Ortiz, Delgado, Thome, etc. face from many teams. What they didn't mention was that Jeter has taken advantage of 3Bs who are slow to get back to the bag by racing from 1st to 3rd on singles or fielders choices.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/08/sports/baseball/08shift.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

Bo Knows Tecmo

Fair readers (yes, the 4 of you), I offer you two minutes of greatness. It's not book reviews of modern day Jane Austen novels, but it's pretty awesome.

best Tuesday ever

thanks to Flash, the MW, the Big-Man, and the rest of C-Vegas for a great Tuesday. A solid lunch at the Guad, followed by an afternoon of hitting golf balls and putt-putt (you can't ignore the short game, baby. "drive for show, putt for dough!").

A bit of softball subbing for MW and I (he won, I lost) led to some trivia at Felinis, wings and beer at the Wing with the all-star game, and then down to Bluelight, where things got a bit wacky for a Tuesday night. No Dan-the-man behind bar, but we did get quite a show from the med-school girls, particularly from "Tits McGee and Holly McBoob" as the Big Man called it. Well, they sure took a liking to us as well. A few rounds of various "bombs" later and I was shuttle-bussing the crew plus a couple new friends to the Corner for some late night sandwiches. A solid night of debauchery, indeed. "Bombs over Baghdad, baby"

I need one of these

I wonder if they can fit "Flag-Twirling Heroes" on one of these. That's right, I plan on dominating.

seriously?

back in February, over on the K-Man's "Eponymous Serious" blog I vented about the White House's press releases about the deficit. Each of the last 4 years, they've released the deficit numbers in the winter, overestimating how large it is so that come summer they can say "look it's only $300 million, it's better than expected! We saved all this money!" Well, it seems that today's headline that "White House heralds improved deficit figures" means that they've done it again.

Couple questions:

• do they think that little of the American people?
• can you really "herald" the announcement that you've spent nearly $300 million more than you took in?

also, Congress is talking about banning internet gambling, and that will really cause me to rant. Looks like our Congressman, Virgil Goode, is a co-sponsor, so I probably can't talk him out of this one. Guess I'll just email our Senators and hope they kill it. The hypocrisy of banning poker and sports betting (which, I argue, are skill games) but allowing online state lotteries or horse-racing to continue is troubling.

alright, I'm off to find something more fun to blog about.

Meet the Mets

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-mets-newsong,0,7279509.mp3file?coll=ny-sports-headlines (audio)

Here's the new Mets theme song: "Our Team, Our Time." This would be 20 times funnier if they were 15 games under .500, but it's still ridiculous. Yet another sign why they will always be 2nd fiddle when it comes to NY baseball.

"Pedro Martinez will strike you out!"
"David Wright, Jose Reyes making sure you're not safe."

"You're with me, Leather."

This is from Deadspin, an excellent sports blog that always has funny/odd stuff like this.

http://deadspin.com/sports/chris-berman/he-could-go-all-the-way-166410.php

The jist of the story is this:

But my friend was seriously putting the moves on this somewhat attractive young woman, who was wearing leather pants and had a leather jacket draped over her lap. They had been chatting at the bar for about an hour, and my friend thought he was in the house. I had never seen someone work so hard for a score.
But just as he was putting on the finishing touches, Chris Berman walks by. And without even breaking stride, Berman looks at the girl, points and says “You’re with me, leather.” And the girl looks up, instantly recognizes Berman, snatches up her jacket and walks out with him, leaving my friend in mid-sentence.

Tony Kornheiser snuck it in on his radio show, so did some guy on SportsCenter and they've even got t-shirts.

In other annoying ESPN yelling-heads news, here's some solid heckling of Stephen A. Smith.

Commencement with comedians

Conan, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert with their addresses to the graduates.

All are solid, hard to pick a winner. The Jon Stewart speech is so good it almost made me wish I had went to Ye Olde Collegee ofe Williame ande Marye.

Shawn Bradley's highlight video

Well, not exactly his "highlights" but these clips are awesome. Pretty much everyone dunking on Bradley. A seperate section of Shaq abusing them reminds me of my favorite Shaq interview:

reporter: Shaq, do you think you could score 100 points in a game like Wilt?
Shaq: (ponders for a moment) Yeah, probably, if the situation presented it.
reporter: Is there a player you think you could score 100 points against?
Shaq: : (with no hesitaion) Yes, Shawn Bradley.

Soccer stuff

http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2006/06/27/in-soccer-it-is-not-whether-you-win-or-lose-but-how-you-play-the-game/

From the Freakonomics blog, here's a look at why you should kick the penalty kicks straight down the middle (but not off the crossbar David Trezeguet)


"Zizou, No!!!!"



the Post had an article yesterday about some of the songs in the stands during the Cup.

more basketball goodness

just an awesome commercial. the camera angles are right on with some of the historic Jordan moments.

ESPN.com - GEN - Autistic teen's hoop heroics hook Hollywood

ESPN.com - GEN - Autistic teen's hoop heroics hook Hollywood

per request. I'll link the video via youtube later on.

okay, here's some video magic to really bring the story home.

Sony Pictures - Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Sony Pictures - Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

wow, even better than I had expected. I can't wait to join the "Fast Club" more on this after I'm done watching Jack Bauer save the world.

Super Bowl XL Commercials on Google Video

Super Bowl XL Commercials on Google Video

here you go, all the commercials you can't remember from yesterday's game. Only a couple good ones this year. I'm sticking with the Bud Light "On the Roof" ad as my favorite. Michelob Amber is my runner-up.

YouTube - Hooked on a feeling

YouTube - Hooked on a feeling:

Ooga chakka indeed, David.

Daily Show searches for the taint

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml

Click on the "Level of Taint" video, it's fantastic.

"Jesus-God, would you look at the size of that taint?"

also, the picture of Sean Hannity and Chris Wallace was awesome.

oops.

Wow, That Sucks.

You can see where this one is going, but it's still worth a viewing.

"Jeez Brian, I um... I really don't know what to say."

How'd that guy avoid a punch in the face?

A Jack-Off

So, is Jack Abramoff a dick, or what?

Here’s his story in brief. Trust me, the more you read about him the more you’ll hate him. Let this will serve as your foundation of Abramoff hatred:

• So he takes over $80 million from Indian tribes and pretty much screws them over. Plus he lies about his income and doesn’t pay over $1.7 million in taxes, screwing all of us.

• Uses the money to buy sky boxes at DC area sporting evens (further proving Redskins fans are losers), then gives tickets to lawmakers and their staff --which blatantly exceeds the $49.99 limit on gifts.

• Was a co-investor in a FL casino-boats company that went bankrupt--this got him one of his current indictments (so far he’s plead guilty on three others). He faked a $23 million wire transfer to convince his partners that he was good for the money. One of the group was found murdered by the mob (I guess I can’t really blame Abramoff for that part)

• Took his favorite legislator, Tom DeLay, and others to a paid trip to St. Andrews golf course in Scotland. DeLay has the cojones to report to Congress that the nature of the trip was “educational” and called it a “fact-finding” trip. DeLay, currently under indictment in Texas for election campaign fraud, had the nerve to say “I have always acted in an ethical manner” as he was being forced to resign his post as House majority leader.

• Abramoff bought a couple DC area restaurants which he ran into the ground, and which he used to break the above $49.99 limit rule a few thousand times.

• In the process of screwing over Indian tribes by bilking them of millions in exchange for lobbying for casinos he managed to start playing tribes off one another. He was paid by a Louisiana tribe to help close a casino in Texas. To accomplish his task, he partnered with Ralph Reed, head of the Christian Coalition.

Fair reader, you might think that was an odd person to include in a deal funded by gambling. You’re right, but the money made it okay to Reed and his partners.

• Reed passed on money, flyers, mailings, and other anti-gambling literature to preachers and churches throughout Texas, asking them to put pressure on their Congressmen to help close the Texas casino. They laundered the money through several organizations (some set up by Abramoff and fellow jackass Michael Scanlon) so the preachers wouldn’t know that their anti-casino crusade was indeed funded by a casino.

• In emails between Abramoff, Reed, and Scanlon (Abramoff’s partner in scamming over $4.2 million from the LA Indian tribe), they referred to the Indians as “monkeys,” “idiots,” and “troglodytes.” Abramoff giddily wrote “these mofos are the stupidest idiots in the land for sure." "we need to get some money from those monkeys!!"

So, keep all of this in mind as you hear his name on the news over the next few months. Enjoy watching Republican Congressmen and Senators scurry away from this as they try to save themselves, and keep an eye out for the DeLay-Abramoff link over Saipan. They passed a bill a few years back that allowed goods produced in Saipan to be labeled “Made In America” but not have to follow U.S. laws such as minimum wages and working conditions. ABC reported that the island brings in the very affordable workers from China, and that some companies were basically forcing workers to have abortions to keep them working in Saipan.

Hooray for the party of big business.

And don't worry, I'll get back to the normal Nightputting as soon as possible. Maybe find a link of a kid hitting his dad in the nuts with a nerf bat or something.

Comedy Central - Shows - The Daily Show - Videos - Jon Stewart

Comedy Central - Shows - The Daily Show - Videos - Jon Stewart
Watch the "Coot Off" video from Thursday's Daily Show.

Sen. Ted Stevens vs. Sen. Robert Byrd....it's a Coot Off!

local6.com - News - Toddler's Talking Elmo Book Asks 'Who Wants To Die?'

local6.com - News - Toddler's Talking Elmo Book

play the video. pretty funny stuff. maybe not to 3 year olds, but I've found that very few of them are reading this blog these days.