i like japan to win it all...

The lockout that shut down the NHL this season has left most of the best players free to compete in the two-week, 16-team event that starts Saturday and ends May 15 in Vienna. The rosters are impressive, though not as strong as the ones from last year's World Cup and the 2002 Winter Olympics.

choke 'em all....

thanks to barry for this one. back in the day, fredeeky was sent to ask p.j. about latrell when he was calling a knicks/raptors game for nbc. it was the first time the two of them were in the same building since the choking. needless to say p.j. hated me and basically told me to go f myself. told him that i didn't want to ask any more than he wanted to answer and i think he appreciated that, but p.j. still hated fredeeky a lot. also barry, where have you been? no comments from you in forever. what ever happened to the old time hockey? puttin' on the foil? third man in?

Isiah Thomas is wasting no time in interviewing coaches.

The New York Knicks president flew through San Antonio on his way home from talking to Phil Jackson on Monday in Los Angeles.

The purpose of the stop: to interview San Antonio Spurs assistant P.J. Carlesimo, sources told ESPN's Stephen A. Smith.

Hall of Fame coach Chuck Daly told the New York Daily News a Knicks-Carlesimo fit would make sense.

"He'd be great," Daly told the Daily News. "I don't know what the Knicks are going to do, but if they're talking to P.J. that's a good move."

from reggie roby, via cheech for the little birdie...

check out this kid dance

i like the "gopher extermination" theory...

My name is Jeff Stone and I'm currently a physics PH.D. student at the University of Kenton. I'm writing my thesis on Tiger Woods' remarkable shot on the back 9 at Augusta. My theory, in brief, postulates there is no physical evidence supporting the myth that his shot went in without assistance. That being said, within my theory there are many sub-theories, which can be viewed on this site. Thank you.

this is why the internets are great...

another site where people anonymously post their most shamefully secrets...

intriguing...

sidenote: mac fu was at the hail flutie game at the orange bowl back in the day.

AST RUTHERFORD, N.J., April 28 - Jeremy Shockey finally showed up at the Giants' off-season workouts Thursday, but his return was trumped by the surprise appearance of another intriguing visitor: quarterback Doug Flutie.

Flutie, 42, who was released last month after four seasons with the San Diego Chargers, came to Giants Stadium to meet with team officials and take a physical. General Manager Ernie Accorsi described the visit as a routine part of the Giants' evaluation of available players.

always a fredeeky fave...

Despite treading along with someone who finished at 3-over-par 75, try finding a gallery member to say it wasn't well worth a Thursday morning to walk of 7,500 yards with John Daly -- golf's beloved anti-hero whose occasional volcanic temperament is offset by his lovable Barney Rubble appearance.

Admired for his long drives, respected for owning up to his well-publicized vices and revered for letting his flaws protrude beyond the belt line, Daly's universal appeal attracted an eclectic group to the first round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

There's the guy wearing the "Big Dog" T-shirt next to the guy donning an equally faded "Livin' Large" shirt, stuff a little too casual for Talladega let alone the TPC of Louisiana. Scattered about are those who came from as far as the Pacific Northwest -- easy to recognize because most of their attire features Daly's lion head logo while their hair looks like it was dyed in a bag of Skittles -- following golf's most compelling soap opera with Dead-Head fanaticism.

Then here's this older guy talking about playing Quarter Keno at the casino Wednesday night. Won big, he said, won big.

sort of obsessed with beer funnels lately...

i guess i can thank frat-guy for that

true player for real...

fredeeky's zip code is number 42 on forbes' list of the most expensive zip codes. that makes me a high roller extraordinaire. observe and respect.

papst golf!

Unbelievable! This is not an ordinary car. Your driving will always be save and blessed in it. You won't belive it, but the former car-holder was our new pope Benedict XVI (Josef Kardinal Ratzinger). This can be proved by the registration document as you can see in the picture below. The car looks as if it was new due to the care it god. The original seats haven't been changed yet.

japan continues to intrigue me...

t may have been the most expensive game of rock, paper, scissors ever played.

Takashi Hashiyama, president of Maspro Denkoh Corporation, an electronics company based outside of Nagoya, Japan, could not decide whether Christie's or Sotheby's should sell the company's art collection, which is worth more than $20 million, at next week's auctions in New York.

He did not split the collection - which includes an important Cézanne landscape, an early Picasso street scene and a rare van Gogh view from the artist's Paris apartment - between the two houses, as sometimes happens. Nor did he decide to abandon the auction process and sell the paintings through a private dealer.

Instead, he resorted to an ancient method of decision-making that has been time-tested on playgrounds around the world: rock breaks scissors, scissors cuts paper, paper smothers rock.

In Japan, resorting to such games of chance is not unusual. "I sometimes use such methods when I cannot make a decision," Mr. Hashiyama said in a telephone interview. "As both companies were equally good and I just could not choose one, I asked them to please decide between themselves and suggested to use such methods as rock, paper, scissors."

Officials from the Tokyo offices of the two auction houses were informed of Mr. Hashiyama's request on a Thursday afternoon in late January.

They were told they had until a meeting on Monday to choose a weapon. The right choice could mean several million dollars in profits from the fees the auction house charges buyers (usually 20 percent for the first $200,000 of the final price and 12 percent above that).

Kanae Ishibashi, the president of Christie's in Japan, declined to discuss her preparations for the meeting. But her colleagues in New York said she spent the weekend researching the psychology of the game online and talking to friends, including Nicholas Maclean, the international director of Christie's Impressionist and modern art department.

Mr. Maclean's 11-year-old twins, Flora and Alice, turned out to be the experts Ms. Ishibashi was looking for. They play the game at school, Alice said, "practically every day."

"Everybody knows you always start with scissors," she added. "Rock is way too obvious, and scissors beats paper." Flora piped in. "Since they were beginners, scissors was definitely the safest," she said, adding that if the other side were also to choose scissors and another round was required, the correct play would be to stick to scissors - because, as Alice explained, "Everybody expects you to choose rock."

As Ms. Ishibashi wrote in an e-mail message to a colleague in New York, to prepare herself for the meeting she prayed, sprinkled salt - a traditional Japanese ritual for good luck - and carried lucky charm beads.

Two experts from each of the rival auction houses arrived at Maspro's Tokyo offices, where they were shown to a conference room with a very long table and asked to sit facing one another, Mr. Rendell said. Each side's experts had an accountant from Maspro sitting with them.

Instead of the usual method of playing the game with the hands, the teams were given a form explaining the rules. They were then asked to write one word in Japanese - rock, paper or scissors - on the paper.

After each house had entered its decision, a Maspro manager looked at the choices. Christie's was the winner: scissors beat paper.

maybe rhazes would like to change venues?

EPPING - With the $9.97 pansies on one side, the $1.24 perennial violas on the other, and the roar of Route 101 traffic behind them, Robert Hartford Jr. and Rhonda Goupil tied the knot.

While some of the couple's co-workers were hard at work rolling back the prices, about 70 guests were crowding around displays in the garden center to witness their Wal-Mart wedding this past Monday.

The guests included some total strangers who came to shop but suddenly found themselves caught in the middle of a wedding.

Hartford and Goupil were the first workers to get married at Epping's new Wal-Mart Supercenter. Hartford works in the store's tire and lube center, and the bride is a cashier.

reggie roby loves animals...

Jan. 6, 2005 — A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsumani waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port city of Mombasa, officials said on Thursday.

The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsumani waves struck the Kenyan coast on Dec. 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.

"After it was swept and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added.

"The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added.

from the files of rhazes spellizzi...

urbancougar-it's not a stigma, it's an older, sophisticated species of female who seeks the pleasure of younger males. She avoids the entanglements of a "relationship," in favor of the freedom of the hunt.

She has overcome the taboos related to her sexual identity, embraced her true self, and now lives her life to its fullest. Always one for adventure, she knows what she wants and isn't afraid to get it!

This website is a celebration of the urbancougar lifestyle, the women who embody it, and the prey who love them for it!

high life is starting trends all over the place...

AYBE it's fitting, maybe it's paradoxical, maybe it's that murky mix of the two popularly called ironic. But in a day when men's grooming has hit heights of polish not seen since the roaring 20's, when Rudolph Valentino ruled the screen and Col. Jacob Schick patented the electric razor, the beard, in all its scraggly splendor, has come back to town.

On the downtown streets of New York, in the hipster hangouts of Los Angeles and on college campuses in between, the young and style-conscious are affecting a look that until recently could not claim to be either. In the few years since Luke Wilson sported a full beard as an anachronistic oddball in "The Royal Tenenbaums," it has shaken off its fusty image as the badge of the out-of-date guy who refuses to make concessions to fashion.

only incredible...

i'm sending this guy a carton



A South African zoo wants a chimp to go cold turkey.

The chimpanzee smokes cigarettes. Keepers said Charlie picked up the habit by watching smoking visitors. People toss him the smokes and he puffs away.

A spokesman at the Bloemfontein Zoo said, "It looks funny to see a chimp smoking" -- but Charlie's trick could cost him his health.

The zoo is asking people to stop tossing cigarettes and contributing to the chimp's habit.

A zoo official said Charlie "acts like a naughty schoolboy" and hides his cigarettes when workers are around.

i find the cab driver lifestyle intriguing...

hey call it "the lot" or "the pen," although it is also sarcastically referred to as "the cabby country club" or less charitably as "taxi driver purgatory." From the air, it is a shimmering yellow blob on an otherwise colorless landscape of tarmac and terminals. Hidden amid the cargo depots at Kennedy International Airport, the four-acre lot contains hundreds of taxis waiting for lucrative fares to Manhattan, the dreaded "shorty" trips to Brooklyn and Queens or the dream rides to New Jersey and Connecticut. Its official name is the Central Taxi Hold, and the wait can stretch up to five hours.

During the day and early evening, the lot feels like a crowded schoolyard, with restless, distracted men hovering over card games or swarming around a soccer ball, their shouts drowned out every 90 seconds by the roar of incoming planes. Haitian drivers favor dominoes played on the trunks of their cars, Russians clot around backgammon boards held up by trash bins and Hispanic drivers crouch between vehicles, throwing dice and sometimes wagering their hard-earned dollars.

everyone has herpes right now...

first ron mexico and now this:



Basically some guy started a blog to promote public awareness of the fact that Carlos Dengler of Interpol has herpes and is spreading it to unsuspecting Interpol "enthusiasts." How did he know? Well, apparently his girlfriend contracted it after sleeping with Carlos D, then gave it to him. I'm not sure why he took it down so quickly (it was up for maybe two days). I can't pretend to understand, but there were a lot of exceedingly hostile comments posted. Let's hope some of those people will locate us here- Google searches on "'carlos d' herpes" brings up... well, a lot of sites in Spanish, but "'carlos d' interpol herpes" just brings up a vague allusion from Gawker (it's at the bottom of the page) and now, most likely, Soi Disantra.

jets release doug brien...

this should make andre the giant happy. really if he had run into this guy on the street after he gagged against the steelers he would have sucker punched him for serious.



Nearly four months after he missed two field goals in the final two minutes of regulation during a division-round playoff game at Pittsburgh, the 11-year veteran was informed by New York Jets officials that he will be released. The decision had been anticipated since Saturday, when the Jets used a second-round choice, their first pick in the draft, to select Ohio State kicker Mike Nugent.

for the love of god isiah, make this happen....

hil Jackson has built his Hall of Fame career around triangles, so it is perhaps appropriate that he is now the apex of one that stretches from Los Angeles to New York to wherever he may be at the moment.

The Knicks want Jackson to come back to his original N.B.A. home in Manhattan. The Lakers want Jackson to return to the office he vacated 10 months ago in El Segundo, Calif.

Other N.B.A. teams in between will probably vie for Jackson's services, but the competition is shaping up as a race between teams from the league's two biggest media markets.

rub 'em here, rub 'em there, rub 'em every where...

ages 3 and up:

i loved this...

remember that post a while back about how many fifth graders you could take on? (link) another blogger took it to the next level with hilarious results. enjoy a taste.





Height: 3'9"
Weight: 45 lbs.
Strengths: Unpredictability
Weaknesses: Bipolar, Stamina
RT's Analysis: Francis is a fucking psycho. He'll come out of the gate swinging hard, but after a few minutes I'll bet his Bipolar will take him off the deep end, and he'll start taking punches at his imaginary friend Satchmo. At this point, a crane kick to the base of the skull should crush Francis like a hot M & M.



Height: 3'7"
Weight: 47 lbs.
Strengths: Biting, Ear-Piercing Shriek
Weaknesses: Food
RT's Analysis: Those pre-K latchkey years of munching on Hot Pockets and jerky watching Dora The Explorer might pay off for little Sally, as this bitch looks like she could rip my gonads off with one bite from those jagged little fangs. Alas, her hunger will be her downfall. I'll distract her by pulling out a pack of Starburst from my pocket, and while she reaches for the candy, I'll lung kick her in the solar plexus and, with any luck, paralyze this little cunt for life.

the little ron mexico will start for the hokies...

BLACKSBURG -- After starting spring practice at No. 3 on Virginia Tech's depth chart, junior Marcus Vick has been named the starter at quarterback by head football coach Frank Beamer.

Vick, who was suspended for the 2004 season because of off-the-field problems, beat out Sean Glennon for the starting job.

"After evaluating the spring game, as well as our whole spring practice, we feel that it is appropriate to name Marcus the starter for our football team," Beamer said Monday. "I think Marcus had an excellent spring."

the greatest video game players of the 80's...

gay rod is so hot right now...

the best part about this game was that chi chi rodriguez was in the stands rooting hard for the "home run cycle".

hey have played baseball on 161st Street in the Bronx since 1923. In all that time, with so many legends having roamed the grounds, no player has ever been responsible for 10 of his team's runs in a game. Not Babe Ruth or Lou Gehrig. Not Joe DiMaggio or Mickey Mantle. Not Derek Jeter.

All of those players are known as true Yankees, a title that has eluded Alex Rodriguez. While he waits for another chance at October, Rodriguez added to his legacy by doing something never seen on baseball's grandest stage.

He blasted three home runs in the Yankees' 12-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels and became the first player to drive in 10 runs in a game at Yankee Stadium, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

upper east side report: diamond nutz edition

reggie is on fire with the u.e.s. reports. how about a hipster report? what about a new hampshire report sven deezy?



Last weekend I went to CC's wedding down in Windsor (sicky). After drinking about Twenty caipirinha's, Dancing with some of the aristocracy of Detroit (Ms. Ford) Rocking out with the Carnivale Dancers and enjoying one too many reef sando's with DMB's Manager. I got a ride home from a fellow named Mike Gouda. This Guy might be the most diversified business man I have ever met. He started off telling me he was in the pharmaceutical bussiness, wine distribution, etc. as the ride went on he told me that he makes most of his money from Body jewlery! Licnesing deals with Hustler and such. I told him I worked for NASCAR. Blah blah blah. Now we are trying to work on some possible licensing deals for belt buckles. However the coolest thing he is selling right now is Diamond Nutz. He says all the biggest Rappers and athletes are signing up for these. All of you with cars out there need these things. I love the idea of this dude making fists of dinero off Fake rocks super glued to lug nuts and selling hustler key chains and body piercing.

That is all I got.

a random request from "frat dude"...

who wanted to see "frat dudes doing frat things". here you go frat dude:

feet me...

this guy just goes to shows and takes pictures of preformers' feet. oddly intriguing

beastie boys:

david byrne

neil young:

some guy i've never heard of (Branca Glen):

a request from reggie roby...

taking requests today and every day.

from reggie roby and sven deezy...

this has been on fredeeky before, but i love it enough to redo it.



In one video clip, labelled Bitch Slap, a youth approaches a woman at a bus stop and punches her in the face. In another, Knockout Punch, a group of boys wearing uniforms are shown leading another boy across an unidentified school playground before flooring him with a single blow to the head.

In a third, Bank Job, a teenager is seen assaulting a hole-in-the-wall customer while another youth grabs the money he has just withdrawn from the cash machine.

Welcome to the disturbing world of the "happy slappers" - a youth craze in which groups of teenagers armed with camera phones slap or mug unsuspecting children or passersby while capturing the attacks on 3g technology.

According to police and anti-bullying organisations, the fad, which began as a craze on the UK garage music scene before catching on in school playgrounds across the capital last autumn, is now a nationwide phenomenon.

upper east side report: boz edition...

first off reggie, don't bury your upper east side reports in the commenting area. they are far to precious for that. o.k., enjoy a taste of the upper east from the man who has steeped himself in the lifestyle like no other:



Last Week while making a late night Dodo's Run. I happened to meet one of the more beautiful girls I have ever met. What made her more beautiful than all the other Lili pulitzer clad babies? Her midrif bearing Bosworth jersey! I immediately went over to discuss the jersey. She was some fan from Seattle and was wearing the jerz for a party. That is about as far as I got. Weak ending.

reef sandals vs. e mail...

LONDON, England -- Workers distracted by phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than a person smoking marijuana, a British study shows.

The constant interruptions reduce productivity and leave people feeling tired and lethargic, according to a survey carried out by TNS Research and commissioned by Hewlett Packard.

He found the IQ of those who tried to juggle messages and work fell by 10 points -- the equivalent to missing a whole night's sleep and more than double the 4-point fall seen after smoking marijuana.

"This is a very real and widespread phenomenon," Wilson said. "We have found that this obsession with looking at messages, if unchecked, will damage a worker's performance by reducing their mental sharpness.

"Companies should encourage a more balanced and appropriate way of working."

Wilson said the IQ drop was even more significant in the men who took part in the tests.

from andre the giant...

it's a very hilarious video of an atlanta morning show. you have to wait for it, but it's worth it. also the in studio reaction is pretty priceless.

art attack...

Japanese Art and Vocab Primer: It's so Kawaii!

Internationally renowned Japanese artist Takashi Murakami curated Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture currently at the Japan Society through July, which according to their site "explores the astoundingly popular phenomenon called otaku, a Japanese youth subculture obsessed with fantastic and apocalyptic science fiction, fantasy, video games, comic books (manga) and film animation (anime)." The Little Birdie thinks themes of extreme nostalgia and childishness are fascinating and popular with artists of our generation.

Fredeekians should look for public artwork that goes along with this show at the following locations. The Little Birdie cannot wait to see Chihi Aoshima's digital murals at Union Square!

1) Subway placards by Chiho Aoshima, Aya Takano, Hideaki Kawashima, and Noboru Tsubaki



2) Chinatsu Ban's V W X Yellow Elephant Underwear/H I J Kiddy Elephant at 5th & 60th Street:
FYI, also from the site: The Japanese word for “cute” is “kawaii.” The Japanese teen magazine CREA once noted that kawaii is “the most widely used, widely loved, habitual word in modern living Japanese.” Anything can be made cute, even, in this case, a pile of elephant poop.



3) Chiho Aoshima's large-scale digital murals at UNION SQUARE SUBWAY:
City Glow, installed near the N-R subway lines
Paradise, appears near the 4, 5 and 6



More on Little Boy: www.japansociety.org/

More on NYC's public art: www.publicartfund.org/

More on Murakami: www.takashimurakami.com/