another jam on heavy rotation right now...

this video got me all sorts of fired up...

after watching it i ran outside and tackled the homeless guy that lives around the corner. really cleaned his clock. then i did a ray-ray dance while singing phil collins to myself. so ready for miami fsu. thanks to barry and mac fu for sharing.

i think we can all agree that giambi's 'stache is sort of incredible...

this'll put a smile on your face...

who doesn't love neck face?

a jam i can't get out of my brain and a video that little birdie and a-game wanted to share...

new commenters make me so excited...

this one's an aussie and a cricket expert to boot. since matt seems a little boring for the blizzy, we will call him shane warne in honor of quite possibly the best spin bowlier of all-time as well as one of the more intriguing and controversial figures in modern cricket. so let's all put our hands together and observe and respect shane warne.

this is it, what?

mini hipster report...

since high life is too busy lawyering and summering in the hamptons to share with us on the regular, i have to take what i can get. this is basically stolen from and e mail he sent about what he's listening to these days. other than os mutantes (which is an a-game fave) i hadn't heard of any of this. so thought i would share some of high life's latest jems. enjoy.

maybe jimmy page can go check this out....

If you're heading to London between now and the end of January, be sure to check out Chiho Aoshima's piece 'City Glow, Mountain Whisper' that was installed at the end of last month in the Gloucester Road tube station.

first place yankees...

ball tampering? tea interval?

On Sunday, an umpire presiding at a high-profile game between England and Pakistan, ruled that, in his belief, Pakistani players had been tampering with the ball and he told Pakistani players of his suspicion, awarding England five bonus runs, or points.

By way of protest, the Pakistanis refused to leave their dressing room after a scheduled break for tea. The Australian umpire, Darrell Hair, a person known for contentious rulings against some Asian teams, then removed the “bails” — those little wooden bits that fit horizontally across the top of the larger wooden stakes called stumps — denoting that Pakistan had forfeited the game.

The Pakistan team, nonetheless, walked back onto the field of play. But by this time the umpires had walked off, having ruled that Pakistan’s no-show constituted a terminal offense. Game to England — the first time in 129 years of so-called Test matches between national teams that a game had been forfeited in this way.

so much dough i can't swear i won't change...

got to give this a listen...

Rufus Harley, who was billed as “the world’s first jazz bagpiper” and emitted his haunting sounds alongside some of the greats of jazz, died on Aug. 1 in Philadelphia, his hometown. He was 70.

Although Mr. Harley fully acknowledged that “everybody thought I was crazy” when he turned to bagpipes in the early 1960’s, he became a frequent sideman on records and in concerts with saxophonists like Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Stitt, with the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and with the flutist Herbie Mann.

smooth it out...

tron guy goes on a date...

cricket explained?

from variety...

observe and respect lee perry at work...

over smoked...

love wang...

also f Fausto Carmona

orgasm or excellent marinara?

a good slide show that compares food network faces with porn star faces. hard to tell the diff. this is a food network face by the way.

for chuck taylor, the player coach and the rest of the norcal crew...

interesting story...

ON THE MORNING OF AUGUST 1, 1966, not long before summer classes at the University of Texas at Austin were about to let out for lunch, an architectural engineering major named Charles Whitman arrived at the Tower dressed as a maintenance man. He would be described the following day in the Austin American as “a good son, a top Boy Scout, an excellent Marine, an honor student, a hard worker, a loving husband, a fine scout master, a handsome man, a wonderful friend to all who knew him—and an expert sniper.” The footlocker he wheeled behind him contained three rifles, two pistols, and a sawed-off shotgun, as well as a cache of supplies that suggested he planned to stay awhile. After a receptionist switched on an elevator that Whitman had been trying in vain to operate, he smiled and said, “Thank you, ma’am. You don’t know how happy that makes me.”

the art of the shiv...

The shivs shown here, from the collection of designers Chris Kasabach and Vanessa Sica, were confiscated more than twenty years ago from New Jersey’s Rahway Prison (now East Jersey State Penitentiary), a maximum-security facility that houses more than 1,500 inmates serving sentences of twenty-five years to life.

respect dennis connors!

what do you say mac fu?

CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Four Miami Hurricane players, including running back Tyrone Moss and receiver Ryan Moore, were suspended for the Sept. 4 season opener against Florida State because they violated team policy.

don't make me get money and platinumize my body...

ihumpedyourhummer.com...

first place yankees...

There are stretches when all the world seems pinstriped, and the Yankees are in one now. They moved into first place in the American League East last night by beating the Toronto Blue Jays, 5-1, finding an invigorating way to cap three blissful days.

(by the way, here's an interesting sidenote about bobby abreu's power surge last season.)

i hope this doesn't this mean that motherboy is for real as well...

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — For his nightly role in the sprawling Pageant of the Masters, Michael Ziegler disrobes and stands patiently for 45 minutes while a makeup artist paints his body silver from head to toe.

Yet after all that preparation, Mr. Ziegler, a 53-year-old airline customer service representative, goes onstage and does nothing. For 90 seconds, he stands utterly still — with one leg and arm outstretched, like the confederate across from him — in a re-creation of “The Dancers,” a bronze sculpture by a largely forgotten artist.

Is the tableau vivant passé? Not for the 155,000 fans who flock to this beachside town each summer for the pageant. For them, the two-month extravaganza — a $4.1 million production that includes sets and lighting for nearly 40 art pieces on eight staging areas with live narration and orchestra — weaves a magic that is a welcome palliative to the freneticism of modern-day entertainment.

banksy in brooklyn?

cool off with a sensitive jam...

a good collection of stanley kubrick movie posters...

baseball cards is worthless...

a fredeeky favorite...

this place is one of my top outer-borough destinations and is no. 5 on new york magazine's cheap eats edition. they've renovated the crap out of it since i first went, but the food is still spicy and delish. we ought to take a group trip out to queens and rock it.

5. Sripraphai
Sripraphai has come a long way since its early days as the no-frills holy grail of New York Thai food. Expansions and renovations have brought a beautiful patio out back, replete with burbling fountain and leafy apple tree, and actual (if not Wallpaper-worthy) décor. The takeout menu gives a phonetic spelling (see-pra-pie), and servers ask, unprompted, if you’d like “Thai spicy.” Happily, these new and somewhat self-conscious developments have had no deleterious effects on the food, which is, indeed, Thai spicy, but also multilayered and nearly impossible to stop eating.
64-13 39th Ave., Woodside; 718-899-9599

"the sicker of the young women also had been chewing half a mothball a day for two months"...

BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- The 18-year-old French woman was hospitalized with scaly skin on her legs and hands, appearing unsteady and mentally sluggish, doctors said.

They found the condition puzzling, especially since the woman's twin sister displayed similar, but less severe, symptoms and there was no family history of the problem, the doctors reported in this week's New England Journal of Medicine that

Several days later, doctors discovered the cause: a bag of mothballs stashed in her hospital room.

The teenagers had been using the mothballs to get high, inhaling air from the bag for about 10 minutes a day because classmates had recommended it. The sicker of the young women also had been chewing half a mothball a day for two months.

almost heaven...

good to be a yankee fan...