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Archive for June, 2009

Joe Buck

First off, if you don’t think that Joe Buck sucks, you probably won’t appreciate this. Secondly, Joe Buck is an asshole.  Thirdly, Joe Buck’s new TV show, HBO’s Joe Buck Live, debuted on June 15th and was described the following day on NBC Los Angeles as “a trainwreck.” The below footage of the episode is some of the most amazing TV I’ve ever seen, as Buck’s show is, literally, hijacked by comedian Artie Lange, who, seemingly, for no apparent reason, decides to just lay into Buck for about 15 minutes straight. Hard.

Now, I have to admit, before I saw this I had no idea who Artie Lange was.  It turns out he was on the original cast of MadTV and, more notably, on Howard Stern’s radio show.  All that being fine and dandy, he will now forever go down as “the man who shat on Joe Buck for a solid ten minutes straight on the premiere of Buck’s tv show until the point where Buck has literally given up, Paul Rudd has somehow turned into the mediator and you’ve nearly pissed yourself laughing.”  I don’t care whether this was scripted or staged or not or whatever (for the record, I really don’t) because, regardless, nothing beats watching Joe Buck get ripped on:

This is better read after watching that. Not like it makes it any less awesome, but according to Wikipedia this is actually what went down:

On June 15, 2009, Lange made a controversial appearance on HBO’s Joe Buck Live.[25][26][27][28] Lange made several obscene and derogatory comments towards homosexuals and even to Joe Buck himself. At one point Ross Greenburg, HBO Sports President, said Lange “bordered on bad taste” with his “mean-spirited” tone. However, on the June 16, 2009 Howard Stern Show, Artie claimed Greenburg told him, “If [fellow panelists] Paul Rudd and Jason Sudeikis get boring, you go nuts.” His attitude and remarks caused Joe Buck to thank Artie for being on the first and last taping of his show.

Since, the above has been confirmed, and there has been a flurry of media response to the show.  For example, here is Deadspin’s take on the show.

M to the A, playa dolla sign E!!!! His comeback has been all but confirmed, and, sadly, as a result, life just got that much better for me…until he goes back to church after these two songs flop (d/l links below):

Pastor Mason

Master of Ceremonies or Pastor of Ceremonies?

Drake - Best I Ever Had (remix feat. Ma$e)

Harry O - Uptown Boy (remix feat. Ron Brownz & Mase)

Also, for good measure, here’s a picture of Mase with a tiger; now see how tough and ghetto he is G-Unit?!!

Mase and Tiger

[via 2dopeboyz, Trackleaker and Craveonline]

This is beyond awesome:

With Leather is proud to honor the Worst Brother Ever, who created this videotape of a kid whose mother had literally just cancelled his World of Warcraft account…I’m sure this kid didn’t have hundreds of hours logged into that game. No, not at all.

[via With Leather]

Hot video, hot beat, hot song…and it’s becoming pretty clear that “Till the Casket Drops” is gonna be a hot album, the first video/single from which follows:

Impressive how Kanye is able to really hold his own with them.

[via musicians entourage]

Pujols and BradleyOh Bradley…You Were So Young Then…

Sure, most of us probably know about the sick game that Albert Pujols had yesterday.  But did you know that he’s now calling his shots?

The following is an excerpt from today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

After opening the third inning with a fly out, Pujols returned to the Cardinals clubhouse to review video. There he predicted to assistant hitting coach Mike Aldrete that his next at-bat would ricochet off the yet-to-open Royals Hall of Fame behind the visitors bullpen in left field. “He didn’t say he might hit the Hall of Fame. He said he would hit the Hall of Fame,” Aldrete recalled … When Meche finally threw the pitch, Pujols swatted it some 423 feet off a Hall of Fame window.

While he’s no Matt Stairs, I’m definitely happy he’s on my fantasy team.

[via ShysterBall]

Just because it’s been a while since I posted some hot ass kicks on here, I figured I’d continue that wait and post some relatively ugly but interesting kicks today.

The Nike Big High Fred Flintstone is the latest release for the Nike Big High and it is very unique. This really cool shoe has the Fred Flintstone orange and black pattern on the side.

So here are the Nike Big High Fred Flintstone’s:

Nike Fred Flintstone Dunk 2

[via C’est La Vie and available only at osneaker]

LBJgivesBJExactly…

There comes a time in every blog’s life where a post is so perfect that it truly transcends the existence of the blog. In fact, the post is so good, and its content so utterly spectacular, that it necessarily renders every subsequent blog post inferior for the rest of time. Well, my friends, the new Nike LeBron James - Kobe Bryant puppet commercial is out, and this post is officially that post.*

The below commercial, 33 second of pure, unadulterated bliss, is so good and shits on LeBron so hard that it took me a full three days (until I just saw it on TV about ten minutes ago) for me to even believe that it was a real Nike commercial and not just the product of some fellow computer-hacking-Lebron-hater/my hero out there in the blogosphere. The pacing, the cinematography and, more than anything, the outstanding puppeteering all come together in perfect harmony, brilliantly intertwining into what will almost certainly go down as the greatest (at least in my mind) commercial of all time the juxtaposition of the shit-eating grin on Kobe’s face against LeBron’s metaphorical “eating [of] shit” at the breakfast table. Although it seems as though not everybody agrees with me (e.g. Awful Announcing), this is my blog.
So, finally, and without further adieu, I present to you the latest, the greatest and, unfortunately (after Nike made the marketing move of the century by continuing the commercials despite LeBron sadly losing the Eastern Conference Finals single-handedly), the final LeBron James-Kobe Bryant Nike puppet commercial:

Although none of the other puppet commercials even hold a candle to the genius of this one, feel free to watch all of the MVPuppet commercials here on Nike’s website.

UPDATE (6/19): After perusing the Nike basketball site, it turns out that there is, indeed, another “MVPuppets” commercial, this one presumably being the final one for the season. It’s called “LeBron 2010” and shows LeBitch “preparing” for the 2010 season. Since it still shines a losing light on LeBron, I’ll allow a link to it, albeit a small one, right….here.

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*While this is, indeed, the truth, and I can almost guarantee that every subsequent post from this one on out will necessarily be inferior to this one, there is one significant fact that one must keep in mind: not enough people read this blog for it to really matter. So, from hereon forth, despite the magnitude of the above posting, nothing about Blogbdon will change whatsoever, as I promise to continue to provide you with the same marginally useful information and mediocre literary ability.

Well at least I thought it was mad random.  It turns out, though, that the acclaimed director behind Se7en, Fight Club & (the vastly underrated) The Game is a huge Mac-head (or whatever you call it) too.  Fincher took some time out of his successful film career to direct “Break In,” a relatively clever commercial that, most importantly, marks the debut television appearance of the gorgeous iPhone 3GS, the phone that mysteriously looks identical to my current iPhone but that I would literally murder someone for right now.

[via /film]