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 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]
...by way of his most famous press conference and some guy on YouTube. The result is worth a viewing:
Also, you can download "Press Hop" as an .mp3 (if you so choose) either here or here.
[thanks Tom]
Exactly...
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 ...
Brilliant right?
Well, it's even more brilliant once you learn that a "splayd" is, indeed, a real utensil, defined by Wikipedia as "a single eating utensil combining the functions of spoon, fork and knife." So, ha, that's what you get for doubting my charts.
[via the ragbag]
The new Lonely Island (by way of Andy Samberg) & Justin Timberlake musical collaboration aired on last night's SNL, and the result, as usual, is awesome. It's called "Motherlover," and, in a tribute to Mother's Day, it is incredibly crude - but in a hysterical way. This stuff really never gets old to me, and my respect for Timberlake just keeps on going up and up in what I hope will remain a completely heterosexual way. Enjoy, and don't forget to send this one to your mom:
[via Hulu]
Just a great take on those NBA Playoff commercials...cheap laughs? Maybe. But brilliant? Definitely.
(Plus, I had no idea Eddie House's headband did a full rotation on his head until I watched it in slo-mo here, so this is definitely worth a watch if only for that)
[via 2dopeboyz and YouTube]
Now just imagine if we didn't have the internet and possibly had to go our ENTIRE lives without ever seeing this picture...now do you see how awful life would be without it? Never saw it that way did you...
[via Josh Haley]
To those misinformed, confused or, merely, just curious, here is an excerpt from McSweeney's comprehensive guide to "Understanding Twitter," this first sentence perfectly answering the infamous "what is twitter" question in elegant, beautiful simplicity:
Twitter seems to be, first and foremost, an online haven where teenagers making drugs can telegraph secret code words to arrange gang fights and orgies.
As you can tell, this is well worth the read, but here's the rest of the paragraph so you can stay on my website a little longer:
It also functions as a vehicle for teasing peers until they commit suicide. In order to become a "follower" ...
Here is an excerpt from "How to look at billboards," a fascinating essay by Howard Gossage from the February 1960 issue of Harpers:
What a billboard looks like has nothing to do with whether it ought to be there. Nor does the fact that it carries advertising have anything to do with it, either. It would be the same thing if it were devoted exclusively to reproductions of the old masters; just as the open range would have been the same thing if they had only run peacocks on it. The real question is: has outdoor advertising the right to exist ...