Mandatory golf equipment

This is something that I will be trying to pick up. Beers just do not stay cold in the golf bag, but now our problems are solved! I can hear C9 calling in the order now. Great production quality here too:

JC Penney does not give a F

This JC Penney ad is taken from the Lowell Sun. Yes, I seriously typed that.




I'm not making this up.

We All Make Mistakes...

Some bigger than others.


Still looking? Look at what should be, "University."

Jaydiohead + Subvoyant

The Hood Internet does XX w/ Freddie Gibbs, Elizabeth Harper and Telli

Look for a new album with original work dropping soon...

The Hood Internet - VCR (feat Freddie Gibbs, Telli of Ninjasonik, Elizabeth Harper of Class Actress) by gsw

Swiss Air

This past weekend 51 year-old Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy became the first dude (or dudette) to jet-pack over the Grand Canyon. Apparently the flight, originally scheduled for Friday (the 13th I might add), happened Saturday because Friday was deemed too "risky." Apparently human flight over the Grand Canyon became less risky overnight, and Rossy boarded a chopper from which he launched out of in his jet pack and flew for about 8 minutes. Overly edited Breitling-sponsored video here.

A film about the simplest of life's pleasures

And some bonus footage about the simplest of life's clothing options.

The old hidden ball trick

60% of the time, it works every time:

When keeping it real goes wrong

Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe

Eric Torpy asked an Oklahoma District Judge for a sentence of 33 years, rather than the 30 that the judge was prepared to give him for armed robbery and two counts of shooting with intent to kill. The judge gladly gave him another three years to honor the request. Why did Torpy (that's really his last name) want 33 years instead of the original 30? His favorite basketball player growing was Larry Legend, and Torpy wanted to honor him by getting his sentence increased to 33 years. Torpy keeps it real.

Read the full article here.

The Great Flushing Heist

Former Los Mets equipment manager Charlie Samuels has been charged with stealing $2.4 million worth of Mets memorabilia during his 30+ year tenure as clubhouse manager. For a franchise that has exactly one highlight since Samuels began working for the club in 1976, this begs the question of exactly how big was his haul? Allegedly the 1986 World Series jersey he walked out with is only worth $7,500. Did he steal the entire locker room? Did he kidnap Bobby Bonilla? Is he hiding Shea Stadium somewhere? NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly put it aptly when he said, "this is a case of the equipment manager leading the National League in steals." Take that Jose Reyes.

For more on the story, check out the Daily News.



Thanks to Daily Tailgate for the pic

The Bluest Water I'd Ever Seen

New track and video from Teen Daze

Teen Daze - The Bluest Water I'd Ever Seen from teen daze on Vimeo.

Restaurants Choose Their Customers

An interesting little article highlights the fact that restaurants are consciously trying to pick their customers.

Who do they want? Smaller parties.

Apparently the average spend per diner is higher for smaller groups and the average time at the table is shorter.

It's pretty intuitive, but I hadn't thought about it before.

Cool...Seinfeld puts all of his standup online

From Mashable:

Jerry Seinfeld has launched a website, which serves as a warehouse for pretty much everything he’s ever performed.

JerrySeinfeld.com went live Friday morning with three short comedy clips — “The Fattest Man in the World” from The Tonight Show in 1981, “Do the Horses Know They’re Racing?” from a 1988 HBO special and “No Room in the Newspaper” from The Tonight Show in 1990.

The site is taking an unusual approach to offering the content by running just three new clips per day. The clips, which range from 30 seconds to two minutes, will be available for only 24 hours and then will be replaced with three new ones.

On the site, Seinfeld explains he’s offering the site to young would-be comedians. “Somewhere out there are 10-year-olds just waiting to get hooked on this strange pursuit,” he writes. “This is for them.”

Seinfeld’s straight-to-the-fans media model comes after Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park launched South Park Digital Studios, a joint venture between the two and Comedy Central in 2007 that made all their work available online. Meanwhile, the model of treating comedy bits like songs by cutting them into bite-sized digital pieces has been employed by Sirius XM’s various comedy channels for some time. And just this week, Pandora also added 10,000 such bits to its libraries.

Happy Fridis

Edwin van Cleef - Lisztomania (feat. Jane Elizabeth Hanley) by Edwin van Cleef

Rest In Peace Maggie

We had to put our dog Maggie to sleep on Monday night. I've been a mess ever since - can't believe how much I loved that dog. In her honor, here's a re-post of the canine commandments. I'm so thankful I read this before her death because it really struck a chord for me and I spent the last weeks of her life saying a proper goodbye. We always honored the commandments, but we really honored 8, 9 and 10 in the last few weeks.

History will NOT Repeat Itself

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the Bruins are to advance to the Eastern Conference Semifinals. This is because of goaltending. All good teams that make deep runs into the playoffs have solid goaltending. The Bruins are solid in that area, the Flyers are not.

Check out these stats:

Game 1
Boucher (PHI): 18 saves, 5 GA, .783 SV%
Bobrovsky (PHI): 8 saves, 2 GA, .800 SV%
Thomas (BOS): 31 saves, 3 GA, .912 SV%

Game 2
Boucher (PHI): 32 saves, 3 GA, .914 SV%
Bobrovsky (PHI): 6 saves, 0 GA, 1.000 SV%
Thomas (BOS): 52 saves, 2 GA, .963 SV%

Game 3
Boucher (PHI): 16 saves, 4 GA, .800 SV%
Bobrovsky (PHI): 7 saves, 1 GA, .800 SV%
Thomas (BOS): 37 saves, 1 GA, .974 SV%

Philly is so weak on goaltending at the moment that they have a "goalie by committee," where Boucher usually starts (Bobrovsky will probably get the start tomorrow) and then when he lets in too many goals, they put in Bobrovsky. But as you can see, neither goalie is playing at the level that Thomas is playing at, which is a big part of the Bruins' success in this series. Thomas has more saves (120) than both Philly goalies combined (87) and his save percentage has been climbing despite the .912% he posted in game one.

If this trend continues for the Flyers in the crease, expect to see the Flyers on the tee in the greater Philly area.

Biggest backpeddle

Members of backcountry.com's list serve received an email that began like this last evening:

We messed up. Yesterday, as the people of Alabama dealt with the devastating aftermath of an intensely damaging and life-taking tornado, we neglected to put a stop to the distribution of an email with the header: "Mother Nature hates you. Deal with it." This was extremely insensitive and offensive, and we are so sorry.

The tornadoes that ravaged the South are absolutely no laughing matter, but atrocious timing and a complete lack of control of email marketing on the behalf of a respected online retailer is. Write that down.

Classic Sugarloaf

My Buddy's uncle is a ski patroller up at Sugarloaf. Below is his patrol report from his final patrol of the year last Saturday.

Missed a good one Saturday! Winds went to 70 at times, icy as hell, after picking up about a 90 foot debris field on Candyside from a dead birch that could have killed someone, I pulled a woman out of the woods off of King's with about 150 of rope - she got blown off the trail, woods were all ice. Blockhead (another patroller) had another who had taken snowboard off, wind started to blow it off Hayburner, she went for it and went about 200 feet on the ice in the glade bouncing off of trees - possible tibial plateau and a shoulder. So the lifts all went except for 3t - they decided to run a cat for the 40 people skiing. Tote road was still a giant sheet of ice, a 30 mph side slip if you wanted. Finally mother nature thankfully finished us off in style with some lightening - closed 3:15.

So possible final run of the season for sweep- Gondi from crosscut. Wind 50 blowing straight down the trail, visibility when there was some, 30', full pack on. Pushing off from spillway crosscut, could not see the end of the ice sheet as it disappeared into the fog and blowing snow, it felt like jumping off a bridge into a cloud not knowing what is below.

At the base, about twenty cars in the lots, trees leaning over, branches snapping, wind screaming - couldn't go home fast enough.

For those of you unfamiliar with Sugarloaf, the weather could be impeccable where you are and just downright shitty up there. Lots of wind. Lots of ice. Lots of flat light. I still love the place.

The Case of the Missing Puck

AP Photo/Mel Evans

The puck that scored Patrick Kane's game winner for the Hawks in the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals is missing. Nobody knows where it is. The CEO of Harry Caray's restaurants has offered a $50K reward for it. The FBI even got involved. These are the facts. This is the story.

Thanks to Big Kat for the content.

Social Media Empowers Everyone, Unfortunately

Thanks to Big Slim for the content here. Read through the "The Best Obnoxious Responses to Misspellings on Facebook," there are some great ones. My favorite is below:

Full post here.