anal beads?

I clicked on "why?" Tim Tebow was a trending topic on brizzly. Results are below.

That's funny, but don't be an asshole bashing this kid. I'm sick of people talking shit on college kids, especially Tim Tebow. Save your bitching for the pros. God forbid someone has faith in this shitty world. Tim Tebow is a fine human being and I wish we were all more like him.

Office Depot nonbargains

I absolutely hate shopping at Office Depot, but sometimes I crave the variety they offer. Anyway... I thought I would swing by the pens aisle and see if they had my Pilot G-2 07 black pens on sale. Well... it had a yellow tag, but after further investigation... it was the exact opposite of a sale. Way to take advantage of parents shopping for their kids' back to school crap. Ass clowns.

parkway time

I forgot I had this pic. I took it with my phone while I was on the Parkway going to the airport in Pittsburgh. If you can see it in the red circle, this friendly motorist has a digital clock facing out his back window. Purpose? Your guess is as good as mine. It definitely didn't help relieve my anxiety about getting to the airport on time.

LBJ GNV

Look... sometimes I have random consecutive thoughts. I heard about Lebron James' MVP shirt he was wearing, which is a spin-off of the RUN DMC logo... but reminded me of Less Than Jake's GNV FLA cover art. So I mashed them together. That's how we got here. I really don't know what all of this means.

breakfast links

Hey kiddies. I have a metric shit-ton of links I've gathered over the past few months... and to be honest, I barely remember how to properly construct a links post! So allow me to shake off some blogging rust and share a greasy batch of links.

- One of my personal favorite buffoonery posts was one called "Devastatin' Album Covers". I shared a couple of lists of all-time worst album covers, but also discussed some memorable CD packaging from my collection. Here's a bit of an extension to that. Another great list of awful album covers and a fun blog called "LP Cover Lover". (Be warned, some of LPCL is NSFW.)

-A nifty chart with the evolution of the video game controller.

- Beaker gets Ultra Extreme Fever!

- A dipshit writer for FOXSports made the case for Eli over Big Ben in October. On February 1st, he was proven wrong.

- A beautiful archive of ancient computers.

- Here is an exquisite comparison of WMP vs. Winamp vs. iTunes vs. MediaMonkey. Winamp & MediaMonkey are the undisputed winners. Mac lovers, I implore you to take a stand! You shouldn't settle for such inferior media software. You shouldn't all hold hands and shrug off all the limitations and inconveniences that come with a Mac. I'll never understand.

- As with all of these links, this is pretty dated... but here are some breath-taking photos from the Greek riots in December.

- Increase your facial hair vocabulary.

- Best music video ever? It's at least in the discussion. zombie-zombie.

- A great article on Engadget about the short-comings of Tivo.

- How amazing are Cold War unicorns?

meh... that was a little weak for a links post. My apologies. A lot of my football, olympics, and music links didn't stand the test of time, so I omitted them. I'll be back with more soon.

hibernation complete.

I can't believe I've only had 2 posts in the last 3 months! Ridiculous. Unacceptable. I suppose twitter sorta filled the void for me with sharing websites and thoughts, but my blogging hibernation was mainly because of my focus on finishing my PhD. And... I'm happy to say that I successfully defended my dissertation last week and things are looking up for me. That was a huge stress relief. I'm amazed at how poorly I handled stress the past few months and what an unhappy person I had become. It taught me a good bit about myself and it was a much greater mental struggle than I had bargained for. I'm forever grateful to my family and friends for their support and putting up with my miserable ass.

Now I'm back to my original form and the buffoonery has returned. I have a lot of rants and ideas built up, so I'll be back to my regularly scheduled blogging from this point on. Thanks for bearing with me... now let's have some fun!

git happy!

I know I've been neglecting the blog, but I'll be back soon in full force. Until then... check me out on twitter... and GIT HAPPY!

big foot

(8tracks)

thumbs up

While I was listening to Pandora, AFI's Fall Children came on. Awesome, right? Yes, but something's strange... can you spot what's wrong with this picture?



Yes, that's the album art for Winning London starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. I assure you that AFI is not on that soundtrack. PANDORA FAIL!

(... still got the thumbs up from me though)

Remembering products without commercials

I started my day (like usual) by going to hulu and watching last night's Daily Show with Jon Stewart. And shows on hulu always begin with "The following program is brought to you with limited commercial interruption by _____." But this time it said "...with NO commercial interruption by VISA." Excellent! And that got me thinking (and blogging) that VISA chose to not waste my time with ineffective, throwaway commercials, but rather just proposed the slogan "Let's go commercial-free." Is this not admirable? But with a giant company like VISA, they are taking little risk that they won't be remembered. Similar to how Radiohead took little risk in letting the buyer choose the price of their most recent album "In Rainbows". I doubt that other companies (like Fred Savage Sausage) would have the cohones to waste their advertising dollars on a 10 second uncommercial. But long commercials don't always work either. In fact, I saw the full frickin' trailer for Taken for about 2 weeks straight and I still had absolutely no urge to see Liam Neeson's "very particular set of skills".

Obviously, no commercials has been done before in some capacity. I remember some sponsors constantly on screen during the World Cup, for example. And they usually brag "without commercial interruption by ____". But what if more and more TV shows started going "commercial-free" or with purely product placement. Would it still be special? Will they reach a point where they overdo it and we actually don't even notice the companies that are making our lives commercial-free? I doubt we will ever get that far, but I still find it interesting to talk about... and I'm talking because VISA didn't show me a commercial this morning.

By the way, for those of you who didn't see Jon Stewart's interview with Jim Cramer last week, I highly recommend watching it.

provocative dog grooming (Dayton, OH)

ds2, originally uploaded by beekface.

The NHT has an official logo

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