Living the Dream
here we are, after dark, knocking down the maker’s mark
As it is every year, this summer’s anthem was both completely unexpected yet thoroughly enjoyable. For reasons I can’t even explain, I declare Lean on Sheena by The Bouncing Souls as my 2011 summer anthem. Enjoy…
Everybody knows Batman is a Steelers fan…
I haven’t been this excited for a Steelers cameo since Smokey and the Bandit 2!!!!
Superman vs. Superman: Our first look at Henry Cavill
Well, here it is folks, our first look at Henry Cavill in the title role of The Man of Steel, Zack Synder’s reboot of the Superman franchise. Just for shits and giggles, I’ve also included the first look we had at Brandon Routh as Superman in Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns. To be honest, between the two, I favor Routh and Singer’s costume. I’m not crazy about the colors and texture of Synder’s. Nor am I crazy about Cavill’s hair. BUT, admittedly, it’s just a sneak peak really. The lighting isn’t great and we really don’t have a good look at the costume. But… still… I dunnnnnooooo.
I am D. B. Cooper.
It’s amazing how much I don’t know… especially since I know everything. So when I do come across something I know nothing of my mind is understandably blown. And so should yours… because I really do know everything (I question if things really exist before I know of them.) Anyway, today, of all days, I learned about D.B. Cooper.
Do you know this man?
How have I gone thirty years without hearing about this before?! Seriously, this is something every parent/teacher/coach in the world should sit their kids down and tell them about. You remember those old Life Magazine Vietnam War commercials from the ’80s? Where the family is sitting around the dinner table, the son all happy and shit but the parents, glancing at each other uneasily, look at the kid, his mouth full of mash potatoes, and, out of nowhere, they tell him that there’s something they have to tell him? And the kid’s all thinking “ohhhhhhh, shit. D-I-V-O-R-C-E.” And, being just a kid myself watching re-runs of Knight Rider or something, I was all like “What?! What do they have to tell him?! Why can’t it wait for him to finish chewing?!” And then it ends up being a commercial for a special Life Magazine Vietnam War edition…
Well parents SHOULD have this conversation with their kid about D.B. Cooper… because this shit isn’t taught in school… BUT IT’S AWESOME. Read about him — and the crime of the century (if he survived) — yourself…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
and check out the FBI’s plea for info here.
These perlorian cats haunt my dreams…
SO last week my friends and I were inexplicably and immensely obsessed with perlorian cats, a strange short-lived cultural sensation of the ’80s in Japan. A long lost children’s book (Going to School by Suzanne Green) was soon re-discoverd in a parent’s basement and it wasn’t long before we feasted our eyes upon this gem:
Rocky III. Rocky III?!
No, your eyes do not deceive you. For absolutely no discernible reason there is a small cassette sleeve labeled, in handwriting, ROCKY III. It is neither mentioned nor referred to in anyway, either on that page or any other of the entire book. But there it is. With a kitten’s paw on it. ROCKY III. At a spelling bee.
How great is that?!
Drive…
This movie has more than potential, it has about a million things that I love including: bank heists, revenge, wicked driving stunts, Los Angeles, 2011 Mustang GT (BLACK), and even a third generation GM A Body…. just about everything I’d crash and where!!
On a sidenote, this movie is based on a novel of the same name by James Sallis. I wonder how the chase scenes read out… exciting, thrilling? Or are they glossed over. Perhaps I put this on my to-read list.
The Kiss…
The Other Side of the World
This is an interesting map, at least to me. It shows what is on the other side of the world from any given point on the planet. The result is a startling visualization of the simple fact that 2/3’s of the planet is water. In other words, almost wherever you are on the planet on land, there’s likely nothing but water on the other side.
No digging to China. Unless you're in Argentina.
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