Ben Affleck (via last.fm) I just overheard someone ripping on Ben Affleck. Say what you will about him – with JLo and Gigli he doesn’t have much wiggle room – but he does have 3 of the better monologues in the past 15 years. They are: The job interview of Good Will Hunting: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hWIr9_noRo] The [...]
Growing up in Edina, MN is a great experience. One of the highlights of the year is the state hockey tournament. If Edina made (which we always did) we’d get the days of school off and everyone would go to the Xcel Center dressed up like maniacs and cheer like mad for the Hornet players. [...]
Many of you know of my love of The Wire. You can imagine my excitement when i heard from BroncosRule about the NY Times running a series where a reporter sat down and watched Season 5 of The Wire with real-life gangsgters. Columbia University sociologist, Sudhir Venkatesh, who has a new book “Gang Leader for [...]
Check out this image of Obama’s inaugural speech. It’s a 1400 Megapixel photo. This allows you to do some ridiculous zooming in. You can even check out Bush’s sour face. Pretty cool. Here’s the article where the photographer explains how it was done. Click on the photo below to see the sweet details
Image via CrunchBase I got tagged in Facebook to do one of these lists. I really enjoyed reading some of my colleagues and some of my old friends from high school so i thought i’d put one together. The rules are that once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 [...]
I would like to call to attention a post written today about my new favorite player in the NBA. Let me ask you this question: if you take: Every rookie who has ever played in the NBA since 1946 … Weed out everyone who played less than twenty minutes per game … And sort them [...]
Toby and i have been debating and discussing what new media will look like. His post today inspired me to lay down some of my thoughts. A lot of my thinking stems from this article in The Atlantic and Fred’s Post about his reading habits. The Atlantic post described how the NY Times is dead. [...]
I read a great little post by Lizard about her morning. It is a great depiction of the pain of waking up and the joy of finishing. It takes a while to learn that there’s nothing as rewarding as getting up to run. It always delivers. Liz’s morning: • Get up • Whine • Go [...]
As Axl Rose purportedly makes final preparations to put out Chinese Democracy any minute now (we hope!), Stephen Davis, the rock biographer behind 1985′s classic Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga, is releasing his long-awaited Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N’ Roses. In it, Davis traces GN’R’s illustrious history all the [...]
My sister sent me this and i found myself chuckling. Instead of forwarding, i’m just putting it up… You know you’re a Minnesotan if.. 75% of your graduating high school class went to the Univ. of Minnesota. (maybe another 10% to Madison) You know more than 1 person who has hit a deer. People from [...]
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