saving this for posterity.

from the low-bee board, before it gets lost.



jones wrote:



ALL OF THIS IS WACK AS HELL. Gun imagery is almost as played out as RIPPING OFF THE CHANEL LOGO. What's next, another Misfits parody? A rolling stones parody? what about the NY Yankees logo? There's only 49 shitty overpriced shirts based off that, why not make it an even 50? And the Versace shirt is balls, too.



crooke and castles wrote, "Someone told me this was t-shirt of the year for '06...? You decide. Yall know this 1, Masked up Medus' Head Holla."



Wearing bandanas over your face for crook appeal is bad enough but wearing a shirt of someone else wearing a bandana is a postmodern crisis.



crooks and castles, "Crafted in a stripe pattern to get away from the all over craze...but it's still an all over print!" HOLY SHIT FUCKIN GENIUS!



Hov should have caked up and bought The Mountain, and before anyone accuses me of hating, just let me say IM HATING. I fuckin hate all this shit.



Dan the Swede is going to sponge paint me an all-over print t-shirt of my balls on the forehead of Osama bin laden wearing that versace t shirt and it's going to be so gnarly you'll need special 4-D glasses to even begin to comprehend what's going on and when you do your eyes will gush blood and your boner will rip through your jeans like a football team tearing through a paper banner as they take the field and some guy from hypebeast will take a picture of the shirt and your reaction and try to post it but it will cause their server to melt into a puddle which i'll then recast into 666 limited edition watches that i'll sell to nigophiles on ebay and then use the proceeds to buy crooks and castles and run it into the unholy ground from whence it sprung and then with the money left over i'll buy the 40/40 club and turn it into a  gay bar with no real patrons just cutouts of S&M dudes wearing bapestas and spanking each other with unused skateboard decks confiscated from pharrell's cottage in palm springs and the lines will be around the block but no one will ever get in and then we'll see who has the fucking t shirt of the fucking year and it will be me.

another weird dream

had a dream where I would go into my living room, realize that my table was rotting (it's not), and spend the day finding a new table. the next day in the dream, it restarted, with another rotting table that i had to replace. this happened a couple more times before I woke up.

havin these dreams

In which I was a Khazakistani immigrant. Not Borat, but based on that. I was cruising around looking for work like the Mexicans in the latest South Park, and just kept getting shit on / made fun of everywhere by Xenophobic people even though I was knocking out the park whatever they wanted me to do. It was real wack, gave me a new perspective on why maybe the cultural effects of that movie aren't the greatest.



Been having a lot of these dreams recently, where I'm in a situation that I previously felt sort of ambivalent or distant towards, and I'm put in that situation, and my opinion shifts the next day as I think about the dream. Couple nights ago it was the war in Iraq. It goes without saying that I think of that war as a sinkhole for America for a thousand reasons. But in the dream I was a deployed soldier, an NCO at most, I don't remember, and a week elapsed in the dream as I would imagine it after reading--I can't remember the guy's name, but he's a former SEAL working as a war correspondent in Iraq, attached to a platoon, one of the only ones with the respect of the solders. But the things that happened in my dream are run of the mill over there. There was an IED, and it blew up our truck, and we got pinned down in a building, and I woke up.



I kept thinking, "when will this end," and all the things I was missing, and the fifteen months more of deployment I would have. I got hit by the IED explosion, somehow knew I wouldn't walk again, and woke up.



Scary.

300

Was alright. It was badly directed and the editing was spotty. Also, why does every epic have to have bitches singing like it's an opera? I don't want that, I want the sights and the sounds of BATTLE.



The real reason for writing this is that one of the bad guys, Theron, is none other than the Wire's Detective Jimmy McNulty, and this just dawned on me.

flight

max: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxUoCr4ZMDI

alex: that's how he gets his paltry 10 day contract check

alex: they put it on the top of the backboard

alex: if he doesn't get it he goes hungry



NEXT DAY EDIT: James White played his first NBA minutes last night in the Spurs rout of the Warriors. This dude lays down a pretty funny re-account. His final numbers were 9 points, 3-4 shooting and 3-3 from the line.  He also grabbed 3 rebounds in 15 minutes of play.

The monday all nighter.

Too much work two weeks running. I gotta step my weekend planning game up. I gotta KNOW that Mondays are the least fun days and own that shit

this is the new shit

max: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBVqX2cmVtY

max: do you remember that video

max: commercial i mean

will: of course

max: so good

will: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7_M7CAbrlc

will: look at timbo

max: what about him

will: how he hiccups...get put on

will: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeZIIgbPzzI

max: nice

will: this is the new shit

will: i want to make these

will: omg

will: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcalThynTAI

will: this is straight absurd

max: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xpvbU834Io

will: what is it

max: stars are blind

max: sims 2 vid

will: yo theres mad different versions of this one song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD30R6Ga-FE

max: LUNEY TUNES... ok i have got to stop watching these

will: wow

will: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdmzmOYM7DE

max: yo i fucks w this song

max: i think its actually a good song

will: dude fuck with the video

max: the video is great

will: this is one of the best vids ive ever seen

max: its really clutch that they get the cheerleaders and the dude that gets embarrassed in the cafeteria to be a real teen parody

will: i could watch paris hilton vids all day

Watching Al Gore on C-Span

Al Gore Mentions that his card / petition on his website has gotten 563,000 people in the first three days of it being on the website. People are joining the support for the Global Warming issue at ONE HUNDRED PER SECOND.



He really has turned himself from a total bore to one of the most moving orators in the world.



He began with a summation of an Inconvenient Truth. Global Warming is a planetary emergency, etc. He urged that Global Warming shouldn't be a bi-partisan issue, as in other countries it is an issue in which parties try to out think each other toward the solution, not debate its existence.



He suggested an immediate Freeze, which is important, but then, he displayed a ton on vision and suggested reducing taxes on the working class and replacing the lost revenue with taxes on pollution to corporations. Other countries are seriously doing this.



In terms of alternative energy, he advocated small scale generation from localized and

personal generators set up in a sort of "Electricity Web," drawing on

increasingly efficient wind and solar power, as a result of an

increasingly competitive market. Definitely sounds possible, another amazing vision to have.



In the Senatorial responses, the Democrats are showing him love, while one of the republicans posed that "There is a theory that Global Warming is caused by Sunspots." Al Gore is to this committee as Bill Russell was to the NBA.



He just explained the economic relationship between Oil and Coal with a degree of intelligence that left the one of the senators that was grilling him on it stunned. It makes me really wish we had a president that was smarter than my cat.



Gore just got some knowledge dropped on him by Senator...I don't know, one of the people he's talking to, and instead of flinching or debating, he just says, "I think you make a great point, and I've learned from you."



How novel this is! He's so eloquent! In responding to Inhofe, his most hostile Republican critic, who tried to undermine Gore's argument that this is an issue of faith and not of science, "I don't proselytize my own beliefs but all religious traditions hold the similar teachings. I do believe that the Earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, and the purpose of the Earth is to glorify God, and you cannot do that while heaping contempt on God's creation."



UPDATE: And he's acquired a legitimate sense of comedic timing. As Barbara Boxer was closing, he politely interrupted her and asked, "Do I get somekind of statue for this or something...?" Everyone laughed except maybe Inhofe.

It's Like a Movie.

The unfolding US Attorney scandal reads like a movie. What I mean to say is that if one were setting out to write a movie about Government Corruption...well, here's the article. Let's see if College has taught me anything.



We Establish in the city, in the US Attorney's office, at Christmas. Inside an office, we see various shots of newspaper clippings that display...uh...Alan Conroy as an extremely competent US Attorney. You know, I'd say let's have Edward Norton play him, but I'm going to go out on a limb, Stephen Colbert, if he could play the straight man.



He's in the office, on the phone. He's pissed. We find out that he's finding out that he's being fired. Cut to the other end of the phone. Bill Murray, being evil. The



Interrupting: It's 3:45 AM and I just went to the deli to get some soda. As I walk downstairs I see my crazy 85 year old chinese guy neighbor walking out of my other 75 year old chinese woman neighbor's apartment in his stockings. As I walk by him he says hi in Chinese and gives me the clearest "I just got laid" look I've ever seen. It was both awesome and horrifying in the truest sense of both words.



Anyway, back to the story. I can't really think after what I just saw.



Suffice it to say that he's told he's fired for performance reasons. He tries to go to the press with the story and they rebuff him. He goes to the other main character, the head of a political blog. This is the Robert-Redford-in-A-Few-Good-Men character. Together they dig up the story of how the Government conspired to fire all the district attorneys that weren't loyal in a conspiracy by the President's top Advisor to institute overtly Republican and loyal Attorneys by abusing a state of the Patriot act. On the other end, while this is happening, Bill Murray, basically Albert Gonzales / Karl Rove, will try to cover his tracks and will maintain his innocence. The President will try to protect the architect of the plan, but would be threatened with impeachment as evidence mounts (I think this could happen, as much as that is to say it's remotely possibly. It depends on how blatantly Bush ignores them, but then if they threaten it, they'd have to follow through. Hell, I don't know). So the guy testifies, and the climactic moment is a lawyer / defendant situation similar to A Few Good Men if it wasn't hilarious now because of Tom Cruise's crazy. The Defendant would lose it under the questioning (from evidence they've found), and it would culminate in: "You didn't want to testify under oath because you had to lie." He snaps back, "Of course! How could I answer! This was my chance to shape this country for a Generation!" Hopefully Karl Rove will testify and give us an equally megalomaniacal speech as he goes down in flames.



Hopefully we'll get an actual quote.



Also, I don't know how this would get worked into the movie, but really revolutionary. The TPMmuckraker is asking people to help them go through the 3,000 pages of Documents released by the DoJ and post pertinent and damning quotes in the comments of the blog.This is a great example of how the internet and blogging really is shifting the way things are happening. How unimaginable would something like this have been 20 years ago? 10 years ago? FIVE years ago? I feel like we often take this for granted.



On an unrelated note, I wonder how old you have to be to run for mayor. That might be an excellent thing to do.

Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle

I just finished watching this particular piece of film. A camera crew focuses solely on Zidane throughout a Real Madrid match against Villareal. It was filmed in his last season with Madrid before he retired as a sort of tribute to him and his epicness.



It's really interesting to watch one player throughout a game, even off the ball, especially a playmaker as prolific as Zidane. It's a look inside his head, the game as he sees it. All the mannerisms that you wouldn't see watching an entire game, focusing on the collective experience instead of the individual. With this, we see how Zizou directs the team, how well he controls the ball, how little he touches the ball, even little things like how he kicks the ground/drags his feet like a horse when he walks.



His comments about the game as he's watching it are subtitled in sporadically. It's edited really well, with a great soundtrack by Mogwai.



I think it's groundbreaking, that it really shows how sports can become "art" or at least an important subjective experience in a concrete accomplishment, as opposed to being talked about on the internet.



I'd like to see it replicated for a basketball player, Iverson springs to mind as by far the best for this. Or maybe Duncan, even though his game is boring, he's one of the most intelligent players in the league, if not the most. Or, obviously, Gilbert. The only problem that could arise is that soccer is kind of a natural fit for something like this because the game is so continuous--I don't know how well it'd work for basketball with stops for fouls and timeouts and such.