these made me laugh

maybe its my jingle brain but i think their song parodies are the best thing that family guy does. with the nice little segue into danza of course

bring him back. where is he now?

comical shootout

unless you're a fan of slovan liberec or dinamo bucharest, which i doubt any of the readers of this blog are, then you would have quite enjoyed the penalty shootout last night for the europa league playoff spot.

after the first leg had to be abandoned in bucharest after dinamo fans started to invade the pitch with 5 mins left, (well not even the pitch just the track around the pitch) slovan took a 3-0 lead back home to the czech republic thinking progression had to be in the bag.

But incredibly, Dinamo bagged three goals to send it into extra time, and then to penalties, where the hilarity ensued. This picks up after the first four rounds, but the Dinamo keeper has guessed correctly every single time up to this point, and still hasn't made a save. His plight is just hilarious to me, I dont know why, maybe its the head to head pep talk he keeps on getting from a teammate only to have the exact same thing happen again.

I was thinking, the only way this is going to end is if someone hits him with a ball, and thats exactly what happened as little jidlicko stepped up to the spot, already with his shirt in his mouth, (classic sign of choking) before he even took the kick!

Its also worth pointing out how both coaches waited to have their african players kick until the 8th or 9th rounds, trying to keep them as far out of the spotlight an potential scapegoat's role as possible.

why not?

never heard that nickname though


i'll punch every baseball bat right in the face

nfl is dead to me

not that it was ever that alive, but yeah i'm still plenty bitter after the worst superbowl of all time. anyway, lets see what chevy thinks of our chances this year.

well i have kissed a man

white?


your paaaaaaid


...and one hell of a model american

radiohead

so i saw radiohead last night. they mostly lived up to my expectations, it certainly could have been a little better, and i'll attribute most of that to the venue, but all in all it was still pretty special.

Going in, I didn't really know what to expect from the stage/crowd/atmosphere. I'd say about half of the crowd was just in town for the concert and the other half was just czechs with money or a little curiousity to see what all the buzz was about but weren't really familiar with too much radiohead. most of the tickets go to all the big companies and they were having problems getting rid of them all, so there were more than a few suits in the crowd. (i'd say your typical czech likes hard rock mostly anyway, think depeche mode but with a modern twist, so needless to say radiohead isn't exactly up their alley.)

but despite the atmospheric shortcomings, Radiohead failed to dissapoint. The show was typically atypical with little Thommy Yorke (who is really quite small in stature) really exerting some serious energy prancing around the stage all the while not forgetting to add that eccentric touch by putting a lemon on the keyboard during "everything in its right place" for the lyric "yesterday i woke up sucking a lemon." or the set seemingly ending with the band already having left the stage but the music still going of "how to dissapear completely." those were just a few.

in terms of highlights, the encore was probably my favorite half hour of the whole set. Pyramid song, National Anthem, 2+2, etc. Other memorable ones for me were 15 step, There There, Lucky, and predictably Idioteque with Thom really getting into it. I kept hoping for a couple things that I was sure weren't going to come and they didn't but what are you gonna do? They obviously played more of In Rainbows than I would have liked, (i think maybe 8/10 songs) but they were nice enough to play at least one maybe two songs from most every cd so that was cool. They even threw a couple of new songs in there, but I couldn't really tell if I liked them or not.

fastest man ever

where's your shoes?

so will this knucklehead run through the line tonight in the 200m like he did in Beijing and set consecutive world records, consecutively, on the worlds biggest stage?

i wouldn't bet against him.

here's some interesting lunchtime reading for all you small market fans

man united look really shaky by the way. nice to see.

and this is probably harder than it looks, but the guy in the background isn't too impressed.