yale to harvard: you suck
harvard to yale: we suck

this is the kind of stuff that, until now, only happens in the movies. a group of ambitious yale students donned fake “harvard pep squad” uniforms and handed out pieces of construction paper to fans on the harvard side of the field. they told the fans that when everyone held up their papers it would spell “go harvard” but in reality it spelled out “we suck”. what an amazing prank that went off without a hitch. the web site has some more details, better pictures and even a video of the prank.

it’s just too bad that games aren’t decided by clever antics — yale lost 35 to 3.

I-Mockery did has a great article on the lives of ghosts through a ton of NES games. If you dont want to read it at least check out the Zelda Holloween Rave at the bottom of the link, its awesome..

“Another ghost we all know and loathe is Ghini, the little fiend that stalks the graveyards of Hyrule in the Legend of Zelda. He could be killed without too much trouble, but touching the graves of his neighbors caused multiple, unkillable Ghinis to come out and haunt you to death. The only way to get rid of them was to find the original Ghini and stab him. This must’ve been one of the few games where you could desecrate the tombs of your ancestors. Actually, scratch that, it was fairly standard practice. I remember stalking out in the night as a young lad with my trusty plastic spade to see if there were any old men with Master Swords next to just festering skeletons hiding in our local cemetery. I still can’t get over my initial surprise when pushing over the first tombstone didn’t cause grandma’s restless spirit to emerge and scald me for biting my nails. Bummer. I was hoping for a midnight graveyard blowout the world hadn’t seen since Thriller. ”

that fight on friday was f’in sweet. i don’t care how it happened, who was responsible or what the penalties should be: sports brawls are great and whenever fans are involved they are even greater.

in a tribute to the motivation and fortitude of today’s interwebbers, there’s already a web page dedicated to friday’s fight where you can download the video and enjoy it over and over with your friends and family. especially your children. make sure to tell the kids that, yes, if you go to a sporting event chances are pretty good that you will end up on the business end of a punch to the face. i’m sure many parents are rejoicing over this, since it makes a convincing and effective argument when your kid complains that once again you bought the cheapest, farthest away seats money could buy. “it’s for your own good, dear.” indeed it is!

bringing parents and children closer together: just one more example of how sports brawls benefit mankind.

Streetlight Manifesto is coming back to boston for a tour in Feb! I might be the only person I know who is overly excited, but the tentative date is the 8th of Feburary according to some dude on skaisdead.com , not to mention a new album out the beginning of next year. Score one for ska-punk.

This is awesome. Johhny Damon’s likeness getting stenciled around New York city.

Catch the article here.

My HOME TOWN!!!…

…has sexy offenders. Not only that but “Who’s who of teaching” sex offenders. Pretty cool, now I bet you really wish you grew up in my town eh? The guy was a JV boys basketball coach, and I heard he slept with a junior (girl) at the high school. Worst is Im pretty sure his wife still teaches there, thats got to be awkward…

This article on the Guardian says that Ireland ranked #1 in a quality of life survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

It’s gotta be the Guinness….

following up on aaron’s post from a couple hours ago, i’ll go on record saying that this is not good news. creating gigantic retail conglomerates is a scary trend, since it puts all the power into the hands of the retailer. and i mean all the power. so much so that companies with such high volume like wal-mart (and now k-sears) can bascially set the price of goods that they buy from manufacturers.

for some good background on this, check out PBS’s new Frontline called “Is Wal-Mart Good for America?” i watched it last night and i gotta say the answer is definitely “no”. of course, PBS tends to lean a bit to the left so i’m sure there’s just a wee bit of bias in there. the site says that by friday you’ll be able to watch the whole hour-long show online. definitely worth the time.

I dont quite understand how a bankrupt company could buy Sears buts its happened…
Its weird since Sears market capitalization is over a billion dollars greater, its
like Ubekistan conquering Europe…

I found this on Salon.com today. It’s kinda long but it’s worth the read.

The basic point is that it’s not red states versus blue states but urban versus rural culture. They had this cool map of voting breakdown by county instead of state.

“So how do we live and what are we for? Look around you, urbanite, at the multiplicity of cultures, ethnicities, and tribes that are smashed together in every urban center (yes, even Seattle): We’re for that. We’re for pluralism of thought, race, and identity. We’re for a freedom of religion that includes the freedom from religion–not as some crazy aberration, but as an equally valid approach to life. We are for the right to choose one’s own sexual and recreational behavior, to control one’s own body and what one puts inside it. We are for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The people who just elected George W. Bush to a second term are frankly against every single idea outlined above.”

Thanks to wonderful groups like this, Saving Private Ryan wasn’t show on my local ABC station. I cannot praise their efforts enough; that movie could single handedly destroy our society.

“But ABC crossed the line by airing at least 20 “f” words and 12 “s” words during prime time viewing hours!” Wow, I can only image what those “f” and “s” words are, I bet the’re frick and Slimmy. Seriously now, this kind of stuff makes me so happy I live in a blue state.

Oh and if your worried about your farm land disapearing, they can help. What a service.

This has got to be one of the stranger stongbad emails in a while… On another note, I’ve been making some changes to the site recently, mostly that the option to choose your skin has gone away, also I’ll hopefully get this survey thing going.

I haven’t even checked out any of the links in this one. But the article alone is hilarious.

The Slate guide to managing your posse.

Seriously we need to know stuff like this:

“It’s probably safer to pick fights with one of those socially conscious nonviolent rappers like Mos Def or Common. If you want to play it really safe, you should insult socially conscious rappers who were popular 15 years ago like Digable Planets. (Cool like dat, my ass.)”

I guess drinking a 4 year old Schlitz wont kill you much to the disappointment of these guys

Seriously, I know I’m not the current-events wiz, but a 200 dollar bill, with Duyba on it. maybe on foodstamps

200 dollar bill

Homer: [on the phone, disguising his voice]
There’s a $10,000 bill in it for you.
Barney: Oh yeah? Which president’s on it?
Homer: Uh… All of them. They’re having a party. Jimmy Carter’s
passed out on the couch.
Barney: Wow!