Thursday, December 11, 2008

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Top Ten Albums 2008

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Brian Eno/David Byrne - Everything that Happens Will Happen Today
Dr. Dog - Fate
James Murphy and Pat Mahoney - Fabriclive.36
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
MGMT - Otacular Spectacular
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Santogold - Santogold
TV on the Radio - Dear Science,

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

... Even if you aren't going to buy anything

Oh Andy Rooney. Speaking in the parlance of the everyman but with a growing senility and cynicism, like a conservative Larry David.



This moment of zen reminds me of a classic that is apparently on the interwebs but can't be embedded. It's worth the click through though, even if you're not going to buy anything.

Team of Ballers

Turns out Obama is staffing his cabinet full of "Ballers", in this case meaning basketball players. James Jones, Eric Holder, Timothy Geithner, and Susan Rice are all ballers to some extent.


While the obvious humorous next step not invoking racism is to talk about them settling international disputes with games of HORSE, there is a much larger opportunity here - having this team as a powerful force for good in the great robot war. The ability of basketball players to defeat robots has been proven long ago, namely in the famous documentary "The Harlem Globetrotter's on Gilligan's Island".



If this doesn't give a much-needed jolt to consumer/investor confidence in America, I don't know what will.