Bleeding Brain Grow

Via Zach, a cool video of MC Paul Barman, the best white Ivy League animator/emcee that our society has yet produced:

A team full of A-Rods

Via With Leather:

Morbid tourism

Who wants to join Matt and I at the Michael Jackson auction? I want the remains of Ben.

Go go go

Detroit’s Platinum Pied Pipers are now PPP:

R&B albums rarely combine the multiple musical legacies of one given city and catch the zeitgeist of its time as masterfully as PPP’s sophomore disc, Abundance (Ubiquity). As the title suggests, producer Waajeed and multi-instrumentalist Saadiq—the group’s two brainiacs—pack so much historical reference, so much modern perspective, so much deft musicality, so much lyrical ingenuity, and so much vivacity that Abundance is full of artistic riches.

Check ‘em out.

The more you know

Blossom from “Blossom” has a Ph.D in neuroscience from UCLA.

More more more

Zach on the MSU-UM incident:

how many times you watch video? pat and i were watching it last night, the slash does not look hard, you can see it good in the last view, but it is a very very very dumb play. and has no room in hockey. the punch from behind or whatever it was is pretty awful, the dude lost his nugget and bashed the guy from behind. if that whack at the end hadn’t happened would this be a big deal? or just another roughing penalty?

Fair point and good questions.

I’ve watched it probably 15 times, I really wish there were better camera angles. Unfortunately hockey technology is stuck 20 years in the past (the authorities blew all their cash on the glow puck and now we’ve got Blades of Steel-level camera work.)

Here’s our number one

Lebron’s big decision, via TrueHoop.

This might be terrible

It’s pretty convenient that this movie is coming out during a time of great international economic turmoil:

If Clive Owen is in, I’m in.

That’s what I’m saying

Dana Stevens of Slate on Doubt:

Doubt (Miramax Films) has a flaw that movie critics will fall on like crazed Swedish vampires and most audiences won’t care about at all: It’s a filmed play that feels like exactly that.

I’m no critic, but that’s exactly my problem with Doubt and Frost/Nixon. I’m sure I’ll enjoy both movies in the comfort of my home, but I don’t get to the movie theater as often as I’d like, so when I do get there, I want to see a movie. Not a lightly adapted play. Though I enjoy a good play as much as the next guy.

Last night, I saw Slumdog Millionaire, which was a really enjoyable movie. Great score, great colors, engaging and cinematic plot. A movie!

So get off it, they just want the profit

Very good piece on the economic crisis, via Marginal Revolution.