“Joe, Matthew is making me see Vietnam in the foyer!”

broderic on September 9, 2008

If the rumors are true, then Lance Armstrong might race in Le Tour next year. This is the perfect way to destroy our memories of his complete dominance by coming out of a three year retirement and trying to win at one of the toughest endurance trials known to man.

It’s as if Rocky Balboa tried to make a come back… Err… It’s as if Jim Palmer tried to make a come back… Umm… Or Brett Favre… Oh.

Well, it would be a disappointment to see him in anything but the maillot jaune.

“Well, these may not be those, but that is not too shabby. “

broderic on September 8, 2008

Link of the Day [9.08.08]

When NewsRadio Quote Month started, the DVD for the show hadn’t been released. I had to scour the interwebs for NewsRadio quotes. Fast forward a few years later, and you can get the entire five seasons on DVD. Thank you megacorp.

When you finally watch them you see the brilliance of the show. I will be happy to put NewsRadio up against any other sitcom ever produced as the greatest comedy. Evah. It starts strong from the pilot episode through the death of Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman), and although uneven and lacking the finer wit of the previous four, it’s fifth season grows and grows on you.

Here’s a fan writing for The Onion’s AV Club wherein she watches the first two seasons on DVD in the first box set. All her synopsis of those episodes are a great reads and brings back fond memories of each show. It’s also a font of NewsRadio quotes that I haven’t used yet. Heh. Heh.

Where’s my discs?

http://www.avclub.com/content/tvclub/show/NewsRadio

“Britches?”

broderic on September 7, 2008

Link of the Day [9.07.08]

For all you car junkies out there. Top Gear does plenty of testing of cars. Nice fast cars, and they’re not afraid to push the limit. In with a British feel.

http://www.topgear.com/

“They use a word that rhymes with ‘gritches’ that starts with a B.”

broderic on September 6, 2008

Link of the Day [9.06.08]

Liking anime means that sometimes you end up immersing yourself in that otaku culture. You like what the crowd like (Macross Frontier, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya). You do what the crowd does (wish to go to Japan or Akihibara). You buy things the crowd buys. Anime figures.

Good Smile Company makes very nice figures of characters from anime. They’re mainly the girls, because nothing gets the otaku heart pumping like 2D girls rendered in 3D. Finally, Good Smile Company is recognizing that the otaku culture is no longer contained on the shores of Japan, and with the globalization of anime, it can be found all over the world. They’re creating an English version of the site run by Danny Choo to get all information about their line figures to those who have money to burn. Now I don’t have to learn Japanese.

http://eng.goodsmile.info/top/eng/

“These are actuall rap lyrics. ‘Life ain’t nothin’ but gritches and money,’ only they don’t use ‘gritches.'”

broderic on September 5, 2008

Link of the Day [9.05.08]

I sing the praises of Macross Frontier, and for those who have watched it, it’s good, right? Yet, I wouldn’t have even cared for it, if not for watching Robotech, the US derivation/adaptation of Macross, Mospaeda, and Southern Cross anime.

You can get Robotech via iTunes, now. In a perfect world, we would also be able to get the original Macross and Macross Frontier as well. When are we going to break down those country ID barriers? Steve Jobs tear down that wall!!!

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTVSeason?id=286444269&s=143441

(h/t Anime News Network)

“Je vous telephoné un autre temps. Mon supervisor est ici.”

broderic on September 5, 2008

The Republican National Convention is on. John McCain is set to give his acceptance speech. All week long it was about how the real nominee for change is John McCain.

Conservatives change? Conservatives are looking to make a radical break with the present? Isn’t that the antithesis of being conservative? Looking for the change we need, it’s going to be a lot more of the same. I thought they want it to stay the status quo? Being conservative is to not make any sudden changes that might cause sudden upheavals.

No more Bush. No more McCain phoniness. No more conservatives. No more Republicans in office. That’s the change we can believe in.

“Do I hear the plaintive cry of the crested North American quitter? Quit-WHO! Quit-WHO!”

broderic on September 4, 2008

If it’s September, then it must be that time of year that the Baltimore Orioles baseball team pack it up and head south for the winter. Their record recedes from .500 mark quicker than the falling leaf.

Have they won any game this month? Will they win any?

M A R G E texted me earlier this week that tickets are cheap. They should just give tickets away or at least do a $0.10 beer night or at least $1.00 adjusted for inflation. They would fill that park up with drunks and maybe one would be crazy enough to streak across the infield and hump the second base umpire’s leg.

Well, with the cheap tickets, we should catch at least one more game. Join me won’t you?

“I thought it was because of the rhythm. You know, rap-rap, rappity-tap.”

broderic on September 4, 2008

Link of the Day [9.04.08]

Every time I watch an anime about school yard crushes, there’s inevitably a scene of bike riding. You don’t see that on 90210 do you?

All over the world, people are riding bikes as a form of transportation. They go to school, work or to the store. What did they do to make it so much easier to ride a bike? Can the US change? Or are our cities, towns, and homes too inhospitable to developing a bike culture?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/30/AR2008083000632_pf.html

“Wait a minute, you didn’t know rap had words?”

broderic on September 3, 2008

Link of the Day [9.03.08]

Well, August passed by, and I’m still stuck just short of 500 miles for the year. This is worst than last year. I rode about 45 minute per outing then, but a whole lot more of them. This year, the number of times I rode is less, but I put more time in per ride. And again, like last year, my August has been a disappointment. I can only blame myself and lack of motivation caused by the fact that long rides alone suck.

So reading this excerpt of Jonathon Vaughter’s, the manager for Garmin-Chipotle (nee Team Slipstream), ride with Senator Kerry (D-Mass) during last weeks DNC, I just want to go out and cruise. It’s pretty amazing that a sitting Senator can keep up with a former pro cyclists. What’s he do and when does he get the time to ride like that? And if he’s fearless screaming down hair pin descents in the Rockies, what happened in 2004?

I know one thing: I’m in that 12mph lolly-gagging group. I have to get back to the 15 mph.

http://www.slipstreamsports.com/2008/08/29/my-un-conventional-ride