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If this blog has revealed only one significant thing this year (which may indeed be the case), it is that we Americans have a serious problem with sign composition.
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And on that absurd note, I take my leave of 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
The Denver Broncos soundly defeated the San Diego Chargers on this past Monday night to improve their record for the season to 6-0. However, they are certainly not undefeated, at least not in all senses: for the second consecutive week, the Broncos donned throwback uniforms that were nothing less than a sartorial train wreck.
For years now, the NFL has tinkered with the look of its on-field product by having teams don “throwback” uniforms, i.e., ones designed to replicate the look of the team’s uniforms from an earlier era. This costuming of the players for a game or two had proven popular in Major League Baseball, and the same has generally applied in football. If nothing else, the fact that they continue to do it is evidence that it has been a shot in the arm for the league’s merchandising revenue.
Then the Broncos took the field in Denver on Sunday, October 11, 2009 in what the team’s website called an “American Football League legacy game against the Boston Patriots… to commemorate 50 seasons of Broncos football,” and proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that some history is best forgotten. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Denver Broncos, ESPN, fashion, football, football uniforms, NFL, San Diego Chargers, sports, wtf?
Tennis player Serena Williams made more headlines with the tirade that caused her elimination from the recent U.S. Open than she would have if she had simply won the tournament. I’d post the video of the incident if it were more illuminating; unfortunately, what Serena said to the judge is not audible over the crowd noise.
It was a bad call—or at the very least, an inappropriately persnickety call at that critical point in the match. Williams stalked toward the offending judge, pointing at her with the hand in which she was gripping the ball for her next serve. An anecdotal consensus has formed that she declared her intention to “shove this ball down your fucking throat.”
Not cool, to be sure. However, considered against the broader history of sports tirades it was small-fry stuff. The following are but two examples of what I mean.
Tags: baseball, basketball, Darko Milicic, Earl Weaver, profanity, Serena Williams, sports, tennis, tirades, videos, words
At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? Read the rest of this entry »
I gotta hand it to Justine Lai. I may say that I love history… but she luuuuhhhves history.
In her ongoing, mostly NSFW painting series “Join or Die,” Ms. Lai depicts herself having sex with each President of the United States, in chronological order. At the current time, the artist is enjoying a cigarette (so to speak) following her encounter with 18th president Ulysses S. Grant. Shown at right is her imagined congress with president number seven, Andrew Jackson, who simultaneously delivers the Old Hickory and the ol’ hickey.
Tags: actors, Bill Clinton, comedy, feminism, Fresh Air, gender, gender politics, George Washington, Justine Lai, Lincoln, NSFW, painting, Presidents, sex
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