How much of a loser must that guy all alone on the middle bench feel like when he got this picture as a memento?
Have you never seen projectile vomit? Ok. Now if I were Six Flags I would use the picture of the guy on the left, the one getting vomited on, in all my ads. That is a face of pure excitement like only Six Flags can bring out. (Vomit photoshopped out)
So the boys over at nonoudontgetit have been up to some top notch work lately. The first annual Lion Week just wrapped up and from one bloggggggg-er to another I have to say, I'm nominating you for a bloggers award. Is there such a thing? Yes. My question is what does the trophy look like, because everyone knows winning isn't about honor, or prestige or any of that shit. It's about the trophy and more importantly, the rings.
Hey, that's not an NBA championship ring. Damn. Maybe next year.
Now according to my research the blogger award looks like this...
And my question is; what the fuck does this trophy have to do with blogging?
A trophy has to have a utility. Or at least look cool.
For instance,
Stanley cups can be used to consume massive quantities of beer,
The world series trophy works ... as a hat,
And the Wimbolden women's trophy/plate/plaque to...serve sandwiches from, I guess.
The English are really great, the men get a normal trophy and the women get a plate. Awesome.
Always better than the jacket you get from winning the masters in golf
They don't even get a trophy celebration. Another man puts a jacket on them instead. Hmm
Is there any other human act which can degrade like a dunk? No. The dunk's power is literally limitless. Getting dunked on once, can change a player's career, ruin lives, end marriages and leave children orphaned. Take the case of one Frederick Weiss. Frederick, meet Vince Carter.
Ouch.
So if dunking is such a powerful force what keeps it in check?
How does the world not tremble at the feet of those with the ability to dunk on anyone, in doing so affirming their moral superiority and power?
(Love how Spike Lee got in Pippen's face)
Meet the defender, the one force between a dunker and the hoop. Every time a player jumps up in the air to dunk and a defender rises with him the world lies in the balance. Two powerful forces meet and when it's all over one will be humiliated and humbled.
Ouch.
Wow.
Within the world of basketball there are also some players who make a living by getting dunked on. They're in more posters than anyone in the leagues, because they're more a prop to get dunked on than player. They're slow, white, old and 7 footers.
I'm talking about guys like Big Z, Greg Ostertag,
and Shawn Bradley.
(It's sad when ESPN has a top-ten countdown of you getting dunked on.)
Al Hirschfeld was an artist who worked primarily drawing caricatures, primarily of Broadway stars, for the New York Times, to which he contributed to for over 60 years. His work is in the permanent collection of both MoMa and the Met. His capability to capture and exaggerate distinct and defining facial characteristics is superb. That Hirschfeld was able to re-create each subject's aura is a testament to his skill. The elegance of his lines are impeccable. The simple, clean drawings are just beautiful.
Annie Hall (Keaton and Allen)
Dizzy
Casablanca
Einstein
Marlon Brando
Clark Gable
Ralph Steadman
(Artist, but better known as Hunter Thompson's Illustrator)
This guy flicked 160 different graffiti writers and then organized their tags alphabetically. Basically the site is 160 different ways writers use each letter of the alphabet.
