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Date Archives July 2012
Goodbye to the Brixton sun
This popped into my head while I was trying to sleep last night: Under Armour is selling Gotham Rogues merchandise. $40 for a t-shirt? $4 is too much for me.
Midnight nooses from boxcar cadavers
Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and Wolverine – none of the four most popular superheroes are currently played by American actors. It's three Brits and an Aussie. America is a country of 311+ million people. We couldn't find four viable actors? Batman is up for reclamation. Jon…
Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week
30. Time Travel Thong (Aqua Something You Know Whatever, S09E05) Some context: Seth MacFarlane's (Killed) 'Flintstones' TV Remake Stray Observations Idea: A "Breaking Bar" that serves food featured on Breaking Bad – uncut pizza, a breakfast chicken chalupa, tots with Franch sauce (Breaking Bad, S05E02)…
Live Stream: The Dark Knight Rises
Previously on Adam Riff™: The Dark Knight Rises (Macro) I have now seen it seven times. Fuck James Holmes. Television is ideally 16:9 and film is ideally 4.32:3 – bizarro times. Tommy Carcetti cameo. 1. Airplane rises 2. Bane: The fire rises 3. Bane and…
Human waste shuts down BART escalators
When work crews pulled open a broken BART escalator at San Francisco's Civic Center Station last month, they found so much human excrement in its works they had to call a hazardous-materials team. San Francisco treat. Human waste shuts down BART escalators
Do you think you've made the right decision this time?
Tennis was added to the Summer Games as a medal sport in 1988 after a 64-year absence. Its presence there is awkward in some ways. The Grand Slam tournaments rank ahead of the Olympics in prestige within the game, and traditionalists might argue that a…
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Past present and future tense
I rinsed the inside of my face with Jimmy's last beer and vowed never to stick my head in a bread sack again. [111] I finished reading Knockemstiff and The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock, the former a collection of short stories,…
Demon Days
// reading old issues of our high school newspaper // Jose: How did you get away with publishing this stuff? Jon: You were in the editor-in-chief. You tell me. And I didn't, in the end. Jose: You know, I bargained your punishment down to a…