SLTHQ is about to close-up shop and the Hurricane and I are about to go out and get weird… So, in honor of the Lakers game tonight, here is a video that if you don’t get chills you may be dead. the MVP chant at the end (yes I know it was for the 2008 season) was fantastic.
Go Lakers.
I really have nothing to say here. I am so god dam stressed at work I may kill someone. The only bright spot of the day is I was told by a girl I was good in the sac (I am as surprised as you), so I am pumped about that. But other than that I may kill someone at any point. Why do fridays always have to suck? I have been all the phone all day. Let me ask you a question. Has anyone, EVER, in the history of conference calls, gotten anything productive done. I feel like people talk to talk and waste my time.. but I am good in the boom boom room, so…
In honor of the greatest movie we have never seen I am posting the newest episode of SLT’s favorite running Viral inverview show “Between Two Furns” with guest apperance by Bradley Cooper. (I laughed twice..so the normal person will probably pee themselves, which I have have not done in the boom boom room)
I was hesitant to post this pic because, well he is wearing a Yankees hat. But it is too good to pass up… and since this is “Free Form Friday” (whatever the hell that means) I figured it was the right time.
Hopefully this is not used as fodder for Boston sports sites…
So I am starting a new thing today, which I have not told my partner (in life and blogsphere). This, unlike other days will be about anything and everything. We will leave no path untouched, no story untold, no stone unturned.
So today, we will begin with the hottest man with a clef chin this side of the Milky Way Galaxy. That of course is the man, the myth, the legend Mr. Tom Brady. His first open practice was yesterday and he of course was FAAAANNNNNNNNtastic. Then this morning he was on the morning talk show “Dennis & Callahan” on WEEI Boston Sports Radio, and luckily for all of you I found the audio and give you the opportunity to listen to.
“I realized how much I love the game, How much I missed the game”.. “I am willing to do whatever coach asks to become a better player, better teammate”
In honor of “The Hangover” that comes out next week, here is Zach Galifianakis starring in a Kayne West video. A few things to note:
– This is friggin hilarious
– They still make music videos?
– How have I not seen this? (came out in 2007 I think)
– Who is that other dude?
– They still make music videos?
So the big news today is that AT&T went to not one but 2 parties in Arkansas (Allen’s home state), each which help about 300 people during the Idol Finale. AT&T provided each guest with a cell phone and taught them how to “power text”, which shows you how to send 10 text’s at once, this apparently is against Idol rules.
OK, lets break this down. Of those 600, how many did not have Cell phones when they walked in? 100? no way, I will go with 10. OK from those 600, how many people did not know you could not send multiple text messages at once? this number is probably higher, lets say 200.
But even if everyone did not have a cell phone and did not know how to text:
600 people x 10 text messages = 6,000
Now lets say each person sent 20 of these
6,000 x 20 = 120,000 votes.
Ok so Allen won by a “landslide” and there was nearly 100 million votes so a landslide has to mean he got 60 million votes at least… So I don’t really think this had any affect (effect?, I never know).
From NY times:
AT&T May Have Swayed ‘Idol’ Results
LOS ANGELES — AT&T, one of the biggest corporate sponsors of “American Idol,” might have influenced the outcome of this year’s competition by providing phones for free text-messaging services and lessons in casting blocks of votes at parties organized by fans of Kris Allen, the Arkansas singer who was the winner of the show last week.
Representatives of AT&T, whose mobile phone network is the only one that can be used to cast “American Idol” votes via text message, provided the free text-messaging services at two parties in Arkansas after the final performance episode of “American Idol” last week, according to the company and people at the events.
There appear to have been no similar efforts to provide free texting services to supporters of Adam Lambert, who finished as the runner-up to Mr. Allen.
Since then, angry supporters of Mr. Lambert have flooded online chat boards with messages claiming irregularities in the competition’s voting.
Officials of Fox Broadcasting declined to discuss the situation. In a statement issued Tuesday, a spokesman for AT&T said, “In Arkansas, we were invited to attend the local watch parties organized by the community. A few local employees brought a small number of demo phones with them and provided texting tutorials to those who were interested.”
What is this world coming to, honestly. I wonder what the producer Preston Hollow channel 21 was thinking. “Hey, I have a great idea these people found a cheeto in a 99 cent bag at a local gas station that they say resembles Jesus. Holy shit.. Jackpot, que the Emmy. Get Beth Wagner down there right away” and then what is going on with the Preston Hollow news paper, front page, really guys?
By far my favorite part is this woman saying I was eating them from my hand, taking them one by one and puttin them from my hand to my mouth.. Someone send that to Wikipedia, we now know how to eat food. Thank god she didn’t just slam her face into the bag and eat them all at once, she could have eaten 1 armed Cheesus…
1 Arm, really Preston Hollow & Channell 21, 1 arm. I mean go buy $100 worth and I bet you get one with Mary holding happy, gorgeous, glorious, little, tiny baby Jesus ..
Haha, lets put it on E-bay… why not just send it to the Vatican so they can enshrine it.
Thanks to the Consumerist for the story
Mark Sanchez should have just done work on that cheerleader in the end zone… that would have probably won him that jersey.
So I do not watch this thing called “Sportscenter” anymore because it is one fluff pierce after another. But if I did I would have known last night, not today, that:
a) The refs from last nights Lakers/Nuggets game where obviously giving a wink, wink from the commish to ensure the lakers to win. (Arthur obviously will claim otherwise) (video re-enactment of Kobe be fouled in a soccer game below)
2) I am sure some piece on Favre’s shoulder, and the fact that Manny may be voted into the All-Star game
z) Carlos Zambrano absolutely flipped his shit during the cubs game last night. Z, what exactly did the coke machine do to you?
So I have always been a strong advocate for Conan. I saw him in 2002 live at his 30 rock Studio with a special guest appearance by Mr.T who did the whole in the year 200 bit. Anyway he is an Irish Boston guy and I support him, I however do not support NBC and their crappy ass add campaign. I mean “have you ever tired Conan?” Really, that is what you are going with.. “He is good with any meal”.. So stupid. How much did these advertisers get?
Still WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY better than any Fallon comercials