Thursday, April 06, 2006
This week's Thursday Tipsheet is brought to you by Mach 3 TurboTM, the new razor of the TimsHead household. (Bought on clearance. Shavers with only three blades are obsolete now?)
On 'HeadHood Heavy Rotation: Death Cab for Cutie, Transatlanticism; Death Cab for Cutie, Plans; Death Cab for Cutie, The Photo Album.
Celebrating: The Florida Gators, winning the national men's college basketball championship by defeating UCLA, 73-57. Just a shame such an exciting NCAA tournament ended with such an anticlimactic yawner which scored the second-lowest TV ratings in 31 years.
Not Celebrating: UCLA fans who received a congratulatory email from Amazon.com for winning the national championship ... even though the Bruins lost. Oops! (Thanks to skeetle09 for the lead.)
Pop Culture Will Eat Itself, Vol. XLIV: Anyone remember when ESPN cared about sports journalism? Not any more, with the new alleged reality show, Bonds on Bonds. Yes, that Barry Bonds, the one who is probably chasing the home run record after years of steroid use. Yet the show on ESPN2 is essentially an hour-long infomercial over which Bonds has total creative control, edited to make him look as human, sympathetic and wonderful as possible. This is the same Bonds who is often arrogant toward reporters and wants sportswriters to sign releases in case footage of them asking questions is used. I guess in the future, all controversial figures will get their own show where they can ignore and create their own version of reality.
Lost: Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Gene Pitney, who sang or penned hits that included "Town Without Pity," "Only Love Can Break A Heart" and "Hello, Mary Lou." The 65-year-old dropped dead after a concert in Wales, after what fans said was one of his best performances ever.
Found: This year's hysterical Google April Fool's prank: Google Romance™, coupled with Soulmate Search™ and Contextual Date™. (Props to infra..., er, Squiddichino for the fabulous fun.)
Elevator Up: To Katie Couric, who could have stayed in her safe seat at NBC's Today Show, but instead boldly jumped to CBS to become the first woman to own a solo anchor chair for a major-network TV evening news show.
Elevator Down: Tom DeLay, the once-powerful Republican HouseMajority leader dogged by scandal to the point of stopping his re-election bid. On the bright side, this is probably the last time he'll appear in this category.
Huh? Headline of the Week: Vain wild turkey seeks leftovers at cafe
Strangest Hit: A search for drinking+college+graduation+sayings brought someone to my blog. Finally ... found through a search for an area of expertise!
Stupid Fantasy Baseball Report [*new*]: The Nautical Disasters are in fifth place. The team was in second until Freddy Garcia decided to pitch like Jerry Garcia.
Shoulda-Been-Obvious Lesson: There's nothing weak about women's college lacrosse.
Franklin PlannerTM Quote of the Week: A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. -- George Bernanos.
Looking forward to ... : Death Cab for Cutie and Franz Ferdinand at Cornell University on Sunday. w00t!
posted by Tim 5:59 PM
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