Chad Nielsen in ESPN the Magazine (via) tells us of when Kobe Bryant met the best soccer player in the world:
“At the Olympics,” Messi says, “everything was beautiful.” His fondest memory? “Eating at the Olympic Village.” One day at lunch, a tall black man set his tray at one end of Barça’s table. “Hola,” the [...]
One of the great mysteries of our time: WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP FINDING SEVERED FEET IN CANADA!!!!!!!!!!! Previous feet here, here, and here. Why is this not leading the news everyday?
From a long “getting to know him” profile in this weekend’s NY Times Magazine:
Galifianakis’s beard has since become indispensable, both as source material for his jokes — “When you look like I do, it’s hard to get a table for one at Chuck E. Cheese” — and as a symbol of sorts to his burgeoning [...]
Jorge Garcia, aka Hurley on Lost, has a blog. It seems Garcia is very much like Hurley. A lot like Hurley. via
My sister graduated from Cornell today and ended up on the Cornell website. She’s the one on the right.
Sometimes its the more obscure skills on your resume that can get you hired. Take this story, for instance, via TPMDC:
Democrats in the House Energy and Commerce Committee have taken a novel step to head off Republican efforts to slow action this week on a sweeping climate bill: Hiring a speed reader.
Committee Republicans, who largely [...]
Michael Lewis, in a very positive review of a Warren Buffett biography by Alice Schroeder, includes this little about Warren Buffett’s eating habits:
He confines himself to the diet of an eight-year-old, refusing to eat anything much beyond spaghetti, hamburgers, and grilled cheese sandwiches. Schroeder describes a bizarre scene in which Katherine Graham escorted Buffett to [...]
Steroids. Used by cheating athletes (Manny, Arod, etc.) and howled at by the media, a positive steroid test can damage any athletes reputation. Sometimes you don’t even need a positive test, guilt by association is enough. Which brings us to some Belgian bodybuilders who decided to avoid the stigma of a positive test by peaceing [...]
Jay-Z’s concert rider. Man lives large. Late-model Maybach naturally included.
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