Author Archives: cesperson

Terminator: Salvation reviews are starting to be submitted.¨Ü Hopefully they’re wrong, or I’ll be a very sad kid.

Drawings of spam subject lines.¨Ü Genius.

District 9 trailer.¨Ü It’s probably safe to say The Dark Knight is better than anything coming out this summer, but it’s also probably safe to say that this summer as a whole will be better overall.¨Ü Star Trek was awesome.¨Ü … Continue reading →

Apple rejects BitTorrent control app Drivetrain. Their reason? “This category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights.” By that logic, they’d better reject Safari while they’re at it. I’m not interested in iPhone apps, … Continue reading →

Ron Artest during a locker room interview after tonight’s game: I remember when I used to play games back home in the neighborhood, there was always games like that. You know, I remember one time, there was, um, one of … Continue reading →

Rap Radar posted an excerpt from Eminem’s Vibe interview. ǃÚI almost feel like a little kid again with rap. I wanna play around with different flows. If I donǃÙt feel like itǃÙs what IǃÙm fully capable of, if thereǃÙs one … Continue reading →

Eminem’s 3 A.M. video. Ok, I’m over the voice. The subject matter isn’t my favorite, but the writing gives me confidence that he’s still got it and Relapse is going to be better than Encore.

He Got Game review from the Bill Simmons archive. I tried searching for Ray Allen game winners yesterday but He Got Game is on YouTube so I got caught up watching that. And tonight I remembered reading a Simmons review … Continue reading →

ESPN “Showdown Saturday” image. I’m sure most of you have seen this since it’s on the front page of ESPN, but I just really liked it. Rooting for: Bulls, Penguins, Pacquiao.

Cheering through The Star-Spangled Banner. Tradition for Chicago Blackhawks games is to cheer through the national anthem. I think it’s one of the cooler sports traditions and I don’t find it disrespectful at all since it’s obviously celebrating our country. … Continue reading →

Who were the last four USC QBs drafted in the first round?¨Ü Mark Sanchez, Matt Leinart, Carson Palmer, and… Todd Marinovich: The Man Who Never Was.¨Ü Sorry for the cheesy intro, but I finally finished reading the Esquire article and … Continue reading →

More Star Trek reviews are trickling out.¨Ü Words that come up: exhilirating, revitalizing, triumph, fresh.¨Ü Count me in for excited.

Ricky Rubio will declare for the 2009 NBA Draft.

Mike Tyson was on Adam Carolla’s podcast today.¨Ü Let’s get it on.

NBA Playoffs 2009 commercial.¨Ü Set to Kanye West’s “Amazing”.

Free Darko has a new Kevin Durant shirt.¨Ü Bittersweet.

Nate Robinson, Little King. As much as I liked him in college, I never imagined Nate would be as popular as he is now. In Robinson’s three years at UW, he became the “most exciting player in our conference,” says … Continue reading →

Bill Simmons mailbag.¨Ü This response seems like one of the great ideas of our time: You just reminded me of something: There should be a section on eBay that allows the auctioning of enticing future bets. For instance, a few … Continue reading →

Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City gameplay footage. One of Dan’s friends brougth this over to our house once and I remember thinking this actually looked pretty cool.¨Ü Which is proof that even sort of bright third graders are … Continue reading →

Old Jews Telling Jokes.¨Ü Pretty much what the title says, filmed in front of a white background like those old Apple commercials.¨Ü I like a good joke, and I like to think everyone knows at least one really good joke, … Continue reading →

Where the Wild Things Are trailer.¨Ü Directed by Spike Jonze.¨Ü Jimmy Kimmel was on Adam Carolla last week and they read through the entire book in a couple minutes.¨Ü And it’s a kids book but the point was that the … Continue reading →

Tyson trailer. It seems like a major Mike Tyson documentary would’ve already been made by now. Certainly better late than never.

Top 40 Dunks: Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan.¨Ü All of the clips have the original commentator audio, which is always a major bonus for me.¨Ü #2 (Jordan tip-toeing the baseline against the Knicks) seems more like it should be #1 … Continue reading →

New York Times Magazine article about Allonzo Trier, the top-ranked sixth-grade basketball prospect.¨Ü He’s been doing obsessive practice routines for four years. After about 10 minutes of ballhandling at the gym, he moved on to what makes up the bulk … Continue reading →

Bill Simmons showed up on Adam Carolla’s podcast again, on a Sunday.¨Ü Summary: Adam Carolla’s radio show got cancelled by CBS.¨Ü Since he’s still under contract until the end of the year, Aceman can’t really do anything for profit or … Continue reading →

Jeff Teague dunks on Dave Neal.¨Ü Filthy.¨Ü But then there are the bonuses of Dave Neal being Maryland’s only senior on senior night, the furious old men in the bottom-right corner telling the ref to give him a technical, and … Continue reading →

James White can still dunk.¨Ü He won the NBDL dunk contest this weekend.¨Ü Nothing he hasn’t done in a previous contest, but I enjoyed the Will Conroy cameo.¨Ü If James White gets back in the NBA, manages to get in … Continue reading →

Ultimate Warrior’s Comeback at Wrestlemania VIII. I think I linked to this a few year’s ago, but the clip was dubbed over in Spanish or something. This always cracked me up because Ultimate Warrior’s music plays but then he has … Continue reading →

I haven’t watched America’s Best Dance Crew since the finals of the first season, but a friend posted this video on Facebook and it’s pretty good: Beat Freaks. I also feel slightly better wasting time at night watching dance videos … Continue reading →

Last week, members of a game artist forum decided to take a shot at Street Fighter characters. And there’s a lot of awesome results. My favorites: Gouken, Birdie, and Sagat. And this Guile made my week. (Via Kotaku)

The Quest for G. Featuring Kevin Garnett and a lot of people from those “What’s G” commercial. Great stuff Not really sure why this wasn’t a Super Bowl advertisement. Unless it was and I missed it sometime during my second … Continue reading →

American History X basketball scene.¨Ü Ed Norton reverse dunk sequence starts at 4:10.¨Ü Less believable than a lot of things that happen in Independence Day.

Bill Gates spoke at the TED convention and released a swarm of mosquitos on stage.¨Ü The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is looking for a better method for mosquito control to fight malaria, and he wanted to drive the point … Continue reading →