Author Archives: cesperson

I said I’d write more about the group chat, but I haven’t found time because my days are mostly consumed by sending iPhone videos to my friends. My favorite so far is this one of me and Kayla working on … Continue reading →

Young J. Cole rapping over Victory. Not sure what’s better: walking in from the hallway or the XXXXXL everything.

I switched from an Android (G1) to a BlackBerry (9700) back to an Android (Nexus One) and back to a BlackBerry (9700) and stuck with BlackBerry up to now for basically one reason: BlackBerry Group Chat. Not to be confused … Continue reading →

First two weeks of NBA season are cancelled. Awful.

Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address. Always worth watching. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the … Continue reading →

I need to stop linking to Grantland so much. Anyway, here’s an interview with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. On 500 days of Summer: But it’s just funny to me, because I felt like the point of that movie was illuminating this guy … Continue reading →

Nike Japan “New Beginnings” commercial. We set out to feature athletes from across Japan and capture moments of new beginnings—the kind of moments when athletes get a new chance or a fresh start. Sports are full of these instances.

IGN gave a 9.5 to NBA2K12. Each game gets the full presentational treatment. (You’re going to hear a lot about presentation in this review, because NBA 2K12’s is astounding.) The games are treated like television broadcasts from the era, so … Continue reading →

Classic Bill Simmons article: One final toss for the Dooze. He wrote this when 2009 started, but I re-read it this week because it was mentioned in his most recent mail bag. He says it’s his most read piece ever, … Continue reading →

Sweet Genius teaser. Flipped through channels and watched this for about three minutes. Pretty sure Food Network has secured the most insufferable personality on TV (and possibly the world).

Paul Rudd in a Super Nintendo commercial. So random.

On Grantland, Rafe Bartholomew wrote about Spoelstra in the Phillipines. He also saw the role basketball played in people’s lives. “Every little alley had some crazy basket hung up on a telephone poll and made out of a garbage can … Continue reading →

A couple friends from Seattle came down for the weekend. I’m going to post more pictures from this later in the week. (Really! I hope. Unless I’m too tired or something but I’m really going to.) Here’s one that I … Continue reading →

Went to the Chargers/Chiefs game a couple days ago and seeing the Chiefs reminded me of Dante Hall. I was thinking maybe his returns were being exaggerated in my head. Looked up some highlights today, and they were definitely as … Continue reading →

Big Ghost reviews J. Cole’s album. My favorite fake celebrity blog since Real Drew Bledsoe’s classic. Dollar and a Dream III – This beat sounds like Puffy circa Life After Death was in the studio wit his toothpick in his … Continue reading →

Complex.com has a good article on J. Cole. Interesting perspective because it’s written by Damien Scott, who roomed with him at St. John’s University. The crowds were usually small and full of drunk college kids, but it was an opportunity … Continue reading →

I was split on whether I wanted Mayweather to win (it’d be more exciting if he fought Pacquaio while still undefeated) or not (that fight’s never happening so it’d be good to see anybody beat the guy). The Larry Merchant … Continue reading →

Archie out of context. Some panels from Archie comics. Fantastic.

Saw this on Lifehacker last week: Master the Art of Body Language for Dating. Found this excerpt interesting: The happy go-lucky type is seen as less sexually attractive to women, while men who seemed borderline pompous or brooding and moody, … Continue reading →

Grantland: The 2011 YouTube Draft. Some of the Grantland editors make pics based on highlight videos. This passage slayed me: It also starts with our hero straight mad-dogging the camera while a bunch of completely inexplicable semicolons scroll across the … Continue reading →

ESPN has a web series called The Next Round, hosted by Scoop Jackson. There are a few with Bill Simmons and Adam Carolla, one of my favorite combinations. Topics: Tiger Woods, athlete encounters, and the NFL lockout.

Not sure if he does a different at every show, but it looks like he does a new verse a cappella right before performing “Before I’m Gone” (still love that song). Here are three that I’ve come across: March at … Continue reading →

I’m in Baltimore this week for work. It’s my first time on the east coast. First impressions: it’s humid, there are a lot of trees (compared to San Diego, not Seattle), and I’m not going to be here long enough … Continue reading →

The History of Wrestlemania is on Netflix. This screencap sums up early 90s wrestling.

Meg and Dia covering Ignition (Remix). Love this. And also you can stream their newest album on their site.

Anthony Bourdain ate at El Bulli and shared his thoughts: I just had the greatest meal of my life there, aware all the time that there would never be another. El Bulli closes its doors as a restaurant forever on … Continue reading →

I was on Facebook this morning and saw that a girl named Junethea crashed her car and died early this morning. I didn’t know her, but I know people that did. Here’s a Facebook tribute page. I was scrolling through … Continue reading →

Bill Simmons wrote about the Masters: The gift of Tiger Woods. I loved this. I am supposed to think that he’s a poor role model — that he’s an adulterer, that he’s selfish, that he’s a phony, that he behaves … Continue reading →