2) The Secret Service doesn’t: This clown could have entombed President Bush in Silly String before Secret Service finally got to him. And the press conference wasn’t in Cheyenne, WY, it’s in the middle of Iraq. Shouldn’t they be a little more prepared to react? I think the overweight agent that comes piling out of the door about 6 seconds after the first shoe is thrown, was finishing up a Big Mac value meal.
OVER THE EARPIECE: The President is being attacked!!!!
Fat Agent: It’s gonna have to wait. Have you had these McDonald’s fries?!? They’re heavenly.
3) Even though this was dangerous and angers me to no end that our President was assaulted, you have to give it to the guy for improv. If he’d worn some of those trendy, pointy shoes that guys are wearing all the time these days, he might have skewered the Pres. pretty good.
This is a pretty amazing video clip of the new Dallas Cowboys Safety, Daren Stone, hurdling a parked car. I did this the other day, in fact. I keep telling my daughter to put her toys up.
A New York City police officer was stripped of his gun and badge after a video posted on YouTube showed him body-checking a bicyclist during Friday’s Critical Mass bicycle ride.
The video (see below), which was shot by a tourist and posted on the video-sharing site Sunday, shows bicyclists whizzing past uniformed officers during the Times Square protest. One officer begins to stride across the street, picking up speed and violently tackling a bicyclist into a crowded sidewalk.
The video sparked an immediate public outcry and led the department to place the officer, identified by several news agencies as Patrick Pogan, 22, on desk duty pending the outcome of an internal investigation.
The bicyclist, Christopher Long, 29, was charged with blocking traffic, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and assault, prosecutors said.
Critical Mass is a leaderless mass bicycle ride typically held on the last Friday of each month in cities around the world. The event, which originated in San Francisco in 1992, is alternately referred to as a celebration and a protest against automobile-choked streets.
I thought my daughter loved this song before seeing this video. She’s gonna lose her mind when she sees Feist’s Sesame Street version of her hit song 1,2,3,4.
Have you ever seen the movie, Falling Down? It’s a movie where the main character is so beat down by the rules in his life, his day to day grind, and the lack of respect he gets that he finally snaps and goes on a killing spree. It’s a little extreme and unbelievable, but then you see a clip like this of an office worker in Russia who lost it and you can kind of believe that maybe it’s not so preposterous.
Funny how few people actually left. People are just too curious.
Last night I was watching the great, “Iron Eagle”, a classic 80’s movie, when I came across a familiar face. I noticed that Doug’s highs school sweetheart girlfriend was none other than Melora Hardin, Michael Scott’s girlfriend in the hit t.v. show, “The Office.” Take a look at this clip of Doug racing “The Snake” route in his Cessna. She’s at the end of the runway in a letter jacket. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Nrq31J6RbgU
Funny how you think that a movie is just awesome when you’re a kid and then you watch it 15 years later and it’s not so awesome anymore. I think a lot of the movies today will stand up to the scrutiny better than some of the stuff they put out 20 years ago. At one point, Doug and Chappy were flying into Iran and they obviously had Chappy in an F16 cockpit with a green screen. While he’s talking, they literally switched reels and started showing a different B-Roll of the sky. It was so stunningly bad that it got my attention and I rewound it. Sure enough he went from, middle of the clouds to a few hundred feet off the ground in 1 second.
In my opinion, that’s just sloppy. How could the editor and director see that and go, ‘aww, no one will notice”. But honestly I didn’t see that thing the first 25 times I watched that movie as a kid. I think we just sort of glossed over that thing because we hadn’t seen movies like Jurrasic Park or The Matrix, yet. We were still living under the glow of “The Last Starfighter”, which coincidentally was one of the greatest movies ever. But, I bet you that if I saw it again now, I’d turn my back in shame at what it had become through the passage of time. So, I think I’m just going to have to keep a list of my all time favorite movies from the 70’s and 80’s and not watch them. I’m sure that I’ll be nostalgic one day and see a glimpse of one of them and think, “man, I’d really love to see “Mannequin” or “Space Camp” right now”, but I want to have fond memories of them, so I’ll just turn the channel to “Bones” or “Men in Trees” for my wife, I’ll shut my eyes and I’ll think back to the time when I was 8 years old and I wondered what it would be like to be chosen to save the universe by piloting a starjet. Greetana!
You may have seen the viral video a couple months ago where Kobe Bryant jumped over a speeding Aston Martin as it was heading towards him. It’s up to you to believe, or not believe, it’s validity. Kenny Smith of TNT did a parody of the jump that is absolutely hilarious. This is most assuredly what would happen to me if I tried to jump a car coming at me. If you’ve seen the original Kobe clip, skip ahead to the Kenny clip about 2 minutes into the video.
This is absolutely brilliant. Weezer once again knocks the ball out of the park with this video that ingeniously features tons of the last couple years’ viral internet stars.
I can think of a whole lot of other, more stable platforms to put a JET engine, than a rusty Huffy. Nevertheless, if I was over at my buddy’s house and he said, “hey kevin, come on out to the garage so I can show you something.” And then he said, “wanna give it a whirl?” I guarantee you I would accept the offer. Wouldn’t you?
If you haven’t seen this, it’s pretty thought-provoking. This guys was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours. What would you do for 41 hours? More importantly, you don’t know WHEN you’re going to get help. I’m sure he got more and more panicked as the hours rolled along. My only question….bathroom?
“After a certain period of time I knew that I was in pretty big trouble because it was the weekend,” Nicholas White said Monday on ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America.”
Video of his Oct. 15, 1999, ordeal in an elevator in New York’s McGraw-Hill building was posted online to accompany an article in the April 21 edition of The New Yorker. It can be seen on the magazine’s Web site and had been viewed more than 280,000 times on YouTube by Monday morning.
White said he understood why the video has captured people’s attention: So many have wondered what they would do if it happened to them.
Edited to a soundtrack of classical piano music, the video shows him pacing, trying to climb the walls, lying down, curled up in a fetal position, prying apart the doors. (He said he relieved himself down the shaft when the doors were open.)
White sued the managers of the midtown skycraper and the elevator maintenance company and won an undisclosed settlement.
He was a production manager for Business Week when he left his office about 11 p.m. Friday for a cigarette break. According to the article, it was never determined exactly why the elevator stalled though there was talk of a voltage dip.
