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Posted on 03 June 2009
Every glass in Paris shattered this afternoon. Shopkeepers tried to piece together why the windows to their stores lay in a billion pieces on the Champs Ellysees. The massive traffic jams from blown out tires brought the entire city to a halt. Packed emergency rooms treated injuries ranging from cuts on hands to removing shards of glass from eyes of those Parisians who wore eye glasses. Every light bulb exploded…and The City of Lights went dark.
It took a few hours of painstaking detective work, but scientists got a lucky break when Maria Sharapova demanded medical attention for her strained vocal chords…and it was only a matter of time before this modern day biblical plague was traced to The Women’s Tennis Semi-Final at Roland Garros.
Enough already. Something needs to be done. The piercing shrieks, in addition to causing tinnitus en masse, are turning the women’s game into a joke.
Does Maria Sharapova put more effort into a shot than Rafael Nadal? [For that matter, does her forehand cause her more pain than the systematic implementation of nailing one’s toes to a hardwood floor?]
There is simply no reason for the auditory assault; and Sharapova is hardly the only culprit. The Williams sisters, Ivanovic, and Portuguese teen phenom, Michelle Larcher de Brito all give Ella Fitzgerald a run for her money.
If the screams are involuntary as many claim, then the Women’s Tennis Tour should change its name to the Women’s Tourette’s Tour. Please excuse the following redundancy, but...the demonstrative divas are as shrill as a bad horror flick. Continue Reading...
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Posted on 02 June 2009
Plummeting home prices.
Skyrocketing unemployment.
On average, then, the U.S. economy on solid ground.
That is, if you subscribe to the notion that, on average, a
human has one breast and one testicle.
The fact that home prices are still falling, while unemployment claims are still rising is an equation that will yield one result...and it is in no way "average". Get ready for a new wave of foreclosures. And don't think Obama's anti-foreclosure plan is going to do anything to stop it.
The fact that home prices are still falling, while unemployment claims are still rising is an equation that will yield one result...and it is in no way "average". Get ready for a new wave of foreclosures. And don't think Obama's anti-foreclosure plan is going to do anything to stop it.
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It actually took longer than I would have expected for someone to come up with a good mocking of Google’s “Parisian Love” commercial that played during the Super Bowl yesterday. But today brings us just that. The video comes compliments of the Upright Citizens Brigade Beta Team “The Brig.” They’ve named their video “ Parisian Oops ” and have given it the tagline, “Romance, Consequences, Awkwardness [...more]
We’re big fans of The Richter Scales, the musical group that have brought us Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Here Comes Another Bubble, and gut-busting songs at the 2008 Crunchies and most recently the parody of Silicon Valley at the 2009 Crunchies a few weeks ago. The group is releasing an animated video of its song ‘I’ve Got Mail and I’ve Got it Made,’ which was one of the two songs The Richters sang at the first Crunchies in 2007. As you may remember, it’s about what happens to a guy when he follows the instructions in all the spam email he receives [...more]
With the East Coast and Midwest awaiting a monster snowstorm, popular weather forecasting site Accuweather, is rolling out a timely relaunch of its site. The site, which provides up-to-date local information on weather in the U.S., is launching a beta version of the site that includes a complete redesign and a few extra user-friendly features. [...more]
We haven’t heard much from PlayFirst since we covered the San Francisco-based casual gaming startup’s last funding round back in December 2007, but that doesn’t mean things aren’t moving for the venture-backed company. [...more]
