A Promised Report

Moon, seventh house, Jupiter, Mars lined up: check, and all went well in a 15-7 win in spring league tonight. Traded points to start the game, went down 5-4 after some reckless play against the zone, but ran off a 7 of the next 8 to put the game out of reach. Nice work! So, though we dwell near the basement in this league, we are not at its absolute bottom. And given that our play was *competent*, that makes us significantly better than both the Pirates and Cubs, who Little Leagued their way through an ugly game this afternoon. Oh, and Kansas won the national title involving a lot of excitement and drama and overtimes and the like. Whatever; you all know you wish you were watching some heady VOTS Ultimate instead.

And hey - speaking of Little League, check out this crazy stunt pulled by Improv Everywhere. You can click around on that link to see some of the other stuff that IE has pulled off - some of the more famous ones are the Best Buy gag, the "Best Gig Ever" gag, and the "Starbucks Time Loop" gag. They are occasionally controversial with the level of disruption they cause - but in the above clip, they more or less turn a normal afternoon baseball game into a lifetime memory for some kids. Pretty cool.

And as long as I'm up and writing and trying to get over my Ultimate buzz that has rendered me incapable of sleep, here are some links to while away your precious time:

Everyone - and I mean EVERYONE - must play this game. Go!!!
The Guardian's list of 1000 albums you have to hear. And some others they may have missed.
Sometimes you get the bear... on legal charges! Yeah!
Look at this photo, then click on side view. Groovy.
Pilfered from Chris, but still fantastic: if Ann Coulter had covered the Gettysburg Address.
Alright, it's ling nerd time: Linguistic Jokes from the Simpsons.
Alright, it's pop culture nerd time: The Last Supper in its various incarnations.
The Geometry of Music is a basic but good article detailing some math-applied-to-music.
One of the weirder (and sadder) (ha!) (no really, this is not good) cultural trends to appear lately.
SNL is experiencing one of its described-by-a-sine-based-function upshots in relevance lately.
Oh the pain: a detailed article on the Chicago Cubs' century of FAIL.
Article = kinda stupid. Picture: awesome.
Dan, it appears we have been called out.
Classic Photos, redone in LEGO.
Dinosaur comics led me to this funny post about language translation.
You should check out this movie.

Offset b/c it's quasi-important: here's a NY Times article on, ostensibly, deconstruction. Read it, check the comments - if not the most thoughtful or unbiased essay written on the topic, it's a good launching pad for a lot of articulate comments. SO, yeah. And also in the "What Nyet Hopes to Study" Vein, here's a pseudo biological attack on social theory.

Hey, welcome back. If you actually followed those postmod links, you're probably in need of a respite from hard thought; if you didn't, these are still cool. So we'll close with the Hip-Hop-o-potamus vs. the Rhymenocerous and a Swedish version of Star Wars, and if these don't grab you, you can always check out the YouTube Video Awards from 2007.