Wicker Park has a bunch of cool stuff going on, but sometimes there is too much stuff and too many hipsters that it becomes overwhelming to be there very long or very often. Â Same goes for Pitchfork (which is based in Wicker Park). Â But I stumbled upon it today and found some TBB worth stuff:
So I’m no military expert, but from these two videos, I’m not sure how we are still fighting the war in the Middle East. It’s US troops conditioning Iraqi and Afghani soldiers/cops. Had no idea how tough a jumping jack could be. The Afghanis don’t much surprise me, I’ve seen pushups like that before at north avenue.
“Abusive Fathers Kick Ass” and “Kill ’em all, let Rod sort em out” (with a picture of Rod Stewart) were t-shirts made by comic Brendon Walsh as heard on the recent Doug Loves Movies.
If you are looking for funny/thoughtful phrasings for yer Facebook status, check out FromUpNorth.com.
I know I was warned about posting on the same day but I thought this was worth it. Via Cracked.com
Housework Can Protect You From Breast Cancer
We completely realize this sounds like a fake study invented by some douchebags sitting around in a bar. That’s not the case, as far as we can tell.
A link between physical activity and protection from all kinds of diseases has been known for years in the medical community, right alongside the mind-blowing connection between breathing and not being dead. But in a UK study destined to be quoted by every Cheeto-eating jackass misogynist in the world until the end of days, the type of activity that protected women the most from breast cancer wasn’t sports or manual labor, but moderate housework.
The 2006 UK Cancer Research study on more than 200,000 women from nine European countries found that the women who spent 16 to 17 hours a week doing typical household chores like cooking or cleaning had a 20 percent reduced chance of developing breast cancer. And that’s just with menopausal patients. The risk of breast cancer in women younger than 50 who also did a moderate amount of housework was 30 percent lower than in the women who didn’t.
In fact, housework was found to be more beneficial toward the prevention of breast cancer than exercise or holding down a physical job.
The research of course doesn’t argue that housework has innate magical healing properties, nor does it suggest that you stop exercising or going to work. But combining those activities with the kind of sustained light exercise you get from daily chores is what did the trick. So keep that in mind the next time you spend 45 minutes shampooing beer out of the living room curtains.
So I know neither of the people in the foreground. But thus is the art of the photobomb. I daresay Joan may even be proud of this.
Yesterday was my first dose of NFL RedZone, where you are cut to every game that has a team in the redzone, is threatening, just scored, on a 2 minute drive, etc. Ideally, you see every touchdown from every game, even if its split screen. Oh yeah, and without commericals. Like NPR for meatheads. Needless to say, I was a zombie yesterday. The best is when there’s a lull of like 3-4 minutes, they put on a montage of every touchdown thus far that day; I think thats the video on the home page of the link above.
This, however, did not help my fantasy team, the Bitch Hunters, which is now 0-5-0 with Joseph Addai out. But, my buddy Brock did show me KissingSuzyKolber.com. Its a blog dedicated to the NFL. And however dorky that sounds, or he sounds in his posts, just remember what website you are reading this on. He really hates Chicago quarterbacks, be it his joy in Cutler\’s sacks, or these hilarious commentaries from the Sex Cannon, Rex Grossman.
The dude also loves memes, a word i just found the definition for on Google Dictionary. Cigar Guy is my absolute favorite. There’s this cool picture where Tiger hits the cameraman at the Ryder Cup. Neat, but the guy with headdress and cigar is hard to un-notice after someone telling you. So, the internet gave him the Neiltreatment. and may I go so far as to request Neil in the same get-up?
Hulu said I’d like this new cast member on SNL’s Denzel impersonation. They were right. Jay Pharoah is apparently pretty damn good. Â But I gotta start gettin to class. We learn how champagne is made today in Hort!
