I stared at this picture for a good minute and a half, with its caption “The End” before I realized that it was Fidel Castro and not Willie Nelson.

So yes, Willie Nelson is still alive.

Today a colleague and I ventured down to 24th and 7th for lunch to enjoy the now-famous “Col-Pop” offering from BBQ Chicken. It’s actually more of a proper restaurant than I thought it would be. They also serve beer, and apparently are quite a hip Chelsea nightspot.

The waitress told us that they used to sell maybe one Col-Pop every two weeks. Since the blogs got wind of it, though, they’ve been selling 5 of them per day.

Behold:

The following is the description for an N95 Game called System Rush:

You take the role of a computer hacker bent on shutting down the networks responsible for the planet wide information "lock down".

ASP, SYD

Total is now 60.

See if you can spot the changing state of popular culture in these two versions of the same music video:

Exhibit A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVEY_JpxkXE

Exhibit B: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b20UzLecnHo

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I just watched Cannonball Run, and I can honestly say I was not prepared for how bad a movie it was. It has, on the surface, such a fun premise. And they had all those experienced actors. Where to start?

• Captain Chaos? WTF?
• What was up with Jamie Farr as the oil sheik?
• Roger Moore as himself? And I thought his turn in Spice World was his first self-mocking endeavor. This time, not so good.
• Farah Fawcett, on why she loves trees: “because you can lie under them at night, and look at the stars, and listen to the wind in the leaves, and ball your brains out!”
• Gee, I wonder if Dean Martin was drunk on the set of this movie.
• Peter Fonda has a cameo as the leader of a biker gang who beats up … wait for it … Bert Convy, the host of Super Password.
• Jackie Chan plays a Japanese guy named Jackie Chan. He’s driving a tricked out  Subaru complete with a VHS player upon which he watches pornography mid-race.
• It saddens me that there was a script and somebody actually wrote it.

In summary, watching Cannonball Run was excruciating. I feel terrible now. I feel like that cup after the 2 girls got done with it.

… is our Garbage.

It is apparently much cheaper to put our garbage on a boat and send it to China than to deal with it here. It’s a nifty way to circumvent the environmental regulations we have. They’ll burn things that we won’t.

Another  article about it here.

“Know why there are so many tourists here? Cause thanks to our dear president, the American Dollar ain’t worth a shit.”

- Check-out clerk at Macy’s

The movie “Bloodsport” is definitely somewhere in my pantheon of fun 80’s movies. Jean Claude Van Damme notwithstadning, it’s quite an enjoyable journey into a secretive underworld. The tournament is populated by a motley crew of martial artists, most notably the evil Chong Li (”I will break you”). Trailer here.
FYI, Chong Li is not to be confused with Chun Li.