There’s always one, isn’t there (or, if you’re lucky, perhaps two or three)? In any social environment there are always people who really get on everyone else’s nerves. Usually said people are spared the harshness of being told this outright (and even if they are it rarely changes things), but this small mercy certainly permits everyone else one thing: the right to complain about them as much as possible (but no bullying; that’s just not cool). Here is a light-hearted look at some of the worst offenders. Let the rage flow through you…
Fans of retro video games have found a variety of ways to pay tribute to legendary 8-bit classics, from Google’s awesome Pacman anniversary homepage to hardcore nerds going as far as getting tattoos of their favorite game characters. It was only a matter of time until someone came up with an idea as amazing as this one…
Baseball by its very nature is a passive sport. There isn’t much in the way of pounding and thumping going on in the day to day aspects of the game. That’s why, when there is a fight, it’s usually very entertaining, mostly because the players are really, really bad at fighting. Here are the top 5 baseball fights of the modern era.
5. Chan Ho Park Karate Kicks Tim Belcher
June 5th, 1999. An interleague game between the Angels and Dodgers got interesting when the two pitchers got into it on the basepaths. Chan Ho Park, the Dodgers’ starting pitcher, took offense to the way Angels pitcher Tim Belcher tagged him after Park hit a ground ball. It started much like any other baseball fight, until Park took things up a notch.
Specifically this notch.
Park, after throwing a few lame punches, opened up on Belcher with the always classic spinning scissor kick. It didn’t exactly work out like in a Jackie Chan movie.
Since I was a child, I’ve listened to the Beatles. I’m not a screaming teenage girl, but I’m definitely a part of Beatlemania. Thanks to this, I actually have something to talk about with the Baby Boomers. Well, practically anyone born after 1940. I mean, everyone loves the Beatles, right?
Every video I make, I try to give myself a new challenge. After creating a mashup using 6 national anthems last month, I decided to apply the same theme to the songs of a popular artist. As for the artist, I was torn between using The Beatles or the Starland Vocal Band, but I decided on the slightly more prolific of the two.
Actually, the Beatles were too prolific. They wrote hundreds of songs, so I decided to narrow the scope down to something more manageable: Beatles love songs. Many of the songs in this mashup are connected by the word “love”. I also found Beatles love songs that shared the same chord progression and layered them on top of each other. I ended up mashing up over 20 songs in a mere 2-and-a-half minutes.
For the video itself, I recreated the covers of four Beatles albums and inserted my own face in place of the Fab Four’s. To my disappointment, since releasing it on youtube, I’ve been told I look most like Ringo.
I challenge you to pick out all the songs in this video. Some are obvious, but others may require a closer listen.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy! If you do like it, please check my other other youtube videos and subscribe.
In this week’s around the web feature (or featurette, if you want to get technical), the esteemed TBR staff hopped on a steamship and traveled to the island of Tripania, where monkeys put on little barber hats and give haircuts to other animals. But don’t just take my word for it (yes, I called in Levar Burton for a moment), have a look at the little monkeys in action. The staff also had some fun sitting in a bear chair, and they grabbed some goobers and laughed heartily at Craig’s List Missed Connections artwork. Check out even more links down below:
So, what do you think? Would you like a bear chair in your home? If you ask me, I think furniture like bear chairs belong in Twilight Zone episodes, not in reality.
