the confed cup rolls on in brazil amid protests over the billions being spent on stadiums for next years world cup while vital services go underfunded. but more importantly today pits spain v. tahiti, one of the possibly most lopsided games in recent memory. spain is ranked #1 in the world and tahiti is at #138 nestled comfortably between syria and afghanistan. i just turned it on and spain has scored twice in the last five minutes to go up 3 - 0. the spanish b-squad (all but one of the starters from the last game is out of the lineup) is better than almost every other countrys main squad so this is essentially batting practice for them. the division (now 4 - 0) that represents oceania (the highest ranked team is new zealand at #57) makes the north american division that the us is in look like a powerhouse which it most decidedly is not. they might want to think about reconfiguring that in the future.
yesterday italy and brazil secured semifinal bids but the other division may not be decided until sunday if uruguay beats nigeria later today.
5 - 0. they said at halftime the betting line was 8 - 0. and they have a legitimate reason to run up the score as goal differential is the deciding factor should there be a tie in the group...
oh, and game seven of the nba finals is tonight. hard to imagine it could get any better than the end of game six. the big question is will lebron wear a headband? and if you know what im talking about i pity you as much as i do myself.
6 - 0.
Hey Alex look what showed up on our fire escape. Family roosing on neighboring bldg.
whoa. wont be anyone clamoring for a sopranos movie anytime in the future....
Dave, didn't you go to school with her?
i guess this is a thing.
2nd ave subway construction pix
Further, it’s important to bear in mind I’m being called a traitor by men like former Vice President Dick Cheney. This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
mmmmm, biscuits.
looking for some summer tv to fill that hole in your schedule when you were abandoned by game of thrones and its cruelly brief 10 week run? biggest buzz goes to ray donovan starring liev schreiber, jon voight, james woods, elliot gould and roseanna arquette among others. starts on showtime on june 30 but the pilot has already "leaked." expect some la noir notes lighting up your optic nerve endings. somewhat skeptical but good cast.
nytimes has a rundown of some other summer offerings.
could be an interesting day in sport though im not yet convinced i will completely absorbed. the final round of the us open is underway and the network airing it is happy to see one of its most marketable stars clinging to a one stroke advantage atop the leaderboard. no, not tiger who flamed out of contention early. its good ol' phil mickelson who has yet to win the open in career and whose birthday it is for good measure. plenty of weepy encomiums to come should he prevail. mickelson tees off in about an hour.
and just when you thought there was no more soccer to had til next season (what, noone was thinking that?) eight national teams take centerstage in a warmup tournament of sorts down in brasil prior to their hosting of next summers world cup. among the teams participating are brasil, uruguay, italy, spain and mexico along with japan, nigeria and tahiti. they are the winners of their most recent federation cups (six in all) the host team and the prior world cup victors. this afternoon at three and six on espn are mexico v italy and spain v uruguay respectively.
and the capper tonight is game five of the nba finals between the heat and the spurs. its two a piece so whoever wins will be much better positioned yada yada... looks like an eight o'clock tip off or there abouts.
http://galleristny.com/2013/05/ps1-previews-expo-1-which-is-psychitzophrenic-and-great/
has anyone been to the show?
patton oswalt on joke thievery, heckling & rape jokes
venice underwater
some very bad iphone photos of Lorna's luscious show
golf has a psa running during the us open to encourage quicker play on the course. what kind of a scourge must it be for them to do that, or is that the only problem they have left now that theyve conquered racism and belly putters?
hot pink slug
the irony was somewhat lost on my dentist that his story about needing to school his proctologist on bedside manner might not exactly be appropriate moments before he put his fingers in my mouth. that i gagged uncomfortably on the cotton dental rolls moments later was entirely coincidental.
first meal at aka my bike seat was stolen. second to last meal at alias the lights on my bike were stolen. got to hand it to the scumbags on clinton street, they are nothing if not devotees of symmetry.
genuine interest or looking for something to say?
perfect parody of girls season 38 starring laraine newman.
@Damon Lindelof
If you're not watching what Tatiana Maslany is doing on ORPHAN BLACK, you're missing the single best performance on TV right now.
as i was riding by i just assumed there was an early hannukah sale at j & r. turns out it was a casting call for the next mel brooks zombie movie.
spoiler: the messiah did it.
nsa whistleblower outs self.
