Ramblings
July 23, 2006
July 20, 2006
July 18, 2006
Keith McElhinney's Front Flip Flair
I haven't seen my old riding friend Keith McElhinney since he moved to Pennsylvania, but he's clearly been doing a lot of riding at Woodward. At the Dew Tour's 2006 stop in Denver, Keith pulled the world's first ever front flip flair (which he has named the lawn dart) -- check out the video. Update: Another video at the Dew Action Sports website.
Update #2: Keith's lawn dart won trick of the week on dewtour.com, getting him $5,000 in the process. Congrats, Keith! (And you're welcome for the votes...)
July 17, 2006
Pink2o
Pink2o: "Water for women". Sexist, weird marketing, or just a re-branding of the failed "Water for communists" product?
Labels: humor
July 14, 2006
Unintentionally Scary Clowns
I love that there seems to be a Flickr group for almost any subject. Such as Unintentionally Scary Clowns.
Labels: humor
July 10, 2006
Sinko Music Podcast
Just for fun, I've started a music podcast called Sinko. You can listen and/or subscribe to it at sinko.kieranchapman.net, and I'll probably be updating it every two weeks from now on. (You can subscribe to it here.)
Labels: music
Flopping Ruins Soccer
One thing that drives me nuts about soccer -- I mean other than the fact that I find it incredibly boring to watch (and, to put that in perspective, this is coming from someone who loves to watch baseball) -- is when players fake being tripped ("flopping") in order to try to draw a penalty call.
I didn't watch any of the World Cup, so anything I did see was purely accidental. But I did seem to see too many highlights of "tripping" which seemed to nearly cripple a player, only to see him up and running again in a matter of minutes (if not seconds). So I enjoyed Dave Eggers' piece about soccer in America, which included a pretty funny commentary about flopping:
The True Story of American Soccer
I didn't watch any of the World Cup, so anything I did see was purely accidental. But I did seem to see too many highlights of "tripping" which seemed to nearly cripple a player, only to see him up and running again in a matter of minutes (if not seconds). So I enjoyed Dave Eggers' piece about soccer in America, which included a pretty funny commentary about flopping:
The True Story of American Soccer
But flopping in soccer is a problem. Flopping is essentially a combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating, and these four behaviors make for an unappealing mix. The sheer theatricality of flopping is distasteful, as is the slow-motion way the chicanery unfolds...
[O]ur flopper will still be on the ground, holding his shin, his head thrown back in mock-agony... Once the referees have decided either to issue a penalty or not to our Fakey McChumpland, he will jump up, suddenly and spectacularly uninjured -- excelsior! -- and will kick the ball over to his teammate and move on.
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