Blackout Crew - Put A Donk On It

Sometimes songs are so hilarious that I can't stop listening to them. This song is one of those. According to Vice the genre of Donk is huge for teens in Northern England. This song also provides a great new catch phrase.

Huge High School Basketball Brawl

Get Yourself (Mom & Dad) a $4000 tax credit

I was going through details on the stimulus bill and found this.

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Higher Education Tuition Deduction. The new law extends through December 31, 2009, the above-the-line higher education tuition deduction. The deduction allows eligible taxpayers to deduct the costs of qualified higher education expenses paid during the year for themselves, a spouse, or a dependent.

The deduction continues to be barred to taxpayers whose filing status is married filing separately, or if another person can claim an exemption for the taxpayer as a dependent on his or her tax return.

The maximum deductible amount is $4,000 for taxpayers with adjusted gross income not exceeding $65,000 ($130,000 for joint filers). Taxpayers whose income exceeds that limit but does not exceed $80,000 ($160,000 for joint filers) may deduct up to $2,000 in qualified expenses. For many taxpayers, the HOPE or Lifetime Learning credit is also an option.

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NYT also has an article

Chris Bosh or Snoop Dogg: You make the call post allstar weekend edition

Snoop Dogg or Raptors Chris Bosh

Tony Allen out till at least playoffs

Our injury prone 6th man is getting surgery on his thumb and will be out till the playoff. This will give my man Gabe Pruitt some extra minutes, but could is painful for the celtics bench.
Celtics president Danny Ainge said that guard Tony Allen is slated to have left thumb surgery tomorrow and he is hopeful he wil return to action by the playoffs. The injury-plagued Allen suffered the injury on Feb. 8 versus San Antonio and has already missed 15 games this season to ankle and thumb injuries. Allen is averaging 7.8 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.21 steals in 19.1 minutes per game. The 6-foot-4, 213-pounder's injury opens the door for more playing time for guard Gabe Pruitt.
"I hope he's ready for the playoffs," Ainge said.

Lupe Spring Climax

SCOPE could have done worse. The fact that its in the field house should make it a better show, and a decent warm up for Cinco de 'Stache,

songs.

Minutemen "This Ain't No Pinic"



this is a pretty obvious "go fuck yourself because you fucking suck"

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contrary to public opinion, mike gordon can get punched in the face by anyone ever associated with rancid..



(aside from the child-molestation accusation, i'm sure gordon is a fine bassist. i just hate phish. please, mock me and tell me i'm a snob in the comments section...)

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Bouncing Souls - Lamar Vannoy

"he drinks till he falls down, ohhhhhhh..."



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woah. fo' real. coolest video ever.

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Neil Young - Heart Of Gold

this whole thing is a huge middle finger to all of us...

i got sent to the principals office for hiding this album behind a clementine "football" in my desk in 5th grade...

Bad Religion- Fuck Armaggedon this is Hell.

sophmore year of college playing beirut in a hallway.

although i still kind of like this song i'm glad these guys turned out "suck". electro-clash = fail. probably because of how gay it was. no offense to people who are actually gay but even they could admit that that shit was pretty gay...

Antony & the Johnsons - Shake That Devil

i was delivering a bag of fried food to some fat shithead and was pleasantly surprised to hear this song played in the middle of an interview with antony with NPR. i think the delivery was two large cheese pizzas with a side order of spicy french fries to cold springs resort. imagine that.

"His Airness"

Finals MVP award now named after Bill Russell

Bill Russell was never an NBA Finals MVP. Now the award is named after him. Starting this year, the Finals MVP will receive the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award, commissioner David Stern announced Saturday. "This is one of my proudest moments in basketball, because I determined early in my career, the only important statistic in basketball is the final score," Russell said.

Russell's wife, Marilyn, recently died of cancer, and he was visibly moved as he accepted the honor. "This is a bittersweet award," Russell said. "I just lost my special person. But I wanted to thank my teammates because we played a team game quite well. I accept this for my team, and my team included our coach, Red Auerbach, and all my teammates over the years. This is quite flattering." Russell, a cornerstone of Boston's NBA dynasty in the 1960s, was a five-time NBA MVP and won 11 championships as a player and coach. But he never won the Finals MVP award.

The NBA first named a Finals MVP in 1969, after the series between Russell's Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. The Celtics won the title but Los Angeles' Jerry West won the MVP trophy -- the first and only time the award has gone to a member of the losing team. "Who better to name this prestigious award for than one of the greatest players of all time and the ultimate champion," Stern said. The award, presented at the end of the Finals, is voted by writers and broadcasters covering the series. "What I'm going to do next week is visit my father's grave, because he was my hero," Russell said. "And I'm going to share that with him."

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Kind of odd, but I guess I'm happy to see it. Let's hope a Celtic is the first to win this.

Dunk Contest

Here It is... Nate Robinson Trumps Dwight Howard by jumping over him. Despite the Dwight Howard conspiracy in the first round (two undeserved 50s) Robinson puts him back in his place with this dunk.


Makes me think that the consipiracy was just to get Dwight Howard to the second round so lil Nate could pull that gem off.

Here's Dwight's Dunk...12 foot.

Kid on DRUGS

joaquin phoenix on letterman

joaquin phoenix who has "quit acting" to pursue a career in hip-hop made an appearance on letterman last night to promote his new movie "two lovers." Either he didn't want to be there, was stoned out of his mind, or something else was going on because this complete akwardness is what ensued:

pretty strange huh? what's stranger is that supposedly joaquin is currently filming a documentary with casey affleck about quitting acting and pursuing a career in hip-hop. so i guess it's possible that he was just pulling a borat last night, except way less funny. it's a pretty interesting concept --- that if your such a good actor, you can go about your daily life being anyone you want and people, like letterman, will take you seriously. And if your talented enough, pay you money. i guess that's cool, he wants to be a hip-hopper for a little while, and when hes done he'll have the documentary for people to buy.

but after seeing this horrible rapping display, it makes me think this hip-hop thing is a big shitty joke:


young turks debate it here. I guess it's always possible that he has gone completely insane.

inglorius bastards.

this is the trailer for the new tarantino flick starring pitt, the temp from the office, the guy who directed hostel and mike myers? no, not the mike myers that tried to murder jamie lee curtis in 1979-i'm talking about the asshole who recently blessed the world with "the love guru."

Cops on Witch Hunt for Michael Phelps

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Police in the South Carolina county where Michael Phelps was photographed smoking from a marijuana pipe have been arresting people as they seek to make a case against the superstar swimmer, lawyers for two arrested people said Thursday. Attorneys Joseph McCulloch and Dick Harpootlian told The Associated Press they each represent a client charged with possession of marijuana who were questioned about the party Phelps attended near the University of South Carolina campus in November. The lawyers said the two clients were renters at the house where the party apparently took place, although they were not at the party. The two have since moved and were arrested after police executed a search warrant at their new home and accused them of having a small amount of marijuana there.

''After they arrested him, they didn't ask him, 'Where did you get the marijuana?' or 'Who sold it to you?' Almost all the questions they asked him were about Michael Phelps,'' Harpootlian said.

The lawyers would not name their clients, who each face up to 30 days in jail and a $200 fine if convicted on the pending charges. The Richland County Sheriff's Office would not comment on the lawyers' remarks. ''As soon as we're ready to release information on this case we will and we're still in the middle of this investigation,'' said Lt. Chris Cowan. After the photo was published Feb. 1, Sheriff Leon Lott said his office would investigate and possibly charge Phelps, though officials have not specified what the offense might be.

Phelps, 23, and his representatives have not disputed the photo's accuracy. Phelps has issued a public apology, acknowledging ''regrettable'' behavior and ''bad judgment'' after the photo appeared. USA Swimming has suspended Phelps for three months and the Kellogg Co. has cut ties with him, although other sponsors are sticking with the swimmer. The lawyers said their clients were not at the party. McCulloch, who said his client was out of town at the time, doubted that anything they told police would assist them in the case against Phelps ''Our clients answered questions but I don't know that their information would be helpful to law enforcement,'' McCulloch said. ''It seems to me that Richland County has a host of its own crime problems much more serious than a kid featured in a photograph with a bong in his hand.''

On a ''Good Morning America'' broadcast Thursday, McCulloch characterized the arrests as ''a fascination, if not an effort, to destroy a public hero.'' Lott has said Phelps should not get a break because of his fame. Harpootlian told The Associated Press that he believes police are being overzealous. ''I find it amazing the justification is they don't want to treat him any differently just because he is a celebrity, and he is being treated far differently than any other Joe Blow who might have smoked marijuana four or five months ago.''

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Give the guy a break, what a complete waste of time and money.

Since we all can use suggestions for romance with Valentine's day approaching

Here's some romance advice from our favorite romancer, Delonte West. Take note diarrhea.

Delonte: "I did a few romantic things in my day, but I'm not the world's most romantic guy. But I can tell you what I would consider a special night. First, at my lady's work, I would send her a card giving her instructions for the night. Send it to her about midday, so the rest of the day, she has time to think about exactly what I had planned. I would pick my date up. She wouldn't know where we were going. It's got to be a hot day, so I can drop the top in my SL [Mercedes]. I've got the white SL 500. I would tell her, she would have to wear white. She must have on a white dress, because I'm going to have on white. I'd have told her in the note, she has to wear her hair a certain way, just the way I like it. So, I pick her up in my white convertible. From there, I'd have the music pumping on the radio. The Jim Jones pumping, you know, 'Summer in Miami' song pumping. Got to keep a little gangsta, you can't be too soft. You can't be in there playing some guy that's crying, talking about don't leave me and love me baby, wah wah and all that. So Jim Jones pumping and then from there, wind blowing through the hair, boom, we get straight to the point -- we eat afterwards because I don't want to kiss no onions. I don't want to kiss you tasting like onions and steak and mushrooms and everything."

Full Link Here: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=cornetta/060214

epic-est story ever.

"CLEARWATER, Fla. – Authorities said a transient man convinced a woman that he was the drummer for the rock band Foreigner, stole her Corvette and then crashed it. Police said a 48-year-old man befriended the woman at a Tampa hotel, claiming to be Cory James, the drummer for Foreigner.

The band has had more than a half dozen drummers over the years, none of whom were named Cory James.

The two met up later at the Clearwater Hilton, where police said the man conned the valet into giving him the woman's 2002 Chevrolet Corvette without her knowledge or consent. He crashed a short time later and ran off, and police say they used a dog to track him down.

The man faces multiple charges, including grand theft auto. He was being held on $27,900 bail."

in honor of tim and eric season 3!

i figured i would go ahead an post this because i figured that everyone would start calling me "diarrhea jones" anyways..

also, in eighth grade, while attending soccer practice at ben brewster's fields for our dominant team, nashua world cup, i realized that the two litchfield middle school hotdogs i had eaten earlier were ready to make their encore. long story short i popped into the woods, pooped, got a bit on my sock or something and fitz and zak proceeded to tell everyone in school i pooped my pants. so, call me "diarrhea jones" if you must but for the record, i didn't poop my pants, i just got some poop on my pants while pooping...