New NBA Logo

New NBA logo proposed by Eric Stangel.

Based on the funniest play in the first game of the Pacers Heat series. You have to admit that it is much more dynamic and action-packed than the old logo of Jerry West leaning slightly to the right. However, it doesn't really capture the crux of the play, Battier nailing Hibbert in the nads.

Adding an ouch helps. This exercise proves two things. I stink at photoshop and creating logos is harder than it looks.

Endnote

Anybody who has ever played a game of basketball on a playground knows that Shane Battier is full of shit.  Anybody who has ever played a game of basketball on a playground has gone to the hoop with the sole intention of kneeing the other guy in the balls. It almost never happens by accident.

It usually occurs when the game is getting chippy and everyone's tired.  It was one of my "go to" moves. I have performed it in industrial leagues in Huntington and my old home court at the  playground on E. 15th Street.

If I ever tried it with Roy Hibbert, I would nail him slightly below his knee. I have a vertical leap worse than Jason Kidd.

Did I ever tell you about the time Woody Harrelson and Storm Phillips showed up at our lunchtime game at the 14th Street Y? I did? That was some righteous weed.

The Hot Horny MILFs of the New York Times

This morning at 7:00 AM I visited the New York Times website just like I do every morning.  I've got my coffee, my whole day in front of me and all the news that's fit to print. This morning I also got an erection.

99.9994% of the websites I visit with the hope of gaining an erection and then losing it. The New York Times usually falls into the other 0.0006%.

The homepage was running an animated image of various attractive, older, moms. First an image where the woman looks slightly bored, distracted or maybe disappointed. Then the image would flash to a photo of the same woman in the throes of a mind-bending, life-changing, chip the paint off the ceiling, screaming ORGASM.

Also, they were naked. Mostly off screen but definitely naked.

The article that accompanied the image was about a new drug that apparently causes every woman to experience really, really good ORGASMS.  I didn't read it because the vast majority of my blood was not in my brain.

By the time I thought of this bit, the animated image was removed, replaced with a static image of Cathy from West 87th Street looking unsatisfied.  I think the editors at the New York Times must have found a 25 year old writer yanking one out in his cubicle and realized their error in judgement.

I searched in vain for the animated image buried somewhere at the New York Times site using my considerable computer hacking skills* but came up empty.  However, I was able to find the following image. Go ahead, click on it. That's 2048 x 998 pixels of smoldering, Upper West Side MILF-iliousness. I'm assuming it's for all those Times readers that can't find their reading glasses.

These photos beg the question, "Don't the libidos of black and latino woman shrivel up and blow away when they hit middle age?"

Apparently not.

Here's the actual article. If you manage to read it, please let me know what it's about.

*That means Google Image Search

Van Gogh Painted Red Stuff

This is pretty cool. The most famous paintings by Van Gogh looked very different when he actually painted them.

Turns out that the red paint he bought was like the cheap stuff you get at WalMart not the classy stuff you get at Michaels. So the blues used to be purple, and the reds and pinks have turned white. That blanket must not be red. I bet it's something like burnt sienna.

The good folks at Shell Oil Company did the research. I'm not sure why this increases the cost of gasoline but I'm sure it does. Thanks Shell Oil!