As an avid baseball fan, I always get really excited about silly little trivia facts about the game. Yesterday I got into a conversation about Roberto Clemente and began spouting out useless knowledge. It’s fun, I like knowing that Clemente’s first hit came on April 17, 1955 against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the first game of a double header day at Forbes Field. But really, why does anyone need to know that?

Well, while I was blurting out facts about the former Pittsburgh Pirate, another man was making baseball history. Jamie Moyer of the Colorado Rockies pitched seven scoreless innings yesterday. This, on the surface, isn’t a big deal since many pitchers do this on a daily basis during the season. However, it should be noted that first of all none of his pitches was over 79 miles per hour. Secondly, and most importantly, Moyer, age 49 years and 152 days,  is now the oldest man to ever get the win in a baseball game.

This honor was previously held by Jack Quinn of the Brooklyn Dodgers who pitched a winning game in 1932 at age 49 years 70 days. Baseball historians, eat your hearts out. Jamie Moyer is rocking the socks off of baseball this year. Even baseball fans who aren’t necessarily Colorado Rockies fans are rooting him on.

Moyer isn’t letting it go to his head though. There’s always a chance that someone is going to beat his record. In fact, he plans to do it himself in a few days when he’s a couple of days older making him still the oldest baseball pitcher to ever win a major league game.

Keep on truckin’ Jaime. We’re all behind you!

The Internet has been abuzz with reactions to a hologram performance of Tupac this past weekend at the Coachella festival. Tupac has been dead for well over a decade but he made his triumphant(?) return to the stage in scary realistic hologram form.

Remember when holograms were just another crazy idea only seen in Star Trek? We may not have caught up to teleportation just yet, but cellphones we covered years ago and now there are these holograms. I thought this would be an epic achievement, but using it to recreate a dead man just seems strange, potentially wrong. Watching the video performance was awe inspiring, but I didn’t know how I felt about it. It’s one thing if it were a hologram of Snoop Dogg because maybe he couldn’t make it to the show. But deceased Tupac?

The image was created by Digital Domain Media Group Inc. who stated, “This is just the beginning. [Dr.] Dre has a massive vision for this.” Dr. Dre has refused to elaborate on what exactly that vision is but we’re all thinking the same thing, hologram tours. Would you go see an entire hologram Tupac concert? Maybe we can round up all the great dead people for a “reunion” tour, featuring B.I.G., Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson, Aaliyah, and Elvis. And Houdini will perform at intermission.

If you haven’t watched the performance, check it out and let us know if you think it’s a cool idea or just another way to make money off the dead.

Last night was the television premiere of HBO’s Girls, the best shot that the Home Box Office Channel has had at capturing something like a cultural zeitgeist in years. Of course as a result of the shows hyper realism and its focused interest in female issues being faced by women in their mid 20′s there is a wide array of opinions that have been violently tossed back and forth for months. (more…)

Last night was the premiere of America’s Best Dance Crew. It had an all-Britney music theme, picking several of her more current singles. This year there are plenty of newbies as well as plenty of familiar faces to provide entertainment. If you have followed the show from the beginning, then you may remember a little crew called Fanny Pak:

They did very well their first time around but now.. well, they’re back this season with a vengeance. They start the season off with their rendition of Britney Spears’ “Womanizer” and they were just as good as ever, if not better. They are definitely going to give the other competitors a run for their money (and the title) and having gotten to 3rd place way back in season 2, as an audience we all know they can make it.

So far they’re competing against a team of pre-teens and teens: 8 Flavahz, a comedy group: Stepboyz, and the two more serious challengers, Irratik and Mix’d Elements.

From the looks of it, this season is going to be really epic, full of humor, and good entertainment for everyone. I look forward to watching it this season with my roommate and picking my favorites as the season progresses.

Rick Santorum sort of leaked into a position to be Mitt Romney’s primary challenger for the Republican Presidential Nomination. (more…)

I do not like baseball one bit. While I can enjoy the pop cultural presence of a number of athletes from Jeremy Lyn to weirdo tennis twins Bob and Mike Bryan, there has not been a baseball player to be similarly captivating in my lifetime. (more…)

Now that Easter is finally here many of us will be spending the weekends with our families. Others, like me, will be spending Easter in front of the microwave. Why? Because I like to put to peeps in the microwave and make them fight, it’s pure entertainment. Easter is when God’s son, the Easter Bunny, fought Satan in a big microwave.

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We are all familiar with Polaroid cameras, you know, those awkward little boxes that spit out instant photos. They seemed all but extinct since the internet took over. Now Polaroid has turned its attention to a new aspect of photography: digital printers. People use the same argument for photos that they use for paperback and hardcover books. It just isn’t the same having everything digital. What ever happened to being able to hold the physical thing– that feeling of ownership that we all long for? It was seemingly all but eradicated.

Polaroid feels your pain. They want you to be able to own pictures. Physical pictures. And not have to go to your local pharmacy to use that stupid machine or use some online service to ship them to you. This is why they started introducing several Instant Mobile Printers. You take pictures on a mobile device such as a phone, laptop, tablet, etc. It’ll take any photo you select and print it.

These devices are small enough to carry around in a bag and are great for vacations and parties. You get the enjoyment of mobile photo-taking and the style famous with Polaroid’s vintage film stock. Now those Instagram pics you took really look legitimate. Talk about pop culture entertainment news, huh? It’s the revitalization of a classic brand!

Even entertainment guru Lady Gaga is on board with these inventions. And she’s all for making a statement.

I think my brain just exploded when I read that headline. Ashton Kutcher, the guy who played the practically mentally challenged Kelso on That 70′s Show and the other challenged goof in Dude, Where’s My Car? and the guy who played ridiculous pranks on celebrities is supposed to play a brilliant entrepreneur who helped change the face of our technological world? Wait, this is a prank right? This movie will be like one giant episode of Punk’d?

The only similarity I can see is that Ashton Kutcher does resemble a young Steve Jobs. And that’s right where it ends, aside from Kutcher having a ridiculous amount of Twitter followers for some ungodly reason. Granted both are asses, but one is a genius and the other is…well…not so much. Filming begins in May while Kutcher is on break from Two and a Half Men. It will be directed by Joshua Stern who directed Swing Vote and will revolve around Jobs’ hippie days until he became co-founder of Apple in the 90s, but will not chronicle his later years.

This will not be the only Steve Jobs movie though. This one faces competition with Sony Pictures which is creating a movie based on the best-selling book by Walter Isaacson. No word on that though.

I have never seen an episode of Two and a Half Men. I am not bragging though I do think my taste is both morally and aesthetically superior to anyone who enjoys this program I have never seen. Thing is anything I have ever heard about the show has seemed totally crass in the most basic and unpleasant ways and there is at the moment a wealth of hilarious television sitcoms that deserve my attention. (more…)