The votes are Inge

The deadline for Major League Baseball's Final Vote — in which the fans fill out the AL and NL All-Star teams by picking one player from five for each league — is 4 p.m. today.

As steadfast Phillies fans, the Orange Whip editorial board naturally advocates the election of Shane Victorino in the National League, and has voted several times thusly. But we'd also like to endorse the Detroit Tigers' Brandon Inge for the American League. Why? Because Inge has had a large part in the success of this blog writer's fantasy baseball team — the Bulletproof Tigers — over the first half of the season (that catcher eligibility has been clutch). And we take care of our own 'round these parts.

That being said, I have no idea why the Phillies organization itself is advocating the Inge/Victorino ticket. Anyone?

UPDATE: Victorino and Inge were the top vote-getters. Mission accomplished.

Wild in the streets

Girl Skateboards has released a skateboard series featuring characters from company co-founder Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are. Pretty cool.

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right

I checked out the Philadelphia International Championship bike race for the first time this year with some friends and family, and I just finished posting my photos over here. Everything was shot on Lemon Hill, aside from a few down on Kelly Drive.

Glastonbury? Who ever heard of a Glastonbury?

The Big Picture has some pretty cool photos from the Glastonbury festival, including the above by Joel Ryan/AP and the below by Leon Neal/Getty Images. Via.

Not sure what this is about. I can only hope the guy's carrying cases or a quarter-keg in his arms.

Right on target

Normally I subscribe to Butt-head's theory on the visual representation of lyrics in music videos. That being, "If I wanted to read, I'd go to school." But a good jam and a cool video can make for an exception.

"Casa Bey" by Mos Def off his new album, The Ecstatic. Video directed by Coodie & Chike, with graphics/text design by Superfad.

Electric light organization

The song "1901" by Phoenix is pretty good, but I like the video better. As far as I can tell, this is just projected light — arranged in constantly changing patterns — hitting the band. Simple and smart.

The video was directed by Bogstandard and commissioned by Dazed Digital.

Super super special stage

Notown

Anyone want to get in on the ground floor of a residential investment? The above is part of a photo essay by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffrey on the ruins of Detroit, as featured on Time.com.

Tracking back, I saw it linked by Ben Templesmith in reference to a pretty insightful column by Australian journalist Guy Rundle, as seen here.

There’s many places you can visit with your limited time on earth — the Turkish rivieria, Finland’s Ice Hotel, Mt Fuji, Wobbie World — but everyone who wants to understand the last century and this one, should see Detroit.

Why? Because Detroit is the first modern urban ruin, the largest city that has simply been allowed to die.

Zezel, R.I.P.

Non-hockey fans might better recognize Peter Zezel as one of the background teammates in Youngblood, but 'round these parts he'll be remembered as a core member of the classic '80s Flyers team that lost in the Stanley Cup finals to Edmonton. Zezel died yesterday at age 44.

As a side note Youngblood, I can't say when I last saw the movie, but was the point really that he had to learn to fight to make the NHL? I mean, I remember it being pretty cheesy, but not that outright boneheaded.

That's the old pepper, kid!

Caught a commercial for The Hangover the other day and I thought I heard "Pepper" by the Butthole Surfers. And I like that song.

I'd post the actual video but the ones I've found online all seem to have a glitch in them, which is a shame as I like the video. So SpongeBob and Patrick will have to hold it down.

Ashro Boy

How rad is this Ashley Wood variant cover to the first (?) issue of IDW's Astro Boy Movie Prequel miniseries?

I guess I saw the old-school Astro Boy cartoon a couple times, but I don't really care about the upcoming Astro Boy movie. This painted piece, however, would make a great litho. I like it with the dead space at the top, too.

Cool Uniform Props: Flyers third/throwback jersey

I figured I better get this one up before the Flyers were (possibly) out of the playoff picture a lot earlier than last year, so here are the official Cool Uniform Props for their third jerseys that debuted this season.

Styled like the original 1970s Flyers jerseys, the orange on these things really pops. And we're big fans of that around Orange Whip. I also like the white C and A's on the front of the jersey, the white background for last names on the back, and the fact the numbers on the sleeves aren't contained within the white stripe. I think the arm stripes were a little less even/skinnier in the '70s, but I like them better here.

Let's hope we haven't seen the last of these jerseys for this season.