Adios amigo

Patrick Swayze, R.I.P.

Wolverines!

It must be said ...

... Alicia Keys kind of rules.



No I didn't watch the stupid VMAs, but I caught this end performance.

Oh, Jay-Z — I don't think you made the Yankees hat more famous than any Yankees did, holmes. (I think that's what he said.) Let's bring it back down to Earth. Alright then.

With animation, there's no limit to what we can ... imagine

Caught this animated Beatles Rock Band piece on MTV tonight. Pretty cool. (Hit the link to embiggen.)

You know what I can't find online, though? The scene from Beavis and Butthead where Butthead calmly asserts, "The Beatles ruined music." One of my favorite lines from the show.

For the greatest bit of Beatles animation — involving Dewey Cox, anyway — check this out. Or just watch Walk Hard, because it's awesome.

UPDATE: Some more Internet research leads me to now believe it was Beavis who said the above quote — it was his response to the query of whether England was near Britain. I may have been mixing it up with another quote from Butthead who, according to Wikipedia, said, "You know those asswipes The Beatles? Those guys ruined music," though I've seen that phrase in slightly different forms.

While I am a huge fan of B and B, it's been a while since I watched, folks. Perhaps Ron Wood knows the truth of it ...

Donkey!

Defending Moto GP champion Valentino Rossi, always game to break out a new helmet design should inspiration strike (see also here), was sporting a donkey face on his helmet this weekend in the San Marino GP, which he won.

I missed any mention of the helmet by the announcers, and thought maybe it was a rabbit on the helmet. But a note on the above photo points out that Rossi was calling himself a donkey — as opposed to his regular nickname of "The Doctor" — for falling on his own at the previous race in Indianapolis.

Photos above and below by ialla.

L.A. on fire

The Sacramento Bee posted some great photos from their coverage of the wildfires raging near Los Angeles. The above is by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.

Via Ron Wood, who also pointed out these time lapse vids of the fires.

UPDATE: The fire has now been declared an arson, and thus a homicide. From this Reuters article:

The so-called Station Fire has killed two firefighters, destroyed 64 homes and torched an area the size of Chicago in the nine days it has roared across the rugged San Gabriel Mountains overlooking Los Angeles.

Font wheel drive

I thought this would be dumb when I read the description somewhere (I forget now), but it's actually pretty cool. "iQ font — When driving becomes writing" by wireless.

Cool Uniform Props: Barcelona MES jerseys

I watched the above pictured Zlatan Ibrahimovic score his first La Liga goal for Barcelona today in a dominating win over Sporting Gijon, and remembered this one-off uniform Barca wore against Manchester City a couple weeks back.

Pretty sweet (though the colors are a bit faded in this pic; see the next link for a better look). Some more details here on the MES jersey, sold in limited numbers to raise funds for the UN Refugee Agency.