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Corrupt Mayors’ Super Bowl. Whenever you get Anthony Atamanuik saying “some naked take-off-their-clothes ladies” you’re at least partly right. Written by Erik Tanouye. Filmed and edited by me. Directed by both of us. Starring Eddie Dunn, Anthony Atamanuik and Birch Harms.

Other news:

• Halfway through DC Pierson’s book The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep And Didn’t Have To and I super dig it.
• Got two more videos shot and trying to get them edited
• Would like to never have to shave again. Advice?
• Tried Google Chrome; found that it doesn’t seem to handle GMail well on the Mac.
• Am abandoning these bullet points.

I’ve been posting a lot of photos of myself and Ben Rameaka and other UCBTers in weird costumes to my Facebook account. People ask me: what’s with the photos? Answer: we are performing in a documentary about the origins of fantasy/rotisserie baseball which some people are making for ESPN.

We are recreating moments in the story — each one as a different genre. So the first ever draft is shown as the founding fathers, and another moment is a 80s cop interrogation scene, and a lot of scenes took place on an actual baseball field. The result is that we get to wear a lot [...]

Todd Sentz sent me this hilarious video called “Jake E. Lee Shreds” — it took me a bit to get it, but then I couldn’t stop laughing. The clapping by Ozzy is genius.

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Also, this video of Michael Conley’s dribbling warmup is awesome in a completely non-ironic way (via Kottke.org).

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Unrelated opinions you did not ask about, which you likely won’t agree with, and that I am not qualified to offer.

1. College athletes should be paid. Yes, their tuition and room/board is part of that but it’s not enough by a long shot. At UConn last year, tuitition/room/board for out-of-state students was $30 thousand. The basketball program grossed almost $8 million, and that’s not counting money from merchandise. It infuriates me that the coaches, athletic directors and recruiters can make hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary and sometimes endorsements but the athletes — the vast majority of which will not go to the pros — walk away with just 30 grand in non-cash.

2. Serial killers / mass-murderers should [...]