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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Was Phelps Caught With Performance Debilitating Drug?
A UK rag produced a photograph of Olympic hero Michael Phelps smoking from a bong. The only thing more annoying than someone who swims well being anointed a celebrity worth millions of dollars is the condescending tone of this insipid article about how he's throwing it all away. Seriously, why should Phelps be penalized for taking the opposite of a performance enhancing drug?
Here's legendary comedian Eddie Izzard's take on what he calls performance debilitating drugs. Well he SHOULD be legendary.
In all seriousness, the prohibition on weed is ridiculous. Here's a submission for the 2009 NORML Ad Contest that sums up the painfully obvious:
Only Phelps himself could say it better. Next time, Michael, toke up before you dive in the pool and show the world how harmful weed is by winning the gold high as shit. You can do it, man!
This is the last track on the second side of the Beatles' fourth British album, Beatles For Sale. George Harrison, of course, on lead vocals, and a fine rendition of Carl Perkins style picking.
Pearl Jam--Alive
Guitar World has a list of the top 50 guitar solos of all time. Since there's no way to make a credible list of guitar solos, their list is very safe. I'm not sure what my favorite guitar solo of all time is, but there's a good chance that it was played by Mike McCready of Pearl Jam. I'm not trying to compare him to Hendrix or anything, but the guy plays the guitar the way I want to hear guitar played.
To GW's credit they didn't totally ignore McCready. They tossed him the #44 slot for "Alive". Here's Pearl Jam doing that song on Jools Holland's show:
Colonel Sanders' Nightmare
Watch PETA's hilarious new video series.
I do not support PETA without reservation, but I do support some of the things they do. A simple vegetarian instead of vegan focus would be more practical, but you don't control allies.
