wimbledon update

FINAL UPDATE : ISNER WINS 70-68 in the fifth set!!!

american (and georgia bulldog bulldyke) john isner is currently wrapped up in a match with french frog nicolas mahut. its a record breaker already, 4-4, 6-3, 7-6, 6-7, 41-42.... and counting. they have been playing for five eight hours. its the most games ever in a set.

all i can say is that if it was a tennisvol out there, this game would have been wrapped up hours ago. good luck john.


UPDATE: "Everybody's watching it in the locker rooms, everywhere. That's the longest match by far any tournament, any Grand Slam. Of course, two big servers. Yeah, I don't know, maybe they should agree on playing tiebreak if it's 50-all."  -novak djokovic

UPDATE 2: 54-54 and 9+ hours. right, emilube?

UPDATE 3: they're taking a break at 58-58 before someone has a bathroom accident. it's getting dark, they could either a) move to a lighted court, or b) pick it up tomorrow morning. what to YOU think they should do?

UPDATE 4: For a second day, the match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut, the longest tennis match in history, has been suspended because of darkness. (via)
SCORE: 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-7, 59-59.

lando + ray ray

love y'all.

diana ross and the supremes | where did our love go

one. huge. class. act

glenn beck will hold a "restoring honor" rally this august 28th, on the steps of the lincoln memorial. i tried to figure out wtf this rally is for, but as with most thinks associated with glenn beck, it makes absolutely no sense. if you have a ton of free time, and like torturing yourself, perhaps you can find some answers in this rambling interview he posted on his website. i crapped out about two sentences in.

regardless of beck's motivations, you should be aware that august 28th, 1963 is the day martin luther king gave his "i have a dream" speech...on the steps of the lincoln memorial. that's right, glenn beck is totally hitching is racist-cracker wagon to MLK jr's preeminent speech on racial equality. this is going to be rich.

daily ri ri

sessy.

worldcupdate!

germany defeated ghana 1-0.
australia beat serbia 2-1.
germany and ghana advance.

2Pz LOLsoccer updated standings.

i need a nap after today.

what is jazzy doing?

checkin' out the new screen porch my dad just finished!

jealous?

go USA!

jersey shore | the queer issue

when the village voice asked the jersey shore boys to be on their cover, they didnt think to ask what issue it was.

passion pit | tonight, tonight

you can download the full cover at this website.

summer treatz.

do you want ice cream real bad but all you have laying around is some bananas and a blender?

well according to this internet webpage, you can make frozen bananas into creamy delicious ice-cream-like goodness with just a blender!

Here's a step-by-step slideshow of how to do it. The major tips can be summed up as:

• Peel your bananas first.
• Cut them into small pieces.
• Freeze for just 1-2 hours on a plate.
• Blend, blend, blend - scraping down the bowl when they stick.
• Enjoy the magic moment when they turn into ice cream!

(via)

they also recommend adding peanut butter, but i recommend adding vodka.

there's always money in the banana stand. thx emilube!

gosh, what an idiot.

general stanley mcchrystal is going to the white house today to talk to president obama. have you heard about this dummy? he's the one in charge of our whole afghanistan war, and the architect of obama's new policy over there. so, some rolling stone reporter follows him around afghanistan for a while, and he just shoots off at the mouth the entire time, saying mean things about president barack obama and everyone else he can think of. so it all gets printed and now everyone knows. he did give hillary a nice compliment. so that's something.

well, now it's time to pay the fiddler kitty on the hot tin rooftop. he's prepared a letter of resignation, jic he needs it.

anyway, time to watch the soccer vols.

UPDATE: Gen. David Petraeus has been been tapped by President Obama to replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, according to a top Obama national security source.

McChrystal has been relieved of his position as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, a top national security source says. (via)

toooooot tooooooooooOOoOOoot!

psychic soccer-predicting octopus!!

BERLIN — Nervous ahead of their make-or-break World Cup match with Ghana on Wednesday, Germany has turned to an English-born octopus called Paul with a knack for correctly predicting winners.

"For the European Championship in 2008 Paul had a success rate of more than 80 percent for the German games," Tanja Munzig, a spokeswoman for Sea Life in Oberhausen in western Germany where the eight-legged oracle lives, told AFP.

"And for this World Cup, he has had a 100-percent success rate so far."

Two plastic boxes, one with a German flag and one with their opponent's, are lowered into Paul's tank, each with a tasty morsel of food inside. The box which Paul opens first is adjudged to be his predicted winner.

For Wednesday's crunch game, he chose the box with the Germany flag. He correctly predicted Germany would beat Australia in their opening Group D match and that they would lose to underdogs Serbia last week. (via)

LOLsoccer

oh haiye. i'm in first place. (c2e.)

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tooooooOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooOOOooOOoOOTttt TTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111

LAN-DO! USA advances!

and congrats to andy roddick, who advances as well.