You better offer some resistence.  You better give up on my insistence.  Ba-ba-banana, this ain’t Havana.  Do you like bananas, ba-ba-bananas.  This ain’t Havana.  -The Ramones

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  I’ll make this quick.  I’ll speak loudly and hit you with a brick.  No time for the carrot, so it’s the stick.  Lickety-split.  Mike Lupika got this one right.  Mike Lupika said, “If the U.S. wins this game, in Canada and against Canada, it will be a real good upset and an even better story.  It’s just no miracle.”  You can say that again Mike.  It’s nothing against this young US team.  In fact there are a lot of similarities.  Both this team and that team revolve(d) around speed, defense, and hot goaltending.  But Senator, I served with the Miracle on Ice.  I knew the Miracle on Ice.  The Miracle on Ice was a friend of mine.  Senator, you’re no Miracle on Ice.          Read More »

I don’t want anybody else.  When I think about you I touch myself.  Ooh I don’t want anybody else.  Oh no, oh no, oh no.  -Divinyls

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  I know, I know.  I’m a little late with this one.  So what.  Sue me.  See if I care.  All I know is, he just shoulda listened.  Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset just shoulda listened.  Norway’s Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset just shoulda listened to his mother.  He just shoulda listened to his mother when she said that stuff”ll make you go blind.  Ok, ok, he didn’t go blind.  That’s not all he didn’t do.  He didn’t win Gold either.  Had to settle for a Silver in the men’s 4 x 10 cross country skiing relay.  I’ll tell what he did do though.  He watched too much porn.  That’s what he did do.  In fact, he’ll tell that you that himself:  “My name is Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset.  I skied the second lap and I f—– up today.  I think I have seen too much porn in the last 14 days.  I have the room next to Petter Northhug and every day there is noise in there.  So I think that is the reason I f—– up.  By the way, Tiger Woods is a really good man.”  Now that’s a quote. 

Public Spectacle:

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

We’ve come a long long way together.  Through the hard times and the good.  I have to celebrate you, baby.  I have to praise you like I should.  Fatboy Slim

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  If you read this space with any regularity you know we here at Josh Q. Public *heart* us some David Lee.  What’s not to *heart*?  And, if you read this space with any regularity, you also know this story.  You know football coach Bear Bryant once brought USC running back Sam Bam Cunningham into the Alabama locker room after a game and told his players, “This is what a football player looks like.” Well, take a look at the video above. That my friends, is what a basketball player looks like.  He sure looked like a basketball player last night all right.       Read More »

First there was this:

Now there’s this:

Peace out homies. Six Two and even!

I will follow you, will you follow me?  All the days and nights that we know will be.  I will stay with you, will you stay with me?  Just one single tear in each passing year there will be.  -Genesis

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  USA!  USA!  USA!  Hockey Krishnas rejoice!  I’m a Hockey Krishna from way back.  A Hockey Krishna from back in the day back.  A Hockey Krishna since my first cafeteria tray back.  A Boston Yankee in Lord Stanley’s Court.  Born in the USA.  A long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.  A cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.  Right now, I’m cool rocking with Ryan Miller.  That’s right.  It’s Miller time.  The champagne of goalies.  Like my main man da Mayor always says, “Where’s the Miller High Life?  Where’s the Miller High Life?  You need to get some Miller High Life up in this motherfucker!”  The USA got themselves some Miller High Life up in this motherfucker all right.       Read More »

Thought this was cool.  Thought you might enjoy this.  I thought is was cool.  I enjoyed it.  I enjoyed the cool graphic stylings of Steven Heller.  I enjoyed his cool depictipn of the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936:

Thanks  (NY Times)

Peace out homies.  Six two and even!

Well, I’ve been haunted in my sleep.  You’ve been starring in my dreams.  Lord, I miss you.  -Rolling Stones

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Before there was Lofa Tatupu, there was Mosi Tatupu.  Before there was Chris Fuamatu-Ma’afala, there was Mosi Tatupu.  Before there was Junior Seau, there was Mosi Tatupu.  Heck, before there was Afa and Sika, there was Mosi Tatupu.  The pride of Samoa.  Samoans were once known as fierce warriors.  Today, they take their aggressions out on the football field.  Mosi Tatupu was a fierce warrior.  He took his aggressions out on the football field.  For 14 seasons, Mosi Tatupu was a fierce warrior for the New England Patriots.  If you came up when I came up, Mosi Tatupu was your favorite warrior.  Warriors, come out and plaaaaayyyy.            Read More »

But I’m strong.  Strong enough to carry him.  He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.  -The Hollies

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  O Brother, where art thou.  Mark MgWire’s brother is right here.  Jay McGwire is right here.  Cain asked if he were his brother’s keeper.  Clearly, Jay McGwire does not think so.  Clearly, he doesn’t listen to Marlon Brando either.  Brando:  “If we are not our brother’s keeper, let us at least not be his executioner.”  Jay McGwire just led his brother Mark straight to the hangman.  Estranged from his brother for eight years because of a family dispute, Jay McGwire has gone public.  Gone public with a book.  But if you read Deadspin, you already knew that.  But did you know this?  Did you know after hearing his brother say last month he only took steroids to heal, and not to get stronger, Jay called his brother a liar, liar, pants on fire?  Did you know he said this:

“Mark knew that he was going to get the strength and endurance and size.  I know that the main motive to justify taking steroids was healing.  I know that for a fact.  But in the long run he knew the strength and the size and endurance will increase.  I don’t know why he’s coming across that it was all healing.”

Well, like Bel Biv Devoe, now you know. 

Public Spectacle:

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

We’ll all be gone for the summer.  We’re on surf-ari to stay.  Tell the teacher we’re surfin’.  Surfin’ U.S.A.  -Beach Boys

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  USA!  USA!  Do you believe in miracles!  Of course you do.  You know what the man says.  The man says the best offense is a good defense.  Tell that to Brian Rafalski.  Nevermind.  He already knows.  Rafalski, who scored the last two goals in Thursday’s 6-1 win over Norway, scored the first two goals for the U.S. in Sunday’s 5-3 victory over Canada.   Hooray Brian Rafalski!      Read More »

My eyes adored you.  Though I never laid a hand on you, my eyes adored you.  Like a million miles away from me you couldn’t see how I adored you.  So close.  So close and yet so far.  -Frankie Valli

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  What a difference a day makes.  No sports fans, the New York Knickerbockers did not win their basketball game last night.  That priviledge went to Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder.  What the New York Knickerbockers did win last night was, the heart and minds of their fans.  What the New York Knickerbockers did win last night was, hope.  Like my main man Alexander Pope always says, “Hope springs eternal in the human breast.”  Hee hee hee, breast.                Read More »