Carnival in Arcueil by Lyonel Feininger, 1911 | The Art Institute of Chicago | October 2010
February 6, 2011, 22:10 EST – @maitri: “We won the Superbowl, Packer nation! The Lombardi trophy goes home! Titletown! Aaaaahhhhahahahaha! LOVE LOVE LOVE!”
Packers quarterback & Superbowl MVP Aaron Rodgers with the Lombardi Trophy (thanks for the picture, Blair!)
That is all. I am going to be in bed for the rest of the week watching the highlights reel over and over again.
Light posting ahead. A small battalion of the Packer Nation descends tomorrow for this weekend’s great, green and gold cheesapalooza ahead of the Superbowl. For the record, my house is going to sound like this for the next few days, ya der hey. I love my people!
As is customary prior to a Big Game, fans exchange paeans, love songs, and war chants penned and/or updated especially for the occasion. And now we have the internet to help hasten this pre-game soundtrack.
This ain’t a diss comment, Lil Wayne, but it’s green and GOLD. I know, I know, it’s a freestyle over Wiz Khalifa’s “Black and Yellow.” And you worked a nice, little, um, scatological Najeh Davenport reference in there. It’s all good. What matters is you’re a Packer fan and you’re from NEW ORLEANS. Peace.
Butch Vig and Duke Erikson of Madison band Garbage have updated Go Pack Go! I LOVE the new video. Remember, kids, Jesus drinks Old Style!
Oh, gosh darn it, don’tcha know, I’m a cheesehead, baby, the pride of Wisconsin! Somebody pass the cheese curds.
GO PACK GO! Wooooohooooo! See you on Tuesday!
… worrying about whether I’m gonna die from an eruption at Yellowstone is so far down my list of concerns that I am more worried about being gnawed to death by a pack of angry prairie dogs. It could happen, but it is highly unlikely … for the record, “supervolcano” isn’t a geological term.
- Life | In Praise of Ham the Astrochimp. Fifty years of Hammy! I love these pictures of the first primate in space. What a cutie! Wish they didn’t have to restrain him by the neck during training, though.
- Hunt Oil loves the Packers! This was the view last night from a balcony in downtown Dallas. (Thanks, Julie!)
Scientific American | Obama spotlights science in his State of the Union address
For innovation, Obama noted how, when Sputnik was launched in 1957, the U.S. did not have the science to beat the Soviet Union to the moon. The space race triggered a series of innovations that created new industries and millions of new jobs. And he gave shout-outs to Google and Facebook in noting how the more recent rise of the Internet enabled new businesses to flourish.
Man, that was one weak, flickering spotlight.
So, does this mean when the Russians make it to Mars, we’ll revive our space program? Until then, it’s Facebook? Lord help us all. Because you know all those Farmville skillz will come in handy come the Martian revolution & we’re the space commissars. *rolls eyes*
Also, if the president uses “winning the future” in a sentence one more time, I am going to hold that he is a Bears fan against him.
Obama: “We will win the future with cheap, flying cars that run on clean coal made by kids with perfect standardized test scores before they leave for Afghanistan.”
Me: “Your quarterback couldn’t even handle a little sprain.”
Jeffrey nicely (and quickly) takes apart the rest of last night’s pantomime.
Does Paul Ryan really sound like an upper-midwestern version of Bobby “Poindexter” Jindal or is that just how he comes across on NPR? As for his rebuttal itself, I love how it talks about limited government over and over again while those pesky specifics are conveniently missing. Mark my words, they’ll never cut Medicare and Social Security.
I skipped the SOTU address in its entirety and watched this really cool, three-hour documentary on the making of the Airbus A380.
