I know I linked to The Boy Least Likely To's wimptastic video for "Be Gentle With Me" previously, but that was before I realized the cute girl in it is Rashida Jones, Jim's new love interest on The Office. To recap, she's the daughter of Quincy Jones, class of '97 at Harvard, and she was in Stella, too. So if it wasn't enough that Jim had a shot at the hottest average looking chick ever (Pam, and I mean that as a high compliment), now he's dating someone who's possibly even more appealing. Fuck you, John Krasinski.

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Like most Parisian twosomes, Arnaud Rebotini and Ivan Smagghe make electronic music and remix other people's stuff as Black Strobe. To be honest I haven't heard much from them, though I remember not liking a remix they did of The Rapture's "Sister Savior," though it's tough to remix one of my favorite songs without me hating it. Anyway, Paul Epworth, producer of Bloc Party and The Rapture among others, did a remix of Black Strobe's "Shining Bright Star" and it's pretty good. The second track is pretty stock electronic music, maybe a little reminiscent of Vitalic (to draw on my limited electronic catalog), and also decent.

Black Strobe / "Shining Bright Star" (Phones Industrial mix) (from Green Pea-ness)
Black Strobe / "Italian Fireflies"

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Here's the danger of the internet: after seeing the economically-challenged Royals signed middling starter Gil Meche to a staggeringly awful 5-year, $55 million deal, I yelled up from my second floor office to coworker and BP contributor Dave about it. Next thing you know, my hastily-constructed analogy ends up on Baseball Prospectus.

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Michael Irvin continues to defy all standards for idiocy, but incredibly and unbelievably just cannot seem to get himself fired.

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Kristen Wiig is probably my favorite SNL castmember at the moment, which is good because she's in most of the sketches these days (and in spite of her facial contortions she's pretty cute too). Check out her Aunt Linda Movie Reviews here and here.

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Bryan Curtis tells the great story of Don Carman, the Phillies pitcher who took longer than usual to answer his fan mail.

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The coolest car $50k can buy is the new BMW 335i coupe. I love any video of cars peeling around twisty roads, mainly because I would never have the guts to ever try something like that.