Gerald Green will win the 2007 dunk contest

I was at the Bucks-Celtics game last night to see the Celtics end their 18-game losing streak against my nearly-as-hapless Bucks, and I have to say that as a non-fan of the Celtics I think the dance team is a good addition. Sorry Kyle. Red's dead baby, Red's dead. Also, Gerald Green is good at shooting a basketball. Though not quite as good as he is at dunking it (see above).

In the meantime, the Bucks led by double digits in the second quarter and then clearly quit on Terry Stotts. Which is sort of understandable, given that he probably couldn't teach Charlie Weis to eat a Twinkie, much less inspire a basketball team to live up to its potential. While they'd probably be a bubble playoff team if they hadn't been so injury-riddled, the fact that they're 3-19 in their last 22 is indicative of a team that isn't going anywhere under their current coach. So either they're going to can Tater Stotts in the next couple days and give assistant Larry Krystkowiak a shot at running the team, or they're going to let Tater "lead" this team for the rest of the season and get us back into the lottery.

We clearly have offensive talent, but when a bunch of guys with decent attitudes still don't play any defense, you have to wonder about the coaching. Just as importantly, Bogut (who has officially added "mercurial" to his resume this season) has clearly had a distaste Stotts from the beginning and it wouldn't be bad to see what the big fella could do under a coach with a backbone.

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The tracklisting for Wilco's new LP, Sky Blue Sky, due May 15th:

01 Either Way
02 You Are My Face
03 Impossible Germany
04 Sky Blue Sky
05 Side With the Seeds
06 Shake It Off
07 Please Be Patient With Me
08 Hate It Here
09 Leave Me (Like You Found Me)
10 Walken
11 What Light
12 On and On and On

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Last year CBS offered incredibly convenient online access to every game in March Madness, which was super-handy for anyone who wanted to watch early round games while "working." However due to bandwidth limits you often had to wait in line to get the video to work. You can now pre-register for a free "VIP" pass that will get you immediate access to every game.

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Via KevNev, watch as Joe Rogan takes professional toolbox Carlos Mencia to task for being a hack and a joke-stealer. Or as WWTDD puts it:

Dane Cook and Carlos Mencia are both well known to steal other comedians' material, then re-write it and pass it off as their own. Except Dane doesn't re-write it, he just says whatever Louis CK says and then flails around a little bit. Now that's comedy! But no one has screamed louder about all this than Joe Rogan and Brian Redban. And so Mencia called Joe on stage Saturday night at the Comedy Store in Hollywood for a battle to settle things once and for all. Umm, it didn't work out, as comedian after comedian came out to say that Mencia absolutely steals material. What’s amazing is that Mencia jacks material and still sucks. He's not even clever enough to steal good material. Its like breaking into a bank and stealing their pens.

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Go over to Good Weather for Airstrikes for a great post with artists to look out for in 2007.

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Maggie Berger looks a lot like Maggie from Extras here

I seem to be all about excruciatingly cheesy Europop these days, and the latest culprit is Norwegian Idol second-place finisher Margaret Berger. I'm not sure how ironic she's being when she belts out "I'm in love with a robot!" but it's OK, she's Norwegian. "Samantha" is pretty catchy too but it also shows she's not a dancer.

Margaret Berger / "Robot Song" (left-click, from Alien Hits)

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The oft-quoted Autoblog has a "beater of the day" thing and I really love the description of this 1989 Chevy Caprice with police package.

Big Momma is optioned out with all the law enforcement-required kit and since we couldn't put it better ourselves, we'll quote her owner's Flickr description: "...she has a thicker cop frame, fuel-injected 350 cop V8, massive cop brakes, thick cop anti-sway bars, cop oil cooler, cop trans cooler, cop 'bucket' seats, cop 3.42 gears, cop 3-core radiator, cop 120A alternator, cop shocks, cop springs, and cop attitude. She's ugly, she knows it [and] she's angry about it!"