Why can't we get this kind of insight into any Milwaukee Bucks?

Wizards' forward (and Wisconsin native) Caron Butler is a habitual straw chewer, and there's nothing I like more than someone who is serious about something as random as straw-chewing:

"I don't do these," he said. "I don't do 7-11 straws or anything. McDonald's, Burger King, that's it. Not Wendy's. Maybe Subway, because their straw is thick, clear, with a clear wrapping, but that's it, McDonald's, Burger King....Cheesecake Factory's got the black straws, they're kind of thick. That's good quality straws."

Watching this and reading Dan Steinberg's DC Sports Blog makes me jealous--he consistently delivers off-beat stories about the Wizards, which made me realize that despite watching every Bucks game and devoting sad amounts of time to discussing them, on some level I know the Wizards much better than the Bucks.

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Plague of Angels has a couple more tracks from the new Travis album, The Boy With No Name. It looks like there are at least three or four good to really good songs on the album, which comes out May 8. So it's shaping up to be a ridiculously great month of music:

May 1st
BRMC / Baby 81
Patrick Wolf / The Magic Position

May 8th
Travis / The Boy With No Name

May 15th
Wilco / Sky Blue Sky
The Maccabees / Colour It In (UK)
Dungen / Tio Bitar

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Random Linkage:

• Good news--we still have 10 million years before we're all annihilated by cosmic radiation. Huzzah!
• Shockingly, the kid who won the world yo-yo championship looks like a kid who would win the world yo-yo championship. Trust me, this clip is worth it.
  
• Your soccer goal of the week comes courtesy of Werder Bremen's Diego, who shows us why goalies generally shouldn't leave their penalty area.
  
• I'm woefully behind the times on hip-hop, so I found this list of the greatest hip-hop albums somewhat informative.
• As part of the previous link, check out the best rap video ever.
  
• Spinal Tap is reuniting to save the world.
• Apparently this cat playing the piano is the latest youtube phenomenon. I don't expect a cat to be good at playing the piano, but I still have higher expectations of my youtube phenomenons than this.
• If you love ping-pong, you'll love this rally. And this one might be even better. And if you don't like ping-pong, fuck you.
• Alec Baldwin's Jack Donaghy on "30 Rock" is probably the funniest character on TV, so naturally I'm totally cool with him berating his daughter on voicemails. Seriously though, why is this a big deal?
• Nice to see that undertakers still have a sense of humor.
• As noted by KevNev, Interpol's new album is scheduled to arrive in July.