Day: June 5, 2012

Eat My Sports: The last hurrah

Anyone who has been reading me for the past two years knows this: I cannot stand LeBron James. So, based on this, I have not cared how the NBA season ends, I only want the Miami Heat not to win, and I want it to happen in excruciating fashion.

The Boston Celtics are in the last season of the Big Three experiment. Three conference finals appearances, two NBA Finals appearances and one title is not too shabby for Danny Ainge’s blockbuster moves. This season, the Cs lucked into the most fortunate run yet, the Derrick Rose injury put a very underwhelming Philadelphia squad in the second round, and paved a very easy path for Boston to set a date with the Heat for the eastern crown. Continue reading Eat My Sports: The last hurrah

Someone call John Goodman

The scene: Sadiya, a town in India. The mood: terror. The situation: two innocent victims. The perp: terrifyingly deadly spiders.

The villagers were doing nothing antagonistic, simply celebrating a Hindu festival. Cue the swarm. Legion upon legion of eight-legged freaks appeared in the town, casting a web of horror. Scientists aren’t sure yet what could be the exact culprit. It’s guessed that it could be a tarantula, a wishbone or even a funnel-web spider.

Except, neither of those two are native to the area. In fact, there’s been no record of venomous spiders in the area. Ever.

This is clearly an insidious plot created by the animal kingdom. Create a new deadly weapon and test it on an unwitting population. Who are they, the Russians?

When cats fly

Cats often dream of flying, if only to catch birds, now, in death, Orville the cat can live that dream.

Orville the cat was named after Orville Wright, so it’s fitting that the deceased feline is now a helicopter. Yep, the Orvillecopter is cleared for liftoff. The launch site? An art show, of course.

Bart Jansen, a dutch artist, as distraught when Orville was hit by a car, but he had a fun idea. He had the cat stuffed, then teamed up with an expert in remote-control helicopters to design and build the structure that would allow his beloved cat to soar as he never could in life.

For the record, we’re fine with flying cats, as long as we control them.