Today is Bo Jackson's 49th birthday, so I thought I'd watch a Bo Jackson video and then I watched about 10. The first video shocked me because I'm never ready for how big he is or how fast. And he was both.

Here are some videos and articles including football Bo, baseball Bo, Letterman Bo, Sesame St Bo, ect. The articles are interspersed with the videos. Make sure to watch the Tecmo Bo.


First mention of Bo in SI from 1982



The tackle that ended his career



Ralph Wiley suggesting Bo will have to choose

Bo on the go



On homering in first game back after injury

A hip injury



All Bo's SI covers



Maybe the first profile



Gammons

Bo Jackson, the Heisman winner



Where is he now, from 2003



Bo must choose



If Bo Jackson doesn't return

Good for Parker and Stone and their musical getting to profitability, which is a nice story, but the reason I'm calling this out is the writing in Variety. I've read articles in Variety before and never noticed it. Is it always this bad? Also, South Park fans, you're not part of the 'legit world' apparently...

Musical's sales are powered not only by the international popularity of Parker and Stone's 'South Park' the Comedy Central skein that's amassed a huge fanbase over 15 seasons, but also by the enthusiastic response of the legit world. Tuner won critical raves when it opened and then in June took home nine Tonys, including the new musical laurel, the one theater kudo generally believed to have a real impact on box office.

Complaining about a periodical's writing style? Who am I?

1. Filet Mignon
2. Jameson
3. Electric tools
4. iPhone 4
5. Gillette Mach 4 Razors
6. Axe
7. Polo Ralph Lauren
8. Let's Rock Elmo
9. Chanel No. 5
10. Nikes

I know we're trained to believe anything in list form on the internet, but some of these seems a little unbelievable, right?

Via Adweek

Knitting and model making of course.

In case you needed to make cocktails more interesting.



Via Stellar

"A lot of critics think I’m stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No the point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible." - Kurt Vonnegut

There's a Kurt Vonnegut just out and this quote was in the review of it. I liked it.

via And So It Goes

You might want to watch this one in full screen.



Via Stellar

After a Tweet last year from Aziz Ansari, GQ decided to send comedian Ansari, Momofuku empire chef David Chang, and LCD Soundsystemer James Murphy to Tokyo. This is their story. Whole thing is worth a read.

The meal demanded a nap. Then it was off to Bar High Five, owned by Hidetsugu Ueno, who has become the foremost ambassador of the Japanese cocktail movement. Stepping into the closet-sized space on the fourth floor of a building in Ginza, the ritzy shopping district, was like arriving on an advanced planet whose sole sacred text was a 1960s American bar manual—like stepping at once back and forward in time. Ueno wore a magnificent pompadour and worked from strange bottles of the kind you see gathering dust under American bars—sloe gin and blended whiskeys and odd liqueurs. His technique was astonishing: When he poured, it was in a thin stream from high above the golden wood bar, somehow perfectly filling each glass to just its meniscus point.

I sure like this a lot.







Via Stellar

I watched this 3 times to see the helmet cam of the motorcross biker going off the jump. I don't know how to describe it, but it's so exciting!



Here's another of a skateboarder and a bike rider. Maybe better?

Via Rick