Somebody has WAYYYYY too much disposable income on their hands.
A rare Michael Jordan basketball card was sold for over $350,000, setting a new record on eBay. More details on this story from NBC Sports Chicago — including why the new owner may have paid three times as much as he should have.
First off, heyyyyyy eBay…..you still lookin’ fine. And secondly, I am currently offering a Dickie Simpkins game worn sock. $6 or best offer. — [eric]
From Happy Days to Sesame Street, Weezer have a history of adopting classic TV shows in their music videos.
Rivers Cuomo dons his best Fred Rogers red sweater on the set of “Mister Rivers’ Neighborhood” for their new video, “High as a Kite.”
CAUTION KIDS, the performance turns dark just as the song does.
Find the song on Weezer’s new album “The Black Album” out March 1st.
Simple Creatures, the mega-collab of All Time Low’s Alex Gaskarth and Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus has set a clear path on when you can hear even more of the duo’s dancier new tunes. The new band’s first EP called ‘Strange Love’ is due out on March 29th and to keep the momentum moving they released a new track today on Youtube that shares the same name as the EP.
Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus says new album will be “completely weird”
This follows last month’s release of their first song together ‘Drugs’.
Strange Love Tracklist:
01. Drug
02. Strange Love
03. How to Live
04. Adrenaline
05. Ether
06. Lucy
Welcome to a week when Colonel Sanders is now Robocop and the Burger King is dressing like the Colonel. Not sure how we ended up in this parallel universe, but how TF can we get back?
The “Twilight Zone” returns to television (well, CBS All Access) on April 1, and we finally have a full trailer.
Say it isn’t so…
Lockdown Bar & Grill is closing after almost 10 years of slinging magnificent burgers on Western Avenue. Eater broke the story, saying owner PJ Zonis was unsuccessful in his attempts to sell the business.
March 1st will see the restaurant locked down for good (sorry). Get your mouth on a Stoned Warden or Federales while you can.
We don’t mean to spoil the beloved movie, Jurassic Park, but this news is fascinating… and slightly disturbing. The sounds you hear when the velociraptors communicate together are actually mating tortoises.
Sound designer Gary Rydstrom received two Academy Awards for his work on Jurassic Park, one for Best Sound and the other for Best Sound Effects Editing.
He told Vulture the truth behind the voice of the Raptors:
It’s somewhat embarrassing, but when the raptors bark at each other to communicate, it’s a tortoise having sex. It’s a mating tortoise!
I recorded that at Marine World… the people there said, ‘Would you like to record these two tortoises that are mating?’ It sounded like a joke, because tortoises mating can take a long time. You’ve got to have plenty of time to sit around and watch and record them.
But tortoises weren’t the only animals used to create the sound of the velociraptors.
The breathing noise the raptors make is actually a horse, while the hiss comes from a goose.
Birds make pretty raspy sounds, but geese are famous for being the nastiest. You’ve got to get a goose mad and then they hiss at you, and it doesn’t take much to get a goose mad because they seem to get mad at everything. All you have to do is get close to one and stick a mic near its beak and you’ll get that hiss, and that’s the hiss that Muldoon [the game warden] hears before he dies.
We hope the movie isn’t ruined for you, but use this as a fun fact of the day!
A ‘Price is Right’ contestant gave a shoutout to her dead husband, who she happened to carry around in her purse.
@UncleChaps @KFCBarstool @TheClemReport
Absolute ridiculous shoutout by this lady on The Price is Right pic.twitter.com/9l1xuDZFyM
— Arroe Roberta (@Arroechinchilla) February 20, 2019
Maybe he was her good luck charm? We’re not sure, but that’s true love right there.
19-year-old soccer star Nicolo Zaniolo seems embarrassed by his moms Instagram posts.
Meet Francesca Costa, Nicolo’s 41-year-old mother:
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Nicolo has told her “Stop mum.” on recent posts. Even joked about her duckface photos that she seems to do quite often saying, “What are you doing with your mouth like that? You’re 40!”
It can’t be that embarrassing, what have your parents done that’s embarrassed you?
Breakups are hard, but you don’t have to do it alone. Onward is a new startup that wants to handle all the logistics of your breakup.
Onward handles everything from finding you a new place to live, setting up the utilities, packing and moving your stuff out of your ex’s place, setting you up on dates, finding you a therapist, and building your Ikea furniture.
Services start at $99 and can go up to $500, depending on what services you want.
The startup was founded by two childhood friends, Lindsay Mech and Mika Leonard, who say they got the idea after they both went through complicated breakups. Currently, this is only available in New York City, but they are planning to expand!
So if you’re thinking about breaking up with someone just wait till your city gets Onward.
Lonely Island is droppin’ the boat for the road but not hitting Chicago just yet.
The Lonely Island 2019 Tour Dates:
06/15 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music Festival
06/18 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem
06/19 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia
06/21 – New York City @ Venue TBA
06/22 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theater
06/24 – Boston, MA @ Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion
06/26 – Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre
06/29 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
A man from Dallas is making headlines for his video of himself at a dog park covered in peanut butter.
Now the reason he did this stunt is because it was his punishment for coming in dead last in his fantasy football league.
25-year-old Steven Shrout said, “It was my fist year, and I didn’t do any kind of studying at first. I just kind of jumped in.”
Let’s hope he researches more for next year so he doesn’t end up dead last… again.
With movies like “Black Panther” and “A Star is Born” getting hype for their soundtracks, Pitchfork put out an updated list of the 50 best soundtracks of all time.
To get all 50 of the best soundtracks of all time, check out Pitchfork.
Iam Hammon created a petition to sell Montana to Canada.
The petition calls for the U.S. to sell the state for $1 trillion, and has already gotten over 10,000 signatures.
He posted the petition on Change.org saying:
“We have too much debt and Montana is useless. Just tell them it has beavers or something.”
In the rich but odd tradition of making our pets into musical memes, today the web got behind this trending clip of a cat’s annoying morning meows ran through the make-you-sing-even-thou-you-can-not soundeffect known as autotune. Yes, we usually hear this effect layered on annoying pop songs, but there is something weirdly satisfying about seeing this nagging cat getting the Kanye West treatment.
While we are goofing on cats, here are some feline funny related bits for you to enjoy:
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An unopened copy of Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was sold at auction this month — for more than $100,000.
Apparently they treat these things like rare sports cards — sealed in plastic, and given a rating of 9.4 by a collectibles grading site, the new owner may not have it long. According to this story from CNET, he might turn around and flip it soon.
I have one of those Duck Hunt guns with my name in red marker and used bubble gum stuck to the bottom of it somewhere in my basement. Do I hear $50? Anyone? Anyone? — [eric]
[📷 : Pexels]
Did you know when pufferfish puff up they release toxins? Which tends to effect Doplins differently.
Pufferfish release a toxin when they puff out that is meant to impair the attacker. This doesn’t work on Dolphins in the same way. It gets them high. So they purposely inflate them and pass them around to their dolphin friends for fun. https://t.co/h1U59K9ksn pic.twitter.com/zd1uGQigJC
— Daniel Holland (@DannyDutch) February 15, 2019
Yes, you read that right it gets them high. Check out this video of how ‘teen’ dolphins get high:
It’s Girl Scout cookie season again, and what better way to sell some cookies than by putting a photo of Jason Momoa on the box.
Clever girl, Charlotte Holmberg, from Colorado is using Momoa’s picture to move boxes of Samoas – and it’s working!
Charlotte had help from her mother, who works in marketing, and got the idea from the internet. The two then created the box art by printing out photos of Momoa and affixing them to the cookies, which have been renamed “Momoas” as part of the promotional efforts.
Wouldn’t you just love a box of Momoa Samoas if you could see him on them all day?
