My Buffalo Bills lost rather embarassingly to the Miami Dolphins today, and in order to either cheer me up and/or lambast me more, my husband started searching “Steve Young” on YouTube. (In case you’re new to this blog, when I was a teenager, instead of liking Jonathan Taylor Thomas like my best friends, Young was my celebrity crush.) During his search, we found the following:
After some Googling, we learned the Steve Young Football they were singing about in the ad was a new game for the iPad and iPod touch released on Thursday by Vaporware Labs. In searching, we found the developers’ YouTube Channel, which includes several videos starring the man himself. As a fan of his since I was ten, I have to say they might be his best work since his turn on Beverly Hills, 90210. Continue reading
Month: September 2010
I don't know if there will be Buffalo wings there, but wings are wings. (Photo: Me)
Every year, I lament not being able to attend the Buffalo Wing Festival over Labor Day Weekend. Buffalo is only a few stops down the Thruway from Big Roc City, so one of these years I need to time my annual summer trip home appropriately and attend.
But my sadness has been tempered by the following announcement, which I spotted on one of my favorite non-sports blogs, Boston Restaurant Talk.
Game On! is hosting a King of Wing Competition next Thursday, September 16th at 6pm. And I need to attend. Not want. Need. This is mandatory attendance for me. While I do not believe all the wings will be Buffalo flavored – nor would I expect that of them, because this is Boston – they are still wings, and they are still all you can eat.
During the event, chefs from dining spots such as Game On!, East Coast Grill, Eastern Standard, The Harp, Jerry Remy’s, Kings, Myers+Chang, Stadium, and Sweetwater will take part in a chicken wing competition, with wings being judged for authenticity and creativity, as well as “best BBQ” by guests and a panel of celebrity judges.
Eastern Standard = the unofficial restaurant of my office = my pre-event favorites for best wing.
Tickets are $20 and include all-you-can-eat wings and a drink ticket good for non-alcoholic drinks or Bud Light. Now, I think Molson and Labatt are the only appropriate wing beers, but I’m not going to rag on what was probably purely a sponsorship decision. (I recognize when people do what they gotta do.)
If I attend, I will be sure to take photos and tell you about the deliciousness – if not here, definitely on Twitter.
It’s Labor Day morning, and my husband is golfing. This results in an extremely rare occurrence for me – TV time. And even rarer, I found actual, factual music videos on TV. Shock of all shocks.
While watching Fuse (a channel I’m always fond of because it’s across from Madison Square Garden), I saw the video for Mike Posner’s Cooler Than Me. Wasn’t I shocked when I saw the Duke University graduate sing on my television in the following jacket:
Mike Posner, a Red Wings fan?
A Detroit Red Wings logo on the rapper/singer’s leather jacket. After some quick Wikipedia-ing, I realized this wasn’t a random placement, but a shout-out to his hometown of Detroit, Michigan. I guess when your only consistently high-performing sports team is your town’s NHL team, you rep it all over in your debut music video.
I wasn’t a giant fan of the guy before, but Mike Posner just became that much cooler…than me. (Ooh! Punny!) But no, really, he became cooler than me because I followed his video up with a DVRed Toddler and Tiaras marathon.