Archives for category: just grinning

There’s a world of knowledge just waiting to be found on the YouTubes.

Much to my wife’s dismay, I have a firm belief that I can learn to breakdance.  All I need is a good YouTube tutorial and a lot of time.  This guy makes windmilling look so easy:

Maybe I’ll just start with moonwalking (in Korean, even!).  Or the Roger Rabbit.  I’m pretty sure this is how these guys learned all their moves.

Who needs classes?  Through the wonder of these online video tutorials, you can learn how to:

While certain 80s fashion tropes have made a significant return of late (e.g., neon shuttered glasses, blocky fonts and gradients, oversized + brightly colored high tops), there always seems to be an air of irony about this retro movement.

However, back in the day, sincerity was king. Artists were not afraid to score earnest, heartfelt, “You can do it, friend”-type pleas set to anthemic almost-new wave musical backdrops for earnest, heartfelt films.

For a new segment we’re calling Friday Flashback, here are some championship clips to get you in the mood for pushups, sprinting, cleaning your garage and/or gearing up for a nice election brawl:

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…sites like cakewrecks!

There’s something about the specific humor of these kinds of blogs that I’m always strangely drawn towards. Check out the following cake wrecks below. Follow the links for the fun commentary (often, the headline makes the gag):

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While Mitsuwa just added tasty ramen to what can now rightly be called a food court there (before it was only one restaurant, which doesn’t seem to be a court in my mind) Marukai, with its aisles and aisles of $1.50 fun, might be my favorite store in the greater San Diego area.

For instance, over the weekend I purchased an awesome keyboard patch there which, if I had my way, would be ironed/sewed onto every article of clothing I own.

But the best purchase of the day was certainly this treasure:

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Last night at our church’s weekday gathering, in the midst of discussing the reliability of Scripture and the holy books of other religions, we ended up talking about The Karate Kid. My wife and I saw it the other night and we couldn’t believe how high Johnny’s voice was.

[An aside: Strange how William Zabka went from “Sweep the leg, Johnny!” to writing and producing the short film Most, which was nominated for an Oscar in 2004.]

We all remembered the theme song to Karate Kid 2The Glory of Love, of course! However, we struggled mightily when it came to naming the theme song to the first Karate Kid. We knew it was upbeat, we had a feeling it played over a fight montage…

And that’s why Al Gore invented the YouTubes — to solve such dilemmas. For your viewing pleasure, please find below the rousing anthem of the first Karate Kid film, You’re the Best!

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