potpourri:is that a smell or a collection of things or maybe a collection of things but sometimes it's a category on the nintendo version jeopardy

bob costas is pleased to be back on the medium he started out on: radio. at least that's what radio told me. and when i say radio told me i mean a commercial on the radio narrated by bob costas told me. after explaining how pleased he was to be back on the radio (and i wonder what exactly he meant by pleased--pleased as in it gives him pleasure, pleased that he'll make a shitload of money for talking about nothing or pleased that he doesn't have to comb his hair for work?), bob costas said how an unnamed we pondered over what to call his new radio show. before i drop the name (which, in this instance, is different from name-dropping), i want to ponder over who this unnamed we could include and wonder why bob costas would say this unnamed we pondered. bob costas is probably a part of this we, but who else? his producer? his barber? dan marino? espn radio? and what weren't just thinking about a name but pondering. maybe ponder is a loaded word for me. i guess joseph smith pondered and that's the main reason i was born in utah and possibly the main reason i was born at all. that's something i should ponder about. i seriously doubt they (bob costas and whoever) pondered. the name they came up with? bob costas on the radio. is that a joke?

here's the best goal i've seen this year:

don't forget that chelsea was down 2-1 in extra time when he scored this goal. drogba scored the first goal.

speaking of drogba, there's this guy on youtube who posts like every drogba goal. sometimes he compiles drogba highlights into a kind of drogba mixtape. that's cool. but what's cooler? the music he chooses for this drogba mixtape:

because pusher and malice are twins, i can never tell their verses apart. but they're awesome. and don't sleep on pharrell.

should the rubber band game count as a sport?

i think it should. it involves physical endurance, finesse, strength, quickness and strategy. plus it's fun.

everybody who is anybody loves ping pong

table tennis, or what is onomatopoetically called ping pong, is like the best sport ever. well, technically soccer is the best sport, but it's so hard to find enough people to play and when you find enough people to play you still have to find a ball, a place to play and shorts to play in and then it's either too hot or too cold and even though you have so much fun playing--way funner than any ecstasy party i've been to and the ones i've been to are totally fun, you know, with like dancing and ouija boards and the rubber-band game and vest-jackets and banana chair surfing--you're so sore the next day. so soccer is the best sport (especially 2 on 2 indoor soccer played on a racquetball court) but sometimes ping pong is even better.

but you don't have to take my word for it:

(ok. i want to explain how i found these photos first. i thought the line was funny enough--you know, because we all watched reading rainbow growing up and pretend to like it now because we weren't so depressed when we were kids but childhood wasn't so great and neither was reading rainbow. maybe i was trying to be ironic, but that's not any better. i mean, do i think i'm better because i don't pretend to like reading rainbow? no. i'm still trying to define myself in terms of which products i consume[d] and which i didn't. so scrap the reference.)

(but why wouldn't i just erase the reference rather than writing about how i'm embarrassed i used it? i have a few ideas, but i don't want to spend another paragraph over-analyzing everything i write. it's not funny.)

(but if i did it enough times would it become funny?)

the internet is great. while watching parts of the patriots/colts game sunday night during commercials of prehistoric park i wondered if peyton manning is married. thanks to the internet i found the answer in less than ten minutes (or, more correctly, in less than or equal to ten minutes). he's married, but i couldn't find any pictures of the two of them. so i started looking for pictures of steve nash and his family. instead i found proof of how awesome ping pong is. (rebecca, feel free to use these pictures or even this entire post [or portions of it] on your blog because ping pong is always awesome.)

i may not have found pictures of nash and his girlfiend and/or kid(s), but i found this:


















but he's not the only awesome athlete who loves ping pong. there's ronnie brown, who looks like a killer doubles partner:
















sharapova plays in a dress which isn't that weird considering that she plays tennis in a dress:



































andy roddick plays




























against mandy moore





























i think i could take mandy moore
but it's not just bad actors who play. there's humphrey bogart


















audrey hepburn














and keanu reeves (who plays left-handed)















i would love to play any of those people. i think i could take mandy moore, bogart, and keanu if we were both stoned when we played. but if i had access to a time/space machine, i'd travel back to cuba shortly after the revolution to play castro.
















stoned or not, castro would beat me for sure. but it would be awesome.

if there's anyone i wouldn't want to play against, it would probably be mr. ed
















that horse's forehand looks like it could kill someone.