University people are a strange breed. Seems a couple of professors were one day discussing which bugs would be best used for a spitting contest and that evolved into Bug Bowl 2003. The rules are simple:

"Competitors stand in a red circle, place thawed crickets inside their mouths and, within 20 seconds, spit them as far as possible without stepping outside the circle."

This is all very strange, but what really had me wondering was the picture accompanying the article - what's that crap on her face?

German music is weird, too. One of Germany's top acts is called Scooter and unlike Mike Skinner he makes anthems, not bangers. He's got everything you'd expect from a German techno God including bizarre lyrics (his latest track, Maria (I Like It Loud), begins with "Alright everybody/Tie your shoes!"), platinum blonde hair, and obnoxious beats. He has a string of hits behind him as a solo artist (including the oddly titled Move Your Ass, Faster Harder Scooter, and How Much Is The Fish?), but on Maria he gets invaluable help from the unfortunately named rapper Dick Rules, who makes DMX sound like Aaron Carter.
The reason I'm mentioning this is that this is just one of the worst tracks I've ever heard, but you really need to see the video to fully appreciate how bad this shit is. This track is on heavy rotation on German music channel Viva, so I've seen it a few times, but I still get a little freaked out every time.

I took the celebrity match [via Catchdizzle] and the results were weird to say the least. I didn't get a 100% match and among the five results the only names I recognized belonged to a porn star and a page 3 girl. The top ranking match was Yvonne Lim, who I've never heard of and the rest were a Dutch chick and that girl, who played Glory on Buffy. So that doesn't bode well for me. Ryan, however, has it made in the shade.

So, y'all excited about football season starting next week? Like last year I've set up a fantasy NFL tournament for my friends and I'll try to follow The Ravens as best is possible from outside the US. So all I need now is to get my hands on Madden 2004 as soon as possible and I'll be in full NFL mode. Usually, I follow the games at nfl.com, where they have a free real audio feed from the games, because they only show one game a week here. But it looks like the real audio feed has been turned into some kind of subscriber's only service, which will screw up my season. Hopefully, there'll still be some kind of free service or I won't be able to follow the games live at all.

Posted by John Fogde at August 27, 2003 05:21 PM | TrackBack