The Last Guardian

I don’t really play videogames anymore (unless freecell and spider solitaire count), but like most nerds there was a time when I played videogames a lot. My era of choice (and really the only era of videogames I got into) was the Saturn/Playstation era. The games on the PS2 in general didn’t really interest me.

The two big exceptions to this however are ICO and Shadow of the Colossus. I could say a lot about the brilliance of these to games but since a lot has already been said about their brilliance already, I will just make one statement: from an artistic standpoint these games represent the absolute pinnacle of the vdeogame media. I look at these two as being the videogame equivolent of Manet’s “Olympia.” In the same way “Olympia” created a dividing line between the old and the modern idea of art in painting, these two games should looked at in the same light for videogames.

That being said, the creators of ICO and Shadow of the Colossus are finally making a new game: The Last Guardian. You better believe I couldn’t be more excited.

Why Kobe is Great

The debate about where Kobe lies in the discussion of who the greatest basketball player of all time is will probably not be resolved aytime soon, but here’s one salvo from the Kobe is the greatest camp: what athlete other than Kobe inspires such in depth psychological profiling? Check out this article by Bill Simmons. These are the kinds of writing that Kobe inspires. Kobe may or may not elevate the level of his teammates, but without question he elevates the level of the sports journalism community.

Why Kobe is Creepy

On the other hand, I can see where people are coming from with the whole Kobe is copying MJ to the point of being super creepy. As of this writing he has MJ’s coach, his triangle offensive, pretty much all his moves, a three-peat, his tounge thing (although not so much anymore), his dunk crown, his fist pump, and I just found out he has hired Jordy’s old trainer Tim Glover. The underbite thing is all him though.

Aoqili Seaweed Soap

I am very vain and very neurotically obsessed with my looks. I randomly discovered this soap some while back and naturally since I’m so vain and neurotic, the idea of a soap that can decrease fat content is extremely intriguing to me. It’s pretty cheap too. I haven’t tried it yet, but I want to and probably will soon. Results will come!

Roger Federer Can’t Lose

A few years ago it seemed like Roger Federer could not be beaten. Now it seems like he just can’t lose. At the French Robin Soderling miraculously takes out Nadal for him and now it has just been announced that Nadal has kindly taken himself out of Wimbeldon. GO TEAM FED!

I like Adrian Wojnarowski?

The Lakers are up 2-0. I’m probably gonna cry if they win (I want to say “when they win” but I don’t want to jinx it.) Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports is becoming one of favorite sports writers in an interesting twist of fate because I used to really hate him. This is probably because he’s not writing too many anti-Kobe articles anymore. Yeah I’m biased as shit, but in my defense, even when he wote blistering diatribes crucifying the Artist Formerly Known as The Ocho, I always respected his writing ability which has always been top notch. This probably why I still read every article he wrote even though they were blasphemous. He recently wrote some great articles about Shaq’s pettiness and Pau’s not-softness that you should check out.

John Hollinger has a good article?

I normally hate John Hollinger but this article is great. After reading it I understand more where he’s coming from. I’d hate Kobe too if everytime I said X basketball player had a good game I got The Laker Nation flooding my inbox calling me an X player dick rider. I also thought it was hilarious that after the Magic beat the Cavs he got more mail from Laker fans dogging on Lebronze.

Lebronze!

On a funny note, I call Lebron Lebronze because of he always seems to come in third in world competition. Seeing as how the Nuggets were eliminated before the Craboliers, Lebronze came in third again.

The Mighty Fed!

Roger Federer finally won the French and I couldn’t be happier. In my opinion this victory should easily make him the greatest of all time and it kind of bugs me that it’s still up for debate. Think about it: 14 titles, career grand slam, 20 straight semi-finals (17 of which were finals appearances), 237 (i think) weeks at number 1. That’s easily better than Sampras. Don’t even bring up Rod Laver. Rod Laver was definately more dominant for his time, but that was a long time ago. If they played today at their primes, it would be over in straights. Bringing up his shaky record against Nadal is valid, but during his prime The Mighty Fed only played Nadal on clay. Nadal couldn’t even meet him on the hard courts. Hell, he couldn’t even meet him at this year’s French.

I think now that he has the monkey off his back he’ll start playing more like The Mighty Fed of old, instead of The Mighty Old Fed.