Been on massive deadline, but I’m doin a list today, dammit. I don’t care if you’re still at work or not.
So I was sittin here the other day listening to Jimi’s “1983,” and it dawned on me how amazing it is that he manages to hold the listener’s attention for like 13 minutes. I have a hard enough time sitting still during sitcoms, let alone for that.
The list this week will be of songs over 6 minutes long that are still fiyah. To me, going over 6 minutes on a song is like going over 150 minutes for a movie–you only do so for great reason (that’s Bill Simmons’ theory, not mine, but he’s right).
Let’s roll…
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So I’m insanely busy today, but check this out.
Man, what’s really hood? Did you have the sound on? If you didn’t, watch it again.
Right in the snot locker, man. How did that lady not bleed?
But did you hear the conversation that led to this? If you didn’t, watch it again.
Times like these are when I turn to my man Sneaky Pete, who had the most interesting response to that.
(23:25:10) Sneaky Pete: that lady was snitchin
(23:25:13) Sneaky Pete: had to be shut up
(23:25:43) Sneaky Pete: what a great blow she throws though
(23:25:53) Sneaky Pete: directly to the fuckin face
Enjoy your day, even if I don’t do the same.

People are generally averse to math. I’ve never quite understood why, but they are. The toughest thing about math to most folks, methinks, is that it requires people to be able to do the same thing over and over again. Even though we humans are creatures of habit, it doesn’t turn out well when numbers are involved.
But the bigger problem? People aren’t quite sure what to do with math. Even a grip of the nerds in high school can take a derivative or perform some other piece of calculus without knowing what those things are for. Which makes the math itself nothing more than a parlor trick.
And sometimes, people get the math right and just do something utterly silly with it. Check this from the AP piece on the differences in prize monies for men and women at Wimbledon.

The All England Club announced Tuesday that the men’s winner this year will receive $1.170 million and the women’s champion $1.117 million, a difference of $53,000. It’s a 4 percent increase in British currency.

So help me out–dollars are British currency now? But as for math, wouldn’t it be a four percent increase in any currency? Numbers add up differently in different countries?
Maybe I don’t know math as well as I thought.

Business…here’s a bit of a novelty item on folks being inducted into Halls of Fame in sports other than those for which they are famous. Enjoy, but you gotta go through Page 2 to get to it..
Crazy busy today. More tomorrow, hopefully.