Cahlupny wassubstituted early in the first halg. Team spokesman Aaron Heifetz after the game her vision had been affected temporarily but that she was expected to be ok.

From a story about how Norway crushed the US in the Olympic opener.

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Some highlights:

This obsession with “street-cred” reaches its apex of absurdity as hipsters have recently and wholeheartedly adopted the fixed-gear bike as the only acceptable form of transportation – only to have brakes installed on a piece of machinery that is defined by its lack thereof.

Loosely associated with some form of creative output, they attend art parties, take lo-fi pictures with analog cameras, ride their bikes to night clubs and sweat it up at nouveau disco-coke parties.

Hipsterdom is the first “counterculture” to be born under the advertising industry’s microscope, leaving it open to constant manipulation but also forcing its participants to continually shift their interests and affiliations. Less a subculture, the hipster is a consumer group – using their capital to purchase empty authenticity and rebellion.

Speaking of which, whatever happened to the “yupster”? I loved that classification! Somebody with good taste in music and movies but who was way too lazy/tired/old/had better things to do to actually follow trends? There’s something noble about that.

Granted, there are a few, but…

Click on “declined” and what happened to the last declined invite? We might never know…

It’s back bitches…

Not a list of things that are shit, but a list of things that are the shit.

1. The Dark Knight

Most people will come out of the latest Batman movie talking about Heath Ledger’s performance, and fair enough… He’s superbly awesome as The Joker and, you know… dead… So obviously he will get the main slice of the attention.

But really, Aaron Eckhart deserves as much credit for his performance as Dent, transforming into a completely different character than what he starts out as. (Shouldn’t be much of a surprise if you know the comicbooks…) Bale? I think he nails Batman. Hell, the whole ensemble cast is really quite something. As is Nolan who has put together the most interesting, plot heavy superhero movie I’ve ever seen.

The Dark Knight is, in other words, the shit, and the best summermovie this season, edging out Iron Man and Indy.

I don’t think he’s particularly funny. Is that wrong? I suppose some of his stuff isn’t too bad… He was OK in Dog Bites Man (easily the least funny character though) and Visioneers actually looks pretty good.

But overall? How long is he going to get away with pulling the same schtick he always does? Is it the beard that makes it funny? Somebody really needs to explain all of this to me…

Apparently these are the kind of sunglasses you’re supposed to wear these days to be, you know, hip as fuck…

All I can say is, I don’t get it… I mean, it looks OK on some people (as opposed to the dreaded hipster helmet) but for most of us?

I have to give thumbs down…

So for the next ten days and nine nights I’ve decided to do a cleansing of my system. Why I’m doing this is anybody’s guess, but hey, we all need a challenge. My short list for these ten days and nine nights are…

• No alcohol. I can not recall last time I went that long without booze…
• Only eat at home. Not much of a problem.
• No pre-processed type foods. Again, not much of an issue.
• Daily walks from Browne’s, to Riverfront Park, up to Gonzaga, and back. I started doing this about a month ago, as my knees haven’t been happy with me jogging as of late. Not sure about the length, but it’s roughly an hour and a half when I keep up a brisk pace.
• Clean all the room in my condo. OK, this isn’t part of cleansing out the system per se, but it is cleansing!

Of course, we all remember how well it went last time I challenged myself, but whatever… I’m optimistic this’ll work out.

Yes, I know the *sugar sites are aimed at ladies. No, I don’t care. I particularly enjoy geeksugar, and in this post, Spokane almost kinda sorta gets some love. Or the Tango does at least.

Or possibly Clooney gets most of the love. Whateva’!

And hey, a NY Times story about the newly rebranded Knitting Factory. To think we’re the ones keeping the NY club alive. Kinda.