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Shark vs. Octopus

You’ve heard of the squid vs. the whale…

Brigitte Bardot - Un Jour Comme Un Autre

Here’s a sad Monday song for you. It’s snowing buckets in Boston.

Well, I like it, anyway. Can you tell we’re relapsing to our Serge phase?

Terrell Owens Cries… Wow

Wow… well let me say that after a right thwomping by the team from NY, Owens, self-proclaimed best receiver ever broke down in tears after the game. Much controversy surrounded the team this week after it was reported in the mainstream media that during the off week sometime in between games, star quarterback Tony Romo gallivanted in Cancun with Jessica Simpson. T.O. was quick to come to his defense after the elimination loss to Eli Manning’s team last night. This is what happened when he, clad in shades, stepped to the podium:

T.O.:
You can talk about the vacations [to Cancun]. But that ain’t fair. *sniffle*

T.O:
That’s my teammate. That’s my quarterback, man (choking back tears). That ain’t fair. We lost as a team, man.

Now, I know every blog on the internet is going to be quick to jump all over Mr. Highlight Reel, and MyNinjaPlease would normally be part of that hater crowd. But for chrissakes, I feel the man’s pain. T.O., while having an all-pro year and breaking the Dallas franchise record with 15 regular season touchdowns, managed to accomplish something truly remarkable. For him, anyway. T.O. managed to, barring a few minor incidents, mostly keep his big mouth shut for a whole season. He helped his team but didn’t insist on being the center of attention. I actually applaud his transformation from a pop warner to a fully-grown football player (er… mostly).

The reason why he’s getting emotional, besides the loss, obviously, is because he’s sticking up for Romo in a way that nobody else has ever stuck up for him. Think about it, T.O. always talked a lot of trash, in fact before really accomplishing much in his career, but, in his defense, he never wanted to be hated. He has a personality like Deion Sanders, in that he wants to be loved, as a great football player. This year he came closer than ever to having something to actually say, and his dreams were crushed by a quarterback with an unnaturally large head, Manning [just like his older brother]. When he speaks out for Romo he feels like he’s being a good person and a good friend, a position he’s never been in. If you’ve ever been there, it’s overwhelming. Somebody stay with that man tonight, please.

I never thought I would be on here defending Mr. Loudmouth, but there it is. Here’s what the other guys are saying.

Daft Hands

Anyway… I was pretty impressed.

Movies Destroying NYC

New York Magazine lists the Ten Best Movies Destructions of New York City.

I was going to only show you ninjas # ten, but then I thought - miss an opportunity to show the Ghostbusters driving the Statue of Liberty while playing Jackie Wilson? My ninjas, please!

9. Ghostbusters II (1989)

Yes, both Ghostbusters movies torch the city real good, and we love the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man just as much as the next guy. But wea€™re going with the sequel for this list, and for one reason only: because one of the chief villains this time around is a paranormal ooze collecting in New Yorka€™s gutters, fed by the citya€™s collective negative energy, which just confirms our belief that New Yorkers are sometimes their own worst enemies. Oh, and that therea€™s no problem in the world playing "Higher and Higher" cana€™t fix.

The full list, via New York Magazine.

Cooking the Psychadelic Cactus

There are so many heady ninjas on the internet, it’s frickin’ amazing.AA Don’t try this at home.

Japanese Show of the Week #2

Once more… objective please?

How did this Ninja get that Name?

Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunh am, a white ATHEIST from Wichita, Kansas. Obama’s parents met at the University of Hawaii.

Barack Hussein Obama (Senator Obama’s father) was born on the shores of Lake Victoria in Alego, Kenya. He met and married an American woman, Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas, while they were both attending the University of Hawaii. Their son, also named Barack Hussein Obama was born on 4 August 1961 at the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Although the elder Obama was raised as a Muslim, no evidence supports the claim that he was ever a "radical Muslim," and Senator Obama’s family histories note that his father was an atheist or agnostic (i.e., no longer a practicing Muslim) by the time he married the younger Obama’s mother. Of his mother’s religious views, Senator Obama wrote:

For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness.

This isn’t to say that she provided me with no religious instruction. In her mind, a working knowledge of the world’s great religions was a necessary part of any well-rounded education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology. On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. But I was made to understand that such religious samplings required no sustained commitment on my part. Religion was an expression of human culture, she would explain, not its wellspring, just one of the many not necessarily the best way that man attempted to control the unknowable and understand the deeper truths about our lives.

In sum, my mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist she would become; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well.

Read what I read at Snopes wow…

Back to Black Violin

This was posted before in our watch category, and I know some of you who are the ill mnp fans have already been through that thing backwards and forwards.

We eventually endeavor to get our entire youtube library in there, but in the meantime, you should check out mnp’s custom youtube channel, put together by the one and only Mr. Crumbles, one of your trusty site admins. OK, uh, watch the video.

Kinda ill, right? At least until Puffy comes in. Almost got this terrific vid re-un-posted. Excellent job, Puffy (I’m still refusing to call that fool Diddy, or whatever he calls himself).