this is the most insane advertising campaign i’ve ever seen: kevin garnett cast as a king arthur, wearing an abstracted celtics jersey, and “questing” for gatorade. but in order to find this “holy g” he must face kareem abdul jabbar (as the wizard “tim”) and other alice-in-wonderland type pop culture insanity.

i don’t even know what to say.

all i’m thinking about right now is how much they paid cleese & company for the rights.

lots of construction going on at brown this year. it’s actually kinda ridiculous. not only does the swimming team have to use a temporary “aquatics bubble,” not only is most of the pembroke campus still boxed off with construction scrim, but j. walter wilson, the still-under-construction “student resource building” is starting to develop a ghost problem.

in the image above, procured from the university’s facilities page, the ghost problem is documented with shockingly vivid photographs. this particular ghost, who appears to be a student from the 1990′s (judging from the gap apparel), has discrete human features and appears friendly. this in sharp contrast to the shadow infestation that has apparently taken over rhode island hall.

my thoughts? all this construction is just cover-up; brown doesn’t want you to know about the portal to hell they found while digging up waterman street. that action went against local wisdom, admonitions, and the ancient providence: don’t dig up the streets, it just makes everything worse. and it may release ghosts into your academic buildings, which isn’t helping anybody but the contemplative studies initiative.

i frickin’ love tina fey. and here’s why: she’s wicked f!@#in’ funny.

and she’s a chick.

and she’s kinda got the sexy librarian thing going on. a little bit.

not really.

but really, she’s wicked funny.

omg. OMG. O.M.F-ing.G.

matt stone and trey parker have done it again. as the creators and directors of south park, these two gents have seen, made, and manufactured more than a lion’s share (which i’ve always assumed means alot) of controversy. but almost all of that (their work with scientology and mormonism being notable exceptions) pale in comparison to the audacity of episode 1102, “Cartman Sucks”.

in this episode, cartman is presented as a strange (i daresay kinky) amateur photographer who begins taking photos of himself doing strange things to his friend butters during sleepovers. these “strange things” hit an outrageous level when cartman photographs himself in a oral sex situation with butters. upon showing this photo proudly to his friends, cartman is ostracized and becomes convinced that he will be outed by his friends.

simultaneously, butters’ mishap is discovered by his father, who sends him to a christian camp where they “pray the gay away.”

i cannot even qualify the inappropriateness of this episode. which means in south park’s terms, it is grade a material. is it offensive? absolutely. shockingly offensive. but is it funny? (sheepish reluctance) yes… oh my goodness yes

this episode, like so many south park episodes, benefits from its inclusion of butters. butters is without a doubt, the most wonderfully hilarious cartoon character since archimedes (see photo for childhood refresher) from the sword and the stone.

butters is just so lovably ignorant. he is like george constanza: he doesn’t need to be directly funny, funniness just happens to him.

so watch the episode. or don’t. it is offensive (incredibly, in fact), but it’s also hilarious. after all, it is south park.

one question: who the hell would drink this?

besides hipsters that is. and idiots.