FAIL: Boogie Board To The Nuts

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Super Bowl XLIV | Indianapolis Colts Vs. New Orleans Saints

Who will win the Vince Lombardi Trophy?

Tan The Man’s prediction:

Indianapolis Colts 42
New Orleans Saints 27

Peyton Manning will also be named Super Bowl MVP.

[photo via NFL]

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Center For Biological Diversity is sponsoring the Endangered Species Condom Project that will distribute condoms with original artwork of six endangered species.

This is all to raise awareness that population growth — overpopulation mostly — has a detrimental effect on wildlife — especially endangered species — and contributes to the greatly decline of biodiversity.

Sadly, I couldn’t find any pictures of these condoms, or any information on which endangered species will be featured on these condoms. The lovely smelt (photo above) could very well be one of the lucky species

Get your condoms here or volunteer to distribute.

[photo via Lake Michigan Angler]

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Golden State Warriors guard Monta Ellis hits a jumper from behind the backboard. And yes, it’s harder than it looks.

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British electronic dance pop sensations Hot Chip feels like one of those bands that have been around for what seems like forever. Oddly enough, Hot Chip also feels like one of those bands that just seems to get better with age.

I wish I could say the same thing about myself.

Anyhow, Hot Chip puts on a somewhat sublime show for their fourth album One Life Stand. While the quintet usually rocks it hard and fast, their most recent effort has them rocking it out still, but instead more casually and gentle.

Babies might still be made with One Life Stand playing in the background, but this time the sexual encounter would involve less groping, more caressing, and a whole lotta lovemaking. Yes, it’s hard for me to imagine Hot Chip not inciting the kind of free love my parents probably engaged in during that era everyone in my generation wishes they experimented — err, lived — in. I think the band was thinking the same thing, which might explain the dance track “We Have Love” sandwiched between the smoother and more R&B-flavored “Alley Cats” and the more abstract “Keep Quiet.”

Another way to think about the album may be in terms of aggressiveness versus passiveness. Is the band igniting sexual urges or is it simply fanning the flames of love? At one end, the opening up-tempo number “Thieves In The Night” maintains a steady danceable beat, but at the other end, the following “Hand Me Down Your Love” reveals a greater sense of urgency to the potential conquest, as if someone is leaving on a jetplane and never looking back.

Can you feel it? The tension of making the right choice from a hard decision is filling the air, as well as the void of an empty heart. I’m kidding. It shouldn’t be that difficult. Even Hot Chip sums up the decision in song with either a short- and long-term answer: “I Feel Better” or “One Life Stand”. I’ll leave the right path up to the listener.

[photos via Sneak Attack Media]
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Track list:

1. Thieves In The Night
2. Hand Me Down Your Love
3. I Feel Better
4. One Life Stand
5. Brothers
6. Slush
7. Alley Cats
8. We Have Love
9. Keep Quiet
10. Take It In

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