Links & Blinks

Props to TrueHoop for this YouTube link. It shows a high-speed video of a guy making an Etch-a-Sketch picture of Lebron James, in honour of the current (and soon to be completed) NBA finals. 'Mazing. And if you want to amuse yourself further, read the comments on that TrueHoops page. Apparently there is another Etch-a-Sketch artiste out there that despises this one. That guy, jumboXL, is pretty funny as he rants on and on.

M'boy Battle was in Kalamazoo last week. That's right, there really is a city named Kalamazoo. Check out his blog to see his latest pieces. He also has some good stories in there, like this one about racism in the US, and this one about how different people deal with the brutality of life.

By coincidence, I came across this news article in the Toronto Star last week, and it is also situated in Kalamazoo. Apparently a guy in an automated wheelchair was going through a crosswalk too late. The truck that was there started to move ahead when the light changed to green, knocking the chair around and getting the handles lodged into the grill. (Not the guy's teeth, the actual truck grill. Oy vey.) The truck then proceeded to drive onto the highway for quite some distance until other cars noticed the man hanging onto the chair and called 911. Cops eventually pulled the truck over and the man came out of it relatively unharmed. Crazy!

In other recent blog news, Ashleigh has this fun story about being on top of the world, so to speak. On the down side of life, you may have missed Aleah's blog about how she got jumped near her house last month and was beat up. I've heard too many first-hand stories like this one from around town recently.

And finally, to close off this post, there's this news about J. Michael Straczynski, creator of the hallowed B5 series, being brought on to write the script for the proposed Silver Surfer movie. I do so love my comics and sci-fi...