I love clever crap like this.

Im hoping my hopes are too high. The first was a certified classic. Lets hope this one is too.

So it turns out that everyone's favorite loveable gangster from The Sopranos was ACTUALLY a gangster back in the day.

From Wikipedia:

Background and career

Sirico was born in Midwood, Brooklyn. Sirico has played gangsters in a number of films, including Mob Queen, Gangsters, Love and Money, Fingers, Defiance - 1980, The Last Fight, Goodfellas, Innocent Blood,Bullets Over Broadway, The Pick-up Artist, Mighty Aphrodite, Gotti, Cop Land, and Mickey Blue Eyes. He also played policemen in the films Dead Presidents and Deconstructing Harry.^[1]

Before turning to acting, Sirico was reportedly a fast-rising mob associate of the Colombo crime family serving under Carmine "Junior" Persico and had been arrested twenty-eight times. There is a Sopranos reference to this fact when Paulie says "I lived through the seventies by the skin of my nuts when the Colombos were goin' at it."^[2] In 1967, he was sent to prison for robbing a Brooklyn after-hours club, but was released after serving thirteen months. In 1971, he pled guilty to felony weapons possession and was sentenced to an "indeterminate" prison term of up to four years, of which Sirico ended up serving twenty months. In an interview in Cigar Aficionado magazine, Sirico said that during his imprisonment, he was visited by an acting troupe composed of ex-cons, which inspired him to give acting a try. According to a court transcript, at the time of his sentencing, he also had pending charges for drug possession.^[3] Sirico appeared in a 1989 documentary about life, The Big Bang by James Toback, in which he discussed his earlier life.

He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. His mother, who lived with Sirico, died in 2003. Sirico's brother, Robert Sirico, is a Catholic priest and co-founder of the free-market Acton Institute.^[4]

Thats pretty awesome.

I came across this design concept i put together a long while ago. I believe it was for a t-shirt or sweatshirt that i never had made.

Im thinking i still might. (click to enlarge the pics)

Maybe something like this:

Im currently WAY too excited to get home from work today and put on my new sweatpants.

Do yourself a favor and click this picture, then buy yourself these sweatpants. (there are a few different colors)

Nike Pound for Pound Sweatpants

Heavy duty, thick material, wide waistband, pockets (with zip closure), zip up bottom hems...what more could you want in some sweats?

I own the above color (anthracite) and according to my USPS tracking number, my black pair is waiting for me at home.

As retarded as pointless as this post is, i'm seriously pretty excited to get home and throw these on.

...it could be worse...

I came across this on the web this morning. (i did NOT create this, i just found it)

Its AWESOME. Im going to print it out, frame it, and hang it in my apartment.

Ill post pics once its hanging in the crib.

HIPSTER TRAPS!...

Smh at me drinking PBR this last weekend though.

I came across this pic on The Smoking Section and it took me back to junior high. SO many nice Nikes dropped. Had i been older and had a job at the time, im certain i would've been broke for the duration of the year.

Although now that im older, my tastes have changed. So even though nike has re-released almost all of the shoes above, the only ones i own are the AM95s and the Jordan 11s.

Things change.

This makes a lot of sense...

So yesterday i was bored and decided to remix the mascot logo i designed for my buddy's pub. (The name of this fella is Oliver Fitch. I designed him to be ambiguously European. He ended up looking mostly British, but thats fine, we're all happy with that.)

So i thought id remix him for use on promotional St. Patrick's day material. So i set about making Oliver Irish.

This is the current, original logo.

I printed out a few small versions and set about drawing on him, with different variations of a beard and hair. (sorry for the small pic, click it and it'll get a little bigger)

From there i scanned it and went about vectoring it up. When i showed him, the client chose to go with the middle version. But the more i looked at it, the more i realized he kinda lost his look when you add a beard, so i made the executive decision to just make the mustache bushy and keep it simple.

Then i added a 4 leave clover to his hat and called it a day.

There you have it. Irish Oliver.

It turned out to be a BIG hit with the guys at the pub. We're probably going to do more remix's in the future, for big events. Such as a mexican version for Cinco de Mayo, a Christmas version, maybe halloween, etc. You get the idea.

By now EVERYONE has seen at least some aspect of the Charlie Sheen fiasco. The bottom line is, dude has some issues (and no one is really certain what they are yet, aside from Dr. Drew who says hes clearly "manic").

I dont even care what issues he has though, because whatever those issues are, they are making for some hilarious TV interviews and soundbytes.

In my Gmail inbox this morning was this list from my man Dallas. Its a pretty comprehensive compilation of the BEST QUOTES of the last week or so. (Ironically, most are funnier when read than they are when you see him say them)

Ive highlighted some of my favorites.

“I have a disease? Bullshit. I cured it with my brain.”

“Winning, anyone? Rhymes with winning. Anyone? Yeah, that would be us. Sorry, man, didn’t make the rules. Oops!”

"I’m tired of pretending I’m not a total bitchin’ rock star from Mars."

"You can’t process me with a normal brain."

“If you borrowed my brain for five seconds, you’d be like, ‘Dude! Can’t handle it, unplug this bastard!’ "It fires in a way that’s maybe not from, uh… this terrestrial realm.”

"I was banging seven-gram rocks, because that’s how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear: Go."

"Can't is the cancer of happening."

“Wow. What does that mean? I’m bi-WINNING.”

“I am battle-tested bayonets, bro.”

“I’m so tired of pretending my life isn’t perfect and bitching and just winning every second and I’m not perfect and bitchin’.”

“Look what I’m dealing with, man, I’m dealing with fools and trolls.”

“It’s just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee, because I don’t have time for these clowns.”

“You have the right to kill me, but you do not have the right to judge me. Boom. That’s the whole movie. That’s life.”

“I’m sorry man, I got magic and I’ve got poetry in my fingertips, you know, most of the time, and this includes naps."

"I’m an F-18, bro.”

“I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy.”

"I am on a drug, it's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available because if you try it you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body."

"I'm bi-winning."

"There’s a new sheriff in town. And he has an army of assassins.”

"The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children."

"The only thing I’m addicted to right now is winning.”

"I wish him nothing but pain in his silly travels especially if they wind up in my octagon. Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words -- imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

"[CBS] picked a fight with a warlock."

"If you’re a part of my family, I will love you violently."

"Winning."

"I will not believe that if I do something then I have to follow a certain path because it was written for normal people. People who aren’t special. People who don’t have tiger blood and Adonis DNA."

"C’mon bro, I won best picture at 20. I wasn’t even trying. I wasn’t even warm."

"Winning."

"Bring me Dr. Clown shoes."