Confessions of a non-serial killer

Imagine you're accused of being a serial killer. Specifically, the Zodiac Killer.

But, luckily, not by local authorities. Or the FBI. But by an amateur sleuth.

That's the position Michael O’Hare found himself in, and he shared the amazing story in the Washington Monthly.

I would put a blockquote here of an interesting portion -- but the entire story is interesting, and I highly recommend reading it.

Best sports commercials?

Maybe it's just because I'm such a big sports fan, but I think that sports commercials are consistently among the best on TV. While beer commercials may make you laugh once, they eventually lose their luster on repeated viewings (except for the Dos Equis commercials starring the "Most Interesting Man in the World").

So I had to wonder, what sport has the best commercials?

Here's hockey:



Football:



Basketball:



Baseball:



Soccer:



I think that soccer has the best commercials out of these. But basketball gets special points for their ad coming from the NBA and not a company that is promoting their own product (Nike for soccer, Fox TV for football, Playstation for baseball).

In fact, I couldn't even find a good baseball commercial (just looking around on YouTube) that wasn't a Playstation commercial. But you can decide for yourself.

Ghostbuster the video game

Ghostbusters 3 is still in the early stages of development. Rumors are flying around all over that everyone from the original cast is coming back (which is the only way to do it, really).

As long as Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Sigourney Weaver are in it and Ivan Reitman directs it, I think it will be fine.

But well before then -- in just about two weeks, actually -- Ghostbusters the video game will come out. And the New York Times has a great profile of the Ghostbusters franchise in advance of the new video game.

So should we be worried about the typical the-video-game-of-the-movie-nearly-always-sucks concerns (the same is true of books based on movies)? From the NY Times article:

Hoping to break with the decades-long litany of slipshod interactive movie tie-ins, Atari, the game’s publisher, has approached Ghostbusters: the Video Game as a major production in its own right. In a reversal of the traditional entertainment food chain, the game, to be released June 16, will come to market even as planning for the long-awaited third “Ghostbusters” film remains in the earliest stages. The expectation is that the game will both revitalize and expand interest in the franchise ahead of a new movie.

If their plan was to "revitalize and expand interest in the franchise ahead of a new movie" they would probably not release it three years ahead of when the movie is actually made.

So how involved were Ramis and Aykroyd (who wrote the first two Ghostbusters movies)? Well... kind of. But not as much as you might hear in the marketing.

“The crassest way I can put it is that they couldn’t have paid us enough to give it the time and attention required to make it as funny as a feature film," Ramis told the New York Times.

It's Manny's birthday

Manny Ramirez turned 37 today. He is currently serving a 50-game suspension for using performance-enhancing drugs. He's probably pretty sad that he doesn't get to play baseball (not to mention the millions that he's missing out on while he's suspended).

So what better birthday present for the Los Angeles Dodgers star? Well, might as well vote for him into the All Star game at the Major League Baseball website.

Because it would be funny.

Atlanta Falcons player free on bond after Facebook fight arrest

A story that people would not have fathomed even five years ago:

Atlanta Falcons player Quinn Ojinnaka free on bond after Facebook fight.

Ojinnaka's wife got mad at him for talking to an old girlfriend on Facebook. She allegedly tried to stab him with a knife and Ojinnaka allegedly "tossed her down some stairs and threw her out of their house in Suwanee late Tuesday."

Ojinnaka was charged with simple battery.

No, Susan Boyle didn't win

No, Susan Boyle didn't win.

And no, I don't care, internet.