The Hopp Stop

28Jan/102

Korean Pop!

Hilarious music video. I guess crappy pop music transcends language barriers. If you're wondering how I stumbled upon this, I provide thanks to Every Day Should Be Saturday.

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15Dec/090

Man dies after sitting in recliner for eight months

Apparently he believed that God was healing him as he sat in his recliner. I'm not sure what to add. Sad and pathetic.

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15Oct/090

Tasteless cars amidst the beauties

Every year my dad and I (and, recently, Blake and his dad) go to the Monterey Peninsula in mid-August for car lover heaven. Classic cars from all eras in immaculate condition, old racing cars being driven flat out around the Laguna Seca race track, so many Ferraris in one place that you laugh out loud. But within all of this aesthetic and aural delight, there are the stinkers. This year I decided to take photos of whatever stinkers I saw; they are now up at Flickr (complete with my informative captions). In addition, you can see the slide show below. The group with the highest concentration of, ahem, "winners" was the BMW M5 group at the Concorso Italiano (yes, it is an Italian car show, but they have an area set up for non-Italian cars).

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10Aug/092

Hipsters on parade!

On Sunday, Vanessa's lifelong friend, Jamie, and her old roommate, Brady, met up with us for a walk through the Mission over to Dolores Park, where we soaked in some of the unseasonably good weather. I decided that a nice theme for the day would be to capture all the hilarious hipster outfits with my camera. Note that higher quality photos are up at my Flickr photoset.

We begin our tour with this gentleman walking down Mission Street. I actually captured this photo earlier in the week, but it's a perfect accompaniment for Sunday's photos.

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Next up is this woman in awesome tights at a sidewalk sale. Note that you can see some sort of power shovel device laying on the sidewalk on the right side of the photo. I kinda wish I had bought that.

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Once we got to the park, we saw these two hipsters rocking it tuff.
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The two gals in bikinis were acommpanied by a guy (I think) in all black, video taping their every move. For $3, you could hit them with water balloons. I only saw one group take them up on that offer.
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What is this couple looking at? A woman (at center in the righthand photo) who spent ten minutes walking around in her underwear by the bathroom in the park, periodically bending over, the whole time holding on to her jeans with one hand. I am assuming that she is crazy.

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This guy had a sweet staff. He appeared to be selling something from his rolling cooler.

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A run-of-the-mill outfit, tight and black.

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Jamie, Brady and Vanessa, enjoying the scenery.

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This hipster couple's fashion was highlighted by the dude's shortie shorts that he stripped down to for sunbathing.

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Tight, tight jeans on this person.

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Awesome chow chow.

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The guy at the center, in the hat, was playing some amazing air drums for a couple songs. Even the dog in the right foreground was into it.

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Um, no idea why they were putting up a tent. After almost getting it erected, either they failed at the very end or gave up.

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And...more awesome shorts. None of my shorts or jeans are tight enough, based on the prevailing fashion.

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Finally, on the way home, we encountered this gentleman. He looked a little old to be shooting for ironic hipster, so let's just classify it as, um, unique.

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1Aug/090

Onion Sports reports: “Ngyuen Thi Buch Thuy: ‘Just Give Me The Damn Sepak Takraw Ball’”


Ngyuen Thi Buch Thuy: 'Just Give Me The Damn Sepak Takraw Ball'

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5Jul/090

Run, don’t walk, to see The Hangover

Vanessa and I went down to the Metreon this evening to see "The Hangover," the latest comedy from the director of "Road Trip" and "Old School." It's fricking awesome. It's the funniest movie I've seen in at least the last couple years, better than my beloved "Role Models" by a fair bit. Hopefully nothing similar will happen when I'm in Cabo this weekend for my friend Mino's bachelor party.

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