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A pretty awesome story from a lady linebacker. [The Root]
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In Brief
FROM DEADSPIN.COM:
Seriously, who can tell whom to root for in the Olympics anymore? [East Coast Bias]
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Root, Root, Root for the Advertisers
FROM GAWKER.COM:
Thanks to this week's sponsors, who help keep us in obnoxious softball tshirts. Want to help pick up our next post-game bar tab? Info here.
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The posters for Erykah Badu's upcoming tour have somehow managed to be almost as arresting as the album said tour will be supporting—not a small feat, given that New Amerykah Vol. 1 is crazy good. Check out the posters for her shows in Israel and Nigeria, and click the Moscow poster at left for the full itinerary for her May-June jaunt, which features a lot of dates with the Roots. [SoulBounce]
diy
How to make ginger ale and root beer at home
FROM LIFEHACKER.COM:
U.C. Clermont Professor of Chemistry David B. Fankhauser posts instructions on how to make your own root beer and ginger ale at home. Neat science project, especially with the young 'uns.
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In Brief
FROM DEADSPIN.COM:
Chicago Tribune columnist suggests that Bears' fans should root for the Packers on Sunday. Hilarity ensues. [Chicago Tribune]
australian rules football
FROM DEADSPIN.COM:
We are glad we're have no specific Australian Rules Football rooting interests. [10News]
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FROM DEADSPIN.COM:
Our own Eric Gillin explains why you should be rooting for the Red Sox. [Esquire
colorado rockies
FROM DEADSPIN.COM:
Just to be clear, in case you forgot: God is most definitely rooting for the Rockies. [Blogcritics]
the internets
FROM GAWKER.COM:
Nobody Wants To Read The Roots' Blog!
FROM GAWKER.COM:
You'd think when a big famous band starts blogging, they'd be flooded with comments from slobbering fans. But The Roots, the live instrument-having hip hop supergroup that just about everybody likes, don't appear to have more than a handful of readers. Seriously, they barely have more comments than Ronn [sic] Torossian's blog. Meanwhile, Courtney Love's latest entry on Myspace has 32 comments already. Now The Roots are sending out blast emails in search of support! Will the internet respond to their outstretched hands? You ungrateful bastards. [Okayplayer]
gadgets
Dyson's Root 6: The Handheld Suck-Machine
FROM GIZMODO.COM:
Made for cramped spaces like cars and NY apartments, the Dyson Root 6 takes Dyson's special sucking power and transfers it to a handheld. Despite looking like something out of Ghostbusters, the Root 6 maintains suction like all other Dysons, and has a "one-touch emptying" system so you don't have to get your hands (very) dirty.
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Get ready for tomorrow's once-in-a-lifetime Boredoms-and-77-drummers performance with six rarities from the Japanese legends. [wizardishungry]
In Brief
FROM DEADSPIN.COM:
Oakland A's host diabetes fundraiser. Proceeds will come from selling root beer floats. What could possibly go wrong? [SportsbyBrooks]
iphone hack watch
FROM GIZMODO.COM:
Root password has been cracked ("Alpine"); we're on our way. [hackint0sh]
And now a brief correction regarding our post about the Roots' "75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)" below: "The 'bass' on 75 bars is actually tuba. It's played by the dude with the best name in all of music: Tuba Gooding Jr." Our apologies to Mr. Gooding Jr. for the slight and a hat tip to commenter thatsoraven. [Idolator]
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gadgets
Dyson Root 6 Handheld Super Sucker Hands-On
FROM GIZMODO.COM:
John Biggs is a dirty, dirty man. So dirty, in fact, that Dyson felt that he needed a Dyson Root 6, the only handheld vacuum that doesn't lose suction. So what does dirty Biggs think?
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videodrone
Ok, so "The Roots" played "The Star-Spangled Banner" on The Colbert Report last night, right? Only it was ?uestlove, a touring bassist who joined less than a year ago, and a guitarist who signed on in 2003. Call me old-fashioned, but it just ain't the Roots without Kamal playing keyboard ostinatos and somebody beatboxing on top. If you want a tribute to Woodstock, why not just let Wyclef and will.i.am (I'm sure he knows how to play bass) join ?uestlove in some sort of left-leaning rap supergroup? Call it WQW! The Black Root 'Gees! Probama! [Comedy Central]
Roots Resurrect Hendrix (Or At Least Wyclef) On "The Colbert Report"
Ok, so "The Roots" played "The Star-Spangled Banner" on The Colbert Report last night, right? Only it was ?uestlove, a touring bassist who joined less than a year ago, and a guitarist who signed on in 2003. Call me old-fashioned, but it just ain't the Roots without Kamal playing keyboard ostinatos and somebody beatboxing on top. If you want a tribute to Woodstock, why not just let Wyclef and will.i.am (I'm sure he knows how to play bass) join ?uestlove in some sort of left-leaning rap supergroup? Call it WQW! The Black Root 'Gees! Probama! [Comedy Central]
In Brief
FROM DEADSPIN.COM:
Tired of Just Rooting for American Olympic Gold? Root For Ivy League Olympic Gold As Well
FROM DEADSPIN.COM:
Yep, the Ivy League has their own blog set up for the Olympics. Of course ths will mean that you're focusing a ton on fencing, rowing, and other sports that people who aren't rich have never heard of. But imagine the snob appeal. You're not rooting for the richest country in the world, you're rooting for the richest .0001% of the richest country in the world.
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Fizz Cup: For a Root Beer Float Volcano
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Summertime is just a couple of weeks away, and if you concentrate you can almost taste the root beer floats. The Fizz Cup is a simple invention that gives you a strange way to enjoy that quintessential summer pastime, billing itself as the first reusable ice cream float cup.
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Live Arcade Taps Root Beer Tapper
FROM KOTAKU.COM:
The Microsoft folks issued a "media alert" today to clue us in to the latest upcoming Xbox Live Arcade retro release, Midway's 1984 arcade game Root Beer Tapper. The neutered version of the 1983's dangerous Tapper which featured deadly alcohol from Budweiser sees a soda jerk serving up frothy beverages to cowboys, sports fans, and ultimately aliens.
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Bruce Schneier on how to choose secure passwords
FROM LIFEHACKER.COM:
Security expert Bruce Schneier discusses how programs crack offline passwords and what makes a stronger, secure password.
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reworkings
You didn't want the worst, you didn't get the worst! The Roots have caved to public disgust and removed "Birthday Girl," their collabo with omnipresent Fall Out Boy troubadour Patrick Stump, from their upcoming album Rising Down. "Birthday Girl" is still the album's first international single, but it's been reduced to "iTunes-only" status in America. I don't really see what makes the song so heinous. It might be a little Sublime for hardcore fans of the band, but if it lacks crossover potential, it's due to the Roots' milquetoast albatross Black Thought, not Stump (ladies on YouTube seem to like the track just fine). If the vocal was credited to Cody ChesnuTT, would the Internet have been so put off? [Nah Right / Photo: AP]
Patrick "The White Akon" Stump Yanked From Roots Album
You didn't want the worst, you didn't get the worst! The Roots have caved to public disgust and removed "Birthday Girl," their collabo with omnipresent Fall Out Boy troubadour Patrick Stump, from their upcoming album Rising Down. "Birthday Girl" is still the album's first international single, but it's been reduced to "iTunes-only" status in America. I don't really see what makes the song so heinous. It might be a little Sublime for hardcore fans of the band, but if it lacks crossover potential, it's due to the Roots' milquetoast albatross Black Thought, not Stump (ladies on YouTube seem to like the track just fine). If the vocal was credited to Cody ChesnuTT, would the Internet have been so put off? [Nah Right / Photo: AP]
videodrone
With no chorus, a disorienting Black Thought verse smothered in mic fuzz, and a video where the band douses a kidnapped white dude with gasoline before lighting a match, the forbidding "75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)" will sadly not end up toppling Flo Rida from Billboard or Chris Brown from TRL, but the band can take some comfort that their latest anti-pop offering moves to one of the nastiest combinations of bass and drum you're likely to hear on a major label record this year. Especially the bass. [OnSmash]
The Roots (Literally) Light It Up
With no chorus, a disorienting Black Thought verse smothered in mic fuzz, and a video where the band douses a kidnapped white dude with gasoline before lighting a match, the forbidding "75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)" will sadly not end up toppling Flo Rida from Billboard or Chris Brown from TRL, but the band can take some comfort that their latest anti-pop offering moves to one of the nastiest combinations of bass and drum you're likely to hear on a major label record this year. Especially the bass. [OnSmash]
to do
FROM DEFAMER.COM:
To Do: Buckner, Roots, Rajskub
FROM DEFAMER.COM:
· Music round-up: Richard Buckner at the Echo; Sea Wolf at the Troubadour; Brand New at Avalon.
· Actress/comedian Sarah Thyre, Strangers with Candy's Coach Wolf, will sign Dark at the Roots: A Memoir at Book Soup.
· Tonight's You're Welcome! comedy show at M Bar features Aziz Ansari, Bil Dwyer, and Mary Lynn "24's Chloe" Rajskub, who is still trying to come to terms with an osculatory sneak-attack by Rush Limbaugh.
softball
Reader Email: Root, Root, Root for the Home Team Edition
FROM GAWKER.COM:
We're like the drug dealer in an after-school special. The first few fixes we give you for free, then you're hooked and can't help yourself. It's the only explanation for this email:
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freebies
FROM CONSUMERIST.COM:
FROM CONSUMERIST.COM:
Today from 2-8pm, A&W restaurants will be giving away free root beer floats. Offer probably void wherever the manager feels like it, and it's not real beer so what's the point, but good luck and have a happy Monday. [Business First] (Thanks to Jarrod!)
leftovers
Leftovers: Til Death Do Us Root
FROM DEADSPIN.COM:
• Get your favorite players face ... on your casket. [Eternal Image]
• The French just won't leave this Lance Armstrong business alone. [Saved By The Blog]
• Bill Plaschke, not exactly a soccer expert. [Fan's Attic]
• Now this is a seriously pissed off junior high basketball player. [ABC News 49]
• For the record, we are, in fact, wearing pants. [Chicago Tribune]
lauryn hill
"Sweet Like Licorice, Dangerous Like Syphilis"
FROM GAWKER.COM:
The Root's theory on what caused the musical decline of former hip hop goddess Lauryn Hill: an aversion to fame, a cult-like relationship with a succession of religious figures, and a rocky love life. My theory: smoking that crazy crack, it looks like! [The Root]
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FROM GAWKER.COM:
"Hey, Look, There's a Bottle of Root Beer Vodka Down There"
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[Gina Gershon, current Broadway actress (in the play "Boeing Boeing") and possible sex-with-Bill Clinton haver, outside the "Regis & Kelly" show yesterday; image via Bauer-Griffin]
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