The latest craze to sweep YouTube is mad chefs of Epic Meal Time. They come up with some of the craziest and most delicious looking meals to ever find their way to the internet. We’re fans of good food here at The Lowdown Blog so we feel compelled to share their latest culinary creations with you every week. This week, it’s a spicy, meat-filled chili that includes a dash of Four Loko for that added kick. Continue reading
Ken Block Gymkhana: The Complete Collection
If you’re a fan of cars, drifting, viral videos or all of the above, you’ve probably heard of American rally driver Ken Block. To keep in practice for rally events, he found his claim to fame. That’s something called Gymkhana. In proper gymkhana, drivers drive a course that sees them spins, handbrake turns and other spectacular maneuvers. For Block, there is no course, just the spectacular moves of his gymkhana video series. Continue reading
The History of Olympic Logos
On New Year’s Eve, the organizers of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, unveiled their official logo. After the debacle that was the unveiling of the one-eyed monsters of London Olympic mascots, I thought I saw the height of Olympic symbol ridiculousness. Some interpretations of this include a thong, two jockstraps, an ink blot test and three hostages tied together.
So just how ridiculous have past Olympic logos been? Let’s take a walk back through time as I examine the history of Olympic logos. Continue reading
NHL Power Rankings: Week 15
Another week, another set of the NHL Power Rankings. A new team sits on top of the Power Rankings this week. The Vancouver Canucks may be the hottest team in the NHL right now but a loss on Saturday night means I get to use one of my favourite Power Rankings rules on them. While the top five might have changed around, no team moved in or out of it. Continue reading
Wednesday Link-Off: The Dance
Even fully clothed, Candice Swanepoel is mindbogglingly gorgeous.
Deadspin’s Dead Wrestler of the Week feature returned this week. This week, they profiled Ravishing Rick Rude. (Deadspin)
It’s not quite how it things were for me covering OUA football, but here’s a look at the job sideline reporters do. (Fanhouse)
Tiger Woods’ column in Golf Digest is no more. Jim Windolf laments the loss of Tiger’s epic columns and other contributions to print media. (Vanity Fair)
After the jump, Hedo’s new dance, all the Tostitos, and the Secretariat dance. Continue reading
Not News of the Week
If it’s not worth talking about, then it must be the Not News of the Week.
We’ve all pocket dialled at least once but it’s never really led to anything more than using up a few minutes of our phone plans. For one man in Illinois, a pocket dial led to a SWAT team to surround the school where he worked. The man, a teacher by day, was driving home with his phone in his back pocket when he butt dialled his wife. She heard the muffled sounds of hip hop music so she called 911 assuming her husband was being held hostage at work. For three hours, a SWAT team scoured the school looking for the man and his kidnappers but it wasn’t until police went to his home three hours later that they called off the search. By that time, there were three media helicopters and several dozen people watching outside the school. That would probably make it the most expensive butt dial in the history of cell phones. Continue reading
Ranking The NHL’s 2010-11 Third Jerseys
Every year, NHL teams roll out new jerseys to sell to make money from merchandise sales update the look of a franchise. Sometimes these jerseys are retro uniforms that are a throwback to the good old days of a team. Other jerseys are a completely new look for the franchise. Last year, I ranked the 23 third jerseys regularly used by NHL teams. With four new third jerseys rolled out this season, let’s take another look at the NHL’s best alternate jerseys. Continue reading
Worst of Music: Bruno Mars – Grenade
This week’s Worst of Music song isn’t necessarily a horrible song. Sure, it’s annoying but it’s not ear bleedingly bad. No, this week’s WoM highlights singer hypocrisy and how it’s used to make a song popular. This week’s Worst of Music song is Grenade by Bruno Mars. It may have dumb lyrics and sound overly melodramatic but those aren’t the only reasons why it’s this week’s WoM. Continue reading
Sunday Link-Off: Golden
Minka Kelly was at the People’s Choice Awards last week. Easy to see how she could be a people’s choice.
The story of golden-voiced homeless man Ted Williams is one that everyone seems to have gotten behind. It’s provided us some good journalism and stories but some excuse for media exploitation. (Midwest Sports Fans)
Ever think about writing your own sitcom. Well, if you have, or just want to know about the thinking that goes into writing your favourite sitcom, here’s a look at how they write the show’s most important scene: The one where the attractive female lead ends up topless. (McSweeney)
A man in Virginia fought the DMV over a hilarious personalized licence plate but the DMV won. Here’s his story of how he came up with the plate and his battle with easily offended people. (Jalopnik)
After the jump, behind the scenes of the Winter Classic, some good life advice and how books can save your life. Continue reading
Entertainment Link-Off: Music To My Earholes
In theatres this weekend, you can either catch Nicholas Cage in Season of the Witch (currently standing at 1% fresh) or perhaps check out Country Strong which isn’t doing much better at 15% Tomatometer. On the bright side, you do get to see Leighton Meester in the movie working her vocal pipes!
After the jump, a flowchart explaining why Black Swan was so awesome, the different body masses of Christian Bale, NASA hates 2012, Bill Hader teams up with Volkswagon, Josh Groban interprets Kanye West’s tweets, Machete in claymation and an awesome short film worthy of a look! Continue reading
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