Hi-Fi New York

These Dwight Howard and Derrick Rose commercials “produced in cooperation with the blogger Free Darko” are amazingly well executed. Plays hard off of Free Darko’s book. More details here. Definitely worth watching.

I went to dinner last night with my wife and a couple of her co-workers. After about an hour of polite conversation (which isn’t easy when you’re an outsider at a work outing … sorry, honey, just sayin’), I zoned out and started checking my Twitter feed (via Twitterific) on my iPhone. Rude, I know. But the Tweets that were taking place were actually pretty riveting stuff. One of my contacts was watching a hoops game on TV in LA, while the other had just seen a pedestrian get hit by a van in NYC’s East Village. Both were pretty excited, but for very different reasons. And when both feeds were juxtaposed on Twitter … well, the end result was pretty interesting.

Here’s how it played out:

@lvlewitinn: Pedestrian struck in middle of street on Third Ave between 9th and 10th. Doesn’t look good. Ambulance called, not here yet.

@lvlewitinn: Still no ambulance but there are cops and a fire truck. Doesn’t look survivable

@JonesOnTheNBA: Why do the Magic continue to forget about Dwight Howard late in games? Jeeeebuzzzz!!!

@lvlewitinn:Van driver’s windshield is smashed from the poor victims head. Victim appears to be white female in her 20s. Possibly an NYU student.

@lvlewitinn: Even if victim survives, she will have brain damage/paralysis, Van driver will have this on his conscience for the rest of his life.

@lvlewitinn: Victim “such a beautiful girl”, says Black and White barback.

@JonesOnTheNBA: So I guess Shaq was right about Stan Van?

@lvlewitinn:Hit of victim let out an audible “thonk” (I heard it half a block down). Ambulance just left scene. Victim was bleeding from mouth.

@JonesOnTheNBA: Celtics showing the heart of a champion.

@lvlewitinn: Accident occured as van driver tried to rush a yellow light.

@lvlewitinn: Police claims victim’s condition “not as bad as it looks”.

@JonesOnTheNBA: Dwight has to learn to be more like Shaq and demand the ball. People hated Shaq for his “big dog gotta eat” statements, but twas necessary.

@lvlewitinn: One of victim’s shoes was found underneath the van’s rear wheel several yards from where she landed. Cell phone, other belongings scattered.

@JonesOnTheNBA: Stan Van has managed this game very poorly. Sorry, it’s the truth.

@lvlewitinn: As the girl lay bleading in her white blouse and khakis, about a dozen witnesses converged around body, forming protective ring from traffic

@JonesOnTheNBA: RT @Unsilent: Time to bury Stan Van.

@lvlewitinn: Third Ave now back to normal as if nothing happened. City That Never Sleeps is also City That Stops For Nothing.

One of the best songs I’ve heard in a while. Eighty seconds of English pop-noise bliss. 7.9 on Pitchfork, et sootera.

(Download | Via: Nothing But Green Lights)

Birthday No. 38 (my lucky number … sort of … no, really) is rapidly approaching, but v. 35.0 is still being blogged about to this day. But not for the right reasons.

At least we didn’t make it onto these pages. At my age, that’d be a real kick in the ol’ adulthood.