11 Things You Missed On The Internet | 01.25.24

Remember pizza fundraisers?

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Brandon Wenerd
January 26, 2024

Woo! We made it! End of the week!

Hope it was a good one in your world. I’m heading back to Mammoth for more skiing this weekend. Conference championship weekend! Sunday is going to be one for the ages.

Before we get into the goods, let’s recap some other stories that fell through the cracks on BroBible this week.

Have a great weekend! Be safe and leave it all on the field out there.

Wild New Video With 92% Accuracy Shows What The World Looks Through Animals’ Eyes

The idea that animals perceive different colors differently will never not trip me out. Imagine looking up at the sky and it’s… magenta? Sounds like a night at Meow Wolf. This is a seriously cool video.

Fontainebleau Las Vegas Bullied Into Overhauling Nachos After Photo Of Paltry $24 Order Goes Viral

I’m still feeling pretty stupid for paying $10 for a terrible slice of pizza out of vending machine in Vegas last week. But hey, worth it for the content, I guess? At least it’s keeping this newsletter interesting.

Sydney Sweeney, ‘White Lotus’ Breakout Simona Tabasco Star As Nuns In Trailer For Horror Movie ‘Immaculate’

I’m not really into horror movies unless the plot is a bit of mindbender. But this movie reminds me of Stigmata (1999 and that movie was pretty incredible.

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Macauley Culkin Is Almost 10 Years Older Than His ‘Home Alone’ Mom Was In The Film

I have so much respect for the fact that Macauley Culkin is just living his life outside the public spotlight. As a Velvet Underground fan, I do hope I get to see his band, The Pizza Underground, perform live someday. I regret not catching them when I lived in New York.

Jake Gyllenhaal Brawls With Conor McGregor In First Trailer For ‘Road House’

The fact this movie isn’t coming out in theaters is a disgrace, if I’m letting my true colors show. How are you going to do a Patrick Swayze classic dirty like that?

Still… I’ll probably watch it on a chill Friday night and love every second of it. I’m a walking contradiction like that.

Dan Aykroyd Shares Wild Story About Encounter With A ‘Spectacular’ UFO In Montreal

This reminds me of the time I watched Dan Aykroyd go on the Joe Rogan Experience a bunch of years ago. He gave me the vibe of a guy who’s taken way too many quaaludes over the years.

Podcasters Uncover Fantasy Football Cheating Scandal Leading To Site Administrator Firing

This is journalism at its finest, folks.

Alyssa Milano Under Fire For Starting GoFundMe To Pay For Son’s Travel Baseball Team’s Trip

Man, whatever happened to fundraisers for this sort of thing? It’s so lame that people now just ask for money instead of putting a little work into it. I sold all sorts of things back in the day to go on school trips: Ham sandwiches, Joe Corbi's pizza kits, hoagie cards, candy, wrapping paper. One time our band did a raffle to win a PT Cruiser so we could go to the Fiesta Bowl. The cool thing about those fundraisers was how it taught you a skill (sales!) and a little bit about how our capitalistic system works.

That takes me back. This made me miss those Joe Corbi's pizza kits. I’m nostalgic for them. I would love to buy a couple kits just to keep in the freezer, but I don’t think that’s possible in Los Angeles.

They were an easy and delicious meal in a pinch.

Logan Paul Gets Choked Up Talking About The Rift He Created With The Rock

The kneejerk reaction is to bash everything the Paul brothers collectively do. But if you’ve been paying close enough attention, Logan has been showing some pretty cool personal growth and maturity. Everyone grows, everything evolves.

This Chinook Salmon Caught In Argentina Is One Of The Biggest We’ve Ever Seen

That thing is a monster. What a beautiful creature.

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Music Friday

Last weekend, while hanging out in the Airbnb after a day of skiing at Mammoth, a friend put on some background music for our little apres.

I chuckled aloud when the first song on the playlist was Ratatat’s “Loud Pipes”, a song that felt like it was everywhere from 2007-2009. It struck me how dated it sounded, like listening to ‘80s music with 808s and Yamaha DX7 synth sounds after Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden started shifting musicial tastes and appetites. That Ratatat song embodied the vibe of a Brooklyn rooftop party where everyone was guzzling pounders of PBR and talking about what indie music festivals they were going to. It was Urban Outfitters in music form. I look back fondly on it, though I hate to admit I don’t even know if Urban Outfitters exists anymore? I don’t get out all that much.

Anyway. This week I added some new music from that very specific moment in time to the 11 Things You Missed On The Internet Spotify Playlist. There’s some Ratatat, along with Little Dragon, Miami Horror, and Menahan Street Band was sort of a had-to-be-there thing for us millennials trying to find our place in a pre-iPhone world.

I also added Emancipator’s “First Snow” off one of my favorite winter albums of all time, Soon It Will Be Cold Enough. I made a little edit on Instagram about my trip to Mammoth last weekend, set the to this ambient groove.

Another add to the playlist: Don Henley’s “All She Wants To Do Is Dance,” a song I really want to hear my favorite jamtronica band The Disco Biscuits cover when they come to Los Angeles next week. Released in 1984, it’s one of the all-time great ‘80s dance grooves, along with lyrics that tells one hell of a good story about getting run out of town. Heck, it’s practically an entire rock opera in a single song. The part where Henley screeches about taxiing down the runway always makes me smile.

Finally, I’m ending this week’s additions with a song off Jimmy Buffett’s final album. It’s called “No One Works On Friday” and, uhhhh, it’s pretty self-explanatory why it’s there. Also, yesterday was Jimmy Buffett in Florida. I’m going to Aspen in a couple weeks, where Jimmy used to live for a stint in the 1970s and ‘80s. Every time I go there, I think about the greats from another era that frequented that funky mountain town: Jimmy, Hunter Thompson, Jack Nicholson, John Belushi, etc.

Thanks for listening. Hope you like it.

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