When I was a kid, I thought Optimus Prime was the coolest thing since sliced bread. Twenty-eight years later, that idea was rekindled with this appearance on David Letterman…

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If only Megan Fox was in the clip as well…Thanks for the clip Bekas.

When I was packing to head to New Hampshire, I saw a Nike commercial that was titled It’s All About You in conjunction with Livestrong. Instead of the staple of Lance Armstrong, the commercial featured snippets of other atheletes who had beat cancer.

One of the interesting stories that I saw in the piece was Jon Lester. Initially, I thought that it was just another simple ad campaign, until I read this story at Fanhouse:

When Jon Lester takes the mound Friday evening in Boston, he’ll not only carry with him his 7-6 record, he’ll also carry a yellow baseball glove to raise awareness for cancer; a disease that knocked Lester down, but not out of baseball three years ago.

Friday will mark Lester’s involvement with Nike and Livestrong to help “raise awareness, fund research and end the stigma about cancer that many survivors face.” Lester will wear his yellow glove for every start at Fenway Park in July.

Pretty cool if you ask me, so without further adieu, here’s the commercial

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Over the past few months, I’ve been hearing a lot about Plymouth Rock, not the boring rock that the Pilgrims landed on, but the movie studio set to open just outside the home of the Mayflower. The state is giving giant tax breaks to help spark growth in jobs to the Commonwealth. In itself, its pretty cool since my buddy may be able to land a job there and maybe some of my buddies from Jersey can move up North ( a big maybe, I know).

So while the studio is still a ways away, I can look back on some of the better movies that have been filmed in the Bay State recently and find it odd that two of the more recent movies starred a native of Long Island, New York. I am not talking about Scorsese or DeNiro, but rather the tons of fun star of King of Queens – Kevin James. (more…)