The Jump Off

"Lightning Strikes, the courtyard gets dim. Supreme competition is about to begin-"

If you can place that obscure lyric in less than three seconds, congratulations- this is the blog for you.

The rest of you; school's in session.

That lyric is served up by the imitable LL Cool J, on a little song called Hit 'em High, off the soundtrack of a particularly heartwarming feature film entitled Space Jam. Space Jam is about a group of hard-luck losers who are challenged to a high stakes game of basketball. Fearing defeat, they kidnap a ringer. After intense training, they rise to the occasion, and when their back is closest to the wall, they realize they had the power to win was inside them all along.

Of course, the hard luck losers are the Looney Tunes. The challengers are steroided-out aliens, and the ringer is the Jumpman himself, Michael Jordan. I guess those are all vital details.

Space Jam gets first mention on this blog because, well, it sort of represents everything this space will be about. It is the perfect storm of sport, hip-hop, sci-fi (I mean, -ish), cartoons and cartoon violence, and the intersection of art and commerce. That, in short, is everything I'm interested in, and discussions pertaining to those and similar subjects are what will be featured on this here slice of inter-web real estate. Multi-media analysis and opinion from another faceless drone waiting to be replaced by a cigarette smoking monkey with a typewriter. Gangsta.

Lightning Striking the courtyard is precisely what gives me the 1.21 gigawat-, excuse me, jigga-whatts needed to punch us up to 88mph. When that happens, lights flash, the universe shifts and tilts, and we're taken back to the past.

Clearly, I know awesome. I've studied it, I've broke it down, shit kid, I've lived it. So take your mouse, navigate that cursor all the way to the top of your window, and hit "Bookmark," or "Favorite." RSS it if you're feeling that angle. Because you're all the hapless toons, trying to measure up to the competition of awesome, and I'm MJ, here to guide you to glorious victory. Or whatever.

Oh, and since everything is better with a theme song, let me anoint this little MJ diddy as the site's official rider music. Catch you soon, suckas.