Monday, December 29, 2008

Trust Me, I'm A Professor


The worst thing about having a “professor” speak to the media is that it lends credence and credibility to inane commentary. Completely ridiculous statements…I don’t think the end of days will happen until at least 2012 (more when I can gather my thoughts into a coherent essay). And even then it’ll be the whole world going to shits, not just the Amerricuh.

But Barack does have his hands full.

First Wall Street, then the entire American automotive industry, now Ohio is the first state to ask for a bailout. A scant 5 billion. More will surely follow in tow. And as long as we're asking for handouts for debts we have no intention on paying, can I get some loot for my Stafford loans? My four years at Southwest Middle Louisiana State Technical College of Agriculture and Mechanics (SWMLSTCA&MU) were surprisingly expensive.

And then there's this random quote which may or may not have spewed from the mouth of another professor. Or statesman. Or a hobo.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
Deep.





Sunday, December 28, 2008

I'm Not Racist, I Voted for Obama

It'll soon replace "I have a black friend" as the de facto reply to any accusation of racial insensitivity. Even though most cases aren't actually racism, just prejudice. And there is NOTHING wrong w/being prejudice. Being prejudice is what keeps you from getting robbed. Racism is the real bad guy here. Racism is what keeps L'Quanda Jenkins' resume from getting a second look.

I came across one of the greatest articles I have read, written by David Ehrenstein, just now. Guess his race, it'll totally mess with your prejudices. It is so apt, so on-point, and so appropriate, I had to immediately blog about it. Blog should not be a verb, fyi, it sounds ridiculous. Read the article. Seriously, read it. It's about a magic negro. There's no way you can't read it, right? Preview? Why not.
The Magic Negro is...a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. "He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist,"

He's there to assuage white "guilt" (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest.
Because it would take nothing short of magic for a black person to be articulate or intelligent, you see.

Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.Read it.

Friday, December 26, 2008

Picks, Picks, Picks

It’s everyone’s favorite time of the year. The time when you can tune into ESPN on any given night and watch some mediocre college football. You mean I can watch Wake Forest play Navy? NAVY? Sign me up!

This year, as I am finally a real person, I’ll have to be judicious with my time; picking and choosing which games to watch. The days of spazzing out in front of the tube watching Mieneke Car Care Bowl (seriously?) or the Insight.com PC Bowl and enjoying the number 3 team in the PAC-10 play the number 4 team in the ACC, or whatever, are over. Sad.

I’m not going to make picks on every game. That would require knowing something about the 398 teams seemingly playing in bowl games. I don't. So, without further ado.


Champs Sports Bowl

Florida State vs. Wisconsin

Hey FSU, remember when you played for the National Title 3 years in a row? Yeah, that was ages ago. Pre – Chris Rix and his margarine hands, pre Bobby Bowden looking completely out of it. But hey, you looked good this year. Got to #15 before laying some stinkers. You defeated VaTech and Maryland but lost to GaTech and Boston College. Really? BC? Then got your ass handed to you by Florida, for the 4th consecutive year. What an enigmatic output. As a team, did you collectively decide to just not show up for games? I don’t know what to make of you. You’re about as consistent as John Kerry during his ’04 campaign, or my turds after choking down some Sitar Indian Cuisine…But I just can’t quit you, Florida State.
Seminoles win, 38-30, because I like offense. And for Wisconsin being almost as equally perplexing as State.


Orange Bowl

Cincinnati vs. Virginia Tech

Uggggggh. This is a BCS matchup? Am I really going to spend my New Years night watching this game in prime time? I know nothing about these teams, except that VaTech has won the ACC every year it has been in it. I think. That’s near the mid-90s level of dominance FSU had. This may end up being an entertaining game, but I doubt it.
Virginia Tech wins, 24-19, that’s right, I’m predicting a safety!


Sugar Bowl

Utah vs. Alabama

Yeah BCS busters, way to rip-off the fans. This game should be Texas vs. Bama, it’d be only about 896x more competitive. This game will go the route of Hawaii vs. Georgia in 2008 as opposed to Boise State vs. Oklahoma in 2007. Alabama will just grind the ball out, put everyone to sleep, and by the time anyone notices anything has happened they’ll have scored 30 points.
Crimson Tide win, 30-13, in a game that’s never really competitive.


Fiesta Bowl

Ohio State vs. Texas

This has the possibility of turning into an ass whooping. Like serious sphincteral reaming. Texas reminds me of the Ohio State team that won the national title over Miami a few years ago. They just find ways to win (except against Texas Tech). Ohio State is overrated. Mostly because I hate Jim Tressel. That’s right, my hate for one guy makes a team overrated, it’s a fact. Texas proves the big favorite here, but everyone forgets they can barely run the ball. Def not a good sign when you’re leading rush has less than 600 yards…and is also your leading passer.
All that aside, Texas wins, but not that impressively 34-21


Rose Bowl

USC vs. Penn State

I don’t know why everyone’s writing off Penn State, they have stud receivers, a stud running back, and a baller QB…But then there’s that Trojan D. I give Pete Carroll the nod w/the month off to prep. As long as their running backs don’t do something stupid like fumble on an attempted lateral or the refs don’t give Vince Young…er, Darryl Clarke a touchdown despite being down at the two.

Trojans win, 31- 16.


Title Game

Oklahoma vs. Florida

I already predicted Florida to win this game, by some random score of 41-36 or something around there. I really, really, want a close and exciting game – as does everyone else. But I keep getting this sneaking suspicion there will be more sphincteral tearing when this one is said and done. UF’s offense is just as good as Oklahoma’s. That’s right, I have huuuuge fucking balls for saying that. But it’s true. And their defense is much better. Bob Stoops also has a history of sucking majorly in the BCS, while Urban Meyer has a history of kicking ass. Oh, and UF is the better team.

I’ll adjust my prediction and say Gators win 42-35, a more normal score…while simultaneously predicting the possibility of 49-23.


Game everyone wants to see

USC vs. Florida


Nation’s best two teams. Strength on strength for 60 minutes. It’d be beautiful. Kinda like...

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Rinse, Gargle, Spit


I like football, in case you didn’t notice. If you hadn’t, well you’re just an un-observant mother fucker.

And so it was, another New Years Day when I awoke to partake in my customary new year’s routine. Watching a full day of college football while fighting the holiday itis; slipping in and out of consciousness in front of the tube.

One particular year after groggily waking up sometime in the early afternoon, I tuned into the Citrus (now Capital One) bowl. If you can guess the year and teams involved in this game you’ll know exactly where this post is headed. That AND I’ll give you $50. Go ahead and guess.

(Guessing time)

It was 2000. The teams: Michigan State and Florida. If you recall it was the senior year of one Plaxico Burress. He was torching some freshman DB covering him, absolutely killing him. While the announcers were salivating over Plax and his NFL prospects, I sat on my couch and thought to myself “I think this guy’s prone to making poor life decisions and is going to monumentally fuck-up his career and life one day.”

Can I call ‘em or what?

I like to give people the benefit of the doubt because, you know, I’m a good little liberal asshat. But some things coming out of the Plax shoot-myself-in-the-leg-gate are just bizarre. Like, does anyone else ever get annoyed by the addition of “gate” to the end of every crime/scandal/news event? It doesn’t even make sense, it’s just thrown on there; like some D’s on that bitch... or some DDD’s on that bitch.

From my initial withholding of judgment, everything that has come out of the case concerning Plax has been meet with a “seriously?” response. Let us revisit the bastion of credibility, the Associated Press.

Burress accidentally shot himself in the right thigh at the Latin Quarter nightclub on Nov. 29 when he fumbled with an unlicensed handgun tucked into the waistband of his sweat pants.

I can see why you illegally carry a loaded gun, you gotta protect yourself from those stick-up kids wanting your sweet bling. But why are you trying to get into a club wearing sweat pants? Actually, why’d you leave your house in sweats? They’d better be some Hermés velour sweats handmade by an underpaid (re: non paid) Parisian Arab immigrant that cost $1000 a fiber.

Secondly, what made you think of tucking your gun into the sweatpants? You can’t spring for a holster, buddy? It’s an ELASTIC waistband. I couldn’t even get an up-flipped boner to stay still in a pair of sweats, no way a gun is going to hold in place.

Burress was also sued last week in Florida's Broward County Circuit Court for rear-ending a woman in May while driving his nearly $140,000 Mercedes-Benz.

According to a document provided by the woman's attorney, his car insurance lapsed three days before the crash. A letter from Allstate says Burress neglected to pay his premiums.

By far the funniest part of the story. Drop six figures on a ride and you can’t spend $200 a month on insurance. Pretty sure he paid for it in cash, is Plax so financially tied up he can’t find $200 to pay for his insurance? This wins the “and you know it’s a black person if...” award.

In addition to a 9-mm handgun, a .30-06-caliber rifle and the ammunition, including a clip for a .45 gun, police also said they recovered the sneakers that Burress wore during the accidental shooting during the three-hour search of the Super Bowl star's Totowa home.

I can’t hate on this, it’s just a part of being rich. You’ve seen Cribs, you’ve seen the Chapelle Show episode. Point is, the richer you get the crazier shit you need to own. Fact. If you’re making a boat load of money, you have to have a boatload of gear. There’s a checklist of stuff you have to get once you strike it big:

  1. Big ass house in a nice neighborhood with plenty of white neighbors. Holding all other things (house purchase price, family income) white neighborhoods possess higher property values. Wonder why?

This is purely a fiscal decision…plus you can corrupt their teenage (18+) daughters. Their thought process “he’s black, so he’ll piss off my dad; but he’s also rich, so he can buy my silence if I ever decided to go Kobe on him.”

  1. Cars. Whips. Rides. Autos. Tons of them. A BMW M3 because it’s dead sexy. BMW M5 for when you want to bone in the backseat (and to put the resulting baby, subsequent car seat). Ferrari 360 Modena. Rolls Royce Phantom . Mercedes SL55 AMG , because some times you need to drop the top in order to drop her top. A Cadillac Escalade because you need a truck. And a Toyota Supra because you secretly liked 3 Fast 3 Furious: Tokyo Drift
    1. Speaking of which, whatever happened to Paul Walker? Every girl I know used to love that guy. I’m pretty sure his career ended with Timeline – that movie sucked, hard. Talk about poor life decisions.
  2. Biggest, most powerful motorcycle you can find. Who care’s if athletes have ruined their careers and lives on these (Williams, Jay; Ellis, Monta) I’m invincible...That right there is 10 cylinders of 500 horsepower, 350 mile-per-hour American Muscle. Dodge Tomahawk. You won't ride it, pussy.
  3. Exotic animals: Siberian tigers, orangutans, blue whales, ligers, centaurs.
  4. Stock in Enron. Because I’m THAT fucking rich….bitch.
  5. Private 747 jumbo jet…..Oops, not that rich.
  6. Weapons. Guns, katanas, heavy artillery canons, Moonraker lasers, Scud Missles, etc. You have everything else you want and need but know you can’t spend the hundreds of millions it costs to own your own 747. So you buy weapons to cope. Nothing says I’M RICH like being able to kill your entire family, or put a hole in your leg, with one inadvertent move.
Read the article here: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3791174
Merry Christmas
Happy Chanuka
Happy Kwanzaa

And happy holidays for whatever you celebrate. Now, if someone can please explain the concept of a Pan-African holiday? Last time I checked there were tons of cultures in the motherland.

ha, I almost confused Kwanzaa w/Kazaa

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Take Money, Get Money Money

This picture is so sexy. So, so, sexy. It gets my dick hard. Yeah, Econ gets me excited. Or maybe it’s that professor who taught that Econ class junior year. She was smoking. An absolute fox. Or was smoking. I honestly wish we had crossed paths with her being 30 years junior.

I took AP Lit Senior year in high school. Eccentric, insightful, and funny all describe my teacher. And old, definitely in her early 60s. And hot. Seriously. About a month into class I theorized (and staunchly defended myself) my English teacher to have been a beauty in her younger years. Disbelief, my friends displayed, and numerous arguments proceeded.

Until one day in the spring semester when teacher needed a substitute for a few days. Out went the sexagenarian, in came her second year at University niece. Teaching a room full of second semester seniors. Whom had already been accepted into college. I know you made the assumption already, but she’s hot. Like “I’d love to stay behind after class to rewind that video for the fifth period class while you call your boyfriend” or “I’d love nothing more than to bend you over that overhead projector” type hot. Then look away when you realize she overheard you and is eyeing you down with that “awwwk-waaaard” look on her face.

From the Associated Press

Oil Sinks to Four Year Low

“OPEC yesterday agreed to slash 2.2 million barrels from its daily production – its single largest cut ever – while bloc outsiders Russia and Azerbaijan announced their own cutbacks of hundreds of thousands of barrels from the market…

...Crude oil sank to $40.20 after the announcement, a level not seen since the summer of 2004”

Look at the picture above and pretend like my motor skills aren’t shit and I can draw straight lines. I’ll spare you all the basics you already know. But If you’re an erudite citizen and astute observer of 60 Minutes, or if you’re just too lazy to change the channel after the 4pm football game, you’ll know the Saudi’s – and OPEC et al. by proxy – aim to keep the price of oil at $75. That would be represented by P1Q1, a price where oil producers can reap the profits of rectangle D+E+F+K+J+I+H. As well as create deadweight loss G+L.

Oil is not at $75. And since prices can’t arbitrarily be raised – the Y-Axis is the dependent variable, fool – OPEC must decrease output. Peep the block quotes, yo. They decreased production and instead of price rising up to P2 they actually dropped.

The demand for oil is changing, decreasing. Maybe everyone fears a recession in which oil consumption vastly decreases, or maybe everyone’s just afraid of being unable to unload their oil contracts…and possibly having to take physical delivery of thousands of barrels.

So what does this mean? It means Busta Rhymes is NOT getting that Arab money. Because the Arabs aren’t getting money at all! Oil isn’t as profitable (for the time being) as it used to be (a scant 7 months ago). Busta’s song came out at a trough in oil prices. WHAT A JOKE. Hey, Busta, next time you want to extol the virtues of getting Middle Eastern money, make sure there is still money to be gotten in the first place.

Unless he’s talking about distributing some Middle Eastern vein candy: heroin. There may be money in that, I don’t know. All the baseheads I’ve talked to have already substituted away from heroin to the much cheaper, more attainable, and much more American drug of Crystal Meth. All you need is a gallon of Clorox, battery acid and a bath tub! It’s so simple, anyone can make it.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Guest Blog: Living in the 80s

Fast forward to the late-nite (We have to do this because I don’t even remember the club that night). We’re back at my place, drinking 40s or shots of Crat, some people playing Wii in the room next, me doing nothing, unless you count yayo as something, in which case I was doing a lot of something. And had been doing so since around 9. Most people go to bed around 3:30, but my really drunk best friend did not live nearby so crashed hard on my bed. And then of course the star of the story, she stayed as well because she needed to “sober up” before she could drive home to wherever the eff she lived. Obviously, I suggested the white panacea. She said fine. I did more too for good measure. Then obvi we made out. There is a line you cross when you do too much yayo. You start to feel as if you can do/say anything during that five minute rush. So I did. Convo went something like this (and remember, there was another person in the room):

“I realllly want to do a line off your tits” (Who says that?? Answer, ME)

“Ok” (What kind of girl says Yes? Answer: In 15 years, poss the woman YOU marry) She wasn’t even undressed, this statement actually convinced her to take off her shirt. I did the line, and then a little later,

“I want to do a line off your leg” (No way this can work but YES, she takes off her pants and I do it)

So yea she’s down to the panties, I’m yayed as Fuck , and she’s S-ing the D when HER bright idea, not mine, is to do more coke:

“Now I want to do a line off your D” or something like that. Now I know this sounds good, but realize 1) I paid for the coke 2) she had already been going down on my D so it was a pretty terrible and wasteful surface 3) the numbing factor. My answer: “Sure.”

She pours some out and just blows a line off my D like it was no biggie. The coke whore than does another bump off it and gets back to work.

You would think this was baller, but of the 3 reasons I listed before, the numbing issue proved to be the worst. I couldn’t feel my D for like 30 minutes, seriously. That’s awful. It’s hard enough to find a (passably/marginally) attractive girl to S your D already, to have her S your numb (but still hard, don’t get the wrong idea) D is almost a waste. And boring. I started to watch SportsCenter for a while actually. Like WTF!!! coked out with a bitch S-ing my D and I had to watch Mavs highlights to stay alert??!?!

It was AWFUL!! Like, Fuck yea it was baller and made me think I was Rick James for a minute or 30, and yea, everytime dudes say things like “Why don’t you just have her blow a line off your D” or something I can laugh to myself that I’ve been there done that, but nothing is more frightening than not feeling your D for 30 fucking minutes! Moral of the story, yea it seems baller to do it, but don’t let a girl do a line off your D. It’s not even about the wastefulness of it. It fucking sucks. The second last thing anyone (even you) wants when they have a naked bitch ready to go is a numb D (I say 2nd for you limp D kids out there). Or a hard-on watching Erick Dampier wrestle Shaq for position on SportCenter

Monday, December 15, 2008

More Guest Bloggage

Yet another follower has found the light. Enlightened, this person has decided to take the reins and guest blog. I couldn't be happier. Like a proud father watching his only son that made it. Hopefully, this won't turn into Nas vs Jay-Z (props to you if got the Ether reference). In fact, I guarantee it wont. I'm actually not quite sure who the guest blogger is. Totally just got an anonymous e-mail and BOOM. New contributor.

Enjoy the fresh writing. Pickle Surprise's debut was riotously funny. Let's see what happens next.

Musings

Fact

Seventy-five percent of all Armani Exchange, A|X, items the Metro New York Area are sold to Long Island/New Jersey meathead guidos.

Over at Ed Hardy, a whopping 92.3% of all sales are to meaty gweeds. It's true. I looked it up.

Next time you go out on a 28 degree Saturday night and see a Christian Audigier T-Shirt – yes T-shirt – it’s more than likely draped across a gweed who’s wider than he is tall, who just spent 5 hours at Gold’s blasting his biceps, and who another 2 at Sunset Tan getting his “glow” on.

I wish I had more hands, so I can give those Ed Hardy clad titties four thumbs down.


Musings

Is it just me, or does Hank Paulson seem completely overwhelmed and in over his head?

Do the Cowboys win games because of Tony Romo, or despite Tony Romo?

The Giants looked like shit last night. So much for best team in the NFL. The coaches need to come back down to Earth and let Plax play, hole-y leg and all.

BURN. I don’t think anyone is surprised though. McCain and O-Dog Obama were just about neck and neck up till Sept or so. Wonder what led to the electoral rout?

Easy Winter Fashion for Women

I got it, girls (girl, actually, no one reads this thing) you can thank me later. High boots + Skinny Jeans + Pea Coat = Hot. Damn hot. And chic. I know, I was a math major.

The jeans must, must, be skinny. No exceptions. Why do designers make women’s jeans in any style other than skinny. It’s all about flattery when it comes to denim. Comfort is an ancillary consideration. You rock the jeans to make your ass look good and to make you look taller. You can do it, you’ll be a model one day with those loooong legs!...just never take off your Sevens.

I just admitted it, ladies we're looking at your butts. Every time you walk away, and for the blessed few, when you walk towards us. All guys do it. You knew it, but just didn't really want to come to terms with it. Does that come across as shallow? Yes. It sure does. But if I willingly decrease my sperm count every time I slip on the slim fit A-Pockets, have to throw my junk to one side because the crotch is NON-EXISTANT and feel like this



then there’s no reason every girl can’t rock skinny jeans. Except, you know, for the whole fitting into them thing.

I had a girl come up to me once and remark on how great my Diesels look, and then she added “nice circumcision too.”

Ha, this didn’t actually happen. But it’s one tight-panted, ill-advised, public boner from occurring. I was only wearing slim fits, not skinnies. I tried a pair on once though, one of my balls went back up into my stomach. I had to give myself an abdominal Heimlich to get it back down...Actually that is also false. I couldn't get those suckers up over my knees and hopped around the floor in my boxers trying to shed them. Yeah, it was during a sample sale, no dressing rooms here. Embarrassing? Of course not, I got to show off my junk. In any case, guys who wear skinny jeans must do the up flip.

Obama? That guy's in the news
Only 36 days until Obama’s inauguration. This means Bush has 35 more days to pardon himself and the let’s-go-to-war-so-I-can-funnel-money-into-my-energy-and- security- companies mastermind behind the past 8 years, the incomparable, the indicted Dick Cheney.

Bush deserves the pass, we all know he was trying to live up to his dad’s ideals, and just fell short. Very short. Cheney on the other hand is an outright criminal. Does anyone else think pardoning him would be the equivalent of pardoning OJ. Just imagine the headlines.

January 19: Bush pardons self, Cheney

January 20: Barack Obama inaugurated as first half-black President

January 21: Obama Pardons OJ Simpson

January 22:Obama impeached

January 23: 28th Amendment Passed, All Minorities Banned from Executive Office,
Thanks to OJ. Sucks for you, Bobby Jindal.

Must be nice to know you’re getting just a slap on the wrist, Dick. Since journalists, and most Americans, embody Jeffersonian thinking, they'll call Obama the first black President. One drop rule, y'all.

Monday Night Stories

I was riding the trusty 4 train back home and saw a dude doing pull-ups (hey, a palindrome) on the car. On a packed Train. Hilarious. Can’t fault the dude though. Gym memberships are way, too expensive up here. Still though, he’s not as bad as the guy doing pull up on the scaffolding across the street from the Pinkberry in Union Square.

Even more hilarious. I was cutting across a park to get home where some kids were playing soccer. The goalposts were trashcans. Not those weak-sauce mesh cans, but those cast iron fuckers. Some kid goes to head the ball and dives headfirst into a can. The kid stayed down for like 2 minutes too. I felt bad, but damn…that’s funny.

Throwback Rhyme of the Day

“I remember magic city before the freak nik
Before the police started all that weak shit

All the big hoes...Get loose wit it
All the skinny hoes let Bruce Bruce hit it
Let a nigga fuck tonight”

And those are the cleanest lyrics in the song.

That comes from Too Short’s 2004, maybe it was 2004, I don’t really know; hit Shake that Monkey ft. Lil’ Jon.

FYI, this is Bruce Bruce. Or as my buddy says, “a boy so fat they had to name it twice.”

It's more like let Bruce Bruce smother it.

Bet you forgot about Too Short, huh? With good reason, dude was not a good rapper. In fact, I'll go out on a limb and say he was pretty terrible. Speaking of which, Crunk just fell off, hard. Just like Cash Money before it, Crunk rose and fell. With meteoric speed.

Despite Crunk's death, I'm proud to admit that I fucking love Put Yo Hood Up.
My car didn't have a solid system, or much else for the matter, so I used to ride around in my mom's whip and bump some Lil' Jon while cruising around the city. Nothing screams street cred more than bumping Lil' Jon around the suburbs.

I don't know why I like it so much. Maybe because I could write this song...While drunk. And hanging upside down by my ankles. Underwater.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Betelgeuse



Barack Obama's new nickname


My friend recently questioned: how much do you need to do before you're incapable of feeling certain emotions?



Don't know where this came from, but its damn funny.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Word of the Week

Or rather word of the indefinite future

Felations: n Invented by myself, a portmanteau of the words fellatio and relations used to describe a relationship on "third base" but has yet to slide into home. It can go both ways in depicting pleasantries given/received by either gender. Why? Because cunnilations sounds stupid.

Tara Reid's and that rando dude who was in Rookie of the Year's relationship in American Pie can be described as a felationship.

Guest Blog: The Taming of The Shrub

This story took place in the Fall of 2007. I had just stumbled back from a party. I had already consumed too much booze and snorted too many lines and I was ready to drink more and hop back on the horse for a few more hours at an afterparty, but the girl I came back with (Laura) didn't give me that option. Laura dragged me into my apartment and I really didn't feel any need to assert myself and keep partying since hooking up and late nighting are perfect substitutes as far as I'm concerned. We were hooking up in my bed and--in a rush mentally--I quickly got our clothes off. I was focused, I had no patience on that night. Of course, she wanted to do more beforehand and I understood, so I continued doing nearly everything that one can do before banging. Finally, she told me that she really wanted me to go down on her. I'm pretty indifferent towards it, but my rule in bed is that I'll do close to anything if I know the girl will enjoy it. But Laura wasn't shaven, and although this is common, for whatever reason, on this night, I was not tolerating it.

Then suddenly, I had a thought. I didn't tell her no, despite not wanting to do it, nor did I just suck it up and do it, I didn't even say a word to her, I just got up, went to my bathroom and started rummaging through my cabinet with the urgency of a man who had snorted a half gram of yay earlier in the night (...oh wait). I came back to my bedroom about thirty seconds later with the object that I had been searching for and moved my trash can towards the bed.

"Landing strip or all off?" I asked, as if this were a normal question.

There was a long awkward pause.

"...........Landing strip" Laura Replied. There wasn't even a hint of shock in her voice. In retrospect, this is surprising.

The object was an electric shaver, I immediately plugged it in, did some threshing, and, once satisfied with my work, began muff diving.

I crossed a line I didn't even know existed. At a loss for a reasonable explanation, I can only quote the wise words of the late Rick James: "Cocaine is a hell of a drug." My mind was jumping rapidly from place to place. I went straight from thinking, "I don't feel like it" to realizing "Wait i have an electric shaver!!!!" as opposed to just choosing whether to go down or not to go down. But what the hell, at least it showed initiative if nothing else. When I woke up the next morning the girl was gone and I had a pounding headache. I thought that I might have just imagined the last night's occurrence but one look into my metal mesh trash can gave me all of the evidence I needed (and more than I wanted). Anyway, Laura and I no longer talk, I don't think it was because of this specific incident, but probably because I have a dysfunctional lifestyle that leads to such ridiculous shit. I'm pretty sure think she's dating someone now. He should thank me.

Guest Bloggage, Yo

This fine, fine blog is up to 7 readers...that I know of. There may be some other randos who frequent the site, but I doubt it.

In any case, I finally conned one of you MFers to join me in the fray. This blogger hails from one of these city in the marshland that is the east coast. A humid cesspool replete with liberal assholishness.

I was going to ask him/her to post links to random, funny articles. But I didn't want this site to turn into a giant gate for The Onion. So Mr/s PickleSurprised him/herself will be posting stories of his/her ("it's" would work more efficiently) varied misadventures, as well as other stuff I'm sure which swirls around in it's dome piece.

Stay tuned good things to ensue...in other news

I called Oklahoma beating Mizzou 55-28. The final was 62-21. I nailed the over/under. Stuff like this wants to make me a gambling man.

I also called Florida beating Bama 45-31. 76 points? There goes my gambling streak.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

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I was in the store the other day and was picking up some juice. I bypasses my staple Apple Juice and my morning Orange Juice for a bottle of Orange-Pineapple Juice. The stuff is mind blowing. I can’t wait to mix it with entirely too much vodka, black out, find a random bathroom and vomit my brains out while I pass out; and then abhor the mere scent of Orange-Pineapple juice for the next two years. It’s that good.

Just to add to today’s sports greatness: college hoops and boxing. Can this day get any better, sporting wise? Hoops is headlined by the second and third best teams in North Carolina: DUKE and Davidson. Boxing is Oscar De La Hoya (still?) versus some dude. Mmm, violence.

In movies sometimes back-up characters steal scenes and end up being more memorable than the leads; Thanksgiving dinner has the same thing. Wherein a side dish ends up stealing the meal. This year it was the sweet potatoes. I couldn’t get enough of those things. I asked my aunt, and she said instead of cooking it with water or whatever liquid you normally use she used Orange-Pineapple Juice. Is there anything this juice can’t do?

Friday, December 5, 2008

Football Orgasmopalooza

Tomorrow is the last day of the college football regular season. It’s sad. However, like sex, movies, and movies that depict sex, the best comes right before the end – literally.

Tomorrow is conference championship game day. Where the ACC, Big 12, and SEC will hold their championships contests. The Pac-10 will also feature a high profile rivalry game. It’s 9 hours of all you can watch football.

In high school I’d go over to a friends house to watch the games and alternatively take parts in bouts of Halo during boring stretches. Or rather get my ass beat in Halo. Complain. Convince everyone to play NCAA. Then destroy everyone with USC RB #5 and USC WR #1.

In college I spent most Saturday afternoons drinking Busch Light and never got around to watching much of these games.

But tomorrow, I’m parking myself on a couch somewhere with a case of the aforementioned and watching 9 hours. As long as it’s exciting, of course.

Here are the games and my predictions. As always, completely uninfluenced by any sports media source, only subject to my biases.

USC vs. UCLA

When the Trojans last went to Pasadena in 2006 they lost 13-9 and cost themselves the opportunity to blow out Ohio State and win another national title. I can’t fathom some of USC’s losses. Stanford? Oregon State? I honestly think once a year Pete Carroll takes a game in which he’s hugely favored, puts down a ton of money against USC and makes just enough bad defensive calls to cost him the game. This can be the only explanation. That already happened this year, and with an outside shot at the title game no way USC shits the bed…again.
Trojans win 31- 6


Missouri vs. Oklahoma

I can’t decide what I’d prefer: a stunning loss to the Tigers ruining the Sooners’ season or a blowout loss to the Gators in the title game. If OU wins they’re in. If they lose USC has a shot, but so does Texas which—unfairly—didn’t even win its conference. I’ll take common sense here. Sam Bradford and his ridiculous 46-6 touchdown to int ratio will lead the Sooners to vitory. All I’m asking, Mizzou, is you hold them under 60. That is all.
Sooners win 55-28


Boston College vs. Virginia Tech

Ugggh. Thank God this is a noon game and I’ll still be asleep. How does neither Georgia Tech nor Florida State play for the ACC? The only time I’ve seen either team play was when BC beat an anemic FSU team.Since BC is associated with the city of Boston, I’ll take VaTech.
Hokies win 20-13


Alabama vs. Florida

No. 1 vs No. 2 in the AP. This game should be the primetime match-up, it’ll be great. UF is all speed and Bama has beastly D and O lines. Looking at common opponents Bama beat LSU 27-21, Florida beat them 51-21. Bama beat Georgia 41-30 (score not indicative of ass whooping) and Tennessee 29-9.UF beat UGA 49-10, and the Vols 30-6. Oh, and Bama also beat the Ole Miss team UF lost too. What does this show us? Nothing. I’ve never been a big fan of looking at common opponents, since football is all about matchups. Getting receiver X isolated against safety Y or linebacker Z etc. etc.

So after wasting a paragraph of your time, I’m predicting Florida’s speed to run Bama off the field. The Tide will score late to make the score respectable.
Gators win 45-31

The Juice, from Concentrate

Get it? Because concentrate comes in a can and OJ just got…forget it.

Back in 1994 when I was a wee lad in elementary school I watched the verdict from The Juice’s murder trial. This would finally put an end to the huge ordeal which pre-empted my favorite shows. The chase pre-empted the NBA Finals. The Finals! Ewing vs Olajuwon. What the hell NBC? I’ve been waiting my entire life for the Knicks to finally get by the Bulls and play in the finals and you pre-empt it with this?

That school day was better than any film strip day. My teacher turned down the lights, turned on the tv, and anxiously watched with us. I remember feeling happy, after the verdict, as though it made up for the Knicks losing the NBA finals the summer prior. I also remember numerous classmates displaying an emotion somewhere in the center of the Venn diagram of sadness, anger, and confusion. I’ll take it. I was satisfied. If only I could talk to OJ now…

Dear Juice,

“WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?” Leave well enough alone, man. You got off on a murder charge (note that I did not say get away with murder, big differentiation, here), do you know how lucky you were? Yeah, you lost the civil suit, which in turn stripped you of your wealth and earnings, but take it. Pare down your lifestyle, live a little more cheaply, and bide your time until you can make a semi-comeback in Naked Gun 17.

Here’s what you don’t do. You don’t break the law or making any negative news. That involves not stealing satellite, kidnapping, robbing, or publishing a book about how you “would have” committed a double murder. Yeah I know you’re broke, and pissed off every cent you make goes to the Browns and Goldmans, and even more pissed that someone else owns your sports heirlooms. I get it, Juice, you’re in a bad spot, but deal with it. Johnny Cochran’s dead. Who’s going to get you off this time? Kim Kardashian’s dad? Oh, wait, he’s also dead. You know it’s bad when the crux of your defense is “don’t judge my client on his previous trial.”

You know you were fucked, probably from the minute you pulled out the gun in the Vegas hotel. And now you’re going to jail for up to 33 years, where someone’s going to do to you what was done to Ving Rhames in Pulp Fiction. Hope you enjoy it, for at least the next nine years. Could the life you live in freedom be worse than prison?

Maybe it is, you’re broke. Maybe you’re looking forward to prison so you can get 3 squares a day. Or, like Jada says, be one of those cats who “go to jail just to get their teeth fixed.” In any case you better have some pearly whites when, or if, you ever get out.

You could’ve avoided all of this, OJ. See what happens when you marry a white girl?

Sincerely

-J

A couple of months ago CNN interviewed Nicole Brown’s father to get his reaction to the verdict. Mr. Brown took an almost perverse sense of pleasure in seeing the guilty verdict. Guess he can finally die a happy man. Wouldn’t it be ironic, though, if OJ somehow rebuilt his wealth (book deal, perhaps?) from prison, got out at the age of 94 and, for one day on his deathbed, got to be a free, rich man. Like things were before he became a household name. Maybe that’s his ultimate goal. To convince Mr. Brown that he’s ultimately vanquished his nemesis, only to return for one last day of glory.

That’d be one shitty plan.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Hot Ridership of the Week


The best thing about living in New York: the abundance of hotness pervading the city. The cutie standing a few feet away from you is the only thing making your subway ride worthwhile when you're packed in like sardines on an overcrowded 4 train. While a fat guy "discreetly" tries to grab your junk
November 23- 29

November 29

Your high boots, blonde hair, and-- you guessed it-- skinny jeans. You walked onto that 4 train at 103rd street and right into my heart.* I wondered why you got on at 103rd, until I saw the black guy you came on with...and the ring on your hand. We all know it's socially unacceptable for you, Ms. Petite Blonde, to be betrothed to one of African descent; I know he's your secret lover on the side. But hey girl, ditch that guy... I'll be your secret mandingo lover on the side.


Why was the 4 train at 103? Construction
Why was I at 103? Looking for sneakers
Picture? Every time I hear mandingo I think of kangaroos.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Ho Down

I said I wanted to see Texas Tech in the National Title Game. I don’t. I don’t know what I was thinking. I was sipping on that Texas Tech Kool-Aid. I was seduced by that ever so sexy offense. I had forgotten what TTU is. A system offense that has been producing 400 yard passing games for years now. The Red Raiders of TTU are frauds. Fakers. Posers. They’re the Kimbo Slice of college football.

But here’s the thing. In watching them get pasted by Oklahoma and barely squeak by against Baylor a buddy of mine noted that “Texas Tech will never win a national title in football.” Think about that. The team is 11-1. Even if they somehow sneak into and win the Big 12 title game – which they won’t – they’d get passed over for the national championship in a heartbeat. My friend and I debated about this for a while and came to that conclusion. The BCS would sooner throw USC or Penn State into the fray. Why? Because Tech doesn’t have the panache, the cachet, the outright reputation of either of the two previous schools.

And that’s what seems to matter in college football. The reputation. Preseason rankings especially, regular season rankings and BCS bowl selections are all based on reputation. In addition to being a reputable program, a team must have the obligatory 12-0 or 11-1 or (gasp) 10-2 record and should, lest we experience another Miami-Nebraska ass kicking of 2002 Rose Bowl, win their conference.

Combine these two factors and the smattering of 117 Division-1 schools eligible to win the title becomes a dearth of 6 or 7 teams. As of right now, 3:30 pm on Sunday November 30th, a half hour before the BCS rankings come out, there are 6 teams capable of playing for the National Title. Actually, its only 4, considering multiple entrants from the same conference.

Florida
Oklahoma
Alabama
Texas

Southern California
Penn State

  • The winner of the Florida/Alabama contest will decide one half of the National Title game. The loser has to hope it doesn’t get the Capital One Bowl.
  • Texas or Oklahoma, whichever team is ahead in the polls blah blah blah you already know this, gets the honor of laying the smack down on Missouri and will comprise the other half of the national title game.
  • Thanks to a Beaver loss (don’t you hate that?) Southern Cal will get in if Missouri scores an upset in the Big 12 title game.
  • Penn State can sneak in if Mizzou wins and USC loses against UCLA – please Pete Carroll, DO NOT let this happen…again.
  • What about undefeated Boise State and Utah? Tough luck, suckers. Come back when you’ve become reputable name brands. Your 12-0 records aren’t good enough for the BCS.

As we head into the last week of the college football season is it fair that only 4 teams will have the chance to play for the title? Of course not. In no other sport would this ever happen.

My Two Cents

I say this with the utmost respect for USC ( a team I root for) and UT. But the match-up I want to see, and the best match-up possible is Florida vs. Oklahoma. I detest OU, but have a suspicion they will jump over UT in the BCS rankings.

As for the game?

OU plays Big 12 defense. Which means they don’t do it very well. I don’t think any team in the conference plays defense. Example: If OU gets 3 stops per game their offense will turn it into 3 scores and a minimum 20 point victory.

I rescind my earlier comment of UF not playing defense. They shut down a pretty good, but enigmatic, Florida State offense.

My prediction: UF over OU in a close, hard fought title game. I’ll go with 41-36.

I’m no psychic, but I did live in Florida. That makes me a de facto college football expert. And just a wee bit biased. Let’s see if my predictions hold up.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

NYC vs DC Round 1




New York City and Washington DC. Two centers of American intellect, culture, and leadership. With the exception of the movie making mecca of Los Angeles, these are the two most influential cities in the States; and arguably in the world.

I shall objectively compare said bastions of influence across four categories important for anyone looking to visit or move to one of these locales. This is the first of such posts.

Transit

It’s a 5 hour bus ride between NYC and DC. As far as bus rides go it’s not a bad one. Wifi, dvd movie to hold your attention and only one stop along the way. But it’s still a 5 hour bus ride. Negative 3 points for both cities.

When observing the methods of transportation in DC the marked differences between the two cities emerged. DC is a weird city-suburb hybrid. And feels about half the size of NYC. Which works out because their subway system is similarly about half the size of New York’s.

Washington DC

The pros

Padded seats? Carpeting on the subway? Subway cars with less than 8000 people on them? Holy shit this is the jackpot. I’ll just sit here and ride around in the lap of luxury all day. While the map first appears confusing, and faintly reminds of a swastika, the rail system is insanely easy to navigate. Only one train per color line and all routes move in a relative straight line.

Metro stations themselves, with their dimpled and domed ceilings look like submarine sea-labs or moon bases or some futuristic crap. And they’re clean. You don’t feel like you’re entering a crack house when you step inside one. Totally sweet. The crowning achievement of DC’s transit system are the electronic signs informing riders of waiting time and destination. Unlike in New York, you can walk into a random subway stop and know exactly how long your wait is and what the next stop will be. It’s like every train is the L train.

The cons

While the simplicity of the system deserves accolades, it sucks walking across the metropolitan DC area unless you’re dead in the middle. You can’t really get from Point A to Point B without routing yourself through the middle of the city. If you’re on the outer fringes, forget. It’ll take you forever to go into the central city then catch another trail. You might as well walk from Columbia Heights to Woodley Park.

Also, the subway closes. WTF is up with that. The trains stop running? So if I want to go to a bar and casually drink 16 Natty Ices I have to walk/take a cab/have a DD take me back home? Listen, I wouldn’t be so mad if the cabs weren’t absolute ripoffs. The base fare is like 3 bucks plus they charge per person and per piece of luggage. What the hell is that about. It’s only a backpack and a duffel bag you don’t need to charge me an extra 5 bucks, Achmed! And yes, the cabbie’s name was Achmed. And no I wasn’t out drinking Natty Ice with my duffel bag, those were separate incidents, but the point is the cabs still fuck you in the butt; financially speaking.


New York City

The Pros

You’re a smart reader. I trust you to figure out the downsides of DC’s transit system equate to the upsides of NYC’s and vise versa. I am comparing them to each other, after all. The subways in the city never close. Which is great because you can’t get a cab, on account of spending your 10 bucks at on stupid strawberry and butter crepe from some chick on the corner of Rivington and Ludlow. At least that’s better than spending 10 bucks and getting strawberry and butter Herpes from some chick on the corner of Rivington and Ludlow. It’s also good for your friends from Connecticut/Long Island/Jersey. They can always pass out on a bench when they realize they’ve missed the 3:37 train back home.

Similarly, you can get from Point A to Point B without having to do any horizontal walking across NYC (at least in Manhattan. All bets are off in outer boroughs). For the confusing nature of the subway map, with 10 different lines and 26 different trains, its still easier to get from any given point to any other without too much walking (uggh, walking).

The Cons

It takes some time to get the map down. It’s not the easiest. Seriously, look at that thing. But once you do, see above.

Some stations look like heaven (51st and Lex) and some are just garbage (most station in the Bronx.) This is function of class division within the city, however. The trains are always crowded, the price are steep and will only go higher, and are run by the completely incompetent organization known as the MTA.

The Verdict

I’m a big fan of the creature comforts of padded seats and carpeting, but I don’t want to be walking another 8 blocks from my stop to my destination when its 25 degrees outside.

New York wins round 1.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Spider Man

Read the article at the site here: 9 News Australia

Below is the complete email conversation that Adelaide man David Thorne claims he had with a utility company chasing payment of an overdue bill.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.19pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue account

Dear David,
Our records indicate that your account is overdue by the amount of $233.95. If you have already made this payment please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.37pm
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,
I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead. I value the drawing at $233.95 so trust that t
his settles the matter.

Regards, David.



From: Jane Gilles

Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 10.07am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue account

Dear David,
Thankyou for contacting us. Unfortunately we are unable to accept drawings as payment and your account remains in arrears of $233.95. Please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 10.32am
To: Jane Gilles

Subject: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,
Can I have my drawing of a spider back then please.

Regards, David.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 11.42am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Overdue account

Dear David,
You emailed the drawing to me. Do you want me to email it back to you?

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 11.56am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,

Yes please.

Regards, David.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 12.14pm

To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Overdue account

Attached



From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 09.22am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Whose spider is that?

Dear Jane, Are you sure this drawing of a spider is the one I sent you? This spider only has seven legs and I do not feel I would have made such an elementary mistake when I drew it.

Regards, David.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 11.03am
To: David Thorne

Subject: Re: Whose spider is that?

Dear David, Yes it is the same drawing. I copied and pasted it from the email you sent me on the 8th. David your account is still overdue by the amount of $233.95. Please make this payment as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 11.05am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Automated Out of Office Response

Thankyou for contacting me. I am currently away on leave, traveling through time and will be returning last week.

Regards, David.

From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 11.08am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

Hello, I am back and have read through your emails and accept that despite missing a leg, that drawing of a spider may indeed be the one I sent you. I realise with hindsight that it is possible you rejected the drawing of a spider due to this obvious limb ommission but did not point it out in an effort to avoid hurting my feelings. As such, I am sending you a revised drawing with the correct number of legs as full payment for any amount outstanding. I trust this will bring the matter to a conclusion.




Regards, David.


From: Jane Gilles
Date: Monday 13 Oct 2008 2.51pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

Dear David, As I have stated, we do not accept drawings in lei of money for accounts outstanding. We accept cheque, bank cheque, money order or cash. Please make a payment this week to avoid incurring any additional fees.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 13 Oct 2008 3.17pm
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

I understand and will definately make a payment this week if I remember. As you have not accepted my second drawing as payment, please return the drawing to me as soon as possible. It was silly of me to assume I could provide you with something of completely no value whatsoever, waste your time and then attach such a large amount to it.

Regards, David.

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Tuesday 14 Oct 2008 11.18am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

Attached


Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Turkey's Eve, Eve


Bitter Cold

I slept with no socks on last night. It was great. I woke up this morning and I wasn't shivering. Never in my life have I been so happy to see a 40 degree morning. I don't know if you've been in 25 deg weather, but it makes a 40 deg morning feel like a sauna. So joyous was I that I left for work without my gloves. MISTAKE.

Even though it was warm(er) by the time I got to work my hands looked like I had just finished putting up drywall. By the time I had ducked out to the pharmacy to buy myself some St. Ives I was dropping the "I just spent my morning kneading dough and doing handstands through a sandlot" line to defend myself.

The moral of the story? Cold weather = dry skin. Moisturize. Lotion: it isn't just for waxing your dick on a lonely night, it also hydrates your skin. It's a veritable panacea. It's the cure for whatever ails ya, as long as your ails are dry skin and blue balls. I still don't get people who don't moisturize.

Fast Fact: St. Ives is also a seaside village on the southern coast of England.

Más Sarah Palin
You've probably seen the video of Mrs. Palin giving an interview while a turkey gets its head sawed off in a grinder. Pretty funny. Check it out here.

Not gonna lie to you guy(s), I'd saw. Palin that is. I'd do her just to hear what she sounds like. Seems like she can barely speak correctly when she's focusing on it, I'm really intrigued to hear what she sounds like while catching a stiff D. My guess? Something like "ooooyeeeaahooooyeaaaahooooyeaaabetcha." I would absolutely die if I heard that.


Coming Soon:
To NYC:
David Guetta. Dope
To O(h)NO (name of the blog, fyi): a 4 part comparison between all of the top cities in America. And by top cities I mean DC and NYC, the only two which I've recently visited. Two cities enter, one survives.

Listening to: Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin. If you can't appreciate this song you've failed as a person.




Monday, November 24, 2008

Hot Ridership of the Week

The best thing about living in New York: the abundance of hotness pervading the city. The cutie standing a few feet away from you is the only thing making your subway ride worthwhile when you're packed in like sardines on an overcrowded 4 train. While a fat guy "discreetly" tries to grab your junk

November 16-22
November 21

Hey, I think those two girls standing across from me were on the 4 Train down here. Damn. They're hot. The high boots. Skinny jeans. Black peacoat. I wonder where they're going on this L Train. Dressed too well to be leaving Manhattan. They have to be going to Stuy Town...just like me. We're only 4 feet apart, too bad there are 823 wannabe hipster Brooklynites standing between us. Those losers should go back home and just ride the G train.

I'll casually slink through the crush and slide up over and start up a convo.

...K, let me just...wait, what? This is 1st ave. They're not getting off? They're going to Brooklyn? Damn It. Thats disgusting.

It's ok, becuase the two girls on who rode on the same 4 and L trains as I this past Saturday were the two hottest riders on the New York transit system last week. Despite the fact they went to Brooklyn.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Fart, and get arrested

13 Year Old Arrested for Farting

Th-Th-Th-Throwback

When Cash Money Records Ruled the World

Drop it Like it’s Hot by Lil’ Wayne ft. BG and Mannie Fresh

1999. Cash Money Records was at the height of its powers. Everything it produced turned to gold.

They didn't make a video for this song, so you'll have to make do with a mashup of some Weezy clips.




I’m still amazed from the brazenness of this song. Did no one else catch that CMR would just take one line from one song and turn it into an entirely new one. Remember Back that Azz Up? The song that got all those awkward middle school dances on and popping? Not only is that a good song, it also marks Lil’ Wayne’s lyrical debut. Or at least I don’t remember him being on anything else before that. And I’m too lazy to research the fact. So I’m calling it his debut.

Drop it Like Its Hot, Wayne’s single, is just his verse from the Juvenile song. He literally took the verse from the Juvenile song, extended it to 5 minutes, and pawned if off as something new. That’s atrocious. It’s like copying and pasting an essay and resubmitting it to the same professor. Terrible. But guess what?

I fucking love this song. I love almost everything CMR did during the 1998-2001 glory years. I know it wasn’t that great, technically or lyrically. It doesn’t matter. They had to have had at least 10 platinum records in that time span. I even liked Young Turk. I like Baller Blockin’ even though the E-40 verse SUCKS. I like Southern hip-hop, so I’m used to bad rapping, but that is one of the worst verses I have ever heard.

Aside: I met a homeless looking bum who claimed to be BG while traipsing around DC a few years ago. I couldn’t tell if it was him or not. But what a perfect cover story. “Hi, I’m some rapper you’ve heard of but hasn’t been relevant in a couple years. Please give me some change”

Aside 2: Wayne was only 17, yes 17, when he released the single

Aside 3: Why was it called Back that Azz Up. What was the point of Azz? He was really saying “ass,” just title it Back that Ass Up. Did Juvenile physically want me to delete the spaces in my sentences and Back that “As” up? You trying to give me some syntactical assistance, Juvey? Because it sure sounds like it.

And for the hell of it, here is the song that put Cash Money on the map. Unarguably the best song to come from the label. Compare Wayne's verse to the one above... This song still makes me want to party.