Let’s do it Rebel style Brooklyn!
GAME REBELLION, the Bed-Stuy-Bushwick-Brownsville-Ocean Hill mosh pit champs will be performing live and direct.
Sa-Ra listening party as well. I’m so in there like swimwear bitches.
April 21st – TONIGHT!
Southpaw
125 Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Doors: 8.00pm
$10.00 in advance available on www.Ticketweb.com
$12.00 at the door
GAME REBELLION – ‘Sexercise’
The Dunk X-Change is becoming one of the hottest sneaker events in the city. Sneaker heads use the event to get F.R.E.S.H. and style on the competition. Collectors bring out some of their sexiest pairs in order to strike a deal (trade) or make a sale with another sneaker fiend.
I am in the market for a few pairs of Dunks myself so I want to see what the scene is holding in my size…
Some sellers have tables set up with their wares while other more enterprising sellers walk through the crowd holding their pairs for sale up in the air.
As the DJ spins all the latest and greatest Hip-Hop anthems the crowd inside the venue starts to heat up. I take a break by going outside to get a better look at the uniforms of sneaker heads.
As you can see, Supreme is the business. It’s good to see all the girls that are becoming part of the lifestyle too. Girls shit always looks hot when the chick that rocks it has a pile of style.
A lot of sneaker fiends are shy folks and when you tell them that you have an internets website that features sneakersit usually opens them up.
A lot of people think that racism doesn’t invade your body on a physiological level but they would also argue that racism ended when JACKIE ROBINSON entered the ranks of major league baseball. What did end would be the published statement that African Americans were not intelligent athletes. All the while racism wittled away at the man’s bone marrow. It acted like AIDS as it attacked this world class athlete on the level of JIM THORPE
I can’t even begin to tell you how hardbody JACK ROOSEVELT ROBINSON was. He defies description. Please read his Wikipedia page. All I knew was that my dad had the utmost respect for JACKIE ROBINSON that bordered on cultish worship. Okay, maybe cult worship isn’t the truth either, but my dad gave me a book to read about JACKIE called ‘The Great Experiment’ and he made me read it before he sent me to this summer baseball camp at Queens College. My dad always told me that I was as good as anyone that I played with. I thought that he meant skills wise, but what he really meant was that my humanity was the most important skill that I owned. The truth is that I kind of sucked compared to most of the kids at the camp. As usual, fat boys always have to play catcher. Nullus.
I still can’t fully imagine how hardbody JACKIE ROBINSON was to champion social causes all throughout his career while posting all-star Hall of Fame statistics. After his retirement from baseball he politic’ed for Black coaches and managers. Major League baseball finally gave him his wish. Too bad he wasn’t around to see his dream fulfilled. JACKIE died in 1972 at the age of 53 years young. The cancer called racism transformed itself into diabetes and ravaged his body. I can’t imagine any athlete in today’s world speaking out against social injustice and racism. These men have athlete bodies and coward’s hearts.
Long live DP Dot Com Hardbody Hero JACK ROOSEVELT ROBINSON.
TODAY ONLY!
April 14th, 2007 TAO NEW YORK
DUNK X-CHANGE
240 WEST 52ND STREET
btwn Broadway and 8th Avenue
1pm until 5pm
Dunks, Air Max, Air Force – Sales/Trades/Sneaker Pimpin’
Digging up the dirt has only just begun…
I suppose I should be drinking the Kool-Aid that everybody has been serving up. If I let them tell the story the new home for the Mets will be like the infant baby Jesus for this boro in New York City. It will wipe away the eyesore of the ‘Iron Triangle’. A hodgepodge of junkyards and auto body repair shops where Thundercracker, Soundwave and I used to try to sell our stolen cars. The pitch so far has been the percentage of the construction costs that the Mets are ponying up. But inside the fine print I can see that NYC is biting off a far larger chunk than it can chew. Keep in mind that the Yankees are also being gifted with a new facility as well.
It all boils down to real estate and the city government gives it away to sports franchises like a fiefdom. The Big Apple beomes the ‘Big Plum’ for the Yankees, the Mets, the United States Tennis Association and soon, the Nets. No where in America, save for maybe Los Angeles is land this valuable. You have to understand another thing about New York City. It’s essentially a consortium of islands. At some point you run out of land to expand on so you begin to build upwards. This adds exponential value to the land because you can increase your tenancy on the original footprint. Just try to imagine the monthly rents for all the businesses that occupy a fifty story skyscraper. The landlord receives fifty monthly checks twelve times a year. This is why landlords run NYC with an iron fist. They force the politicians to amend the zoning laws and allow them to add fifty more floors to their fifty floor buildings.
It’s like getting free land from the city isn’t enough for the Mets either. In typical fashion they have begun to cut their construction costs by removing features from the facility that were highlights of the initial proposal. They was going to be a field surface that would have been reconfigurable for multi sport use. There were also going to install a high-tech retractable roof, but that design has been kicked to the curb as well. And in the ultimate display of selfish, tacky greed the Mets owners have decided to sell the naming rights to the stadium to CitiBank. Who cares what amount CitiBank is paying them, although the deal that Jay-Z and the Nets got from former slave holders Barclay’s Bank was pretty sweet.
Anyhoo, what CitiBank should do in their ultimate wisdom is cede the name of the park over to a local legend. like CASEY STENGEL CitiPark or JACKIE ROBINSON CitiField. That would be corporate classy and it would allow CitiBank to say, “See, we’re for the community.”
What do you think Mets’ fans?