Archive for the ‘No Boutros Boutros… Ghali’ Category
Go Shawrly, It’s Ya’ Berfday…
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012Respect The Shooters…
Monday, March 12th, 2012
When they rockin’ the Redmen Starter!
Y’all demanded it so here it goes. The annual DP.com NCAA Touney pool aka Raekwon The Krzyzewski. Just click the link and join the fun.
The Smallest Big Three…
Monday, March 12th, 2012
What is the real issue with these Knickerbockers? Is it the offense. Is it the defense? Is it the effort? Maybe its the talent? All the promise we found with Jeremy Lin and a revamped lineup has evaporated faster than the mist this dream flew in on.
It’s too simplistic to blame the Knick problems on the effectiveness of their biggest star player Carmelo Anthony. We all knew that Anthony wasn’t the young player who came to Denver almost a decade ago. It’s too easy also to take a shit on the head coach Mike D’Antoni. We all know that even with a peak performing engine guided by MVP point guard Steve Nash D’antoni still couldn’t sniff the ass of an NBA Finals series.
So maybe these Knickerbockers are who we thought they were all along? A mediocre 9th or 10th seed in the Eastern Conference.
Oh and yeah, trade ‘Melo and fire D’Antoni.
Lightspeed Lifestyle…
Saturday, March 10th, 2012
A few months back I was invited to host a Taz Arnold showcase at Tammany Hall. I was surprised that I got the invite but I can thank the homey Meyhem Lauren who was cool with the show promoters and respects my Polo steez. Taz Arnold set the Polo Ralph Lauren collecting world on fire when he repurposed his archive of holy grail I.T.’s into the project he called ‘The Americans‘.
The Americans was at first perverse to me because I thought it mocked some of the items which people tried to acquire and would subsequently defend with their everlasting manhood. It wasn’t until I met Taz in person, and saw some of the pieces firsthand where it all made sense to me. The Americans isn’t a mockery, but a celebration. Taz Arnold is a fucking iconoclast. He is Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Ralph Lauren and Karl Lagerfeld with the Blackness of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Willi Smith.
I chilled in Taz’ hotel room at the Hudson Hotel for a few hours and kicked it with him about his motivations for fashion, music and style. It’s crazy that you watch this dude from the prism of social media and think that maybe he is wrong for his shit. Maybe he’s forcing his shit?. Nope. This dude is more centered and focused than 99.9% of the people who you might look to for artistic inspiration. Taz Arnold doesn’t play that safe lane because he’s been doing his thing for at least twenty years.
That blew my mind. Taz Arnold was more like me than I would have cared to admit before we had this meeting. I privately gave him props for pulling MCM from the vintage dustbin and making that shit hot again, but I secretly thought he might have lucked up with that move. Nah, Internets. Taz Arnold is locked in on that future funk flow flavor. You might will not be able to understand what his doing right now with this latest musical project.
Taz calls it ‘rAd AmericA‘ and this shit is nuts. File this under future vintage cocaine blow flow bounce.
‘cAliforniA $uite’
‘who fuckin’ with u$’
A Letter From The Management…
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Atlanta what is GOOD?!
I’m back in the basement for ‘dukes birthday and I’m taking a minute to recharge my programme. The game has gotten crazy for me in the last few months. The Internets Celebs movement has fallen off, but Sneaker Fiends Unite! is taking off. I’m still not making any bread, but at least I’m getting free sneakers. That’s gotta count for something?
I’m still overdue to self-publish my story ‘The Transformation’. I’m looking for the passion to finish that project. I just got the idea to read some of the classic drops on these pages to remind myself why I do this thing in the first place. Hopefully I’ll find my original voice in those stories. I’m searching Internets. I’m searching…
In the meantime and in between time I’m gonna try and make the jump from Atlanta to Austin (via San Antonio, what up Jerz?!?) for the South by Southwest goings ons. Looks like its gonna be a supreme clusterfuck in Texas for that festival. The ICs tried to crack that scene for a couple of years, but we couldn’t get any love from the SxSW organizers. Some people just don’t like the way we use the word ‘Internets’.
Here’s the part of the show every 6 months where I remind y’all to click on the PrA’li button over to the right of this page. Your contribution to the PrA’li fund isn’t simply to establish the word PrA’li as the logical replacement for the outdated word ‘probably’, but your donation will help send me to the SxSW festival AND more importantly I will also buy a human genome stem cell incubator so that I can start production of my DP.com blogging clones.
CHEA!
