O.K. So I called it wrong with the Dallass Mavericks, but think about the repercussions that DWYANE WADE will cause at basketball courts around the nation… young ballers will be wearing pantyhose (no brokeback).
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The Heat Is On…
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006JAY-Z Doesn’t Care About Prosecco
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
The big story last week was when an executive from the Louis Roderer brand of liquer products was quoted or misquoted as saying that all Hip-Hop fans could do for him is “buy his champagne and shine his shoes.” For some reason this touched off a maelstrom of faux political concern over here in the States. Was this executive being racist? Why wouldn’t he want his brand of champagne associated with people throwing wads of dollars into the air at a strip club? Again, why wouldn’t this executive want his brand regarded as the best champagne for pouring all over a woman’s body?!? KIMORA LEE SIMMONS even uses it as bath water.
What the executive was actually lamenting is the fact that champagne is losing its cache as a high brow luxury item. People are doing everything with it other than drinking it. This executive pines away for the days when champagne was sipped and the ‘other’ knew their place. So guess who comes to the rescue to save the day for all of the jigs who are confused on what booze to conspicuously consume? The capitalist’s machines number #1 prophet for profit – JIGGERMAN. The word from the mount(Universal’s offices at WorldWide Plaza) is that Blacks are now instructed to buy KRUG and Dom Perignon. Thank you oh great JAY-Z for your benevolent wisdom.
Who the fuck cares?!? Who the fuck cares what champagne you serve in YOUR nightclubs. All champagne must be imported from the same region in France (or else it can’t be called champagne). So if someone had a problem with Blacks, chances are his neighbor feels the same way. Don’t get it twisted and act like the Cristal people anf the KRUG folks don’t bring their kids to same school for ‘gifted youngsters’. How about going away from France altogether and bigging up prosecco? That’s Italian sparkling wine for the uninitiated. Peach nectar and prosecco is called a ‘Bellini’ and believe me, it knocks the socks off any mimosa.
Forget about buying shit anyhoo. JAY-Z wants to tell me what booze to spend my money on and OPRAH wants to tell the ladies that it’s okay to buy a trillion dollar Hermes handbag. Both of these clowns get enough swag to fit out their whole entourages while the rest of us have to pay the inflated prices to cover for all of the freebies. I’m waiting for the day that JAY-Z tells me how I can become a millionaire when I’m spending money like a sieve on all the tchotkes he’s hocking.
SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!
Sunday, June 18th, 2006
In Search of… The HOLY GRAIL.
You will never hear me refer to a pair of tennis shoes as simply sneakers. Although I may use that term for shorthand, tennis shoes are far from sneakers. The tennis shoe was one of the first pieces of specialized athletic footwear to address the damage that a shoe suffers on the upper portion. Sure most sneakers receive the greatest amount of wear at the sole but for a professional tennis athlete the upper portion of their footwear must be able to withstand considerable stress and friction.
En route to 14 Grand Slam championships, including a record seven wins at Wimbledon, PETE SAMPRAS has run through many a tennis shoe. However, there was one shoe that NIKE created that even PETE could not destroy.
The NIKE Air Resistance might be the strongest sneaker ever made. The soles are made with a special NIKE ‘Regrind’ rubber which is a composite rubber made from recycled sneaker soles. NIKES premium leather is accented at the toe box with DuPont’s ‘Kevlar’ material.
As usual, NIKE spared no expense on the design end of this prouct. They created a stable and comfortable heel cup but then scalloped the ankle area for a full range of free movement. There is a visible Air unit under the heel and the sole cantilevers at the arch. The shoes are made for the athlete that moves on the court as fast as he thinks. I have a pair of the OG 1995 models that I have worn from jump and the soles show no wear. They are almost too good to sell. These shoes are both bombproof and bulletproof. So if you ever see the Air Resistance on the street make sure that you just don’t call them sneakers.
BILLY SUNDAY’s LATE NITE FUNK FLIX
Sunday, June 18th, 2006
I slow things down a bit with this clip. When I say slow things down I mean that I don’t go to a place that most of us haven’t been to. That last YouTube clip put the special ‘K’ in crazy and I’m not talking Gnarls Barkley ‘Crazy’ either.
BILLY SUNDAY’s LATE NITE FUNK FLIX
Saturday, June 17th, 2006
Did any of you know how ghey this song was? I remember dancing to this song at Paradise, FunHouse and 10-18 and never once did I think that it was the ghey anthem for transvestites. I was young and so naive.