Eli Porter was the OG Internets Celebrity.
Eli Porter has more courage than almost every rapper who has ever rappity rapped their raps in the history of Hip-Hop.
His confidence is unflappable. His attitude is uncompromising in its positivity. His swag is on one trillion.
Eli Porter is the people’s champ and he is my hero.
People’s Champion: Behind the Battle from Trent Babbington on Vimeo.
In a much simpler time Captain America was the hero that the United States needed. He was created in a laboratory to fight villains who were also made evil thru science. As a narrative for propaganda this was the perfect storm.
The vile German political military industrial complex was threatening our way of life (as we were told) and Captain America was just the man to put everything and everyone back in their place. I feel like the movie was made with the sensibilities of America in the 1940s using modern day CGI tech.
I knew Captain America kicked Nazi ass but I came to know the character as the dude who hung out with the Falcon. When John Byrne did a guest stint on the pencils I got to see the serious side of Captain America.
Cap was hardbody and he was not above killing someone to prove his point. This Baron Blood/Union Jack storyline culminates with Cap beheading Baron Blood and then watching the O.G. Union Jack die of old age. Pretty grim stuff for 10yr olds, but thankfully my old Queens neighborhood was a dumping ground for dead bodies so I wasn’t fazed.
I love the idea that Captain America’s creation was engineered by Tony Stark’s father using weaponized medicine. The same shit that was prA’li used on those poor dudes in Tuskeegee. It’s crazy to imagine how closely the comic book world resembles our own reality. Weapons manufacturers sell their shit to the highest bidder and then send in their secret agents to confiscate the arms after the checks have been cleared.
All I can say is that the Avengers movie is going to blow the hinges off the fanboy domepiece. Is a comic book revival not too far off in the making? I hope not.
Brooklynnnnnnn!
What’chall doing 2nite?
The Internets Celebrities’ Coney Island story ‘I.C. Waters’ will be screened tonite prior to the FREE screening of ‘Rango’ on Coney Island’s eternally famous boardwalk.
The screenings are free and presented by the good folks at Epix HD along with Rooftop Films.
I’m finally getting a chance to catch this flick on a big screen. I haven’t even watched the torrents file I DL’d. I really wanted the experience of watching the movie with an audience. Communing with the Hip-Hop community. U.N.I.T.Y.
Beats, Rhymes, & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
Fri, Jul 15—Sun, Jul 17 at 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30pm
Mon, Jul 18—Thu, Jul 21 at 4:30, 7, 9:30pm
Q&A with director Michael Rapaport on Fri, Jul 15 at 7pm and an introduction at the 9:30pm screening
Rodney King is still making mugshots after twenty years of infamy and notoriety. Salute this man for his determined hardbody consistency.
Okay, not really.
Roger Clemens can reclaim his mugshot photos from the U.S. Marshal’s office after his perjury case was ruled a mistrial by the presiding judge.
“Filthy, but not guilty.”