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Weather Warfare…

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

First off, let’s all agree that the internets was created mainly for nerds and conspiracy theorists alike. I mean, who else can take so much shit out of context as these two groups? I love the idea that the shadow government is using weather satellites around the globe to stir shit up.

Every earthquake, tornado, flood, volcano and hailstorm from this point forward will be blamed on the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program aka H.A.A.R.P. It does crazy shit with the ionosphere and is now even being blamed for the shift in the shift in the Earth’s poles. Kind of like a shift in the old Earth’s uterus, as it were.

Networked satellites zapping the upper atmosphere with radar waves I am loving the plotline as if it were coming straight from a Tom Clancy novel or a Marvel comicbook. Instead of S.H.I.E.L.D., H.Y.D.R.A. or Cobra putting this nefarious plan into effect it’s the U.S. government’s own agency D.A.R.P.A. or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Government offices like this are what the alphabet was created for.

The best thing about conspiracy theories is that they are more than likely true if there is some money to be made in them being accurate. Like, if you could ruin a country’s cash crop with bad weather and force them to buy your agricultural goods why wouldn’t you take advantage. All’s fair in love and capitalism, and just like with love, good capitalism means never having to say you’re sorry.

Jig Lit Review: RANDY DuBURKE

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

I’m pulling out all the books, or rather graphic novels that I have received via snail mailed from my friends. I love trading stuff to people via snail mail. My homegirl Digital Femme received an Adult Swim sweatshirt from me and in return she issued me the above book illustrated by comic book artist Randy DuBurke.

The autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley might be the most important book I have ever read next to Shel Silverstein’s ‘The Giving Tree’ and Anthony Burgess’ ‘A Clockwork Orange’. I think this graphic novel will bring a new audience to the story of Malcolm X, who was the last great Black superhero. It’s fitting that Malcolm’s life was adapted into a graphic novel by artist Randy DuBurke because he has a history of illustrating the heroes we are familiar with under the DC Comics banner.

DuBurke’s minimalist style reminds me of Bill Sienkewicz and his drawings which are quite trippy and impressionistic. DuBurke underlays archival photographs so that his embellishment gives a realistic appearance. This graphic novel isn’t meant to look like a comic book even tho’ it is laid out like one panelwise. Malcolm X’s story is that real and I love looking at DuBurke’s treatment of this everlasting African American king.

Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography‘ illustrated by Randy DuBurke

Jig Lit Review: JAMAR NICHOLAS

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Philly’s favorite comicbook artist Jamar Nicholas is a super friend of this webpage. You might remember some of his work featured here from the Detective Boogaloo series. That was great stuff.

With the true story of Geoffrey Canada’s life called ‘Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History Of Violence’, Nicholas has created a graphic novel which is more graphic than novel. Nicholas captures the essence of Canada’s story which is the coming of age inside of the urban ghetto. Canada barely survives growing up in the Bronx as he comes to learn the lessons of the power of violence.

Nicholas’ artwork in this book is reminiscent of Jack Kirby in its conveyance of drama and bombast. The panels are in black and white and Nicholas uses the voids and shadows as characters in the story. Nicholas gives Canada’s life story the movement and spirit that makes this book an instant classic. Jamar Nicholas adaption of Canada’s story should be added to the curriculum of public schools in Detroit, Dallas, St.Louis and Chicago.

Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence‘ adapted by Jamar Nicholas

Happy Juneteenth Internets…

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Can you imagine the news of negroidian emancipation being broadcast via the internets?

There would never have been a Juneteenth celebration.

Black people TWitter would have blown its mind.

Perp Walk Lifestyle…

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

Polo Ralph Lauren clothing is all about the aspiration for being something greater than you are. For being classier, for being worldlier, for being a better athlete. That dude from the Dos Equis commercials, he wears ONLY Polo Ralph Lauren.

So when news outlets began reporting on the trend for Mexican youth to crave these items as an imitation of the high profile drug traffickers who were caught wearing these shirts they quickly missed the point.

polo ralph lauren
polo ralph lauren

Polo Ralph Lauren is crafted to describe wealth. The kind of wealth that even drug traffickers aspire to attain. Think about who in the world plays the sport of polo? Kings and royalty and the uber-riche. Yeah, the same rich fux who compete in yacht races.

For working class and poor people alike we dream of one day living a lifestyle so lavish and leisurely that we might not be able to wait until it finally happens. Donning a Polo Ralph Lauren shirt, or in the most extreme cases of poverty, a bootleg version, gives us that tiny little bit of status we need to get thru our miserable lives.