I’m thinking that ‘Black Dynamite’ is going to be the movie of the year in my mind edging out ‘Up’ for the top honor.
Here’s four public service announcement videos that were made in 1973 during the height of the orphange heroin epidemic. ROFFLEsk8s!
What I need to know is where can I come up on a Fight Smack In The Orphanage tee?
Cosplay is cool and the whole nine and I even give dude props on the costume details but f’real tho’, anything less than beating the brakes off this bad little Baroness is teh ghey.
I decided to clip and paste some of my TWitter rants in a continuation of the discussion on the Candy Makes Criminals clusterfux. By the way, almond caramel clusterfux are teh sheet.
Come and hang with me on teh TWitters. My new TWit ID is called RANT_SUM because, well, obviously.
I’m upset this story has been circulated throughout the press…
The biggest flaw in western culture is that we never target the actual cause of a problem. We only address the symptoms and expect to create cures. Why else do we have millions of medicines? Each is created to target a symptom of an affliction. Heaven forbid we should actually cure a disease. There’s no profit in that. Curing people of what ails them reeks of socialism. Giving folks a pill to stop their runny nose is called capitalism. That pill will stop the post-nasal drip but the side effects are erectile dysfunction. No worries because you can buy a pill for that too. The side effects of the second pill are blindness.
We don’t have a pill for that.
Yet.
Candy and its sweet goodness does not make for criminals, but living in poverty does. And living in poverty usually means that you make the decisions you are socio-economically programmed to make. If the bodega on the corner even sold fresh apples you wouldn’t buy one because for the same cost as the apple you could purchase a bag of potato chips and a package of apple flavored Now-n-Laters. Sure, everyone is personally responsible for the choices they make in the bodega (I’m agreeing with the respectable negroes here) but from the standpoint of value perception: one bag of salt and vinegar chips x a pack of Now-n-Laters x one quarter water >>> two(2) apples.
The problem is STILL poverty. Not the candy, not the sugar, not the poor dietary choices. Those are the symptoms of poverty. Until we address the real inequities in how we educate people, in how we train them to be viable in society and in how we provide those opportunities to manifest the prior vocational info people will continue to have candy for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Scientists will continue to have their shoddy studies touted as proof positive and the Chicago’s of the western world will slowly become bereft of Chico Stixx. One can only hope that DERRION ALBERT at least had the chance to enjoy one final box of Lemonheads before his demise from the side effects of poverty.
Put this on your thing.
No fishsticks…
I am in here like svimvear.
Corona stand the eff up!
A workshop production in honor of the highly acclaimed underground rap duo the Beatnuts, written by long time music writer Sacha Jenkins, co-conceived with noted promoter Peter Oasis. Deez Nuts explores the rich musical legacy of the Beatnuts through the performance of their tunes by the maestros themselves.
Deez Nuts also canvases the sights, smells and characters of their native Corona, Queens. A fellow Queens-ite turned journalist, on a fact-finding mission, returns to the old neighborhood in order to meet group members Psycho Les and JuJu. This journey not only nets cultural nuggets about the Latino duo and their surroundings, but crucial observations about self and the state that created Hip-Hop.
The Hip-Hop Theater Festival presents DEEZ NUTS
Ohio Theater
66 Wooster Street
between Spring & Broome Streets
Tickets $25
October 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Starting at 9pm
*Post-show discussion with the artists*
For more info on other events and performances logon to…
HHTF.org or at www.facebook.com/hiphoptheaterfestival
