Archive for July, 2006

THE INTERNETS GOT ALL-STAR GAME

Monday, July 10th, 2006

holy trinity

The All-Star game in Major League Baseball gives you a chance to see rising stars that play in towns that regularly don’t visit your locale. Living in New York, it gave me the chance to see KEN GRIFFEY, Jr. and VLADIMIR GUERRERO before they would hit the bigtime.

I want to use this moment to introduce you to some of the blogs that I visit regularly that bring their special game to the internets playing field. I predict some of these cats will go to the mainstream media machines big leagues one day and you can always say that you knew them when…

TECH WHORE
Beware the Deuno is one of my all time favorite posts.
tony gwynn

kirby puckett SHE REAL COOL
Whenever I am being a mysognist pig I get a visit from JB and she checks my steez.

BETTER THAN YOURS
JEROME BAKER’s blog is an influential site for any bloggers on the come up. Skateboards, sneakers and new car speakers. BTY is cooler than you are.
ken griffey jr

mike piazza GLAMAZON LIFE
Glamazon Life is an L.A. based entertainment industry insider spot. Everything isn’t based on Hollywood at her site, but when she goes Hollywood, she goes glamazon.

SNEAKMOVE
These cats drop music and lifestyle info that I live for.
nolan ryan

reggie NO DAMN LIFE
ThatGirlTam’s latest incarnation on the internets. Me and Tam go back like lawn chairs.

THE RAP UP
Hip-Hop journalism chopped and screwed from the heart of Texas. Plus here is where I copped most of my STACEY DASH Playboy mag pics.
pudge rodriguez

sammy sosa START SNITCHING
Still the internets best blog title.

TRAPPER JUAN
When this blogger isn’t taking care of stray rescued animals he’s reviewing kung fu flicks.
ozzie guillen

ricky henderson MODEL MINORITY
From the Bay to Brooklyn, Model Minority is trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents.

AMADEO SOGNI
Thoughtful rants and under control hate spew from this brother’s mind.
rod carew

pedro martinez SUPA SISTA
My homegirl SOUP is part of the Los Angeles collective called the West Coast Blogging Hotties. Ask her to send you some of her pics of her wearing sandals. Hotness.

ZILLA SAYS
ZILLZ is one of the places that makes me laugh out loud. “What does it smell like?” is going to be a feature on this site in the near future.
young manny

carlos delgado Mr. KAMOJI
KAMOJI?!? Put Rebel Mag on the air already.

BIOCHEMICAL SLANG
You need to visit this spot more often because he drops some dope posts and he searches YouTube for some of the rarest music videos that you have never seen.
thurman munson

george brett TONY’s KANSAS CITY
TONY is a good buddy of mine although we have never hung out. I dig the way he focuses on politics and economics inside his hometown. If America is taken over by Mexicans I hope we make TONY el presidente.

NAH’ RIGHT
Nah’Right is a beast on the web scene for Hip-Hop news and views. His internets crack got these rap stans turning into strawberries (late 80’s lingo for dope fiends).
donnie baseball

the rocket OH WORD!
Oh Word! is the thinking man’s Hip-Hop blog. Hey RAFI, send me my DILLA shirt.

CRUNK & DISORDERLY
C & D is like having Thanksgiving dinner with WHITNEY HOUSTON, FLAVA FLAV and TRINA.

Everyday.

ozzie smith

albert pujols BYRON CRAWFORD
The internets begins here. This is still my favorite spot on the web to talk crazy shit since Comedy Central shut down their message boards. KANGAY WEST reads this site religiously. Nullus.

BILLY SUNDAY Reviews ‘Superman Returns’

Monday, July 10th, 2006

superpoop

I guess we all know what the ‘S’ stands for now.

Chicago Stand Up!?!

Monday, July 10th, 2006

ryne

Somebody at FADER needs to send me my Rhymefest album.

STACEY DASH, My 2007 Baby Mama

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

stacey dash

I am mad that STACEY DASH is so fucking gorgeous in the photo shoot she did for the upcoming Playboy magazine. I admit that I slept on Ms.DASH as B.M. status. Yeah, I wanted to beat her little seat, but I didn’t want to bust up in it. After I saw these photos I realized that I need to get one of her eggs. I know cloning is immoral and the whole nine, but what if you could go to the supermarket and get a carton of STACY DASH eggs? I would put those in a cup and drink them.

[Editor’s note: if you can’t open the above link you will need to get a password from BLU CHEEZ]

I feel a little fucked up about going to the newsstand and buying this magazine since I too want Black women to be portrayed by the media in the proper light. Speaking of light(ing), the scenes that Playboy is using are wonderfully lit and they really show Ms.DASH’s marvelous 40year old physique. Fuck what your heard, STACEY has made 40 the new 20 and I want to pummel fire out of her cocoa tanned backside. I want to beat her little pum pum up like she said something bad about my momma’s cooking. I want to see if I can leave my handprint on her firm, oil-sheened azz.

Getting back to the whole media image thing… I think it’s a powerful feminist statement that STACEY DASH is making by posing in Playboy. She is taking control of her image by not letting it be exploited by lesser publications like Maxim, Blender or Black Tail. Playboy is not pimping STACEY DASH, she is pimping Playboy.

Who am I kidding? The STACEY DASH Playboy mag is a collector’s item along with the VANESSA WILLIAMS Penthouse and the JAYNE KENNEDY Playboy.

STACEY DASH is the ultimate hustler.

ESSENCE Magazine Doesn’t Really Care About Black Women

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

misty

I know how some of you good folks think that ESSENCE Magazine is the paradigm for progressive thinking on behalf of colored women, but I am here to tell you that is far from the truth.

A year ago I sat in the corporate offices of ESSENCE and listened to several editors AND the mag’s president tell me that none of their readers were familiar with the Black Codes, therefore the advertisement for the new Armani fragrance wasn’t offensive. I asked these women if they knew what the Black Codes were, and if they did how could they ever let this ad run opposite the editor-in-chief’s splash page? In the end of our meeting the ladies at ESSENCE agreed to disagree with me, but I had dissected their June issue like so much the frog in high school biology. What used to be one of the magazines best issues featuring tributes to fathers and summertime grooming tips had become a rag of shenanigans.

ESSENCE hates your Blackness and they teach you to hate it too. Notice how many ads are placed for products that help you remove the markers of you disease. I am so tired of Black women with blonde hair, but ESSENCE isn’t. They also will teach you how to shop away the disease of Blackness. ESSENCE and their publishers love your money and they will try to separate you from it on almost every page.

At the ESENCE Music Festival in Houston last week, the beautiful and courageous JILL SCOTT told a symposium that the time had come to discontinue consuming pop culture entertainment that was degrading to the Black community.

“It is dirty, inappropriate, inadequate, unhealthy and polluted,” SCOTT said. “We can demand more.”

It’s a good thing that she didn’t name names, because ESSENCE mag could have been at the top of her list.