Archive for July, 2006

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

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DOOOOOOOOOM!

Last month when we were kicking it about the NIKE series of Fantastic Four inspired kicks. Someone mentioned that there was also a Doctor Doom sneaker, but since I didn’t have pics to confirm its existence I decided not to talk about it. Now that the internets is leaking some pics of the shoe we can discuss it here amongst ourselves.

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The shoe is a Foamposite Pro LE. The same shoe made famous by PENNY HARDAWAY several years ago. NIKE has reissued the Foamposite in several different incarnations and colorways. I have to be honest and say that I am disappointed that this shoe isn’t in a gunmetal graphite grey with a green accent on the pods on the sole. The colorway that they are describing in the advance photos relates more to Venom than to Victor Von Doom.

Ah well, such is the lament of a nerd purist. The Foamposite is still a kick azz shoe and it’s one of NIKEs more comfortable basketball shoes. The foot platform is wide and the toebox is comfy and not crowded.

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The overwhelming success of this series should prompt NIKE to consider some more collabos with comic book icons. Possibly some Spiderman SB Dunks or even a pair of QuickSilver Air Max 360s. They should drop a pair of all invisible Vision AF-1s. How about a pair of…

SEPARATED AT BIRTH: WONDER TWINS

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

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If I had a vote these two would both go in first ballot. All the issues notwithstanding, they never made a travesty of the sport by betting on games they were playing in. Lord knows how many times I’ve needed some uncut Colombian on a Monday morning after blogging for an entire weekend with no sleep.

The only difference between they and I is that the major leaguers can afford the drugs they take. If anybody would like to contribute to my drug habit blogging you can always PayPal me – bluecheese28@hotmail.com.

FITTIDDY CENT: Ghetto Humanitarian

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

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Just when I wanted to throw FIFTY CENT under the bus he ups and demonstrates that he has his eyes on more than just another gold chain. If rap music were a game of chess then FIFTY CENT would be like a young BOBBY FISCHER to JAY-Z’s older and more conservative Russian, PETROSIAN. In brokering a deal with Apple Computers head honcho STEVE JOBS, FITTY managed to prove me wrong on two fronts.

The first is that he is a vacuous and shallow celebrity. FITTY CENT has made several transactions that show his perspective extends beyond the confines of rap music, but inside those deals he has maintained the framework of his Hip-Hop character persona. It wasn’t CURTIS JACKSON that negotiated the deal with Glaceau’s VitaminWater, it was FIFTY CENT. Just like it was FIFTY CENT who reached out to Apple Computers to see how the synergy of their brands could make headway into bringing computing into neighborhoods that don’t normally receive those experiences. For this alone I may have to give FITTY a pass until his next shitty movie drops.

The second reason that this deal shuts my mouth is that I didn’t imagine that Apple Computers would be progressive enough to associate themselves with the perceived raw Blackness that 50 CENT’s music transmutes. STEVE JOBS looks like he’d be a lot more comfortable around BEN HARPER or DARIUS RUCKER, maybe even a LENNY KRAVITZ, but certainly not FIFTY CENT.

Damn, that nigga JOBS must have hell’a iTunes he needs to sell to the suburbs.

RACISM Is The New Sexy

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

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There was a slight buzz among nerdom when it was rumored that SONY’s new ad campaign for the white PSP was racist. I am always bothered by the term racism because it is overused so much in America. Oftentimes we tend to label bigots as racists and therefore empower someone when they have not earned the esteemed title.

Racism is an ‘ism’ like capitalism or fascism or socialism. It’s an economic system before it is a mindset. I can sit here in my boxer shorts and espouse capitalism in all kinds of ways but in no stretch of the mind am I a capitalist. The people that create the legislation that allows capitalism to function and the people that own the means of manufacturing are the only true capitalists. Whether you or I benefit from capitalism is secondary, ne, tertiary to the whims of a capitalist. It is whether the system benefits their needs first and foremost.

Racism fits the same model. Archie Bunker can espouse racism, but he will only be a bigot. He can’t determine the legislation that forbids people from owning property or marrying someone or placing a vote. The people that hold control over those services are the only racists. Other people may support those programs because they feel that give them a measure of security to acheive a class status that would be difficult otherwise without those programs. Those people are simply bigots. Nettlesome, yes, but still only bigots.

The SONY PSP ads depict two women, one white, one Black, in some contentious and provacative poses. I think the ads are hot, and possibly sexist, but who is to say why these two women are arguing anyway. I just know that these ads are hotter than the ones with the Mexican dust mites.

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BILLY SUNDAY’s BEACH PARTY PIX!

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

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It wouldn’t be summertime if your cousin BLU CHEEZ wasn’t at the beach, or the pool, on on the strip. And it do be a strip now f’real though.

The game stay the same, it’s just the names that changed.

These young ladies were just about to express their artistic sides during the Jones Beach Greek Picnic Traffic Overflow.

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The Jones Beach Greek Picnic Traffic Overflow was created when too many people were going to this event the last Saturday in June. The Jones Beach Greek Picnic was established in the early 1980’s by some enterprising university jigs.

They pooled their connections using their New York State fraternity charters to secure the westernmost area of Jones Beach. The event became so popular that it attracted peoples from as far away as Texas. The folks that got up early enough to get to the beach before traffic were treated to a summer car show like no other. There was hell’a stuntin’ and the folks that like to watch it. Game is going down constantly in every direction you turn. You will see some old classmates that have their swagger hanging out the bag. For that afternoon the beach hosts the flyest motherfuckers that you ever seen, like a 60inch Zenith, please believe it. Someone is going to get fucked well that evening and wouldn’t you love to be her/him? Hell to the yeah!

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When the traffic along the Southern State Parkway had become a parking lot, vehicles began to exit the Parkway at Nassau Road a/k/a ‘Nasty Road’. It is a depressed strip of Arab owned grocery stores and old school Chinese restaurants before they all went to bulletproof glass and Yi Ping hot mustard. For one Saturday in June, once a year, this avenue may be the surburban ghettos equivalent of ‘Prom Night’.

The peacocks strut up and down the avenue as if they were on a track. I just hold my position in one area and I let all the fun come my way. Girls will pass by you three, four, five times as they aimlessly walk the strip. Sometimes I ask a pretty girl which lap she’s on. It’s cute to watch some girls practice their walk for the first time in heels and a bathing suit.

These young girls were the classic ‘two fer ones’ and ‘one or all’ type beatboxes that you look for on this strip. My homie is a jake and we had his truck parked behind us in the parking lot of the Roosevelt McDonald’s. Dude wanted to take them back to the truck to beat fire out these ho’s. The only problem I had was that I am in my thirties now, and not my teens, or even my twenties. I can’t really see myself beating out anything that young when there are so many veteran chicks that have the delicious Power U spread and they won’t get me knocked for cheap thrills.

If that young, supple, firm coochie that has the faint smell of baby powder and pee pee is your thing then by all means do you if she consents. I just don’t want another 15yr old on my resume.

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