MarvelFest 2009 is so official.
Should I be thanking the Mouse for this awesomeness?
It all goes down tonight on the former Virgin Megastore’s facade.
That was always one of my favorite backdrops in the city up until the day they closed. I’m glad the Mouse agrees with me.
Supremacy is good for shits and giggles when its done properly. Amos and Andy? Heeeelarious. The breaking of Kunta Kinte? Not so much. Making fun of people with different customs is the best when someone from that particular group is the one doing the jokes. RUSH LIMBAUGH talking shit about Mexicans isn’t as awesome as a Speedy Gonzalez cartoon.
BOB GRIESE had a touch of the Limbaugh vocal diarrhea when he made the televised comment that JUAN PABLO MONTOYA was “out having a taco”, in reference to MONTOYA’s standing on the NASCAR leaderboard. Because MONTOYA is a Colombian the GRIESE comment has been posited as a slight. I don’t see it that way though. If GRIESE had said that MONTOYA was eating a bandeja paisa or sniffing an ounce of fisscale that might could be considered a slight.
White on white crime?
Racism makes no fuckin’ sense. How is this white dude gonna be a racist to this other white dude? Just cause a guy speaks spanish are you telling me that he can’t be a white dude anymore? I wish someone would explain to me who the fux is really white and who is just passing for teh white. This means that El Gringo Colombiano is no longer a white dude. Now he’s just a Mexican like Tony’s Kansas City. Tony what up?
And what is so wrong with getting a taco? Who doesn’t enjoy the crunchy meat filled flavor of a taco? I goes apeshit for Chipotle tacos. The only way people could get upset over a taco is if they were a racist and you gave them one of those new Taco Bell black tacos, but even a virulent racist would have to admit that for $.89cents a black taco was a good deal. Racism is still fucked the fuck up, but a supremacist’s gastrointestinal system recognizes great taste and his wallet respects a great price.
Somebody get the execs from Disney and PepsiCo on the horn so we can shoot a Taco Bell black taco commercial with GRIESE and MONTOYA.
DP.com Supremacy Corporate Synergy FTW.
Let us be your subversive advert agency.
KanYe West was quoted (albeit by me) that he didn’t fux with books. KanYe does fux with music tho’. And imagery. The problem has been solved with his picture book documenting the Glow In The Dark tour. As someone who witnessed the groundbreaking show from the first row in Madison Square Garden I can tell you that the book completely captures the energy of the stage performance.
The elaborate set design along with animatronics and pyrotechnics made the concert possibly the single greatest spectacle I have experienced in rap music. I’m anxious to see how KanYe West is going to present the ‘808s & Heartbreak’ album. If ‘Graduation’ was his ascent into the stratosphere, ‘808s’ might be his descent into the inferne underworld. I hope Spike Jonze collaborates on the staging for the next concert as well.
The Glow In The Dark book’s photography is spectacular throughout. Seeing KanYe outside of the aspect as a performer is where the book excels and defies description. I am considering this joint to be a high end photo memoir because that is how it plays in my eyes. The book also plays on my stereo too because they included a CD of live instrumental versions from the concert. With almost three hundred oversized artbook pages the Glow In The Dark book isn’t to be placed on top of coffee tables. IT IS a coffee table.
Shouts to Rizzoli for this one. Now can I get the Cities: People, Society, Architecture joint? I want to work on some urban planning in the ‘hood?
The football pool rumbles on…
I just wanted to point something out to the poolers who were trailing in the standings. There is still more than half of the season remaining and with a few big weeks you will easily put yourself onto the leaderboard.
Only two(2) poolers in the top 5 have been weekly winners (green highlight). The poolers at the top right now are not heating this shit up. If I decided to go in and go apeshit with my picks by not getting any wrong for the next four weeks I will be on top of all of you [ll].
You should try and do the same so that you end up with the grand prize in your home by El Dia de Tres Reinos. You know, 3 Kings Day. People are allowed to speak spanish here at DP dot com.
Marteeeeeeeen!
The morning news is featuring the story of this hotel owner in New Mexico who forbade the spanish speaking employees from speaking spanish in his presence. Ha, good luck with that in NEW MEXICO. Good luck with that anywhere in the U.S. for that matter.
The hotel owner also told the employees to remove the ethnicity from their names. Marcos begat Mark and Martin begat Martin. But we all know that spanish folks love to say ‘Marteeeen’. Hell, I love to sy it my damn self. Do you remember that scene from ‘Roots’ where Lavar Burton gets publicly whipped until he calls himself Toby?
That was awesome.
Everybody loves this scene. It’s the ultimate description of being owned.
The hotel owner probably lives for the characters that John Wayne portrayed who came into the wild, untamed west and shot Indians in the back and burned the squaws and children alive in their teepees.
Sadly, the hotel owner can’t do that nowadays because of these stupid laws giving rights to the savages but he will be good and sure that his plantation is overseen correctly. This was always America. Living in New York its easy to forget this on most days when police aren’t throwing 50 bullets at you.
The hotel owner’s mandated cultural appropriation isn’t odd to him. It’s what John Wayne would have done on the silver screen. But do we all know about John Wayne’s lifestyle when he wasn’t making a movie?
