WAR MACHINE > IRON MAN

October 12th, 2006

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The latest news down the Marvel Comics movie pipeline is that TERRENCE ‘SLICKBACK’ HOWARD has been cast as James Rhodes in the upcoming ‘Iron Man’ movie. I wasn’t so sure that I liked this choice from the outset, not because of TERRENCE, who is incidentally bringing lightskin brothers all the way back, but because he IS a lightskinned Black man. I thought this character should have been a darker complexion Black man. There are several dudes that come to my mind that could have filled the role.

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DEREK LUKE – MORRIS CHESTNUT – TAYE DIGGS
All of these guys would have made a solid character, but instead the studio goes with the one Black guy other than DENZEL that would be known outside of the Black community. I also think there is the unspoken rule that disallows heroicism from a dark-skinned male. O.K., maybe I’m reaching on that last one. TERRENCE is lights out and I think he’ll be a credible superhero, it’s just that I am still smarting from the producers of the X-Men series not using the chocolate goddess, ANGELA BASSETT, to play the Storm character.

The buzz so far has been the attempts of the producers to retain the fidelity of the character’s storyline while making the production relavent to new action hero fans. I’m anxious to see how Slickback does in this film. If he wasn’t cast in OutKast’s ‘Idlewild’ I would never have been able to stay awake through the whole film.

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The DP dot com Football Pool (Wk 6)

October 12th, 2006

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The good news is that we will know in a few days if SNICKERS is willing to sponsor the pool. I really hope they do because the prototype sneakers that I designed at the NIKE studio called the Air Max 1 ‘SNICKERS’ look fiiiiyah! I used the colors from the candy bar wrapper in a premium leather. I’m almost tempted to buy them for myself. So we’ll see what happens…

Figures the week that The Ray-vens aren’t pooling with us they decide to take the fall. There’ll be a few more where that came from AMADEO so don’t start sizing up your Super Bowl ring just yet. The first quarter of the season is in the rear view mirror and what I’ve learned is that the NFL is still the most unpredictable, frustrating, energetic way to spend a Sunday afternoon. We should get together at the sports bar in Park Slope one Sunday and talk shit. That might be tough for some of you that don’t live in NYC, but for those of you that do I am looking at November 5th. Holler bizzle.

This week’s lineup look fairly simple which means that we should all come out of this one seven for seven. Week 6 is for me to provide a pyschoanalysis on why I choose my picks. Let’s see what the lineup looks like…

NY GIANTS @ ATLANTA FALCONS
The Giants are feeling realy good about themselves which means its time for them to sputter again. MICHAEL VICK does to the Giants what MICHAEL JORDAN used to do to the Knicks. School is in session, Giants get a hungerectomy.

MIAMI DOLPHINS @ NY JETS
After getting bitch slapped by Jacksonville, the Jets need a little ‘get right’ medicine. The ‘Fins are like Viagara made out of chewable Flintstones vitamins for AFC East teams. Hell, for the league.

HOUSTON TEXANS @ DALLAS COWBOYS
The Cowboys need this win to stay in the mix for the NFC East crown. The Texans are already counting the days until which they can go back on vacation.

TENNESSEE TITANS @ WASHINGTON REDSKINS
After that loss last weekend the ‘Skins need to rebound in a major way. Unfortunately, they don’t.

CAROLINA PANTHERS @ BALTIMORE RAVENS
I’d love to say that the Ray-vens take another on the chin this weekend , but I think they will manage to win this one late in the game. Carolina has yet to beat someone substancialiscious.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES @ NEW ORLEANS SAINTS
All you Philly fans are prah’lee still drunk from last weekend. So is your team. A perfect oppurtunity for the Saints to eke out another home win in the swamp.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS @ PITTSBURGH STEELERS
Kansas City has been surprisingly decent, props to TONY’s KANSAS CITY. BEN ROTHELISBERGER and the Steelers have sucked ass mightily. I’d like to think that HERM EDWARDS could will his boys to a win in this one, but that’d just be crazy. I’m not crazy.

Cross your fingers in the hopes that we get SNICKERS to underwrite our NFL football pool, but in any case the winner will still get a DP dot com prize pack of goodies and a new pair of kicks.

SATISFECTELLENT!

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SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE

October 12th, 2006

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This is the the big one y’all, SNEAKER PIMPS in NYC. Get your crispy I.T.’s out of their airtight plastic bags because this is the joint that we all live for. Perfoming live will be the IronMan Tony Starks b/k/a Ghostface Killah, the Clipse, the BeatNuts, CLARK KENT and Funk Faggoty on the decks.

Art installation by DAVE WHITE and my niggas STASH and FUTURA.

One word.

BANANAS.

Friday, October 13th
SNEAKER PIMPS – NYC
Avalon (formerly Limelight)
6th Avenue @ West 20th Street
doors = 8pm

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COREY LIDLE Does Not Care About Hip-Hop Honors Week…

October 11th, 2006

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Oh, so now you humps are gonna turn your back on me?!? If I was BYRON CRAWFORD you’d still read my shit, but NOOOOOOOO! I can’t say anything mildly inappropriate because you all are too pussy-whipped to handle the truth. Face it, this is Hip-Hop Honors week and if anybody wants to pop their collar by doing something that isn’t Hip-Hop related they will draw the ire of this site.

When the news first broke that someone had crashed a single engine Cessna plane into a high rise building on Manhattan’s upper-east side I thought that maybe this was GOD’s way of killing off a few privileged white folks simultaneously. Manhattan’s upper east-side contains what may be the city’s priciest real estate and we all know that only rich white folks like to fly around in little deathbird airplanes. Later on I found out that the pilot was Yankees journeyman reliever COREY LIDLE. No wonder the entire league is mourning his death, he’s pitched for EVERY team in the league.

COREY LIDLE had the whole baseball off-season to go out and kill himself and a few of his friends. There’s the always popular speeding sportscar accident. The aquamarine version of that is the ill-fated fishing trip. Hell, he could just go hunting with DICK CHENEY. But to kill himself in this manner during Hip-Hop Honors week shows a blatant disregard for the achievements of the Wu Tang Clan. Shame on a nigga named COREY LIDLE!

This reminds me of when THURMAN MUNSON got picked off base by the big guy up in the sky. I knew THURMAN MUNSON, I respected THURMAN MUNSON, and you, COREY LIDLE, are no THUMAN MUNSON.

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NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR Does Not Care About Hip-Hop Honors Week…

October 11th, 2006

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If Hip-Hop has any chance at bringing a lasting and positive influence into the lives of people there has to a return of the mindset that knowledge rules supreme over nearly everyone. I understand that is a wild cliche, but its more truth now than it was in previous years. As a nation we are becoming dumber and dumber. S.A.T. scores are tumbling across the board. If it weren’t for Asian kids we’d be a nation where our next generation is borderline retard.

Hip-Hop has defined the cultural values for American youth for more than a decade. The Hip-Hop music that currently dominates the airwaves of commercial stations is derived from simplistic monosyllabic nursery ryhmes or it tells the story of material aquisition as the benchmark for social mobility. If the kids that listen to and live the Hip-Hop lifestyle are to become viable, responsible adults we will need iconic artists to redefine their values. Books over bling sounds too simplistic, but ultimately without a reduction in the consumerism ethos of these artists we won’t see any progress. At least JAY-Z could maybe write a song about why New York City schools are so miserably underfunded by the State. ‘Dear Summer School’ or some shit.

For VH-1’s Hip-Hop Honors week some NYC public school students may end up hopping trains and buses to get to school because they don’t have transit cards. The city’s schools chancellor JOEL KLEIN has mandated that all students register for their transit cards. The thinking is that many kids receive these passes and they don’t use them. This costs the city millions of dollars since the crooks at the Metropolitan Transit Authority invoice the city for each card they issue. I have a more novel idea, the city should take over the MTA and discontinue the flow of patronage cash it brings to upstate politicians. Charging kids money to get to school is essentially like levying another tax on their parents.

DALLASPENN dot com is for the children.

DALLASPENN dot com is HIP-HOP.

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