NFL Week 2 = WTF?!?

September 14th, 2008

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The Jets had their chances this weekend, but they couldn’t squeeze a critical inter-divisional win and keep the game in their pocket. Next week against San Diego will be tough as hell. The Chargers are coming off two tough last minute losses. They could be primed to shock the Jets.

The Bengals have returned to being the Bungles all over again.

Atlanta’s running back MICHAEL TURNER should have saved some of last weeks yardage for today’s game.

The woeful Raiders won’t be winless after all. HERM need to get off that sherm. Jay-Z’s roommate LARRY JOHNSON effed me in the A with a weak performance. [ll]. I mean that his 22 yards rushing wasn’t enough to get the Chiefs past the Raiders.

We are still at the beginning of the season so I won’t sweat my poor standings just yet.

GEORGE CLOONEY Explains White Privilege…

September 14th, 2008

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Editor’s note: GEORGE CLOONEY is one of the only people in Hollywood who understands the hypocrisy of supremacism and is also willing to speak out against it. For his bravery I don’t mind hyping his latest film titled ‘Burn After Reading’. That shit is another COEN brothers classic. As for GEORGE CLOONEY, most folks can’t handle the truth…

For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fuckin’ redneck,” like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you’ll “kick their fuckin’ ass,” and talk about how you like to “shoot shit” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

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White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative
action.

White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don’t all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you’re “untested.

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White privilege is being able to say that you support the words “under God” in the pledge of allegiance because “if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it’s good enough for me,” and not be immediately disqualified from holding office–since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the “under God” part wasn’t added until the 1950s–while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.

White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you.

White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was “Alaska first,” and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you’re black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she’s being disrespectful.

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White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do–like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child
labor, and people think you’re being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college–you’ re
somehow being mean, or even sexist.

White privilege is being able to convince white women who don’t even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired
confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a “second look.

White privilege is being able to fire people who didn’t support your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.

White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God’s punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you’re just a good church-going Christian, but if you’re black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you’re an extremist who probably hates America.

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White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a “trick question,” while being black and merely refusing to give one-word
answers to the queries of Bill O’Reilly means you’re dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.

White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a “light” burden.

And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren’t sure about that whole “change” thing. Ya know, it’s just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.

White privilege is, in short, the problem.

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Dust In The Wind…

September 14th, 2008

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Peace out to a giant…

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE 1962-2008

‘Ye Tudda Was Set Up I Tell Ya’…

September 12th, 2008

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The great bloggerati Byron ‘Bol’ Crawford asked the obvious question…

“Why has KanYe West been arrested while George W. Bush hasn’t even been indicted yet?”

That’s because KanYe West is still being scrutinized for his televised freestyle during Universal Entertainment’s Hurricane Katrina fundraiser. You didn’t think he was going to be let off the hook do you? Even though his mom has passed away KanYe still doesn’t get a pass from NSA. It didn’t help his profile either to be remixing M.I.A. songs. Doesn’t he know that chick is on he Homeland Security hotlist?

What the fuck are people doing at an airport loitering with cameras and video equipment. Isn’t it illegal to take pictures inside airports and other government buildings? Isn’t that one of the provisions of the anti-terrorism legislature that has been in effect since 09.11.01. along with the Verizon, AT & T and T-Mobile being given immunity to tap our phones on behalf of the government?

I think ‘Ye Tudda was set up. The invisible hand knows that KanYeez isn’t a morning person. All you have to do is have some asscap shove his camera in ‘Ye Tudda’s face at the asscrack of dawn and then watch the sparks fly. This is why being an iNternets Celebrity > real world celebrity. Sure, the pay sucks but at least I get to enjoy my pr0n without people giving me their shit opinions.

*F.Y.I. I fucks with Buttman mags and Asshole Fever films. Good shit (puns always intended).*

Some people remarked that KanYe got himself nabbed as a P.R. stunt. That’s a hilarious assumption, and mostly stupid. KanYe gets press for any song he produces or rhymes on. So even from a marketing standpoint I don’t see what KanYe could add to his portfolio by being put in the clink. Unless maybe getting arrested removes his obligations to Universal Music Group and now KanYe can sign with Koch and make some real money.

I don’t know a damn thing about KanYe’s business and I can only speculate as to what moves he is about to make but I just want to say that sonn has this shit figured out. As I predicted, the ‘Love Lockdown’ leak is driving the clubs bananas. If your a hater you will say it was because that dude was in jail and ?uestlove was already wearing the shirt.

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I can’t wait to hear the remix featuring Akon, T-Pain, Lil’ Wayne, KanYe and Kellz.

Is it too soon for me to give that track a Grammy?

ye Going back to Cali?

“Nahh, I don’t think so fam.”


NYC = So i.C.

September 12th, 2008

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This is an incredible iNternets Celebrity weekend in NYC. The i.C.’s are about to take over again with a new video exposing the real estate game in New York City. Is it really real sonn?!?

But before that drops into your virtual inboxes there will be a few i.C. appearances around Manhattan.

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Rooftop Films screens ‘Checkmate’ as part of the NYC Non-Fiction short film series. This screening is to benefit the Open Roads School for the Arts. Come see ‘Checkmate’ on a big ass screen on the rooftop of an NYC high school. Afterwards we all go to an open bar party sponsored by Rooftop Films at Fontana’s bar on Orchard Street.


Venue: on the roof of the Open Road H.S. rooftop
Address: 350 Grand Street @ Essex (Lower East Side)
Date: 09.12.08.
Directions: F/J/M/Z to Essex / Delancey
8:00pm: Doors Open
8:30pm: Sound Fix presents live music by New Rap Order
9:00pm: Films
11:30pm: Open bar at Fontana’s with complimentary beer courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner
Tickets: $9

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The iNternets Celebrities are at interestingNY.

Dallas Penn, of the iNternets Celebrities will give the audience a firsthand tour through an NYC corner store colloquially known as the bodega. Dallas Penn will explain the finer points of the Bodega Food Pyramid.

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Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
Time: 10:00AM to 6:00PM.
Venue: The Katie Murphy Amphitheater at FIT
Address: 7th Avenue at 27th Street (Building D)
Tickets: $35

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