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May 16th, 2008 — Controversy, Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Pop Culture
Don’t those words sound strange together: “Suge Knight’s assailant”? The beatifically smiling young man, above, is, allegedly, he: Greg the Barber, or, as he is popularly now known, the Man Who Cold Knocked Suge Knight Both Out and Flat On His Behind.
May 16th, 2008 — Controversy, Fashion, Politics, Race
CNN covers a protest outside of the Marietta GA bar selling OBAMA IN ’08 shirts adorned with the Curious George picture, above.
May 16th, 2008 — Advertising, Controversy, Gaming, Sex
I’m not quite sure what Sony was trying to say about Playstation 3 aficionados with this European Playboy ad. (Sony has done some seriously confused marketing over the entire nex-gen cycle.)
I’m not even sure if this qualifies as NSFW, but, anyway, the entire ad is after the jump. (Thanks, Joystiq.)
May 16th, 2008 — Black Music, Controversy, Dance, Entertainment, Humor, Media, Music Video, Pop Culture, Satire, TV
Introducing the dance remix of Bill O’Reilly’s now notorious, “twenty years old” hissy fit, obviously just as NSFW as is Bill.
May 15th, 2008 — Controversy, Nature
According to the Associated Press, Houston TX is being overrun by a tenacious breed of ant that, among other talents, ruins electrical equipment.
The hairy, reddish-brown creatures are known as “crazy rasberry ants” — crazy, because they wander erratically instead of marching in regimented lines, and “rasberry” after Tom Rasberry [right], an exterminator who did battle against them early on.
“They’re itty-bitty things about the size of fleas, and they’re just running everywhere,” said Patsy Morphew of Pearland, who is constantly sweeping them off her patio and scooping them out of her pool by the cupful. “There’s just thousands and thousands of them. If you’ve seen a car racing, that’s how they are. They’re going fast, fast, fast. They’re crazy.”
May 14th, 2008 — Children, Controversy, Politics, Race
That’s a T-shirt, above, being sold and distributed by Mike Norman, 63, proprietor of Mulligan’s Food & Spirits in Marietta GA.
The image is of children’s book character Curious George. Some may remember a caller to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, back in March, reporting that his twelve-year-old daughter had said Obama looks like the famed chimp. Must be in the air.
May 9th, 2008 — Books, Controversy, Entertainment, Humor, Internet, Pop Culture, Race, Writing
Margaret Seltzer: Liar, yes; fraud, affirmative…but sex symbol?
As you’ve perhaps noticed, our little MEDIA ASSASSIN YouTube, “Margaret B. Jones / Seltzer’s Lie-All Gangsta Video—Exposed!”, which debuted exactly ten days ago, with an accompanying breakdown of the imaginary memoirist’s tall tales, became something of a sensation, returning the blog’s highest page view numbers to date.
Thank you, everyone.
May 8th, 2008 — Controversy, Politics
As Hillary Clinton’s campaign dies, like a beaheaded serpent, it’s going through unwatchable death throes.
Her lowest move yet came this afternoon, during an interview with USA Today, in which she cited her “white” appeal to “hard-working Americans”:
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.
I couldn’t have said it better myself, Hil. There’s definitely a pattern emerging here. Hopefully, that pattern will be mercifully euthanized shortly.
May 8th, 2008 — Black Music, Controversy, Entertainment, Music Video, Pop Culture, Sex
And we’ll grow 40-ish together: Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon begin their married life…and Month #2 of knowing each other
Is Mariah Carey getting stupider with age?
Like most, I didn’t get the Nick Cannon connection, when I heard she’d secretly married him. That is, until I read The Daily Mail, yesterday.
May 7th, 2008 — Controversy, Entertainment, Race, Radio
A reported conversation between Oprah Winfrey and BFF Gayle King on XM Satellite Radio, as transcribed and editorialized by listener “Mayme,” and posted to the comments section of Costas Panagopoulos’s Politico.com piece on white viewer flight from Winfrey’s show, after her Obama endorsement.
Reply #1
Date: Apr. 8, 2008 – 12:35 AM ESTIT’S ABOUT TIME THE DUMB “white” HOUSEWIVES WOKE UP FROM THE DAZE !!!
Transcript from Oprah’s XM Sattelite conversation with Gayle:
Gayle King: You could work for some good White folks.
Oprah (in Black slang accent, making fun of her grandmother): I hope you get some good White folks like I did ‘cuz I worked for some good Folks.
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