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Automotive Penis Enlargement Kit
June 6th, 2008 — Automotive, Culture, Entertainment, Pop Culture
Santa Don’t Take No Mess.
June 4th, 2008 — Advertising, DVD, Entertainment, Film, Pop Culture
I’ve been a big fan of David Walker’s BadAzz MoFo from its zine days, and was honored to be blogrolled by him recently.
But I don’t know if anything he’s ever done thrills me more than the poster for his blaxploitation short, Black Santa’s Revenge, starring naught other than Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead).
Check the tagline: “He Knows When You’ve Been Naughty.” Come on. As they say in the U.K., brilliant.
Bo Diddley, 1928-2008
June 3rd, 2008 — Black Music, Entertainment, Obituary, Pop Culture
We will not see the likes of him again.
Click the pic. Play it loud. See why he was so great.
And That Cup is Packed with C-4: Rachael Ray’s Keffiyeh Controversy
June 2nd, 2008 — Advertising, Culture, Fashion, Pop Culture, Terrorism
“Is that a fashionable scarf, or are you just happy to terrorize me?”: Rachael Ray, meet Yasser Arafat, late head of the PLO
Late last week, Good Morning America took on the the tempest-in-a-thimble over Rachael Ray’s scarf, doing so, actually, sensibly.
Conservative bloggers had raised the the charge that Ray’s scarf, in the print ad, above, was a keffiyeh. This, “for the clueless,” as screechy Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin warmly explained on her web site,
is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad. Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not so ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities and left-wing icons.”
Plushing-Out Your Sims…or the Crushing Irony of Helping Your Computer Game Characters Live Better Than You Do.
May 30th, 2008 — Design, Entertainment, Gaming, Pop Culture
Thanks to the hot design Apartment Therapy blog for this tip: The Sims 2 is about to release an expansion pack that’ll enable you to drench the little ne’er-do-wells in IKEA.
Analyzing the Hoe Zone Player
May 29th, 2008 — Black Music, Blogs, Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Humor, Pop Culture
You might think that a student with a double major in Geography and Russian & Slavic Studies—one matriculating in about a year, before heading to grad school—might have more to do at 4 a.m. than create a geographic outline of the places rapper Ludacris likes to pick up chicks, based on his 2001 Word of Mouf single w/ Nate Dogg, “Area Codes,” above. (Click on the map to enlarge it, then again to see it at maximum size.)
But, if you do think that, you neither know the contradictions of higher ed nor the peccadilloes of Stefanie Gray. (You also haven’t been to the incredible Strange Maps blog, where I first saw this.)
There, the CUNY Hunter College undergrad, right, notes, “I’m a female and a feminist. I dislike the usage of the word ‘ho’. However, as a geography major, I find this song hilarious, and had to map it.”
Not Quite “Negro Day”: HarryAllen.info’s Hairspray:
The Hardcore Hip-Hop Remix!
May 28th, 2008 — Dance, Entertainment, Film, Hip-Hop, Humor, Pop Culture
Such nice, white kids: Corny Collins and crew give you the finger
TITLE: HarryAllen.info’s Hairspray: The Hardcore Hip-Hop Remix!
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QUESTION: Have you ever noticed that the “Nicest Kids in Town” dance sequence, from the hit 2007 musical, Hairspray, syncs perfectly with “Ante Up (Remix),” the 2000 Funkmaster Flex track by M.O.P., Busta Rhymes, and Remy Ma?
STORY: It’s 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland. Tracy Turnblad (Nicole Blonsky) is in school, merely tolerating chemistry class, anxiously waiting for it to end. When the bell finally rings, she dashes out and grabs her best friend, Penny Pingleton (Amanda Bynes). “Penny! Come on, hurry!” she urges. “Push, we’re late!”
While the two run fast as they can over to Tracy’s house, in a darkened studio across town, camera crews set up shots and slickly-dressed teens spin on their heels, taking special care to “douse their ‘do’s'” in Ultra Clutch. It’s The Corny Collins Show! One minute to air!
Tracy and Penny burst through the door and turn on the television, just in time for the start of their favorite weekday afternoon TV program. Soon, they’re moving to the beat as Corny (James Marsden), Link Larkin (Zac Efron), and “the nicest kids in town” do the hottest dances to the latest song!
INSTRUCTIONS: Forward this to your friends! Though audio is NSFW, play loudly, share widely, and enjoy!
Now, All You Need To Find Your Way Around NYC is a Plasma Screen, an Xbox, and a Very Long Cord.
May 23rd, 2008 — Architecture, Gaming, Photography, Pop Culture, TV
I can see Gayle King from here: New York’s Hearst Building (57th St. and 8th Ave.), home to O Magazine and others, and its GTA IV twin
With the April 29 release of Rockstar Games’ (and, full disclosure, my former employer’s) Grand Theft Auto IV now nearly a month behind us, many are raving over the game’s raucus gameplay and sophisticated storyline. Still others are flabbergasted by the company’s reported game sales of over 6 million copies sold in the first week, including 3.6 million the first day, for a gross of half a billion dollars the first seven days of release, beating analyst projections widely. (These also beat Microsoft’s Halo 3 numbers, ’til now the biggest release. Little-known fact: In 2004, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas also beat Halo 2‘s sales with, much the same, little fanfare.)
But whether you love video games, like I do, detest them, like my wife does, or are a voice actor for the GTA IV who doesn’t believe Take 2, Rockstar’s parent company, paid you enough, like Michael Hollick, if you’re New Yorkers playing GTA IV, there’s one thing you can all agree upon: The striking sense of verisimilitude with which the game overwhelms the player.
Raiders of the Lost Race?
May 23rd, 2008 — Advertising, Black Music, Entertainment, Film, Pop Culture, Race, TV, Youth
Dem bones, dem bones: Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) and Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf) poke around in America’s dark underbelly
In “Keeping Up with the Jones: White Supremacy on BET,” Bro. Tony Muhammad both regards the promotion of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which opened yesterday, and captures that distinct, tacky awkwardness one feels when white people, especially ones who’ve never been to Harlem, try to act like they’re used to being surrounded by Black people, especially when it’s being done for marketing purposes.
Girls Gone Wild: “Ishq Kameena,” from Shakti: The Power
May 22nd, 2008 — Dance, DVD, Entertainment, Film, Pop Culture
Tell me I’m not dreaming: Shahrukh Khan’s mind’s about to be blown
Don’t let anybody lie to you: Indian sisters get down. Or, at least they do in Bollywood movies. I learned this the evening I walked into a screening of Shakti: The Power, literally by accident.
