Metro Station..."Shake It". I could not find the video.But the song rocks.

Cat Power Is The Shit.

Look Like A Baby Rat....Spank Rock Rocks The Shit.

Filipinos In West Sac.By The Way...Well...Nevermind.

These Chicks Are Funny.

By Dean Goodman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bettie Page, one of America's most photographed pin-up girls during the 1950s, died in Los Angeles on Thursday from pneumonia, her agent said. She was 85.

Page was a ubiquitous sight during the 1950s, propelled to stardom when she posed for Playboy as Miss January 1955. Soon her image was gracing playing cards, record albums and bedroom posters across the country.

She stopped modeling in 1957, retreated from the public spotlight and turned to religion. She enjoyed a renaissance of sorts in the 1980s, as a new generation of fans became obsessed with her legacy.

Her agent, Mark Roesler, said Page was admitted to a Los Angeles-area hospital four weeks ago. She never regained consciousness after suffering a heart attack earlier this month.

With her dark bangs, alluring blue-gray eyes and wide smile, Page cultivated an innocent girl-next-door persona. The one-time school teacher was nice, but clearly also naughty. Some of her photos featured spanking and bondage.

"Bettie Page embodied the stereotypical wholesomeness of the Fifties and the hidden sexuality straining beneath the surface," authors Karen Essex and James L. Swanson wrote in their 1996 book "Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend."

Page professed to be mystified by all the attention, saying she never felt particularly attractive and had to wear a lot of makeup to cover up her large pores. After she found God, she was initially ashamed of having posed nude.

"(B)ut now most of the money I've got is because I posed in the nude," she told Playboy last year. "So I'm not ashamed of it now, but I still don't understand it."

Bettie Mae Page was born on April 22, 1923, in Nashville, one of six children. She and two sisters were sent to an orphanage after her father went to jail and her mother could not cope on her own. Page later described her father as "a sex fiend" who started sexually molesting her when she was 13.

Page, armed with an arts degree with Peabody College in Nashville, did her first modeling work in the 1940s after moving to San Francisco with the first of her three husbands. After they divorced in 1947, she pursued modeling in New York. Photos from a shoot with Miami photographer Bunny Yeager ended up in the pages of Playboy.

The layout featured Page winking at the camera wearing only a Santa hat as she decorated a Christmas tree. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner described it as "a milestone in the history of the magazine," which he had founded less than two years earlier.

Later in life, Page was furious that Yeager made a fortune from the photos and never compensated her.

Some American lawmakers were not as impressed with her modeling abilities. Page was served with a subpoena to appear before U.S. Senate investigators trying to discover a link between juvenile delinquency and pornography. Page never appeared. Soon after, she completely disappeared from the scene.

After two other brief marriages failed, Page battled acute schizophrenia beginning in the early 1970s. Her comeback gathered momentum with the 1991 movie "The Rocketeer," based on a comic book where the hero's girlfriend was Page. Fan clubs and websites proliferated, and Page made a good living signing memorabilia at conventions. On the rare occasions that she gave interviews, she insisted that she not be photographed.

Page had no children. There was no immediate information about funeral plans.

No Doubt Flashback Double Shot...

Great Ministry song juxtaposed with horror from 70s - 80s.

SwitchBlade Symphony Kicks Ass With "Dirty Dog".

Wicked Tune....

New Death Cab...Dope Shit.

I Know...You Say It's Corny. This Song Is Dope.

You Ever Try Salvia?....Josiah Did...

New Ice Cube. Real Talk.

The Gangsta Preacher Is Back. In This Episode, He Declares That He Is God.

Watch At The :39 Second Mark....Zap!!!

VNV Bring The Pain.

My Fellow Africans...Let Us Stop Rapping Right Now. We Can Create A New Musical Genre.This Whole Hip Hop Thing Has Become A Parody.

It got me thinking of other bad words out there that are used to racially stereotype people. We all know some of the common ones, like Cracker, Heeb, Gook, Jew, Dot Head, Spic, etc. However there’s a whole shitload of such words out there. I recently came across a whole listing of such words and their meanings recently (thanks to Whore Church for providing the link below)

Some the ones that jumped out at me as being particularly amusing and ones that I’ll have to immediately add to my repertoire include:

Arf. Short for African Rock Fish. Jones Beach (NYC) term for Blacks due to their poor swimming abilities.

Bandwidth Nigger/Whore. Represents Asians who, instead of using the Asian video game servers they are assigned, jump to a US server and hog the bandwidth of US users.

Bruised Banana. Used to make fun of Asians who act black.

Bruised bananas have a whole new meaning!

Cashews. Used to insult Catholic Jews. Mainly, the children of a Jew and a Catholic. (ha, guess that makes me a Cashew then! Sweet…I guess it’s better than being called a cracker!)

Cheese Eater. Used by the German to make fun of the Dutch’s fondness of eating cheese.

Chink-a-billy. Half Chinese, half hillbilly.

Cowfuck. White Farmers in the fields getting intimate with their animals

Dicksuckinflog. 16th Century term for Dutch prostitutes accused of witchcraft.

Dusty Nuts. Insult to Arabs living in the desert.

Hey Dusty Nuts…yeah, I’m talking to youz

Fog Nigger. British Blacks. The weather is usually foggy in Britain.

Fruit-Picker The Mexicans who cross the border often pick fruit, usually for pennies an hour. Often, when it is time to give the illegal aliens their meager wages, the plantation owner calls the border patrol to send them back.

Goldberg. Common Jewish name. Also has slight money-related reference.

Half-Dick. Jewish circumcision reference.

Heinz. Any mix of races. From the label on the ketchup bottle reading “57 Varieties.”

Herring Choker. Scandinavians are known for eating lots of fish.

Jackamammy. Combination of ‘jack rabbit’ and ‘Aunt Jamima.’ People have said that jack rabbits looked like ‘lynched’ black people.

Jewgaboo. A Jewish person that acts or tries to act like a black person or is half black.


Would you call Matisyahu, the Jewish Rapper a Jewgaboo? Perhaps Destiny’s Child can rename their song to Jewgaboo instead of Bugaboo? Get on that Beyonce

Katzenfresser. German slur towards Italians meaning “cat eater”.

Knuckle-Dragger. Often believed that black people have longer arms than other races and therefore their knuckles would drag.

Melon Johnny. Italian slang for Blacks.

Moss Eater. White trash in the Pacific Northwest.

Muppetfucker. Backwoods inbred rednecks of the U.S. south are called muppetfuckers because they look like Muppets. (one of my personal new favorites btw).


Were the muppets just in-bred birthing defects from the South?

Pickaninny. From the days of slavery. Three possible origins: The slave owners would “pick a nincompoop” from the lineup of slaves; or the slave children who couldn’t pick cotton “ain’t pickaninny”; in some parts of the south, breasts are referred to as ninnys, so pickaninny was a reference to blacks being used as wetnurses.

Pretendian. Native Americans who claim to be pure, but are just mixed-breeds. I suppose this could refer to any mixed -ian race.

Roofucker. Kangaroo-fucker. Australian version of Sheepfucker. Used often on USENET and other internet forums.


This child is a no good Roofucker

Swamp Kike. It has been said that Cajuns are the Jews of Louisiana because of their propensity for commerce and finance. The slur is used by any non-Cajun, Black and White alike.

Three-Fifth. In reference to the 3/5ths Compromise, where the US Gov’t decided that slaves (Blacks) only counted as 3/5ths of a person for population reasons.

Umlungu. Zulus called whites this, meaning the white scum that forms in the surf.

Yelvis. Yellow Elvis. Asians with pompadours. Plural: Yelvi.


Needless to say this guy is a Yelvis?

Those are just some of the fun ones I came across. For the complete list please go to: Racial Terms & Origins

MOVIES / IN THEATERS / THE DARK KNIGHT
The Dark Knight


The Dark Knight (2008)
94%
90%
92%
N/A
N/A
94 %
Reviews Counted: 198 Fresh: 186 Rotten:12 Average Rating: 8.5/10

Consensus: Dark, complex and unforgettable, The Dark Knight succeeds not just as an entertaining comic book film, but as a richly thrilling crime saga.


How does the Tomatometer work?
The Tomatometer measures the percentage of positive reviews from Approved Tomatometer Critics for a certain movie.[-]

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense sequences of violence and some menace

Runtime: 2 hrs 32 mins

Theatrical Release: Jul 18, 2008 Wide

Box Office: $155,340,000

Synopsis: Director Christopher Nolan returns to Gotham City with this sequel to the critical and fan favorite BATMAN BEGINS. In THE DARK KNIGHT, Batman (Christian Bale) squares off against a new foe: the Joker (Heath Ledger). Director Christopher Nolan returns to Gotham City with this sequel to the critical and fan favorite BATMAN BEGINS. In THE DARK KNIGHT, Batman (Christian Bale) squares off against a new foe: the Joker (Heath Ledger). [More]

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine
Director: Christopher Nolan
Screenwriter: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Story: Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer
Producer: Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
Composer: Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard

Real Hip Hop.

Sevendust With Chino From Deftones...."Bender".

Timeless...

THE NEW GENERATION INFLUENCED BY THE PREVIOUS....(WHICH I THINK IS FANTASTIC)....

...AND THE REAL....

"LETS GET DRUNK"...THE CLICK.

"MR. FLAMBOYANT"...THE CLICK.

"SIDEWAYS"...THE CLICK.

THE CLICK."TIRED OF BEING STEPPED ON."

GOBAMA!!!

Tom Green Vs. Xibit.

415..More Classic Shit.

Sorry...I Have Been Playing GTA4 For Hella Long Now.Here Is Classic Bay Shit.I Actually Went To See APG In Like 1989...Dope Shit.Peace To Liz....

Classic Shit.

Pac Has Been Dead 12 Years Now.LH9 Respects The Man Tonight....

I Will Be Creating New Posts Soon....Grand Theft Auto 4 Is Almost Done, And I Will Once Again Provide You With Entertainment!

1. Lost HighWay9 Have Located Correspondent Hasten...Who Was Presumed Dead In Prague, After Locating The Prince Of Darkness...Satan.
2. However...Our Drone Planes Have Obtained This Image Of Hasten, Along With Unknown Associates....Possibly Demons Themselves....
3. News At 11....
   

The Old Mill....

Fried Chicken Tacos

So yesterday I was chillin at this baby shower jump off in Oakland. It was cool, neo-soul/lite rap was being played for the people who aren’t comfortable with rap music or just fucking bitchmade. There was a taco bar, sangria, wine and a keg. Laid back saturday in the east bay kicking it with folks. At some point a whole squadron of hung over drunks came through and their leader, a man we call Thuggy, brought me a bag full of Chick-Fil-A. Apparently within the confines of Gurp City Chick-Fil-A is a well known delicacy that brings them much delight. When I think of Chick-Fil-A I think a dumb fuck franchise that loves bitchass jesus bullshit so fucking much they won’t open on Sundays because they got a fucking superwalmart dream of patriotic horseshit to live up too.

Anyways the point is that Thuggy walks up to me and hands me a greasy white paper bag and says “chick-fil-a tacos are going down! put that shit on groceryeats” So here we are and I have photos of shitty tortillas wrapped around mediocre pieces of fried chicken and sauce.

As can be seen below there are numerous condiments to choose from. Chick-Fil-A wants your choice of flavors to be limitless when it comes to complimenting your shitty nuggets.

The first of the tacos. The construction is quite simple for this one. 4 pieces of chicken with little bit of Polynesian sauce for sweetness, some chedder cheese and a dollop of guacamole. I considered beans but I wanted to keep it simple, rustic flavors are what I’m about with this taco.

The taste was odd, a taco with a good amount of crunch with the slight tang of Polynesmole and cheese. The lukewarm tortilla was not doing me any favors either as flavor or as construction.

For the following taco I just decided to go with a megamix of condiments. Everything in the bag. I started with covering 3 chicken pieces with a base of Tabasco sauce, which by the way fucking sucks. Fuck vinegar based hot sauces, that shit is just water and red bullshit. Then I added some mustard and mayonnaise which still was fuckwithable since we were still within the range of a hotdog. I poured on the polynesian sauce which some found suspect but I wanted everything on there. Followed that with barbecue sauce and a coating of buttermilk ranch dressing. I sprinkled some cheese on there and decided that was it. I didn’t want guacemole on it because I wanted to keep it within the Chick-Fil-A flavor profile.

This one was really weird tasting. You had the crunchiness of the chicken, sweetness of the polyensian sauce blending with the barbecue sauce which had some sweetness of it’s own already. Then there was the weird combinations of tang from the mustard/mayo/ranch dressing of crap. The cheese was kind of a binder unifying all these weird flavors together. The strangest thing was the slight burn afterwards from the Tabasco and barbecue sauce. It wasn’t spicy or anything just like the taco was leaving you a hot breath of flavor.

So yeah that’s it, yesterday I ate dumb shit to make my friend smile and now it’s on the internet to benefit no one.

New League Sees Potential in Backyard Brawler

By R.M. SCHNEIDERMAN

Published: May 31, 2008

Kevin Ferguson, who goes by the name Kimbo Slice, has fought in only two professional mixed martial arts matches, and he has a long way to go before he is considered a polished, well-rounded fighter.

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But when the Elite XC league and CBS broadcast the sport’s live network television debut from Newark on Saturday, the two companies are largely hinging their success on Ferguson, a 34-year-old native of the Bahamas and former street fighter who may become the mixed martial arts equivalent of Mike Tyson in his prime — or a major bust if he is ultimately outclassed by the sport’s elite fighters.

Ferguson is no ordinary mixed martial arts upstart: he is a YouTube sensation, a knockout artist who has garnered Internet fame for bare-knuckle brawling and a video of a man paying him $100 for a punch in the stomach.

A former college student turned strip-club bouncer turned porn-company bodyguard, Ferguson found his calling five years ago when he earned several thousand dollars in a backyard boxing match in Miami. A friend put a video of the fight on a porn site, and millions of people watched it.

Over a three-year period, Ferguson posted a record of 22-1 in underground, bare-knuckle fights, according to Elite XC. His only loss was a disputed one, to Sean Gannon, a police officer who later fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. (Ferguson declined to comment for this article, but his management team said the rules of that fight were unclear).

Ferguson has said he has given up street fighting to pursue a professional career and provide a better life for his family.

For CBS, betting on Ferguson’s success offers little risk: a one-year deal to broadcast four cards and what analysts say is likely a small investment in ProElite, the parent company of Elite XC. CBS would not disclose the exact amount.

The upside is potentially lucrative, as mixed martial arts attracts a demographic that CBS has struggled to court: men ages 18-34.

“What CBS is trying to get out of this is some low-cost programming that will attract a younger demographic,” said Alan Gould, a media analyst for Natixis Bleichroeder, a research firm based in New York.

ProElite, meanwhile, may be desperate for a big payoff. The company lost $27 million in 2007, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and it is seeking $5 million in immediate funding.

Gary Shaw, president of Live Events for Elite XC, said the bulk of ProElite’s debt stems from its acquisitions of several mixed martial arts promotions around the world, as well as the cost of starting a social networking site. Both, he said, are long-term investments that he expects will pay off.

Shaw has years of experience in the business. He has been a successful boxing promoter since 1999 and has worked with champions like Lennox Lewis, Shane Mosley and Tyson. He sees similar star potential in Ferguson, despite his relative inexperience.

And with good reason. A video of a man paying Ferguson $100 to tackle him has been viewed more than 4.9 million times on YouTube. His backyard brawls, two professional fights and an exhibition bout against the former boxing heavyweight champion Ray Mercer have been viewed several million more times, combined.

“Kimbo is tailor-made for the age we’re living in,” said Adam Swift, the editor of mmapayout.com, a Web site devoted to the business of mixed martial arts.

“We’re an internet driven culture, a reality driven culture. He has a natural charisma and a marketable look.”

Marketable in the sense that Ferguson has gold teeth and a substantial beard below his bald dome. The hair on the sides of his head is styled into cornrows. He has a penchant for shaving patterns into his chest hair. And all six of his children have names that begin with the letter K. One son is named Kevlar.

His Internet presence has also created a number of critics; prominent fighters and hardcore mixed martial arts fans have derided him as a mere spectacle. Elite XC is thrilled with the spectacle, unless Ferguson flops; a loss Saturday to James Thompson would be a major setback. Thompson, a 260-pound brawler from Britain who has a reputation for being an easy knockout, is a step up in competition for Ferguson, who has yet to face a fighter with a winning record.

If Ferguson improves to 3-0, Elite XC and CBS may also feel victorious.

“Saturday night is a graveyard slot,” said Tuna Amobi, a media analyst for Standard & Poor’s Equity Research. “Most of the networks will really take anything. If they can get anything working, it will only do them well from a financial perspective.”

My Favorite Movie "Gummo".Remix By Aphex Twin.

DJ McCoy Burns It Up.

Dilated Peoples Rep The Bay.

Damian Jr Gong Live.

Living Legends Rep The Bay.

Public Transportation Rules!

Make Sure You Watch This Whole Clip...

Screamin Jay Hawkins..."I Put A Spell On You"!!!!

The Story Of Red.

From The Legendary Tube Bar Tapes.

Fictitious names
Al Breakyourneck
Al Coholic
Al Depantsyou
Al Kaseltzer
Al Knockerup
Al Kykyoras (Greek)
Al Killeu
Al Rankin
Ben Debanana
Ben Dover
Bill Loni
Billy McGuire
Bob Wire
Butchie Pantsdown
Clint Torres
Cole Kutz
Connie Lingus
Frank Enstein
Hal Jalykakik
Hugh Douche
Hugh Duct
Huey Duck
Ima Dummy
Izzy Cumming
Jim Nasium
Joe Dildo
Joe Mama
Lou Kout
Mark Miewords
Marty Cone
Mike Ocksmall
Mike Ockhurts
Mike Hunt
Mike Unstinks
Pepe Roni
Phil Miaz
Phil Degrave
Phil Lacio
Phil Mypockets
Sal Lami
Sid Down
Stan Dup
Stan DePain
Stu Peit
Willie Doit
Willie Facker
Willie Fagger
Willie Frango

Sorry For The Lack Of New Posts...But I am Playing GTA4 Right Now. Once I Get Done...Expect New Greatness.

Will Grand Theft Auto 4 Hurt Iron Man’s Box Office?

Posted on Monday, April 28th, 2008 at 3:04 am by: Peter Sciretta

Will Grand Theft Auto 4 Hurt Iron Man’s Box Office? This is a question I’ve been thinking about for a while now. When I wrote the post Rant: Sorry Mario, Video Games Will NEVER Overtake Movies last month, I intended to include a section on how a video game release could never negatively effect the release of a theatrical movie. But to be honest with you: I did the math, and the math scared me. Here is my initial thought process:

Grand Theft Auto 4 is projected to make $350-$400+ million in it’s first week of release.

This means that 5 to 6 million copies of the game will be sold.

Polls have shown that the same audience/demographic for video games is also the same for seeing movies in the theater.

If each of those 6 million people chose to play GTA over seeing Iron Man on the big screen, that would be a $41 million hit to Paramount’s opening weekend (I came to this number using BOM’s average movie ticket price of $6.82, which might even be lower than reality)

At first glance, this doesn’t sound good.

BUT the question is: How many GTA4 gamers will choose not to buy a ticket to Iron Man either due to either available time (too busy playing the game) or available money (spent their entire entertainment allowance on the game)?

The more and more I really thought about this question, and the more and more people I was able to talk to about the issue has me solidified my belief that…

a video game purchase is not enough to keep the kids out of the movie theater.

If a movie ticket cost more than $7-$10 (let’s say $60) then maybe consumers would be forced to choose. But right now the price of a movie ticket is not enough to warrant a money spending decision. And most of the target audience (under 30-year old men) understand the concept of the on demand society, and are completely willing to save their game, go to a movie, and come back to play another day. After all, we all need a break (with exception of those nuts playing WOW who pee in cups because they can’t leave the computer for one minute to go to the bathroom).

But now industry analysts are predicting upwards of $100+M for Iron Man’s opening, and if the numbers don’t reach that high the mainstream media might connect the dots that might not even exist (because that’s what mainstream media sometimes does).

In Bell Case, Black New Yorkers See Nuances That Temper Rage

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By MANNY FERNANDEZ

Published: April 27, 2008

There was anger on the streets of Jamaica, Queens, where Sean Bell was killed in a hail of 50 police bullets in 2006 — both before and after a judge on Friday acquitted three detectives who had been charged in the shooting. But many black men and women in Jamaica and elsewhere in New York said their anger was tempered by the complicated case that unfolded in a city less racially divided than 10 years ago.

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Sheener Bailey recited a poem on Friday that she wrote about the death of Sean Bell on the street where he was killed.

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Elliott Clark of St. Albans, Queens, said he disagreed with the judge’s verdict, but felt more resigned than angry about it.

In Harlem, Willie Rainey, 60, a Vietnam veteran and retired airport worker, said that he believed the detectives should have been found guilty, but that he saw the case through a prism not of race, but of police conduct. “It’s a lack of police training,” Mr. Rainey said. “It’s not about race when you have black killing black. We overplay the black card as an issue.”

Even near Liverpool Street and 94th Avenue in Jamaica, the very spot where Mr. Bell was killed, Kenneth Outlaw stood and spoke not only of the humanity of Mr. Bell but of the police as well. “A cop is a human being just like anyone else,” said Mr. Outlaw, 52. “If I had to be out here, facing the same dangers the cops face, I’d be scared to death too.”

New York controversies have a way of playing out along racial lines in a city that is diverse but often seems stratified. When Amadou Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant, was killed by the police in a blast of 41 shots in the doorway of a Bronx apartment building in 1999, his death became shorthand for excessive police force against minorities.

Yet in the aftermath of the verdict in the Bell case, many black New Yorkers reacted not with outrage but with a muted reserve, saying that the city felt like a less polarized place in 2008, nearly a decade after the Diallo shooting and with a different mayor and police commissioner. Some also said that after a seven-week trial, the picture of what happened the night Mr. Bell, a black man, was killed was still murky, and so they left the public outcry to a relatively small group of black activists who had been closely monitoring the case.

There were those, however, who spoke of losing faith and trust in both law enforcement and the judicial system, and who saw the Bell case as a vivid example of how little has changed. “How many shots have to be fired for things to change?” asked Torell Marsalis, 35, of South Jamaica.

The verdict set off visible outrage. There were scuffles outside the Queens Criminal Court building, a few marches and rallies in Queens on Friday night, and later, angry denunciations among some black activists, including the Rev. Al Sharpton. But elsewhere, the reaction was more nuanced, even subdued.

Among the dozens of black men and women interviewed in recent days, many said they sympathized with Mr. Bell’s family, but also with police officers who must make life-and-death decisions in tense, uncertain moments.

Ayana Fobbs, 27, a pharmacy worker who lives in Jamaica, a few blocks from the Community Church of Christ, where Mr. Bell’s funeral was held, said she could identify with people on both sides of the Bell shooting. One of her cousins was killed by the police in a shooting in the Bronx in the early 1990s, she said, but she also had close friends who were police officers.

“I’m just concerned about what kind of message it’s going to send on both sides,” Ms. Fobbs said on Saturday. “The community here is going to feel like anybody is fair game, if something like this could happen to an unarmed man and nobody was held accountable. And then, with the officers, it sends a message to them that they can do these types of things and get away with it.”

Others said that had they been on a jury during the trial, they would have found the officers not guilty based on what they felt was the flawed case prosecutors put forward. Still others said that they did not know what to think, after weeks of following contradictory testimony in the news. “If I was the judge, I wouldn’t know what to do,” Paul Randall, 22, a college student, said on Thursday. “From following the case, it’s kind of hard to say one way or the other.”

Some of this uncertainty and ambivalence was on display on Liverpool Street immediately after Justice Arthur J. Cooperman found the three detectives not guilty of all the charges against them. One hour after the verdict, no crowd had gathered at the tattered memorial to Mr. Bell. Someone had placed a blue votive candle on the sidewalk, and there was one old, brittle bouquet of flowers and one fresh one. The water-cooler jug someone had placed there for donations contained just a few bills.

A man who approached was not there to protest the verdict. He was only walking by, on his way to pay a parking ticket around the corner. The man, Elliott Clark, 54, had seen the news of the judge’s decision on television, and though he disagreed with the verdict, he was more resigned than outraged. This was not 2000, when Rudolph W. Giuliani was mayor and Howard Safir was police commissioner and the four officers indicted in the killing of Mr. Diallo were acquitted, he said.

Zuma Dog.

It's On.

Yes.

GTA IV - Our Impressions

What non-press, true-blooded gamers thought of the game.

Seeing as we don't want to give away too much about the game – it really is an experience that should be experienced first-hand, and not through text or some shoddy video clip – we've chosen to simply outline some of our impressions of the game:

• The controls take a few hours to get used to, but we certainly encountered no major issues.
• The first two or three missions are relatively easy, so these missions can be used to familiarize yourself with the controls.
• One of the main differences in GTA IV compared to previous GTAs is the car handling. It's less sensitive than we're used to, and far more realistic. (Turning corners is tough.)
• Euphoria is amazing, allowing you to do all sorts of crazy things.
• Cars are much more resilient now. It takes a while to get them to catch fire, and takes then even longer to blow up.
• The screenshots we've seen are accurate; explosions are insanely intense.
• Everything is more realistic; things that you never noticed in previous GTA's will now be apparent.
• The city looks good during the day, but even better at night.
• Bob Ross may have inspired the art direction (hah)! Certain visuals mimic his work, although the "Bob Ross Filter" isn't as apparent on the PS3 version.

Multiplayer also brought on it's fair share of crazy incidences – buses have a use now, by the way – and nothing says "mayhem" like racing sixteen ice cream vans.

Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes has received a three-year prison sentence for tax offences.

A federal judge handed down the maximum term requested by prosecutors - a year for each of Snipes's convictions of wilfully failing to file a tax return.

Snipes's lawyers had called for leniency, arguing that the offences were misdemeanours and that the star was of good character.

But prosecutors said an example should be set because of Snipes's fame.

In February, Snipes was found guilty of deliberately failing to file tax returns for 1999, 2000 and 2001, but was cleared of more serious fraud and conspiracy charges.

Aphex Twin....

Nine Inch Nails..."Only".

Nine Inch Nails..."Down In It."

The Guys Keep On Rockin...The Concept Is Genius.

Grimy.

You Want To Know What Kind Of Hip Hop I Still Find Relevant?

Kool Keith Hits Ya With "Plastic World".(Plus Secret Bonus Track)

The Grouch From Oakland Says What I Always Say.."You Aint Artsy".

Rumor: 360 GTA DLC will be 'Entirely New Cities'

Internet rumor is improbable -- but not impossible. Also, awesome.
By Mark Whiting, 04/18/2008
Kotaku's got a great GTA IV rumor posted at the moment, clipped from a recent CVG print feature about Rockstar's upcoming new megagame Grand Theft Auto IV.

While you should probably take this latest info with at least a grain of critical salt, the original article was originally published under the watchful auspices of Microsoft -- a company presumably in the know as far their own DLC is concerned. The rumor going round is that GTA IV's downloadable "expansion" content (you know, the stuff exclusive to the Xbox 360) will be large enough in scope to constitute entirely new cities. From the article:

"Of course to call games as vastly ambitious as Vice City or San Andreas mere 'expansion packs' seems childish, but nevertheless, the downloadable content coming for the Xbox 360 version of IV has repositioned those games in just this way.

"[GTA IV's expansions] are to GTA IV what Vice City or San Andreas were GTA III. Yes, Rockstar is clearly hinting at new downloadable cities; and the chances of them being London, Vice City or SA again are slim to none. So that's new as in brand new. GTA IV's Liberty City is the beginning. Think about that and be excited."

If true, that'd be quite the coup for Microsoft, don't you think? Obviously at this point it's mostly just speculation, and of course nobody's actually saying whether these new cities will constitute anything more than roadside truck stops and wilderness or whether they'll be as full fledged as New Jersey. Still, the possibility that the GTA IV equivalent to Vice City could be as simple and direct as a download-only bolt-on to the original game isn't so far-fetched as to be unbelievable. This is Rockstar that we're talking about.

#6: The Confederate Flag

March 11, 2008 by Precious Roy

As popular as it is controversial, perhaps nothing White Trash People like is as misunderstood at the Confederate Flag.

Most sensible people see the Dixie Flag as a symbol of ignorance and racism. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth.

From a sociological perspective, the flag is a statement about pride in their Southern heritage. It’s a way of being a Southerner and resisting the perceived dominance of the North simply by hanging a piece of cloth in their window.

In this context, it’s also a way of saying, “I have better things to do with my money than spend it on curtains.”

From a political perspective the flag really has nothing to do with slavery or the segregationist Jim Crows laws that were enacted in the wake of Reconstruction. Instead, the Confederate flag is really about about states rights.

Specifically: the right to own slaves and count them as the 3/5th of a person that they really are.

But more than any of that, waving a confederate flag is actually a sentimental statement about how history plays out. It’s a way for a White Trash man to say, “If the South had won the Civil War, I would be mustachioed plantation owner with a Southern Belle of a wife in clad in spine-curving corset and petticoat and we would sit on the porch of our mansion and sip lemonaide while overlooking our acres and acres of cotton fields being worked by as a race of biologically inferior people as is my birthright. Instead I live in a trailer with a garden of rusted auto parts out front.”

That’s why the stars and bars is really about.