i'm going to go out on a limb here -- this muthafucka, Will Ferrell... he's NOT FUNNY AT ALL! Who the fuck appointed this chump the new funny man de jour?
ELF - sucked, didn't laugh once.
ANCHORMAN - turned it off 10 minutes in.
WEDDING CRASHERS -- Adds an extremely annoying 10 minutes to an otherwise funny-ass movie.
BEWITCHED - Was that supposed to be an easy payday?
KICKING & SCREAMING - Uh, did anyone see that schlock?
And that Cow Bell Thing, come on now! Why is that even supposed to be funny?
Just don't think this guy is anywhere near the hype he's getting. The true comic genius of the age is Vince Vaughn. Give it up for Vince!
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Monday, August 15, 2005
Bombs Away? Don't Blame Those Tits
Have you seen the biggest movie bomb in recent memory The Island? Probably not, 'cause that's why it was a stinker!
Movie doesn't too much redeeming about it, except for the visual beauty of Scarlett Johansson.
Apparently that was the problem with the movie... according to the DreamWorks producers, who have blamed big-breasted, DSL Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor for the critical-mauling its received. Producer WALTER PARKES and his wife LAURIE have used their website to stage a vicious attack on Johansson and McGregor, claiming their half-hearted efforts have resulted in a poor reception for the high-budget sci-fi epic.
See, now I thought it was because the story was SHIT, and the directing was more concerned with the explosions and fancy camera moves than with character, dialog and dramaturgy... I guess my criteria for a good movie is different.
And Johansson's talents take the biggest beatings, with the husband and wife team claiming a television actress could have done a more professional job. They write, "Listen those are superstars of the future, not superstars of the present. Even lesser television actresses, quite honestly would have more connection to that audience."
The only thing that kept my eyes from collapsing was watching Scarlett's tits bounce around in a skin tight outfit... not that I'm a crass misanthrope, but everything else about the film (from the man who brought us THE ROCK and BAD BOYS) was at the end of the incoherent, inconsistent and insulting.
Why did the movie seem like a bad rip of LOGAN'S RUN (which is being remade)? When the majority of the dialogue spoken by Johansson is "run." You have to question the integrity of the movie.
Although, Parkes & MacDonald no doubt overpaid for Johansson and McGregor -- two actors who have never been in films that trulyl captured the broader public's eye/attention -- and that's unforgivable, because her fees is boosted for studio projects when she's not proven her value in the marketplace. Everything outside of Lost In Translation hasn't done well (i.e. made more than $100 million in the US).
Hmm... more piss-poor planning by Hollywood, right? No wonder people have been staying away from the movies this year.
It's not over yet, and it doesn't look any better.
Movie doesn't too much redeeming about it, except for the visual beauty of Scarlett Johansson.
Apparently that was the problem with the movie... according to the DreamWorks producers, who have blamed big-breasted, DSL Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor for the critical-mauling its received. Producer WALTER PARKES and his wife LAURIE have used their website to stage a vicious attack on Johansson and McGregor, claiming their half-hearted efforts have resulted in a poor reception for the high-budget sci-fi epic.
See, now I thought it was because the story was SHIT, and the directing was more concerned with the explosions and fancy camera moves than with character, dialog and dramaturgy... I guess my criteria for a good movie is different.
And Johansson's talents take the biggest beatings, with the husband and wife team claiming a television actress could have done a more professional job. They write, "Listen those are superstars of the future, not superstars of the present. Even lesser television actresses, quite honestly would have more connection to that audience."
The only thing that kept my eyes from collapsing was watching Scarlett's tits bounce around in a skin tight outfit... not that I'm a crass misanthrope, but everything else about the film (from the man who brought us THE ROCK and BAD BOYS) was at the end of the incoherent, inconsistent and insulting.
Why did the movie seem like a bad rip of LOGAN'S RUN (which is being remade)? When the majority of the dialogue spoken by Johansson is "run." You have to question the integrity of the movie.
Although, Parkes & MacDonald no doubt overpaid for Johansson and McGregor -- two actors who have never been in films that trulyl captured the broader public's eye/attention -- and that's unforgivable, because her fees is boosted for studio projects when she's not proven her value in the marketplace. Everything outside of Lost In Translation hasn't done well (i.e. made more than $100 million in the US).
Hmm... more piss-poor planning by Hollywood, right? No wonder people have been staying away from the movies this year.
It's not over yet, and it doesn't look any better.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
PodCasting v. Blogs
Someone left a comment on the blog the other day, stating that I've been living under a rock for most of 2005 'cause I'm not podcasting to express myself.
Podcasting is an interesting convergence of technology, and I've thought about doing an audio-blog, but then I said to myself -- I'm a writer... I like the writing, the burst of words emanating out from my finger tips... a man (or woman) of letters is infinitely more fascinating to me, as podcasting is just people talking, written language has its own unique experience... not to say that it's is better or worse than the spoken word.
Also, I'm not an actor (although I do work with actors from time to time) and I think one of the things that doesn't make podcasting that intriguing (yet) is that too many amateurs do it. Not to say that their information/content isn't valuable, but the key to spoken content delivery is the skills of the orator... if I couldn't express myself with the skills of a Cicero or Orson Welles, then the audiology isn't as powerful as it could be.
Plus were would I be without my photos...
Podcasting is an interesting convergence of technology, and I've thought about doing an audio-blog, but then I said to myself -- I'm a writer... I like the writing, the burst of words emanating out from my finger tips... a man (or woman) of letters is infinitely more fascinating to me, as podcasting is just people talking, written language has its own unique experience... not to say that it's is better or worse than the spoken word.
Also, I'm not an actor (although I do work with actors from time to time) and I think one of the things that doesn't make podcasting that intriguing (yet) is that too many amateurs do it. Not to say that their information/content isn't valuable, but the key to spoken content delivery is the skills of the orator... if I couldn't express myself with the skills of a Cicero or Orson Welles, then the audiology isn't as powerful as it could be.
Plus were would I be without my photos...
Friday, August 12, 2005
Fucking -- It's All Business, Ain't It?
Argh… the rigors of dating in Los Angeles. It sucks shit out of a dead dogs ass. I was talking with some friends of mine about the whole thing, and at the end of the day it boils down to what Viennese poet Rainer Maria Rilke said, “In life what is important to men is women, and what is important to women in money.” You know the old phrase, “seal the deal” in terms of getting a girl in the position to dick her down? Think about that, “seal the deal” even at that early stage in a relationship it’s viewed as a business dealing, and it doesn’t stop there. Once you get married you better get to know the ins and outs of Community Property Law, and then Divorce law, and then you’ll be kicking yourself for not get a prenup; again that’s a contract. Even the marriage agreement requires a legal document, a martial contract is essentially what it is.
Isn’t that fucked up? The search for money by women drives everything. You ask them and the deny it, that they want a man who can make them laugh and has a good personality. But I ask you, if a man who was make $500,000 year approached a woman, asked her out, and started dating her, but didn’t have the best personality, and wasn’t all that jokey, nor does this dude have a lot time to spend with the broad, ‘cause of his job, yet he showed her the best, most exciting times, because he had a lot of cash to burn to make his experiences with the women fun (‘cause as a dude you got to be with someone that you’re spending money on).
Or would she take the dude who made her laugh all the time, had all the time in the world for her, and had basically the same personality, but maybe version 1.2… although this guy was barely making over $40K… which guy would the woman take? Guy #1!!!
Girls just want to have fun, right? Doesn’t money mean more opportunities to have fun? Yes, it damn well does.
Broke muthafuckas have it bad. They can get a girl, and get married, but they lose a lot of power in the relationship. You all know the one… they have to ask their bitch for permission to do anything, like take piss with the toilet seat up!
When the game of fucking, it's a game of power -- like every other game. As a male, if you don't set the precedent of how shit is going to be... then you're setting yourself for countless times that you have to bite your tongue! 'Cause you let the girl get away with something THE FIRST TIME, when you should have nipped that shite in the bud. Can't go back on it the second time you see something and don't like it, 'cause the girl just will not understand.
So if you want a Dimepiece like the one to your right... then you gotta be a man, and put your foot in that ass.
I remember a few months ago when I was reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and in the Detroit Red section, Malcolm talked about his time when he kicked it with hookers; hookers told Malcolm that most of the time Men need to be gruff with their women, and from time to time be sweet and affection and kind. If you don't, per the hookers, then the Men will frequently outside sources for their pussy; pussy that doesn't cut your balls off just so you can "get some tonight."
With hookers or any other kind of so-called pay-for-pussy girl, one isn't necessarily paying for the ses -- one is paying for the bitch to hit the bricks after you nut and wipe your dick on the curtain.
But on the reals, as a man you're paying for pussy any way you look at it. The gas, dinners, movies, horseback trips, picnics, bottle of wine, trips to resorts -- that's all money out the pocket, right? Money that is used to create a sense of happiness within the woman so she'll fuck. Couldn't that same money be spent on a bitch in a brothel?
The World's Lifeblood - SUCKED DRY, BITCHES!
And you thought I was trippin' back on The Nigger Factor when I was claiming that Oil was going to hit $80/barrel before the end of the year! Mark my muthafuckin' words, it's going to happen?
And then what?
Nuthin'! Muthafuckas cain't do shite 'bout it. Can they? Nope, 'cause nobody thought it was smart to dump goo-gobbs of money into alternative power sources, particularly for the god-forsaken internal combustion engine.
What's the world to do?
China is going to keep fucking the West because they don't have a decadent lifestyle that can shatter into a million pieces and cause urban riots throughout the US and Europe (more so the US though). See China and the rest of the emerging economies that are consuming huge quantities of Geoblood are used to living in slums -- in fact only the Uber-rich, the rich like the 1% of Americans who own all the shit, in China know what it's like to be profligatae with its disposable resources.
You think the barely literate 20 year old coming about the western Chinese countryside gives a fuck about the latest cellphone or who the fuck Jennifer Aniston is getting dicked down by? Hell, no! So the Chinese are even expected to feel the crunch of the sppiralling oil prices.
And there's nothing one can really do about.
And the U.S. is fucking up, because far too many refineries aren't operating efficiently -- bunch a bitches. Remember my column just recently about American Workers not being able to compete... case in point.
And then what?
Nuthin'! Muthafuckas cain't do shite 'bout it. Can they? Nope, 'cause nobody thought it was smart to dump goo-gobbs of money into alternative power sources, particularly for the god-forsaken internal combustion engine.
What's the world to do?
China is going to keep fucking the West because they don't have a decadent lifestyle that can shatter into a million pieces and cause urban riots throughout the US and Europe (more so the US though). See China and the rest of the emerging economies that are consuming huge quantities of Geoblood are used to living in slums -- in fact only the Uber-rich, the rich like the 1% of Americans who own all the shit, in China know what it's like to be profligatae with its disposable resources.
You think the barely literate 20 year old coming about the western Chinese countryside gives a fuck about the latest cellphone or who the fuck Jennifer Aniston is getting dicked down by? Hell, no! So the Chinese are even expected to feel the crunch of the sppiralling oil prices.
And there's nothing one can really do about.
And the U.S. is fucking up, because far too many refineries aren't operating efficiently -- bunch a bitches. Remember my column just recently about American Workers not being able to compete... case in point.
San Andreas - Niggas Gonna Work It Out!
I came across this article a few days ago -
Video game industry seeking minorities
More heroes and heroines instead of hoods and hoodlums
The Associated Press
Updated: 9:05 a.m. ET Aug. 5, 2005
ATLANTA - In the popular video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," players assume the lead character of Carl Johnson, a down-on-his-luck criminal who roams city streets, stealing cars and helping gang members knock off rivals in drive-by shootings.
"CJ," as he's known by his pals, is
black — and to some in the video game industry, that's a problem.
A growing number of people in the booming industry believe there should be more black and Hispanic heroes and heroines instead of hoods and hoodlums.
"Not everybody goes outside with bling-bling and listens to rap music all day," says Amil Tomlin, a black 15-year-old from Baltimore who plays hours of video games each day.
Among those trying to paint a different racial picture is Mario Armstrong, who hosts a weekly National Public Radio program on technology. He and two fellow black colleagues have started the Urban Video Game Academy, a virtual programming boot camp for minorities.
"It's been said that a bunch of nerdy white guys are creating these games," Armstrong said. "The problem with a bunch of white guys creating the games is that the story isn't being created with balance."
Roughly 80 percent of video game programmers are white, according to preliminary results of an International Game Developers Association survey of some 6,000 in the industry. About four percent of designers are Hispanic, and less than three percent are black.
The institute, formed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in May, is holding summer workshops in Atlanta, Baltimore and Washington D.C. to give minority students like Tomlin an opportunity to learn the basics of making video games.
Organizers hope this early exposure will inspire a new generation to make minority video game characters that go beyond typecast racial roles.
"I'd love to hear what other stories exist in the world besides the stereotypical ones. There are good people in the ghetto. There are role models," said academy co-founder John Saulter, who runs Entertainment Arts Research, one of the industry's few black-owned video gaming companies.
A five-week Baltimore program began June 27, with 50 high school students getting a tour of Maryland's tech-friendly Hunt Valley and a visit in the fall with Sid Meier, an industry pioneer.
In Atlanta, more than 200 applicants applied for roughly 20 spots in a two-week program set to begin in early August. Another camp in Washington, D.C. spearheaded by Roderick Woodruff, who runs a minority gaming Web site, begins later.
Organizers say they aren't surprised interest is so high. A March study by the Kaiser Family Foundation revealed that black youths between 8 and 18 years old played video and computer games roughly 90 minutes a day — almost 30 minutes more than white youths. And Hispanics play about 10 minutes more per day than whites.
"If you've got kids who can sit in front of a game for eight hours, then they have the cognitive thought process to learn how to build the game," Saulter said.
Some in the industry believe race in games is a serious issue that has been ignored for too long. "For a long time, we've talked in the game industry about gender diversity as the one problem on the radar, but the racial split is worse," said Ian Bogost, a Georgia Tech game design professor who recently published a book on video game criticism.
Jason Della Rocca, IGDA's executive director, said the industry must confront a cycle that threatens its creativity: Educated, young white males create games for other educated, young white males.
"Games are an expressive medium. They are an art form, just like movies, theater and literature," Della Rocca said. "We're seeing, to a large extent, that the games that are being designed unconsciously include the biases, opinions and reflections of their creators."
In a way, he said, stubborness to diversify runs counter to the industry's tolerant roots. "We like to think that game design is a higher calling and that no one really cares what your skin color is or your sexual orientation," Della Rocca said. "But that doesn't seem to manifest itself in terms of a more diversified workplace."
Reaching out to minorities might also make financial sense. "Look at the Sims, the best-selling game of all-time. The development team was very gender-balanced," Della Rocca said.
Imagine, he pondered, what an ethnically diverse team could create. Like that will EVER happen!
This is a funny article, 'cause I believe that video games are worse that Hollywood when i comes to enabling African-Americans a chance at "playing in that sandbox." The egregious stereotypes offered in games like Vice City and San Andreas just let us know what people are really thinking about African-Americans regardless of what the company line is.
Ironically, Sam Jackson provides one of the voices for San Andreas... I guess he didn't see the entire script...
The line -- young, educated white males create games for other young education white males if perposterous.
African-American males spend more time making love to their PS2, because education is sacrificed for time in front of the Xbox in many a minority household. And I wouldn't characterize the bulk of the white playing audience as being educated.
Think about all the EA Sports games that predominanly feature African-American characters -- showboating and taunting after scoring, behavior that's unacceptable in the real world, yet acceptable for pixalated niggas?!? Don't those games sell a fucking hell of a lot?!?
The video game is just another place where niggas get short shrift at the hands of their one-time oppressors.
Video game industry seeking minorities
More heroes and heroines instead of hoods and hoodlums
The Associated Press
Updated: 9:05 a.m. ET Aug. 5, 2005
ATLANTA - In the popular video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," players assume the lead character of Carl Johnson, a down-on-his-luck criminal who roams city streets, stealing cars and helping gang members knock off rivals in drive-by shootings.
"CJ," as he's known by his pals, is
black — and to some in the video game industry, that's a problem.
A growing number of people in the booming industry believe there should be more black and Hispanic heroes and heroines instead of hoods and hoodlums.
"Not everybody goes outside with bling-bling and listens to rap music all day," says Amil Tomlin, a black 15-year-old from Baltimore who plays hours of video games each day.
Among those trying to paint a different racial picture is Mario Armstrong, who hosts a weekly National Public Radio program on technology. He and two fellow black colleagues have started the Urban Video Game Academy, a virtual programming boot camp for minorities.
"It's been said that a bunch of nerdy white guys are creating these games," Armstrong said. "The problem with a bunch of white guys creating the games is that the story isn't being created with balance."
Roughly 80 percent of video game programmers are white, according to preliminary results of an International Game Developers Association survey of some 6,000 in the industry. About four percent of designers are Hispanic, and less than three percent are black.
The institute, formed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in May, is holding summer workshops in Atlanta, Baltimore and Washington D.C. to give minority students like Tomlin an opportunity to learn the basics of making video games.
Organizers hope this early exposure will inspire a new generation to make minority video game characters that go beyond typecast racial roles.
"I'd love to hear what other stories exist in the world besides the stereotypical ones. There are good people in the ghetto. There are role models," said academy co-founder John Saulter, who runs Entertainment Arts Research, one of the industry's few black-owned video gaming companies.
A five-week Baltimore program began June 27, with 50 high school students getting a tour of Maryland's tech-friendly Hunt Valley and a visit in the fall with Sid Meier, an industry pioneer.
In Atlanta, more than 200 applicants applied for roughly 20 spots in a two-week program set to begin in early August. Another camp in Washington, D.C. spearheaded by Roderick Woodruff, who runs a minority gaming Web site, begins later.
Organizers say they aren't surprised interest is so high. A March study by the Kaiser Family Foundation revealed that black youths between 8 and 18 years old played video and computer games roughly 90 minutes a day — almost 30 minutes more than white youths. And Hispanics play about 10 minutes more per day than whites.
"If you've got kids who can sit in front of a game for eight hours, then they have the cognitive thought process to learn how to build the game," Saulter said.
Some in the industry believe race in games is a serious issue that has been ignored for too long. "For a long time, we've talked in the game industry about gender diversity as the one problem on the radar, but the racial split is worse," said Ian Bogost, a Georgia Tech game design professor who recently published a book on video game criticism.
Jason Della Rocca, IGDA's executive director, said the industry must confront a cycle that threatens its creativity: Educated, young white males create games for other educated, young white males.
"Games are an expressive medium. They are an art form, just like movies, theater and literature," Della Rocca said. "We're seeing, to a large extent, that the games that are being designed unconsciously include the biases, opinions and reflections of their creators."
In a way, he said, stubborness to diversify runs counter to the industry's tolerant roots. "We like to think that game design is a higher calling and that no one really cares what your skin color is or your sexual orientation," Della Rocca said. "But that doesn't seem to manifest itself in terms of a more diversified workplace."
Reaching out to minorities might also make financial sense. "Look at the Sims, the best-selling game of all-time. The development team was very gender-balanced," Della Rocca said.
Imagine, he pondered, what an ethnically diverse team could create. Like that will EVER happen!
This is a funny article, 'cause I believe that video games are worse that Hollywood when i comes to enabling African-Americans a chance at "playing in that sandbox." The egregious stereotypes offered in games like Vice City and San Andreas just let us know what people are really thinking about African-Americans regardless of what the company line is.
Ironically, Sam Jackson provides one of the voices for San Andreas... I guess he didn't see the entire script...
The line -- young, educated white males create games for other young education white males if perposterous.
African-American males spend more time making love to their PS2, because education is sacrificed for time in front of the Xbox in many a minority household. And I wouldn't characterize the bulk of the white playing audience as being educated.
Think about all the EA Sports games that predominanly feature African-American characters -- showboating and taunting after scoring, behavior that's unacceptable in the real world, yet acceptable for pixalated niggas?!? Don't those games sell a fucking hell of a lot?!?
The video game is just another place where niggas get short shrift at the hands of their one-time oppressors.
Uh... I guess My Body Is Fish Food
For some mutahsuckin' reason Natalee Holloway's body HAS YET TO BE FOUND. The only thing I can assume at this point is that killer kids dismembered her body, cut it up and put it in Hefty Bags and dumped into the Caribbean Sea.
Truth be told, it's hard to find sympahty in this case -- just look at the cold, hard facts: rich, white girl from the US is VACATIONING in Aruba as part of a High School Class Trip(!?!), she cuts loose because her parents aren't around and grossly uninspired rap videos have shown these island paradises to be places where a lot of fucking, sucking, and drinking go on with reckless adandon. And then just like most rich, so-called pretty blonde girls, Natalee thought and acted like her pussy was gold that young men and boys have to scrap for. The Islanders weren't having that and they did whatever they did (all wrong, of course), making a big mistake by perhaps choking the girl with several dicks and hands on her throat (just a hypothesis)... and she died. So the Islanders had to cover it up, and US movies have told people that getting away with murder is perhaps easy; so they attempted it and failed.
Only the body is not able to be found... what gives? See if the boys ini question do point out where they LEFT the body, I doubt any DNA evidence (from semen) can be used to convict. Although there might be skin under the fingernails (and you know in most murder cases, the cops don't have all the hi-tech shit used to solve crime like in CSI at their disposal, but with this case you best believe they're going to pull out all the stops. Natalee's family will pay the additional expenses if need be!), if the body was sliced, diced, then dumped I don't know what physical evidence can still exist if the corpse has been sitting in salty seawater for an extended period of time.
The truth will come out... although not always...
Truth be told, it's hard to find sympahty in this case -- just look at the cold, hard facts: rich, white girl from the US is VACATIONING in Aruba as part of a High School Class Trip(!?!), she cuts loose because her parents aren't around and grossly uninspired rap videos have shown these island paradises to be places where a lot of fucking, sucking, and drinking go on with reckless adandon. And then just like most rich, so-called pretty blonde girls, Natalee thought and acted like her pussy was gold that young men and boys have to scrap for. The Islanders weren't having that and they did whatever they did (all wrong, of course), making a big mistake by perhaps choking the girl with several dicks and hands on her throat (just a hypothesis)... and she died. So the Islanders had to cover it up, and US movies have told people that getting away with murder is perhaps easy; so they attempted it and failed.
Only the body is not able to be found... what gives? See if the boys ini question do point out where they LEFT the body, I doubt any DNA evidence (from semen) can be used to convict. Although there might be skin under the fingernails (and you know in most murder cases, the cops don't have all the hi-tech shit used to solve crime like in CSI at their disposal, but with this case you best believe they're going to pull out all the stops. Natalee's family will pay the additional expenses if need be!), if the body was sliced, diced, then dumped I don't know what physical evidence can still exist if the corpse has been sitting in salty seawater for an extended period of time.
The truth will come out... although not always...
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
ENOUGH Already
I guess we're not going to stop hearing about Jennifer Aniston's romantic woes... as Vanity Fair moved up her cover story to this month's.
All I can say is... her pussy ain't gold, and obviously Angelina's vaginal juices are more potent. Is she a good person? Don't know, and neither does 99% of the people gobbling up all the shit and dirt that's been splattered on the tabloids for the past 6+ months. I hope she's a good person, and therefore deserving happiness. But as a uber-successful actress the odds are against.
I was talking with a friend of mine and she told me that she refused to see the wonderful action-romantic-comedy MR. & MRS. SMITH because it featured the great chemistry between the former Mr. Aniston - Brad Pitt, and the former Mrs. Billy Bob Thorton -- Angelina Jolie -- all because of the cheating that those two did on poor little Jennifer.
I don't know Jennifer (but jugding by those nipples I'd like to!), but she can't feel that bad because cheating and imploding relations is par for the course of celebrity weddings, and for that matter any time when the woman in a marriage is especially powerful and has a hoarde of sycophants around. Plus relationships bust out -- she's part of the micro-age, a child of concrete & steel of the 20th century, marriages aren't supposed to last for us. Or maybe it's the concept that one's first marriage is "for practice" and the second one is the keeper... too bad this was Jen's second memory.
You know what's funny about this image of her that I dug up... you never she her exploiting that kind of dick-stiffening sexuality in her film roles! I wonder if she embraced that cunniligus-inducing outward behavior on screen more, would she be what everyone accuses Jolie of being? Hard to say... but I'd wage that Jennifer is no where near as self-destructive and destructive to her men as Angelina Jolie.
By the end of next year, Jennifer will be with her next man, and SO WILL ANGELINA. The question is, what's going to happen to Brad Pitt's career... you think I'm tripping? Look at the careers of all the men Jolie has left in her wake.
Oil -- still going sky high, and Iraq's not online??!
Yesterday the price of oil hit a record $64/barrel! And people thought I was tripping when I made pleas about oil reaching $80 barrel the year is out (this was back when oil was breaching $50 and Prescott Bush's presidential grandson was talking about destroying the Alaskan wildlife reserves to line the pockets of his friends and constituents over at Haliburton).
The price of gasoline in Los Angeles is off the change, routinely flirting with $3/gallon. It made me pull this widget from the internet (for my new PowerBook that's running Tiger) to tell me where the cheapest gasoline is in my area.
See the biggest problem with the high price of gasoline in LA, is that it adds more ammo to my theory that Los Angeles is strangling itself with an increasing cost of living where the economy doesn't create enough of jobs or have jobs that provide enough income to match the inflation of just about fucking everything.
Still can't understand why the Iraqi oil fields aren't just pumping, pumping, pumping. It's been over two years and the insurgents are gumming up the words like that? FUCK!
I heard that there are HUGE oil fields -- larger that what's in Saudi Arabia -- underneath the Rocky Mountains, yet accessing that oil is probably on the scale of nuclear fusion.
Well, the high cost of oil is only one of the contributing factors that pushing the US of A to 3rd World Status -- which it'll probably embrace within the next 20 years, and I don't think there will be the rioting in the streets that I've been predicting -- except by Blacks.
The price of gasoline in Los Angeles is off the change, routinely flirting with $3/gallon. It made me pull this widget from the internet (for my new PowerBook that's running Tiger) to tell me where the cheapest gasoline is in my area.
See the biggest problem with the high price of gasoline in LA, is that it adds more ammo to my theory that Los Angeles is strangling itself with an increasing cost of living where the economy doesn't create enough of jobs or have jobs that provide enough income to match the inflation of just about fucking everything.
Still can't understand why the Iraqi oil fields aren't just pumping, pumping, pumping. It's been over two years and the insurgents are gumming up the words like that? FUCK!
I heard that there are HUGE oil fields -- larger that what's in Saudi Arabia -- underneath the Rocky Mountains, yet accessing that oil is probably on the scale of nuclear fusion.
Well, the high cost of oil is only one of the contributing factors that pushing the US of A to 3rd World Status -- which it'll probably embrace within the next 20 years, and I don't think there will be the rioting in the streets that I've been predicting -- except by Blacks.
Monday, August 08, 2005
America On The Way to 3rd World Status
Do you remember that comic strip/weight-lifting ad in the back of magazines where a skinny guy gets sand kicked in his face by a ripped up bully?
Well I saw it again on the cover of this month's FORTUNE magazine, with this slight twist: the skinny bitch was Uncle Sam and the ripped dude was a Chinese personifcation. The cover story was coming down hard on the impending Chinese threat to America's way of life (best be sure that the valued American standard of living is stalling right now, and soon will be falling -- plunging is more like it).
The author wasn't saying that American can't compete in the global market, because it can. It's the American workers who ain't worth shit! Yeah, and if you think about it that statement has a lot of truth to it. Ever since the mid-70s American education has been steadily declining -- particularly in any hard science field. Across the board education - public and private is steadily falling behind too many countries that American workers need to compete against. Sure, childrenof East Asian immigrants have been making up the slack for whites and Blacks, but why is that the case? The article pointed out that American youth culture is one that sees any kind of "heavy" studying in math, science and computers as being nerdy and uncool -- and in America there is NOTHING worse than being labeled a nerd or being perceived as being "uncool."
The cool, fuck-it-all attitude that arose in the late 60s, took root in the 70s and because a way of life in the 80s (termed the slacker) that was eventually lauded and cheered -- but at the expense . America is already an 80% service economy, what happens when those services can be primarily provided overseas for cheaper (we're already seeing it with Call Centers and other low wage customer service jobs)?
Whites just don't see tech driven education as a way to "get the girl" as it is drilled into the publics brain by lifestyle-commericals, MTV and youth oriented TV shows.
Niggaz never prized education -- any kind of education -- in the first place (which means that cycle has to be broken before Niggaz can begin to embrace tech ed), so you know the hard sciences are eschewed even more by Niggaz! From a certain viewpoint, Black pop culture has signed the death warrant for Black people as a viable economic entity as the 21st century rolls along. And as racism seemingly goes to the wayside (not truth, but...) and the Latino population gorws faster, Niggaz aren't going to get the
What Niggaz do bring to the table is fastily becoming easily mimicable for whites, Asians and Hispanics... so Niggaz aren't going to have place? Except as the permanant underclass that believes they are too good for certain jobs that they were forced to take in the 8 decades after slavery, thus condemning Niggaz to a poverty level, class, societal rank that they won't be able to escape. The ghetto increasingly cramps the mental outlook of those living it and Niggaz will be living in the ghetto more and more, as China continues to bully the U.S. And thanks to the decades of propaganda that portrayed American Blacks as dangerous the Chinese aren't going to want deal with Niggaz either.
(more shortly)
Well I saw it again on the cover of this month's FORTUNE magazine, with this slight twist: the skinny bitch was Uncle Sam and the ripped dude was a Chinese personifcation. The cover story was coming down hard on the impending Chinese threat to America's way of life (best be sure that the valued American standard of living is stalling right now, and soon will be falling -- plunging is more like it).
The author wasn't saying that American can't compete in the global market, because it can. It's the American workers who ain't worth shit! Yeah, and if you think about it that statement has a lot of truth to it. Ever since the mid-70s American education has been steadily declining -- particularly in any hard science field. Across the board education - public and private is steadily falling behind too many countries that American workers need to compete against. Sure, childrenof East Asian immigrants have been making up the slack for whites and Blacks, but why is that the case? The article pointed out that American youth culture is one that sees any kind of "heavy" studying in math, science and computers as being nerdy and uncool -- and in America there is NOTHING worse than being labeled a nerd or being perceived as being "uncool."
The cool, fuck-it-all attitude that arose in the late 60s, took root in the 70s and because a way of life in the 80s (termed the slacker) that was eventually lauded and cheered -- but at the expense . America is already an 80% service economy, what happens when those services can be primarily provided overseas for cheaper (we're already seeing it with Call Centers and other low wage customer service jobs)?
Whites just don't see tech driven education as a way to "get the girl" as it is drilled into the publics brain by lifestyle-commericals, MTV and youth oriented TV shows.
Niggaz never prized education -- any kind of education -- in the first place (which means that cycle has to be broken before Niggaz can begin to embrace tech ed), so you know the hard sciences are eschewed even more by Niggaz! From a certain viewpoint, Black pop culture has signed the death warrant for Black people as a viable economic entity as the 21st century rolls along. And as racism seemingly goes to the wayside (not truth, but...) and the Latino population gorws faster, Niggaz aren't going to get the
What Niggaz do bring to the table is fastily becoming easily mimicable for whites, Asians and Hispanics... so Niggaz aren't going to have place? Except as the permanant underclass that believes they are too good for certain jobs that they were forced to take in the 8 decades after slavery, thus condemning Niggaz to a poverty level, class, societal rank that they won't be able to escape. The ghetto increasingly cramps the mental outlook of those living it and Niggaz will be living in the ghetto more and more, as China continues to bully the U.S. And thanks to the decades of propaganda that portrayed American Blacks as dangerous the Chinese aren't going to want deal with Niggaz either.
(more shortly)
Friday, August 05, 2005
Oprah, yeah you're black, but you're not above it 'cause of your money
Of course I'm late on this one, 'cause I don't have the time like I used to have to seek out these kind of inane stories. But WAAAY back in June, Oprah Winfery -- arguably the riches Black woman EVER -- was snubbed at the tres chich boutique Hermes in Paris.
There has been talk that it was because Oprah was Black... that's a possibility, however extremely unlikely, as in Paris if you are noticeably an American Black, you'll get much love. If you come up to any place nice looking like you're from Senegal or some other African country -- expect the same kind of treatment white Americans give Mexicans.
Here's a recap of the incident.
Fashionistas and social commentators alike are watching developments as they unfold surrounding Oprah Winfrey's apparent snub at the exclusive Hermès luxury store in Paris on June 14.
The big question: Was Oprah's rejection from the store racially motivated by the Hermès staff, or was she simply turned away because the store had just closed? Number one Oprah is VERY recognizable -- across the globe, so such a racial snub I just don't think would happen.
Winfrey, 51, apparently stopped by Hermès to purchase a watch for Tina Turner before the two had dinner. Though the store had closed about 15 minutes before, Winfrey and three friends – who saw shoppers inside the store – reportedly asked to be let in, only to be rebuffed.
Hermès – which has branches throughout the United States – said in a statement that it "regrets not having been able to welcome" Winfrey to the store, but that "a private public relations event was being prepared inside." Sounds like a convenient excuse -- and maybe that's exactly what it is... but we will ever know?
Winfrey believes the store's staff had identified her, according to a spokeswoman from her Chicago-based company, Harpo Production Inc. According to Winfrey's rep, the talk show queen asked if she could just run in and buy the watch, but was snubbed by a clerk and a manager. Winfrey's friend, Gayle King, who was in Paris with the media queen, told Entertainment Tonight, "I saw it, and it was really, really very bad," then added: "Oprah describes it herself as one of the most humiliating moments of her life." Now this is the part that trips me the fuck out, and where I have no sympathy for the woman! Oprah lives in a gilded life where everyone does for her what ever the fuck she wants -- no questions asked. And Paris, as we all know, loves to rebuke Americans, especially celebrities who think they own the world and can do whatever with impunity. Parisian are probably sick to death of so-called wealthy or celebrity Americans coming over and expecting the red carpet treatment IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY just because they are treated like royality in the most hypocritical country of them all.
Hermès says their version of the story is all documented on a store videotape, although they are not currently releasing it to the press.
This tape could show Oprah being a straight bitch, acting like her money can buy the stink off her shit.
Harpo says Winfrey plans to discuss the incident in the context of race relations on her highly influential show when it returns to the air this fall. Should she call for a boycott of Hermès, the effects could be highly damaging – though it has also been suggested that viewers of Oprah's show aren't really in the market for $6,000 handbags.
Winfrey has often plugged Hermès products – a $135 tea cup and saucer was featured in her magazine in 2001 and was still on her Web site Tuesday, along with the company's phone number, reports the Associated Press. But she has said she will no longer be shopping in its stores.
She'll go back once the whole thing gets taken care off, and notice how it doesn't say that she would refuse any gift from Hermes -- so maybe Tina Turner can do all the shopping for her?"
There has been talk that it was because Oprah was Black... that's a possibility, however extremely unlikely, as in Paris if you are noticeably an American Black, you'll get much love. If you come up to any place nice looking like you're from Senegal or some other African country -- expect the same kind of treatment white Americans give Mexicans.
Here's a recap of the incident.
Fashionistas and social commentators alike are watching developments as they unfold surrounding Oprah Winfrey's apparent snub at the exclusive Hermès luxury store in Paris on June 14.
The big question: Was Oprah's rejection from the store racially motivated by the Hermès staff, or was she simply turned away because the store had just closed? Number one Oprah is VERY recognizable -- across the globe, so such a racial snub I just don't think would happen.
Winfrey, 51, apparently stopped by Hermès to purchase a watch for Tina Turner before the two had dinner. Though the store had closed about 15 minutes before, Winfrey and three friends – who saw shoppers inside the store – reportedly asked to be let in, only to be rebuffed.
Hermès – which has branches throughout the United States – said in a statement that it "regrets not having been able to welcome" Winfrey to the store, but that "a private public relations event was being prepared inside." Sounds like a convenient excuse -- and maybe that's exactly what it is... but we will ever know?
Winfrey believes the store's staff had identified her, according to a spokeswoman from her Chicago-based company, Harpo Production Inc. According to Winfrey's rep, the talk show queen asked if she could just run in and buy the watch, but was snubbed by a clerk and a manager. Winfrey's friend, Gayle King, who was in Paris with the media queen, told Entertainment Tonight, "I saw it, and it was really, really very bad," then added: "Oprah describes it herself as one of the most humiliating moments of her life." Now this is the part that trips me the fuck out, and where I have no sympathy for the woman! Oprah lives in a gilded life where everyone does for her what ever the fuck she wants -- no questions asked. And Paris, as we all know, loves to rebuke Americans, especially celebrities who think they own the world and can do whatever with impunity. Parisian are probably sick to death of so-called wealthy or celebrity Americans coming over and expecting the red carpet treatment IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY just because they are treated like royality in the most hypocritical country of them all.
Hermès says their version of the story is all documented on a store videotape, although they are not currently releasing it to the press.
This tape could show Oprah being a straight bitch, acting like her money can buy the stink off her shit.
Harpo says Winfrey plans to discuss the incident in the context of race relations on her highly influential show when it returns to the air this fall. Should she call for a boycott of Hermès, the effects could be highly damaging – though it has also been suggested that viewers of Oprah's show aren't really in the market for $6,000 handbags.
Winfrey has often plugged Hermès products – a $135 tea cup and saucer was featured in her magazine in 2001 and was still on her Web site Tuesday, along with the company's phone number, reports the Associated Press. But she has said she will no longer be shopping in its stores.
She'll go back once the whole thing gets taken care off, and notice how it doesn't say that she would refuse any gift from Hermes -- so maybe Tina Turner can do all the shopping for her?"
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