nice up the long weekend

it's summer -- mash it up!

the hunt

You're a fucking genius, mumbles. You too, John. And for the fun of it, here's a handsome remix of The Energy from the recently released A Book of Human Beats.

subversive babies

So i was e-mailing with my former boss the other day, and he sends me a link to his blog. I'm clicking around, and lo and behold, the guy has diversified into Prêt à Porter for the under three foot set. With crawlers emblazoned "my grandparents never visit me" and t-shirts that read "i'm sad", i command ye all to outfit your offspring with this garb pronto.

he's back

What about this guy?

what kind of a society..

Comes up with a term like "urinal cake"? Quite possibly the nastiest thing in the english vernacular.

fuck a suburb

"The stretch of Hudson Street where I live is each day the scene of an intricate sidewalk ballet...When I get home after work, the ballet is reaching its crescendo. This is the time of roller skates and stilts and tricycles, and games in the lee of the stoop with bottletops and plastic cowboys; this is the time of bundles and packages, zigzagging from the drug store to the fruit stand and back over to the butcher's; this is the time when teen-agers, all dressed up, are pausing to ask if their slips show or their collars look right; this is the time when beautiful girls get out of MG's; this is the time when the fire engines go through; this is the time when anybody you know around Hudson Street will go by."

--Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

I'm reading this seminal work on urban planning right now by this lady who basically saved the Village. It was written in the early 60s, so the excerpt above may seem a little dated...but reading this book, and then walking around New York...it's bugged how many truisms the work (still) contains. Makes you wonder how the fuck anybody ever thought projects were a good idea. Every page also drives home how enamored I am with city life and how I can't even contemplate the prospect of (ever?) piloting an SUV to the mini mall to pick up chips and snapple.

Overworked and....well...paid appropriately: Give a brotha a sec to breathe

Chappelle's Response to why he skipped the country

Slip into this guy's loafers sometime. Seriously, millions of American's constantly on your nuts to continually produce. This guy set the bar so high that it's going to be quite a feat to consistently keep people laughing with fresh material. It's hard enough to achieve your own expectations, let alone the expectations that others demand from you everyday. Then have a huge corporate empire dangle $50 million over your head insisting that you don't let them nor their sponsors down. Sure "humor" is an untapped resource, but there's only so much one guy and his writers can crank out day after day. Talk about stressful. The people will make and break you. Sometimes you just have to go out like Costanza: "Thank you, that's all for me, goodnight."

bring 'em out, bring 'em out

Wait, what now? Did an African Lion really kill 28 Cambodian Midgets in Kâmpóng Chhnãng on April 30? Fortunately, not.

Also, here's an article Carlos wishes was a fake. We weep with you, mighty Coqui..

Rehab is for quitters?

Chappelle Checks Into Facility

Shit, as if I hadn't beaten the first two seasons on DVD to death already....

who doesn't want to wear the ribbon?

I'm kind of frightened by Killer Mike, but that notwithstanding, this is a dope "freestyle". If you ain't yet, you need to get that purp! Big Boi brings the hotness on his new Purple Ribbon label, just in time for summer.

show us your tits (please)

The trials and tribs of a Playboy scout at Stanford.

justify your existence

Build Her a Cake or Something is a new webpage on The Internets. It will feature commentary. It will feature links to current happenings. We'll share The Rap and The Rock with you. There will be this guys. I will post. So will Jesse. We hope you enjoy!

seems like you have a mouth full of gold teeth

*ITEM*: Hey ladies, wanna be the belle of the ball this spring? Here's the perfect accessory for your corset. (Respect to Lizzer for the link)

not haha funny

Okay, so i think Seth MacFarlane has proven himself to be a pretty funny guy. I'm bummed about the loss of Arrested Development on Sunday nights, but a combination of Family Guy and American Dad seems like a worthy replacement. But the latter looked to be a serious misstep during the season opener. Dude musta offshored creative development and writing duties to keep up when he got these new deals.

Slow moving, flat jokes, replica characters/situations...and what am i supposed to take from the fact that nearly half the characters are gay? No for real, was that on purpose -- even the fish?? This joint's gonna have a hard time doing even Futurama numbers. If FOX lets this live and kills Arrested Development..

Sign this, please.

lost in translation

here to set it on you! details forthcoming..