Blogging Psuedonyms

So I normally don't like to post to other blogs. Unless those blogs are particularly unheard of or just wicked cool. Yes, wicked cool. But, here a well known political blog that's name ends in the feminine "ette" suffix, yet they are amazed when people refer to it with a feminine pronoun, describes the dangers of using blogging pseudonyms and how they just might not work as well as you'd think they would.

Moral of the story? You other fools better come up with a plan B in case someone finds out who you are. It's a good thing I really am the Scarlet Pimpernel!

Stooper Heroes

Superheroes Anonymous brings superheroes into real life - taking to the streets and becoming a visible icon of community service and activism. We create the change by helping the needy, fund-raising, combating crime and inspiring others to take action.

And a video

And more amateur superheroes

Pictures too!

Though a note: if you're going to "fight crime" or go "patrolling the streets", don't carry around a fake gun. You'll get your ass shot. (Though, if you look at the cities these superheroes patrol, I'm not too worried.)

Seriously, what the fuck? It's time for some people to move out of their parents basement.

awesomely strange Marvin Gaye videos

Belgian documentary, with Marvin on solo piano.


Alternate lyrics to "Distant Lover" ... included with the deluxe edition of "What's Goin' On" ...

We're Ladies, Fuck You

charles gorzcynski - alto saxophone
nate lepine - tenor saxophone
elliot ross - guitar
chris merrill - bass
anthony abbinanti - drums

we're ladies. FUCK YOU!

Wait, what?

"Chris Kennedy, the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, is taking steps to run for Senate and could announce his candidacy as early as next week, a source close to the Kennedy family told CNN Wednesday. . . . If elected, Chris Kennedy would follow in the footsteps of his father, Robert, who represented New York in the Senate before being assassinated in 1968." Is CNN predicting Chris Kennedy is going to get assassinated?

angel queef?

click to grow!

hipster hop

If Hip-Hop is dying, this is certainly keeping it in hooked up to life support ...
Seriously? .... seriously ... ?
What confounds me more is not these idiots doing this, but ALL THE PEOPLE SITTING AROUND WATCHING! But I guess when your hip-hop history is confined to "that one song Aerosmith did with those guys in the 80s", "Flava Flav (in reality show format)", and "Will Smith" it's not too surprising this would pass as .. well, passable ...



via look at this fucking hipster

First time for everything

Living in Humboldt Park for 2-3 years now, and for the first time I heard a man die

Reefer

Here, in what could be called the Fort Knox of dope, Mahmoud ElSohly waits patiently as an assistant unlocks the stainless steel door to a climate-controlled vault.

I love it when newspapers try to sound like two guys talking on the corner.

More On Graffiti

"They're defacing our community," Larry Ligas of Logan Square Concerned Citizens said. . . . The park, on Logan Boulevard under the Kennedy Expy., is supposed to be for neighborhood skate boarders but is becoming a magnet for vandalism-prone outsiders, according to Ligas and Pagan.

Holy Crap. People are putting graffiti on our fair skate park. Those BASTARDS!!!

Why don't some of these people worry more about, you know, the gangs in the neighborhood?

UPDATE: I found out who's been doing all this graffiti in Logan Square! Habitat for Humanities my ASS!!!

crappy art, but still ...

I heard about this at a show I played Friday night with The Drastics at Q4... I personally don't care for the mural ... it's not that aesthetically pleasing and seems to want to stir controversy without any cohesive motivation... For me, it looks like a collection of "controversial" images; the same kind of iconography you would see at an anti-IMF rally where half the protesters aren't really sure what the IMF even does ... Of course, this is not addressing the point (but does stroke my elitist art ego) ... the point being that a mural on private property should reserve some rights against removal (barring blatant hate mongering, swearing, etc ... I'm sure Pimpernel could weigh in more on this, he just graduated from Lawyer School!) ... When I worked on North Avenue, the entrance to our gallery was somewhat set in from the rest of the building and therefor allowed easier coverage for taggers, bums and (most recently) idiot frat boys who need to piss all over our door ... Every once in a while I'd come in and see that Daley's Graffiti Blasters had stopped by and removed all the tags from our entrance way .. I don't know if it was that we were a gallery but more "artistically" inclined taggers seemed to frequent our little vestibule ... there was some real cool stuff on those walls.. gone forever ... of course we were just renters and so also had little say in what went on outside our doors ... and since the neighborhood was beginning to gentrify in a very major and immediately recognizable way (ie a Bebe, Marc Jacobson and Intermix all going in on Damen within 2 months) I'm sure the buildings owners were trying to "clean up" and capitalize on jacking rent up as quickly as possible ... Anyway, the point is: censorship=bad ... coulda used the 400 bucks it cost to cover that mural (I'm guessing at the cost ... probably 4 or 5 guys each getting 30-50 bux an hour plus equipment etc etc) and filled some potholes or gotten rid of some ACTUAL graffiti like all the crappy gang tags ...

The Scarlet Pumpernickel

Gotta Stop Taking Oxycotin Before Going on the Air

"[Roberta McCain] is absolutely right" in her assessment that that she belongs to a different Republican Party than he does, Limbaugh said during his radio show: "The Republican Party she belongs to gets shellacked election after election after election." So there are more than one Republican Part? One that wins elections? Oh! It now makes so much sense. Rush is really a backer of the Republican Party of Armenia.

Now it's Picture Time . . . .



Look! It's Rush Limbaugh from the 1970's! Is that really him? Who knows? I say yes! The internet told me! If a picture is worth 1000 words, I'm pretty sure most of those words would be the kid sayin, "Ow, your finger's not supposed to go there." Over and over again. Probably with some sobbing in between. A child is not supposed to be worn like a puppet.

Though the kid does kind of remind me of him . . . .

Terrible

"Look, abortion is not just like any other issue. It's not even like the death penalty. It is intrinsically evil. It would be impossible to find somebody who's a greater champion of abortion rights than Barack Obama. He doesn't belong on the campus getting an award," Donohue [president of the Catholic League]said.

Well thank God the Catholic League cleared that one up. And here I was thinking that whole Ten Commandments, "thou shalt not kill" bullshit was pretty cut and dry. That's right, killing people is not intrinsically evil. Seriously. And who is the asshole who said this bullshit? "It is surely more necessary than ever that the inalienable dignity of human life be universally respected and recognised for its immeasurable value. The Holy See has engaged itself in the pursuit of the abolition of capital punishment and an integral part of the defence of human life at every stage of its development and does so in defiance of any assertion of a culture of death." Apparently the Pope needs to start consulting the Catholic League before he starts spouting off on shit like the sanctity of life. Cause really, if the person is out of the womb, it's not that bad to juice a person up with so much electricity that their dick explodes. Hey Pope, quit being a pussy.

We Got Both Kinds, Country and Western

""I think the fact that Mitt Romney succeeded as much as he did and remains an important and central figure in our Republican Party -- and I wouldn't be surprised to see him run again -- is a testimony, I think, to the inclusiveness of the Republican Party," said McCain, R-Arizona." Yes, the Republican party is very inclusive in taking all wealthy, white, christian men.