I’ve been bumping this album nonstop for the past week. It’s called “Population Control” and it’s the fourth album from hip-hop DJ Statik Selektah aka Showoff. Continue reading
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The Pedobear meme will never go away. Never.
Oliver Cheatham – Get Down Saturday Night (1983)
Tonight we’re getting down to some disco-funk from the early 80s. I was only like five when most of these songs came out but I’ve been diggin’ in the crates to bring you some tasty choons. By 1981, most of the typical 70s disco sounds were out of style. Gone were the strings and harps and cow bells and breathy vocals. The AIDS and Crack War era saw disco move toward synths and new drum machine sounds. Also handclaps, lots and lots of handclaps on the downbeat. Continue reading
Nick Denton appeared at Ad Age’s Media Evolved conference on Tuesday in what appears to be an effort to prove he hasn’t changed when it comes to how much he disdains the “fanatical but ill-informed commenters” who populate his media empire. Continue reading
STATE COLLEGE PA – (AP) – The mystery surrounding the prosecutor who decided to not pursue sex abuse charges against former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago came to a shocking end Saturday afternoon.
Ray Gricar served as the district attorney for Pennsylvania’s Centre County in 1998 when Sandusky was accused of sexually abusing several boys. After an extensive investigation, which included testimony by two law enforcement officers that they had overheard Sandusky admitting to showering with multiple young boys, Gricar decided no criminal charges would be filed, according to recent court documents. Sandusky retired the next year.
Then, in April 2005, Gricar disappeared. Continue reading
Every year around this time, the evil geniuses of Honda, Ducati, Triumph, Yamaha and other motorcycle companies show off their latest deadly motor-sickles of death at two of the biggest shows: EICMA in Milan and the Tokyo Motor Show… in Tokyo.
Here are some of the machines that will have us slobbering like idiots for the next year or so. Continue reading
Back in 2008, The Guardian interviewed Slovenian rock star philosopher Slavoj Žižek. I know this is three years old, but I don’t care. Something this good never gets stale.
Žižek is basically the grumpiest grump that ever did grump it up. I love him.
What is your earliest memory?
My mother naked. Disgusting.
What is the worst job you’ve done?
Teaching. I hate students, they are (as all people) mostly stupid and boring.
Back in April of last year, a single mother of three named Raquel Nelson took her kids out for pizza and to Wal-Mart to buy birthday gifts. They missed a bus that runs once per hour and were late getting back to their home in Marietta, Ga., an Atlanta suburb.
When the bus finally did drop them off in front of their apartment complex, they had to cross a busy four-lane road and stopped at the median to wait for passing cars. That’s when Nelson’s 4-year-old son A.J. slipped out of her grasp and ran out in front of a car. Continue reading
Back in July I presented to you a video of motorcycle racing at 1000 frames per second. Well now we have a similarly-shot HD video of an owl swooping in for its prey. Nightmare fuel!
Remember former Gawkerer Doree Shafrir? She has an essay in Slate this week about her (and my own) generation: the cohort born during the Carter presidency who are now 30 to 34.
We identify with some of Gen X’s cynicism and suspicion of authority—watching Pee-Wee Herman proclaim, “I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel,” will do that to a kid—but we were too young to claim Singles and Reality Bites and Slacker as our own (though that didn’t stop me from buying the soundtracks). And, while the proud alienation of the Gen X worldview doesn’t totally sit right, we certainly don’t yearn for the Organization Man-like conformity that the Millennials seem to crave.