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apparently one of the 'reverbations' of the Doush's release is wikivandalism

Tyler — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:15:36 +0000

Oh come on, ESPN, that's three dropped letters. 'Reverbations' isn't even close to a word.

As you can see, the Newsvine team's least favorite Seahawk won't be one much longer, and so I can stop whiteknighting him and his awesome CRIBS appearance now.

Also, somebody with a vendetta against English, Sal Paolantonio, and Lendale White got into Housh's wiki:

Click for big.

on people who snap being used for political purposes

Tyler — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:41:05 +0000

Y'all might have noticed James Jay Lee's Last Stand yesterday. He was a big fan of The Inconvenient Truth and Ishmael before he was a big fan of taking hostages and demanding Discovery start promoting sterilization.

Some people have started pointing fingers at Al Gore. This is dumb. [To be clear: I do not like Al Gore. If I had to pick the face of a movement, he would be well below Brian Bosworth on my list.]

But still:

[On the US school shootings] Everybody is wanting to know what music were the kids listening to, or what movies were they watching. Who gives a fuck what they was watching! Whatever happened to crazy? What, you can't be crazy no more? Should we eliminate crazy from the dictionary?

That classic bit from Chris Rock's 'Bigger and Blacker' encapsulates how I feel about most 'community shootings'.

sfs: wear clean draws for bianca and my future daughter

Tyler — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:45:51 +0000

It's presumptuous to think I'll have a kid. [I'm terrified of pregnancy.] But I couldn't think of a better way to put it in the headline.

Whatever you think of The Coup's occasionally uneven discography, it's hard to deny that Boots can write and Pam can lay tracks. When they're both on point it's magical. I think I was still in middle school when I heard 'Fat Cats, Bigga Fish' at a friend's place [with the Baloo sample!] and lost my mind. This is my favorite, though:

The Coup - Wear Clean Draws

Bianca's a NYC girl, as she'll gladly tell you. She's funny as hell but will step to you in a second, and she did a really good job of bridging the gap between real talk and academic speech in school. I have girl friends that I think of as older sisters and twins, but few younger sisters. Bianca's one of them. I'm really proud of her.

you know this groove from the wrong song

Tyler — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:24:57 +0000

MTV stopped stocking the video to the Quad City DJs' 'C'mon 'N Ride It (The Train)' but there's no way it's better than this local Soul Train line bizness.

Slit dress game proper.

The source of that floor-rushing bass groove? None other than Barry White.

Barry White - 'Theme From Together Brothers'

the rozay template

Tyler — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:05:05 +0000

Rick Ross references gangstas like Game does other rappers, as Complex pointed out. I realized the other day, though, that he uses the exact same cadence on his heater 'B.M.F.' that he did on 'Hustlin'', still one of the greatest get-your-ass-up anthems.

Listen:

I know Pablo, Noriega

[~1:00] Rick Ross - Hustlin'

I think I'm Big Meech, Larry Hoover

[each chorus] Rick Ross ft. Styles P - B.M.F

Voila. The Rozay Template.

Ricky being Ricky, ganked from Crunk & Disorderly.

the only thing you have to fear

Tyler — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:32:33 +0000

Sidney ganked from http://hellafine.tumblr.com/It's my blog and I'll LJ if I need you. This is something like kickstarting - watching Mat talk and a bunch of friends tumblvomit has convinced me that the good feeling I get from posting to PH is worth the brief inevitable staredown with the Little Hater regarding the validity of the comment. At least when I'm just typing about myself I know it'll be unique.

how it works

Tyler — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:11:36 +0000

If you work for a website with a lot of political slapfighting, and part of your job is to suspend/ban/discipline/chide people, they sometimes assume that you're working against them.

They assign you ideologies.

It's weird.

But as long as there's a wide spectrum of theories, I feel pretty good about it.

Although I don't think 'black' is a political ideology, really.

enter the hipstamatic

Tyler — Fri, 21 May 2010 23:56:59 +0000

For this Foto-Friday, I have to admit that I have an iPhone. And sometimes, that's actually pretty cool. The camera's one of the best things about it, and Hipstamatic - a little app that attempts to recreate an all-plastic cheapo snapshot camera from the early '80's - is one of the best things about the camera. For more, read Bill Barol's story on the actualization of Hipstamatic and my colleague JimRay's much-better weekend with the app.

I've had it for a while now, and I like it better than the iPhone's camera, because occassionally it's nudging me into shots like this:

That's the best one. Just stop reading now. It's the view from a bluff in Discovery Park.

The wall in the one hallway in my crib. Lucha mask from Oaxaca casting the shadow on a hand-painted post-Katrina sign that I picked up out of a ditch in New Orleans. That wall is cooler than I'll ever be.

The second home game of the M's season Death Spiral. They won this one. It seems so long ago.

I've got more, including a picture of some homemade beignets that messes with me like a Magic Eye, but I've gotta get back to work. If you have an iPhone, cop Hipstamatic. I'll put up a gallery at some point, Flicks is lonely.

go to a record store today

Tyler — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:36:01 +0000

I'm working on tweaking and launching two Tumblrs, so I'm trying to keep an open mind about content regurgitation, which I don't really want to do on PH, but see last year's post on Record Store Day.

This year's highlights - Soundgarden [Nude Dragons?] are reissuing their first single on vinyl at select stores, Sonic Boom has stacks of 7", and Jigsaw Records is definitely already sold out of the 25 copies of a BOAT flexidisc they had but I'm gonna go anyway.

There's a ton more at the official site. Get out. Buy art. Give your ears and your local economy a present.

i need to step up my business card game

Tyler — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:23:54 +0000

Met Josh and Tyler from Squarespace at an An Event Apart afterdeal last night. [Yeah, I know that sentence doesn't look right.] Was reminded that even when you have a gig a business card makes you look a lot more like a grownup. Lookit that thing, it makes you think they designed the logo with die-cutting in mind.

Between that and the boss's showoff material, I've definitely got to run off something more baller than scribbling on someone else's forgotten card. At least before I traipse into a room full of designers again.

[Squarespace, which you really should be running your blog on]

[Flickr business card pool]