The first guy to wear skinny jeans, boots, mustard yellow, and scarfs.
Posers....
(This joke was adapted from VH1's Best Week Ever)
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Yosemite Sam, The First Hipster
The first guy to wear skinny jeans, boots, mustard yellow, and scarfs.
Posers....
(This joke was adapted from VH1's Best Week Ever)
Monday, November 17, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Christians Get Laid, Have Babies Like Wildfire
I grew up in a quazi Christian household. Going to church on Sundays was second to watching my dad's USC Trojans play on TV and me and my siblings didn't put up a fight because there were always Dunkin Donuts offered after church. I do remember that not having sex before marriage was something that my youth groups and pastors drilled in our heads. "Sex will be horrible if it is not under the contract of marriage!!" " You will lose a large piece of yourself everytime you have premarital sex, until your wedding night when you offer yourself up as a tattered incomplete person." It was freaky. Promise rings (where you promise the world, who doesn't care and is having sex, that you won't have premarital sex) were handed from Dad to daughter in a reverse creepy "Oedipus complex" manner. Yet pretty much by my junior year of high school the majority of the youth group at our church was having sex, especially at the youth group summer camps. WTF?? Haven't been able to explain that one yet, but I'm working on it. I went to a Christian college and there were hoards of girls still clinging tightly to those promise rings, opting to not even KISS thier boyfriends until their wedding day. Except they would have ANAL sex because they didn't consider that to count as sex...WTF again!?!? That's like smoking crack instead of marijuana because you think it's a gateway drug. My friend Amanda put it the best way, sex isn't just one thing. It dosen't only make sense within marriage and become a castastrophe everywhere else. Take even LOVE for instance: You can love your best friends much differently than you love your siblings, parents, mentor, boss, boyfriend, that asshole you can't get over....and you can have passionate relationship sex, fun one night stand sex, freaky deaky sex, immature jackhammer sex , sultry R&B bumpin and grindin, and otherwordly tantric "Sting Style" sex. To say sex is only going to be good once you have said the magical vows and removed that promise ring is scary as hell. Imagine thinking your whole entire life that sex was BAD and wrong.
That having sexual desires and thoughts made you perverted and morally weak. Then you get married and it's all washed away and it's supposed to be this beautiful thing. In like an hour youre supposed to change your whole pyschological view of sex. I'm almost positive that first night marriage sex is not only awkward, scary and very uncomfortable, but it is hugely disappointing and confusing. Might even be one of the reasons why Christian marriages have a 70% failure rating as compared to 50% of other marriages. Oh and since Christians are busy teaching their kids to just NOT have sex, they don't teach them how to prevent unwanted pregnancies and the spread of STD's. Real smart. This is why the Christian church has seen HUGE surges of pregnant teenagers (aka Bristol Pallin being lauded as a modern time hero for starting the path toward unwed teenage mother land). We can't keep using these outdated teachings and farces that NO ONE can relate to and therefore doesn't listen to. Our world is dynamic, it changes, we progress and so should the way we go about educating and guiding our youth. My sister sent me a pretty interesting article from the New Yorker about all this. See Below...
From The New Yorker:
"The vast majority of white evangelical adolescents—seventy-four per cent—say that they believe in abstaining from sex before marriage. (Only half of mainline Protestants, and a quarter of Jews, say that they believe in abstinence.) Moreover, among the major religious groups, evangelical virgins are the least likely to anticipate that sex will be pleasurable, and the most likely to believe that having sex will cause their partners to lose respect for them. (Jews most often cite pleasure as a reason to have sex, and say that an unplanned pregnancy would be an embarrassment.) But, according to Add Health data, evangelical teen-agers are more sexually active than Mormons, mainline Protestants, and Jews. On average, white evangelical Protestants make their “sexual début”—to use the festive term of social-science researchers—shortly after turning sixteen"
THE NEW YORKER ARTICLE "RED SEX, BLUE SEX"
Short Film Project, Extras Needed
Mauricio Chernovetzky, a local award winning filmmaker and visual artist is shooting a video piece this weekend. He needs extras. 100 people in jogging attire. The shoot will take place at Blacks beach this Sunday from 12:30pm until Sunset. The weather will be fantastic! The piece will screen at an event called Something is Happening. This will take place at UCSD on December 5. It will also show in film festivals all over the world.
all interested please respond to:
rebeccajoelsonphotography@yahoo.com
Read More About The Local Latino Film Scene
Almost Too Picture Perfect
Our future will be more open minded and acceptant than our generation. Thank goodness for progress, for change, for hope for the future!
Pretentious Musings....
A. How is a photo battle won?
B. What is the difference between a DJ Battle and a Mega DJ Battle?
C. What, in fact, are the duties of someone "hosting" a night at a club?
D. Why does this night in particular need 7 hosts? Me thinks all the battles but I'm not sure....
E. Anyone else think that Airport Lounge had turned back into the dry cleaners it used to be?
F. Has the use of silly pictures on neon fliers been proven to work in getting people to come to your night or do you just really really love neon fliers with silly pictures on them?
G. What, no flash?
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Amanda's Mystery Corner
I wonder". We all find ourselves pondering the mysteries in life--is there a god? How did the universe come about? Why do dogs smell even after you wash them?
So I've decided to dedicate a few days of the week to search and explore the world wide web of tainted info and bring you useless answers to mini-questions you've always wondered about.
Today's topic Yawning, YAWWWWWNINGGGG.
Count how many times you take a nice, long, deep ohhhh ahhhh yawwwwnn when reading this post. I mainly wanted to know why yawning is so GD contagious. Unfortunately, there's little research done about yawns because it just doesn't seem to bother people! Here's what we do know:
-- In humans, the earliest occurrence of a yawn happens at about 11 weeks after conception - that's BEFORE the baby is born!
-- Yawns become contagious to people between the first and second years of life.
--babies, kids, teenagers, and adults all do it. Some birds, reptiles and most mammals also yawn.
On to why they're contagious:
According to THIS article, "Identifying with another's state of mind while they yawn may trigger an unconscious impersonation....The findings also explain why schizophrenics, who have particular difficulty in doing this, rarely catch yawns," Nature News Service reported.
One hypothesis is that the phenomenon came about when ancestral humans lived in troops, and it was important for them to wake up at the same time. Yawning may have been a way for them to communicate the level of alertness among different group members, Baenninger said.
Today, contagious yawning is just the result of evolution, an instinctive action.
MYSTERY SOLVED. So, how many times did you yawwnnn? Feel better? Must be the oxygen getting into your body and hopefully making you feel great!
So I've decided to dedicate a few days of the week to search and explore the world wide web of tainted info and bring you useless answers to mini-questions you've always wondered about.
Today's topic Yawning, YAWWWWWNINGGGG.
Count how many times you take a nice, long, deep ohhhh ahhhh yawwwwnn when reading this post. I mainly wanted to know why yawning is so GD contagious. Unfortunately, there's little research done about yawns because it just doesn't seem to bother people! Here's what we do know:
-- In humans, the earliest occurrence of a yawn happens at about 11 weeks after conception - that's BEFORE the baby is born!
-- Yawns become contagious to people between the first and second years of life.
--babies, kids, teenagers, and adults all do it. Some birds, reptiles and most mammals also yawn.
On to why they're contagious:
According to THIS article, "Identifying with another's state of mind while they yawn may trigger an unconscious impersonation....The findings also explain why schizophrenics, who have particular difficulty in doing this, rarely catch yawns," Nature News Service reported.
One hypothesis is that the phenomenon came about when ancestral humans lived in troops, and it was important for them to wake up at the same time. Yawning may have been a way for them to communicate the level of alertness among different group members, Baenninger said.
Today, contagious yawning is just the result of evolution, an instinctive action.
MYSTERY SOLVED. So, how many times did you yawwnnn? Feel better? Must be the oxygen getting into your body and hopefully making you feel great!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Can Someone Explain: Why Sarah Pallin is still in the news?
This trainwreck is in the headlines all the time talking about running in 2012? Riiiiight.
Actual Headline:
CNN: Palin: I'd be honored to help Obama
Oh really? With what? Killing animals, buying clothes, ....oh man I couldn't even think of a third thing....
Actual Headline:
CNN: Palin: I'd be honored to help Obama
Oh really? With what? Killing animals, buying clothes, ....oh man I couldn't even think of a third thing....
Trans Siberian Orchestra Leave $10, 000 Tip in Omaha
Employees at Sullivan's Steakhouse this week were singing a happier tune - think "We're in the Money'' - after a member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra reportedly left them a five-figure tip.
Sullivan's front-of-house manager, Damon Ronfeldt, said members of the band and its crew, rehearsing in the area before launching their nationwide winter tour Saturday at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, had frequented the downtown Omaha restaurant during the previous two and a half weeks.
Toward the end of their stay, Ronfeldt said Monday, "one of the individuals in the band left a substantial tip for everybody in the restaurant -- excluding management, of course.''
Ronfeldt said restaurant policy prevented him from confirming or denying the rumored $10,000 amount.
"But it was quite substantial, and you're about right on,'' he said. "It was the largest tip we've had by far.''
In an Oct. 23 interview with The World-Herald, orchestra artistic director Al Pitrelli said he and his wife, pianist Jane Mangini, were enjoying the Old Market during their stay. He also said they had eaten at Sullivan's a lot and mentioned that "Tommy'' -- the restaurant's manager, Tom Krajewski -- had been very good to them.
"It's one of those places that they're friendly and they're nice,'' Pitrelli said.
Apparently, it pays to be nice. Ronfeldt said employees at the restaurant were "all smiles'' Monday.
The orchestra's Web site does not detail its crew size, but lists 48 band members and three composers. Ronfeldt said the band and crew came in parties of 20 or 40 or more most nights during their 19-day stay and also placed takeout orders.
Makes you want to run out and get a serving job just in case they head to your eating hole!!!
Trans-Siberian Orchestra Performs Here!!
San Diego Sports Arena
Sat, Nov 22, 2008 08:00 PM
Tickets
Remembering the Plane That Crashed in North Park San Diego
Many people don't know that a small private Cessna plane and huge commercial airliner collided over North Park (Dwight&Nile) and crashed to the ground. Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 crashed down on September 25th 1978 killing all 135 people on board, the 2 men aboard the Cessna, and seven people on the ground (including a family of four). Nine others on the ground were injured and 22 homes were destroyed or damaged. The death toll of 144 makes it the deadliest aircraft disaster in California history to date and it was the first Pacific Southwest Airlines incident involving fatalities. On September 25, 1998, a tree was planted next to the North Park library, featuring this simple memorial plaque. The library is located blocks from the actual crash site.
New York Love
siiiiigh, there is just something about it...a nameless yet almost tangible feeling....
Pitchforks 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Is Out
From Pitchfork.Com:
Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, today, November 11, Simon & Schuster imprint Fireside Books publishes The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present. This handy paperback chronologically explores Pitchfork's 500 favorite songs from 1977-2006, constructing an alternate history of the past three decades of popular music-- one that extends beyond the typical Baby Boomer-approved canon of the Clash, Prince, Public Enemy, Nirvana, Radiohead, and Outkast.
From art-rock and proto-punk godfathers such as Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, and David Bowie to today's leading lights such as the Arcade Fire, the White Stripes, and Kanye West; from superstars to cult heroes; and from punk, indie, and pop to hip-hop, electronic music, and metal, we've created the ultimate playlist. Interspersed throughout are sidebars on the most vital subgenres from electro to grime to riot grrrl, along with pieces like "Career Killers: The Songs That Ended It All" and "Runaway Trainwrecks: The Post-Grunge Nadir."
Edited by Pitchfork founder/president Ryan Schreiber and editor-in-chief Scott Plagenhoef, and written by an all-star team of contributors, The Pitchfork 500 is the perfect book for the train ride to work, a cozy winter's night by the fireside, or extended stays on the toilet. And it sure would make for a nice holiday gift, hint hint.
The book is available in your friendly neighborhood bookstore right now. Or you can order it via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Insound, Powells, or Simon & Schuster.
Read More on Pitchfork
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
11th Hour, 11th Day, 11th Month
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.
Read More About Trench Life Here
World War I Trenchware:
-Rotting bodies
-Gangrene eating your feet
-Disease
-No sleep
-Constant threat of death
-Extreme boredom
-Frogs, lice eating your skin
-Rats the size of cats eating human remains
-The overpowering smell of war and death
Monday, November 10, 2008
Single Flamingos on Speed
So here's the thing with Beyonce: like her or not, she's done an amazing job of managing her career and constantly reinventing herself in a likable manner.
Her new single "Single Ladies (put a ring on it)" is edgy, daring and strange. Its not quite the single you might pick to lead the pack, unlike the heavily melodic and predictable "If I were a Boy".
Now she comes out with this glam black and white pure dance video which does wonders for the song. The three girls, which I first though were all Beyonce, somehow pull off the heavily female-yet strong 60's dreamgirls of the robotic future vibe without missing a beat. The direction of this gem is quite different that most pop music fare, especially given than there are only about 3 cuts throughout the entire song. Our MTV on Crack eyes are used to 30 different shot, outfits and hairdos per minute, so watching something that actually lets you orientate to the people in the frame is beyond refreshing.
The dancing, again, is paramount to a song like this. The incessant claps nearly demand that those little booty's shake a mile a minute. But really, when is the last time you saw such eloquent, controlled and elegant booty shaking at its best?
Her new single "Single Ladies (put a ring on it)" is edgy, daring and strange. Its not quite the single you might pick to lead the pack, unlike the heavily melodic and predictable "If I were a Boy".
Now she comes out with this glam black and white pure dance video which does wonders for the song. The three girls, which I first though were all Beyonce, somehow pull off the heavily female-yet strong 60's dreamgirls of the robotic future vibe without missing a beat. The direction of this gem is quite different that most pop music fare, especially given than there are only about 3 cuts throughout the entire song. Our MTV on Crack eyes are used to 30 different shot, outfits and hairdos per minute, so watching something that actually lets you orientate to the people in the frame is beyond refreshing.
The dancing, again, is paramount to a song like this. The incessant claps nearly demand that those little booty's shake a mile a minute. But really, when is the last time you saw such eloquent, controlled and elegant booty shaking at its best?
Support Those Who Support Our Local Music Scene
I'm definitely on SD Dialed in every day checking out all the event and music listings. Creator Rosey Bystrak will be holding the 2nd Anniversary of her local music/event page tonight at The Casbah. It also happens to be Tim Pyles produced and always fun, Anti Monday League night. Join the rest of us tonite for all the action, it's only $6 bucks!!
On This Day in History: Sesame Street Debuts
On this day in 1969, "Sesame Street," a pioneering TV show that would teach generations of young children the alphabet and how to count, makes its broadcast debut. "Sesame Street," with its memorable theme song ("Can you tell me how to get/How to get to Sesame Street"), went on to become the most widely viewed children's program in the world. It has aired in more than 120 countries.
From the show's inception, one of its most-loved aspects has been a family of puppets known as Muppets. Creator, Joan Ganz Cooney hired puppeteer Jim Henson (1936-1990) to create a cast of characters that became Sesame Street institutions, including Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Grover and Big Bird.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Wife Has the New US Jungle Fever Too!
(I can say that, I'm black:)
From CNN:
Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said that even though his party didn’t win the presidential election, he has at least one thing to be happy about.
“I can get back into the bedroom, so there's the big advantage,” the California governor said Sunday on CNN’s “Late Edition.”
Schwarzenegger, a leading Republican, is married to Maria Shriver, a member of the very Democratic Kennedy clan.
Shriver endorsed Barack Obama in February, just days after her husband announced his support of John McCain.
Schwarzenegger said his wife has been “gloating now for these last few days” and running around the house with a life-size cutout of Obama saying, “We won.”
Michelle better watch her man!! How nice is it to have a hot president?? Kennedy, Clinton, John Adams...it's just easier to feel confident about your country when the men and women fronting it look good you know!?!
From CNN:
Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said that even though his party didn’t win the presidential election, he has at least one thing to be happy about.
“I can get back into the bedroom, so there's the big advantage,” the California governor said Sunday on CNN’s “Late Edition.”
Schwarzenegger, a leading Republican, is married to Maria Shriver, a member of the very Democratic Kennedy clan.
Shriver endorsed Barack Obama in February, just days after her husband announced his support of John McCain.
Schwarzenegger said his wife has been “gloating now for these last few days” and running around the house with a life-size cutout of Obama saying, “We won.”
Michelle better watch her man!! How nice is it to have a hot president?? Kennedy, Clinton, John Adams...it's just easier to feel confident about your country when the men and women fronting it look good you know!?!
Bush Approval Rating Lowest Since Approval Ratings Were Invented
A new national poll suggests that President Bush is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first created more than six decades ago. Seventy-six percent of those questioned disapprove of how Bush is handling his job. "Bush is now more unpopular than Richard Nixon was when he resigned from office during Watergate with a 66 percent disapproval rating," said CNN polling director Keating Holland,
Read More On CNN
Friday, November 7, 2008
Shepard Fairy Obama Stickers FREE!!
Hey,
Want a free Obama sticker to celebrate our victory? It's designed by Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the iconic HOPE poster (And does all the Obey Stuff). And MoveOn's giving them away totally free--even the shipping's free.
I just got mine. Click this link to get your free Obama sticker:
Get Your Free Sticker!!
Want a free Obama sticker to celebrate our victory? It's designed by Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the iconic HOPE poster (And does all the Obey Stuff). And MoveOn's giving them away totally free--even the shipping's free.
I just got mine. Click this link to get your free Obama sticker:
Get Your Free Sticker!!
Barack Obama Love Around the World
Indonesia Where Barack Went to Elementary School For Three Years
Fox News Smells Weed Smell at LA Obama Convention!! LOL!!!
Kenya Where Barack's Father is From
New York City
Fox News Smells Weed Smell at LA Obama Convention!! LOL!!!
Kenya Where Barack's Father is From
New York City
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Travel in Style on The Cheap
I'm still reeling with culture shock from leaving NYC. EVERYONE needs the perspective and mind change that comes with leaving your comfort zone and being somewhere totally diff than your norm. You either confirm all the things you love and appreciate about where you currently live or start getting that nomadic feel and envision your life being lived somewhere totally new. Give your life a jump start, travel!! Moneys tight for everyone so start small, check out the rates from Virgin Airlines that won't break the bank. Locations they fly to are limited but happen to be some of the coolest cities in our nation (Chicago and Austin are absent from the list though...) Crash on couches, buy groceries to eat cheap and then explore.
And besides some great tickets prices, Virgin also offers some great airplane amenities. Just when I've started to feel sub human on my plane flights they offer:
USB plugins
Power plugins
Moodlit Cabins
More room to stretch
Personal entertainment system
Use your card to buy fresh food and entertainment on demand
Round Trip to San Francisco from San Diego $108!!!
Round Trip to Seattle from San Diego $188!!!
Virgin Airlines
Get Wasted to Save Our Environment
Now that good will, happiness and hope has returned to the world, do something nice. Go get you and your friends drunk at The Whistlestop. Every drink you know back gives $2 toward planting trees ($1 a tree baby!), thats two trees per cocktail!!!
Thursday Night Thing
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6
PARALLEL LINES
Memory Is Your Image of Perfection artist Susan Silton works in various lines of media, including photographic-based processes, video, installation, and offset lithography. Hear Silton discuss her work, currently on view at MCASD Downtown's 1001 Kettner galleries.
The artist's large-scale chromogenic prints fuse together colorful vertical stripes with mid-century apocalyptic film stills that responded to U.S. fears during the Cold War. Playing off the fear and tension of current political and economic times, pose for the camera with your most frightened face. Then, using the printed photo and a vibrant, transparent veil of vertical stripes, create your own Silton-inspired photographic souvenir.
Plus, live music on the plaza, featuring the heavy rock of local favorites Transfer; psychedelic pop by Tucson-based Holy Rolling Empire; and DJ Skullcrusher playing a mix of electro and alternative.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE, HOPE!! WE DID IT!!!!!!
History has changed right before our eyes and for the better. Today I am PROUD to be an American because my fellow countrymen voted for hope, they voted for change, they voted for progress, they voted for the betterment of each others lives. Almost 150 years ago a black man was considered sub human, now a black man stands as our leader. This gives me hope for Prop 8 in the near future. It won't be long before we are shaking our heads in disbelief that people ever thought it was acceptable to discount love between humans based on the gender of the person they chose. I have HOPE again for this nation. Goodness, peace, community, acceptance will be restored. Today I am proud to be an American.
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