January 2010
4 posts
MDC - John Wayne was a Nazi
I’m trying to...
Assfactor 4 - “I Reckon”
It’s a...
Kill Holiday - “Out Going.”
I still...
November 2009
2 posts
Dreaming little dreams.
I have a lot of bad dreams. Not nightmares, but inane visions and boring fantasies. Last night, I had an “epic” one about arguing with my girlfriend over who was sluttier in their prime, Madonna or Samantha Fox. Before that, I’ve relived highlights from a recent night of karaoke. I’ve dreamt about buying broccoli, about reading the newspaper, about drinking orange...
October 2009
2 posts
Falling Forward - “Great Union...
The Real Ric Flair
Today I was wondering why Ric Flair didn’t have a reality show. Turns out, he might. WHOOOOOOOOOOO!
September 2009
1 post
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Saturday Night in Pittsburgh.
After a long conversation about John Candy’s character in Who’s Harry Crumb?, the mustachioed man on my left sighed and said, “Good times. Good friends. Good beer. What more could you ask for?”
The man to my right, finishing off a $7 bucket of Bud Light, piped in with perfect timing: “More money.”
We got another round and talked about Hootie and the...
July 2009
2 posts
WatchFun times. This soon deteriorated into thumps and the circle game.
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09/90
“I’m surprised it’s not grungier,” my friend Mike said when he first saw ABC No Rio, but I was shocked that the music could cut through the stagnant, stale air with such intensity. The Birds and Wires show the other day will probably be the last time I go to the legendary squat before it becomes even less dank, but the club’s ceiling not leaking isn’t the only...
June 2009
2 posts
1 tag
My Dream Job.
Lil Wayne Impersonator WANTED!
Reply to: gigs-fuycv-1228993426@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] Date: 2009-06-19, 12:31AM PDT
My son is turning 16 and really wanted Lil Wayne to perform for his birthday gala. Unfortunately his schedule will not permit him to make it. I need a Lil Wayne impersonator desperately. Here is the kicker my son is blind so you do not need to look like the...
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It’s June and the sun is out. Rick Ross and...
April 2009
6 posts
3 tags
Most Important Story of the Year.
The lead actor [50 Cent] then went a step further and swift-boated his opponent, posting an interview with Tia Kemp, the mother of Ross’s son. In the clip, 50 eggs her on as she disses Ross in multiple ways, even touching on his law-enforcement past, a sore spot for a rapper who now portrays himself as a lawless gangster. Later, 50 took Kemp on a shopping spree, fitting her for a fur...
This is an addition to yesterday’s mix. ...
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The Waves are a Warzone.
Even fair-skinned fat kids love going to the beach. Every year, my friend Franklin and I would go to the Isle of Palms with his family and then hit the coast again with mine. We’d skateboard, listen to our jam boxes, meet girls, talk with the token metal dudes who worked at beachtown pizzerias. It was great.
The weather’s getting warm, Coney’s open, and people are talking...
5 tags
Swing Home Alabama.
I can hear my neighbors having sex. They’re good people—always polite in the common space, willing to hold the door. But not who you want to imagine being freaks in the sheets.
The cheetah calls from next door remind me of a month I spent at the Days Inn in Decatur, Alabama. Other than me, my boss Rick Pettit, and an IV-drug-using prostitute, the motel was empty most days. Rick was...
Itch’s “Dyin’ to be...
Hatecut.
A little off the top. Shorten the sides. Keep a natural line in the back. I’ve given these instructions to about half a dozen barbers over the past few years as they’ve their draped heavy, vinyl aprons around my neck. The results have been mostly the same, sometimes my hair looks more like John Stamos’s, others more like Jason Priestly’s. I’m happy with both...
March 2009
1 post
Out of Step.
The occurrences that change the course of our lives are often private and almost imperceptible to everyone else, even those closest to us. For me, one of those moments was listening to Minor Threat for the first time. My stereo was turned all the way up, my headphones, pressed tightly to my ear. I was twelve years old, and I knew at the exact moment the song “Filler” began that I was different...
February 2009
2 posts
5 tags
Refrigerator indicator.
Usually the refrigerator at work looks like the place where my coworkers and I curate our moldy bread collections and throw our rotted scraps rejected by the trash can. But as the economy sank, that started to change: we’re not letting food go to waste, and the refrigerator is full but clean. Come lunch time, sandwiches are made and salads, tossed. To me at least, our recession...
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January 2009
6 posts
4 tags
Dirt don't hurt.
Science has confirmed what five-second rule followers and babies have known all along: God made dirt and dirt don’t hurt.
The New York Times reports:
Since all instinctive behaviors have an evolutionary advantage or they would not have been retained for millions of years, chances are that this one too has helped us survive as a species. And, indeed, accumulating evidence strongly...
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Geithner vs. Greenspan for Pool Skating Cred
A few weeks ago, the New York Times wrote about the resurgence of SoCal pool skating and cited a Skate and Annoy message board stating, “God bless Greenspan, patron saint of pool skatin’.”
No one is talking about what future Treasury Sec. Timothy Geithner will do for gettin’ rad. No one except Jay Yarrow.
Birds!
New York airports are taking new steps to fight hazards caused by birds. Birds crash our planes. They fell our bridges. They poke out our eyes.
Maybe what Werner Herzog said about chickens applies to all of these winged destroyers:
“Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely...
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Collective depression.
While watching Death Wish 3 the other night I started thinking: what kind of culture will the current recession bring? The economic turmoil of early-to-mid-1980s gave us some pretty amazing anti-establishment movies like Repo Man, Videodrome, and Escape from New York, but the third installment in the Death Wish series really exemplifies what the ’80s were about. The system’s...
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Two plans for America unveiled today.
As President Obama announced a grand renewal of our country, Mayor Bloomberg laid out a plan for a new America on a much smaller scale. Bloomberg’s vision for Coney Island…not so exciting.
Some friends and I went for one last, snow-covered visit to the home of the Warriors on Monday. Jason Conte took some great pictures. Hopefully, we’ll have some shots up soon on our flickr.
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Soundtrack to change.
Over Christmas I ran into some friends that I hadn’t seen in twelve or thirteen years. We talked about Take (aka Flavor Dish), our middle school band that only played one glorious concert, and about going to see our first hardcore show. More than the music, I’ll always remember the excitement of those nights. My friends and I ran from skinheads, snuck around parents, and felt apart...
December 2008
3 posts
4 tags
Damn Bloodsuckers.
To ward off vampires, I used to sleep with a large wooden cross that I made in Jeremy Knoke’s garage. I was terrified/obsessed with the children of the night and lived under the constant fear that my parents would mistakenly invite one in while I slept. The cross, I hoped, would be able to fend off the undead until dawn. Fortunately, I never had to use it.
Fast forward about 20 years. ...
Niños y hombres
Soohang took some shots of dudes ripping. I wrote about it.
commetoi:
Children show last night was pretty fantastic. So were the only two dudes headbanging in the entire place. They told me that they were in a band and I think it was called SSD (like Society System Decontrol?) but I’m not sure.
November 2008
3 posts
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Vh1 vs. the Democratic Camera
I love reality TV. I watch all of the “of Love” shows. I care (a bit too much, honestly) about who became the next Master Pick-Up Artist. I’m pulling for Jeff Conaway to get clean this time around.
Last Friday, I was surprised to find one the philosophical foundations for my love at the Whitney in William Eggleston’s retrospective. Eggleston’s photos capture the...
Stolen Memories.
Today a friend sent me a link showing some family portraits taken at Olan Mills, Sears and K-Mart.
I used to work in the telemarketing department at Olan Mills, which was essentially three school desks crammed into a closet. This was ‘95 so the technology was primitive. We were given a rotary dial phone, a phone book and a photocopy of a handwritten script, and told to start...
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Transition words.
The transition has begun. I’m not only talking about the changing of the White House gaurd, but also the morphing of my opinion of Obama from inspirational, innovative candidate to less-than-cutting-edge President Elect. Team Obama seems more intent on reconstructing Clinton’s cabinent than bringing change we can believe in to Washington. Sure, it’s is no surprise. Bill was a...
October 2008
4 posts
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Giving up the ghost is harder than you'd think.
Maybe I’m haunted. I stepped on a skateboard today for the first time in a long time. Surprisingly, I made my first attempt at a nollie flip, but unfortunately, the all too familiar pains in my neck and back— not a surge of stokedness—shot through my body when I landed. Now, a few hours later, they still linger.
There are a slew of Asian ghost stories about spirits latching...
Thanks Soohang!
Thanks for setting up this blog Soohang. I’m going to use it.
