Charles Barkley Is A Loser

Ok so I was down in Atlantic City this past weekend and was in my room relaxing from a night of guessing at the roulette table.  While reading “The Boy’s Vol:2″ I overheard, what sounded to be, the voice of Charles Barkley on TV.  The program was called something along the lines of “Pay Due Respects” or something, I really didn’t care enough to allow this program to occupy both my ears and eyes.  To my surprise, I heard Mr. Barkley state the following

“Anyone who uses twitter is a loser”

What exactly makes a Twitter user a loser anyway?  Is our president, Barack Obama a loser?  Where the thousands of Iranians who tweeted in attempt to overthrow an unlawful display during their elections this past year losers?  I guess all us 10 million tweeters are pretty lame huh.  We really seem to be getting nothing done.  I’m gonna change my ways C.B! I wanna be more like you and maybe get convicted of a DUI like you did back  in 2008.  O wait, I know, I can develop a serious gambling addiction, and then claim it’s ok since ” I have the money to support my habit”.  Your a douchebag Charles Barkley.  Plain and simple.  Your on a no-name show, full of people who don’t matter, criticising individuals with more substance and individuality then you’ll ever have.   If you ever wanna follow me on twitter, you can follow this link (just click the underlined word, I know this newfangled technology is tricky at first).  O and for all those twitter users who read this, I suggest trending #CharlesBarkleyLoser until it  hits the top 10.

P.S. I’m pretty sure the only reason half of the country even know’s who you are is because of Space Jam. Peace.

Merry Christmas 2009!

Hey everyone, so it’s Christmas! So Merry Christmas! Spend it with the people you love and the friends you wouldn’t trade for the world, like Tear and Danny.  Hope everyone get’s what they want, or at least buys it with a gift card after X-Mas.  I think gift cards are becoming less formal than cash.  You can never go wrong with cash… so liquidatible.  I know there was one thing I really wanted this Christmas, and who knows, I might actually get it.  Anyway, I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday.  Now I leave you with this.

Christmas Shopping Complete: 100%

Tech It Out! Tuesday

So this video by Rodrigo Blaas thouroughly creeped me out.

First rule of shopping is never go into a store with a toy that looks like you…. jeez Alma, such an ametuer mistake. Happy Early Christmas!

Christmas Shopping Complete: 98.7%

Things I’ve Overheard

So I’m at my friend’s friend’s bands first real show when the following arrangment of sentence’s occured:

Matt, Lead Guitarist: ” Who Likes Sex?!”
Guy In Corner: “Woooo!!”
Guy Behind Me: ” My Wife Dosent…”

Classic.

Digital Flashmob: Overloading the AT&T Server

Ok so on December 18th, 2009 Operation Chokehold is officially underway.  At 12 noon (pacific time, so that’s 3 p.m. all you east coasters) The Fake Steve Jobs has asked all iPhone users to come together and attempt to overload AT&T’s server by running applications that use massive amounts of bandwidth.  Anything that stream’s something will be a good choice, some of which include Youtube and Ustream.  Run this application for one hour, without interruption.  Make sure to bring a charger since this will most likely kill the little battery life iPhones actually have.  We all need to do our part and show AT&T that they can’t have sucky service and lock us down for two years with the awesomness that comes with their exclusive iPhone.  Must they really learn this by having their customers take it upon themselves to crash the system that runs their very own phones!…?  Either way, I hope AT&T is preparing for this since I’d prefer to actually be able to make calls during this time and utilize Yelp! for lunch, but seriously AT&T does it have to come to this? Are we just going to have to recruit user after user and stream our applications till our crappy battery life fades our phones into oblivion?  No! Mainly because I bring my charger with me for situations like this, therefore my app will be running hotwired to the outlet.  Get your shit together AT&T, this is just wrongone and I highly doubt this flashmob of application spammers will go down without a fight. 

* I Plan on Youtube looping “Risky Business Gone Wrong” for the duration of the flashmobing *

Frosty “The Molecular” Snowman

   Clearly a little Holiday fun and games are in order from time to time over at the National Physical Laboratory located in Teddington, England.  In the effort to prove just how far mankind has come, these funtientists (just made that up) have created the world’s smallest snowman, measuring in at 0.01 mm across.  It was made using two tiny beads, which are normally used in the calibration process of an electron microscope’s lense.  Even the molecular world is getting in the holiday spirit!

   

Christmas Shopping Complete: 67.61 %

*The Time of the Season*

Sorry Zombie’s fans, but this is not a post about one of your most beloved songs.  It’s officially the Holiday (Christmas in my opinion) Season and I’ve officially kicked it off with a super fancy party at the Brownstone, over in Paterson, NJ.  The party was in the “Grand Ballroom” and let me tell you, it was pretty sick.  There was more food than everyone could possibly eat, which in turn surprised me that quality was not sacrificed for quantity.  Anyway, what I really want to say is that the next few weeks are going to fly by since I have 3 more Holiday themed events to attend, along with massive (check below for the official %’age completed) Christmas shopping to complete.  I’m not worried though because I’m hitting up the malls with Cc next weekend and that’s usually when we take care of business.  I really don’t know the point of this post, but basically I just wanna say enjoy this time of year because it’s the one time everyone is a little happier.  Maybe it’s all the lights, the music, the gift giving, or spiked egg nog. Whatever it may be I wish it lasted longer than just one month.  Happy early holiday’s people! And for my Jewish readers, Happy Hanukkah! (which started 54 minutes ago from when I wrote this).

Christmas Shopping Completed: 11.56%

Currently listening to: Maybe This Christmas Too? album (multiple artists)

The “Jersey Shore” Situation

Ok so MTV just started to air “Jersey Shore” on Thursday nights and it’s been getting a lot of negative criticism… why, I do not know.  Before I get into that however, let me give you the skinny on the show incase you are one of the four (Tear) individuals who haven’t yet tuned in.  The show follows four girls (Jenni “JWow”, Sammi ”Sweetheart”, Nicole “Snooki”, Angelina “Angie”) and four guys (Vinny, Pauly D, Mike “The Situation”, and Ronnie) who are living at a shore house in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.  They basically work at a T-Shirt shop during the day and party at night.  This goes on for the entire summer and is basically the same formula MTV uses for the Real World, except replace “8 strangers of different ethnic backgrounds, beliefs, religions, and sexual orientations living in a house” to ” 8 strangers of Italian-American decent representing a Guido/Guidette style living in a house”.  Now I would personally like to say that this has to be one of the greatest shows ever presented to a viewing audience.  The show is like a guilty pleasure which allows you to watch eight people just act as ridiculous and care free as possible.  Now one of the main criticism’s I’ve been hearing, being from New Jersey I’ve been hearing a lot by the way, is that the show represents the state in a negative light.  Well I’ve lived here my entire life and sorry but we’ve had our reputation way before this show was ever conceived.  We are a bunch  foul mouthed, family oriented, hard-working, bridge & tunnel using, beach laying, “world’s greatest driving individuals” who are used to people referring to our beloved state as “The Arm Pit of America”.  But that’s where our pride comes from.  Always being hated on has allowed us to develop our thick skin because we know we are better than the majority of the other states out there.  Let’s face it, we wouldn’t have the highest population density if people didn’t want to be here.  Anyway, for all those haters who make this claim I would like ask you a question?  Have you actually ever been to the Jersey Shore in the summer.  Wait, wait, let me rephrase that.  Have you ever been to Seaside Heights, New Jersey (where the show takes place) in the summer?  This show is AN EXACT REPRESENTATION OF EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON THERE!  It may actually be the first reality show that isn’t scripted or set up.  The shore is where you go to act as the Guido’s of our fine state do.  I’m not a Guido, not by a long shot, but I personally admire their attention to detail when it comes to their appearance.  But I clearly once again digress.  This show portray’s a portion of New Jersey that is real, but people are too ashamed to acknowledge.  Deal with it.  It’s always been around.  Guido’s haven’t just discovered the Jersey Shore, they’ve claimed it a long time ago.  People now just have something to bitch about so they choose too.  On another note, all of those Italian-American groups out there who are claiming that the show portray’s us (yes that’s right, I said us, I’m 100% pure-blooded Italian) in a negative manner are once again just bitching for the sake of bitching. A.)  The vast majority of today’s youth acts in the manner these eight individuals do and B.) if some uneducated, ignorant, easily influenced person can actually believe that every Italian-American acts like this based off a sample group of 8… well, then I personally feel for them.  Oo and a personal note to Domino’s who has recently pulled their ads from the show claiming that “I doesn’t represent what they are about”… you do realize that around 90% of those people at the Jersey Shore will, under the influence of alcohol and exhaustion from clubbing, order several of your imitation pizza’s.  You really shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds you.  I like this show and I will defend The Situation and his merchandise till the end of the series.  I would like to leave you with a quote from Angelina who stated “I’m a bartender. I. Like. Do. You Know. Great Things”.  Damn Right Angelina, Damn Right.

JWow

* Also, JWow, if you actually read this, know that your awesome and for some reason I find you to be the most entertaining person on the show.  Mostly it because, in a drunken state, you stole Pauly D’s shirt, wandered home, all just to feed your hunger from Ham and Water.  <3.  If you ever read this, hit me up on facebook ;] *

Tech It Out! Tuesday

Ok so what does that look like to you? It appears to be a pre-determined set of interconnecting links.  Soooo that would make it a bracelet right…? WRONG!  It’s actually a new faceless LED watch by Japanese designer, Hironao Tsuboi.  Press a little button on the side and this silver arm band displays Army time in fashionable LED light.  Pretty fancy if I do say so myself.  As somewhat of a watch enthusiast, I find this one to be very unique in a world of similarity.  Way to look outside that box Tsuboi!

Currently Listening to: Major Lazer “Keep It Going Louder”

Munny World ‘09!

I recently went to Kidrobot’s Munnyworld exhibit over at the Eloquent Delinquent in the Big Apple.  The show was the official release of the four new additions to the munny line of ”do it yourself” viynl figures.  Kidrobot commissioned 60 different artists to design their own mega munny’s.  Some of the artists were able to customize “Bub” and “Raffy”, two of the new additions.  The show was pretty amazing.  Some of these pieces were spectacular, from the detail to creativity, the majority of the pieces weren’t lacking in any aspect.  Some of my favorite customizations came from Huck Gee’s “Warrior Rhino”, Buff Monster, Tristan Eaton, PON, MAD, Jesse Hernandez, and Chuckboy.  However, the hands down best piece in show came from Kevin Gosselin.  His “Headhunter” munny custom was sick in all aspects of the work.  The detail he put into this piece was unmatched by any piece I’ve seen before.  The dunny head’s attached to the Ogre’s chain was just icing on the cake.  Major kudos’ Gosselin.  I, unfortunately, do have to say that I was disappointed in TILT’s piece.  It looked as if someone spilt pink spagettio’s all over a munny.  However, TILT’s still my #1 graffiti favorite so all his past work’s make up for this one, ummmm falter?  After the exhibit, my Pops and I walked around the streets of Soho and spotted some really sweet graffiti.  Down one ally, I was lucky enough to come across one of FARO’s signature Mummy’s.  Another little unexpected treat was this abandoned building that was tagged from head to toe.  Some really detailed pieces used this establishment as their canvas.  Check my flickr from time to to because I will eventually put up all my pics from that day on there all ordered and neat.   Anyway, pics are below.  Enjoy!

Huck Gee

Chuckboy

Kevin Gosselin

PON

Buff Monster

FARO (by Forsyth Ave. NYC)