Herzegovina + Bosnia!!!

(and you)

I know Ziggy is much too modest and humble, nor does he have the gall to plug, advertise, or promote. So! I will do it for him.

Our very own Mr. DooWop himself has a badass radio show. Tune into the "No Name Blues Show" (not to be confused with these boys) on 91.5 FM WTUL New Orleans. Click to Click so you can listen.

Herzegovina + Bosnia, be sure to stay tuned every Sunday 7p-9p.

(Oh, I mean 19:00-21:00.)

Otherwise, PST is every Sunday from 10a-12p. Everyone else, you're gonna have to do the dirty work.




Don't be sad. Bad Rock Skourtes will bring him to life. Aaaaaaaaaand her . . .

And him . . . ooooh Him. Otis HRH.


Still living! But Skirt McGirt will bring her straight to your ear drums which will shoot it right to your . . . well . . . Harvard?



According to the Harvard Gazette: 'Your inner ear contains a spiral sheet that the sounds of music pluck like a guitar string. This plucking triggers the firing of brain cells that make up the hearing parts of your brain. At the highest station, the auditory cortex, just above your ears, these firing cells generate the conscious experience of music. Different patterns of firing excite other ensembles of cells, and these associate the sound of music with feelings, thoughts, and past experiences.'

Enjoy, from one Shay to another and also to you. And also with you. Awe-men.

Friday is Worth the Celebration (Just Ask Stephen Colbert)

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and the Legendary Roots Crew sing a worthy celebration. In honor of what you may ask? The wonderful holiday that is Friday. Enjoy and have a good weekend!

The Non-Creepy MJ

A dedication to a certain someone . . .




I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

I've failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

There is no "i" in team but there is in win.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks... But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

(This one is partially for me, miss you Muggsy!)

Dry Her

For the artist, the housewife, the boyfriend who kills the bugs, the Midwesterner in the summer.

14 Uses for dryer sheets minus dryers:

1. De-static your clothes.
Shirt sticking to your arms like a temporary tattoo? Wipe the shirt down with a dryer sheet, and enjoy the release.

2. Pick up pet hair from your furniture and clothes.

3. Ward off pests.
Fact: rats hate clean clothes. So do squirrels, raccoons, mice, and other rodents. Tuck dryer sheets under the doors of your basements, RVs, and garden sheds, to keep critters out.

4. Put one in a plastic bag and throw it in your suitcase.
Boom, that's your travel laundry bag, and it'll keep your socks from making your clean clothes smell like feet.

5. Scrub bugs off your windshield.
Dryer sheets do an incredible job of loosening stuck-on skeeters. Add water and use a dryer sheet like a sponge.

6. Put them in your shoes to keep them from stankin up the joint.

7. Bug repellent.
Wipe yourself down with a dryer sheet, and bugs won't bite you as much. Probably not as good as actual bug spray, but they'll do in a pinch.

(Britt Britt? That you?)

8. Put them under the seats in your car to make it smell like clean clothes, not a synthetic pine forest.

9. Clean pots and pans.
Something in dryer sheets does a real number on caked-on pan-crud. After you're done frying the crap out of that Spam sandwich, get the carbonized mystery meat off the bottom of your cookware by filling it with warm water, and adding a dryer sheet.

10. Put one at the bottom of your hamper to keep your dirty clothes from stinking up your room.

(Calm your tits, just theater makeup.)

11. Clean paintbrushes.
Soak paintbrushes in dryer-sheet-steeped warm water, and latex paint will apparently peel right off.

12. Put one in your vacuum cleaner bag or canister to freshen your carpet.

13. Clean soap scum off your shower.
Use a dryer sheet and water instead of some nasty cleaning product to shine up your tiles.

14. POT-pourri.
Put one inside a paper towel tube, and blow your weed smoke through it to keep from alerting the mom/wife/kids/prison guard to your stonering.

(Images are results when Google-ing "dryer sheet.")

Read the EGGxact same stuff I just posted, here.

Roy Anesti! The Second Coming Of Brandon Roy

I received the phone call this morning greeted with the words Roy Anesti! Today is Easter in the Greek Orthodox tradition and although occurring a day early, Brandon Roy Has Risen! I am sure there are a lot of fans around the globe who watch the NBA but few probably have the opportunity to watch the Portland Trailblazers as much of the media coverage is dominated by the juggernauts that are the L*kers, Celtics, Bulls, and now the Heat. Yesterday held one of the greatest playoff basketball comebacks of all time. Fans hollering, Brandon Roy fighting off multiple knee surgeries on both knees, holding back tears of joy, willing his team to victory, evening the best of seven series at two a piece against the higher seeded Dallas Mavericks, and all the while his teammates encouraging him on. Watching the above video gives me goose bumps knowing what the man, known as "The Natural," has gone through in his career, with much of the season him being told he was now a throw away player, replaceable. I want to share with y'all some of the splendor that is Portland Trail Blazers Basketball, the likes of which are not seen often. Watch and enjoy the unbridled enthusiasm that is shared throughout sports.


Gerald Wallace,``When people ask me what did I do in the 4th quarter, I'll tell them `I stood in the corner and watched The Brandon Roy Show'"


Thanks To MaxaMillion711 for the great video montage
Click through for a summary of the day's events:

PASTA WITH YOGURT AND CARAMELIZED ONIONS

RECIPE
Pasta With Yogurt And Caramelized Onions
Adapted from ''The Glorious Foods of Greece,'' by diane kochilas

INGREDIENTS
2 cups sheep's-milk yogurt
5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
6 cups coarsely chopped onions
Sea salt
1 pound tagliatelle
1 cup coarsely grated kefalotyri cheese, or pecorino Romano
PREPARATION
1.
Line a colander with cheesecloth and set over a bowl or in the sink. Add the yogurt and let drain for 2 hours.
2.
Heat the olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat and add the onions. Reduce the heat to medium low and cook, stirring frequently, until the onions are soft and golden brown, 20 to 30 minutes.
3.
Meanwhile, fill a large pot with water and bring to a boil. As the water heats, add enough salt so that you can taste it. Add the pasta and cook until soft, not al dente. Combine the drained yogurt with 1/2 cup cooking water and mix well. Drain the pasta and toss with the yogurt mixture.
4.
Divide the pasta among 4 bowls. Sprinkle generously with cheese and top with caramelized onions and their juices.
Yields 4+ servings
I also took about 8oz of Pancetta and pan seared until crispy and cracked on the top of the final dish. it turned out great. I recommend serving with a green vegetable dish such as asparagus. The recipe is simple and besides the two hour advanced thought to drain the yogurt, it is a good go to dish when you do not want to be hasseling with a laundry list of ingredients. Bon APPETITE!
The Recipe

Jah Didn't Kill Johnny (Johnny's Resurrection)

A Sunday tune:

Fact.

Undying Love, Cajun Style

This one goes out to The DooWop of NOLA. Our DooWop of NOLA.

Give it up for the oncoming festival!

Amédé Ardoin cœur Joline, toujours et à jamais. . .

(Though a pioneering artist, Amede Ardoin is also a historical phantom. Few copies of his classic recordings remain, and this image is the only known photograph of him.)

"This coming week, New Orleans will welcome thousands of music fans to its banks with the annual Jazz & Cultural Heritage Festival. The city's signature sound started taking shape decades before the recorded era, but one of the first musicians to immortalize zydeco on wax was singer and accordionist Amede Ardoin."

Read + listen to the rest of the story + tunes here on NPR.

The Death of Rodrigo Rosenberg

An absolutely enthralling story from the New Yorker's David Grann. The tale is so fantastical it is incredible that it is based in "fact" and indeed "true." I use quotations because even after what seems to be legitimate detective work, one is still left wondering if all or even most of the layers were peeled back and divulged in their entirety. Truly a great story. I will not reveal the ending, as you will have to read through to find out for yourself who the suspected culprits are in ending the lives of Rodrigo Rosenberg, Khalil Musa and his daughter Marjorie, but I will say it is a must read. 


“Guatemala is a good place to commit a murder, because you will almost certainly get away with it,” a U.N. official has said.


An excerpt from:
A Murder Foretold
Unravelling the ultimate political conspiracy.
by David Grann


Rodrigo Rosenberg knew that he was about to die. It wasn’t because he was approaching old age—he was only forty-eight. Nor had he been diagnosed with a fatal illness; an avid bike rider, he was in perfect health. Rather, Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, was certain that he was going to be assassinated.

Before he began, in the spring of 2009, to prophesy his own murder, there was little to suggest that he might meet a violent end. Rosenberg, who had four children, was an affectionate father. The head of his own flourishing practice, he had a reputation as an indefatigable and charismatic lawyer who had a gift for leading other people where he wanted them to go. He was lithe and handsome, though his shiny black hair had fallen out on top, leaving an immaculate ring on the sides. Words were his way of ordering the jostle of life. He spoke in eloquent bursts, using his voice like an instrument, his hands and eyebrows rising and falling to accentuate each note. (It didn’t matter if he was advocating the virtues of the Guatemalan constitution or of his favorite band, Santana.) Ferociously intelligent, he had earned master’s degrees in law from both Harvard University and Cambridge University...


...And, according to Rosenberg, it was a case involving one of these clients, Khalil Musa, that had placed his life in jeopardy. A Lebanese immigrant, Musa had risen from poverty to great wealth, manufacturing textiles and producing coffee. Stern, traditional, and hardworking, he liked to recite the inspirational poetry of Khalil Gibran, and was admired as one of the few magnates in Guatemala who refused to plunder the state or make payoffs for favorable deals. At seventy-six, he suffered from vertigo, and he increasingly relied on the younger of his two daughters, Marjorie, to help him manage his business. Marjorie, who was forty-two, was married with two children, and she had an easy ebullience that infused her simple features with beauty. She had mastered the intricacies of finishing fabrics, and she had always been—as her sister, Aziza, acknowledges, without rancor—their father’s favorite...

...After Rosenberg heard that the Musas had been shot, he rushed to the scene. Luis Mendizábal, a longtime friend and client of Rosenberg’s, told me, “I asked him to come and pick me up, so we could go to the place together. He said, ‘No, no, no. I’m not going to lose any time. I’m going directly.’ So he went. He couldn’t believe it. Then he came back over here, and cried, easily, for two hours.” His oldest son, Eduardo, who was twenty-four, told me that it was only the second time he had seen his father break down, the first being when Rosenberg revealed that he was separating from Eduardo’s mother. He seemed “completely destroyed” by the Musas’ deaths, Eduardo recalled.


Though the crime was horrific, Rosenberg’s deeply emotional reaction was surprising. Musa was not a big client or someone he knew that well. Then Rosenberg told his son a secret: for more than a year, he and Marjorie had been having an affair.


They had planned to marry, but had not wanted to disclose their relationship until Marjorie got a divorce. Almost every day, they had exchanged text messages. On March 3, 2009, five weeks before the shooting, Marjorie wrote to Rosenberg, “I love you like I’ve never loved before. And, yes, I will marry you.” A few days later, she said, “Good night my love, my prince, my whole life. You don’t know how much I love you, how much I adore you, and how much I need you. You are so tender with me. And you’re the sweetest man I know.” She added, “I’m dying to live the rest of my life at your side.” He called her “my Marjorie de Rosenberg” and told her that she gave him “the strength to be a better man” and that they were “living an incredible love story.” Hours before she was killed, he ended a message with the words “Your prince forever.”


In tears, Rosenberg told his son, “They killed her! They killed her!” He told Mendizábal the same thing, repeating the words over and over...


...In President Colom’s war room, Roberto Izurieta, the strategist, believed that he, too, had found threads of what one member of the government called a “finely woven conspiracy.” Izurieta had always thought that Colom could not be behind the murders of the Musas and Rosenberg, and that the killings had to be part of a plot to bring down the government. The idea was outlandish only to the innocent. As Don DeLillo has written, “A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.” Izurieta, who had lost ten pounds since the crisis began—and who had violated his ban on caffeine, which made him, by his own admission, “electric”—thought that the conspirators were finally being pulled from the shadows of Guatemalan politics..."


Click through to read The New Yorker article in its entirety.

meep

RESET! & Nom De Strip - I can see boobies from RESET! on Vimeo.

21st Wolfgangs

Maybe not quite the youngin'-like Wolfgang Amadeus . . . but we're still elephant-ing our ears.
Or I am.


G'on, "Hear that mix."

Pen-Zoo-You

Doogie did it.
So did Anne.
And
Syliva
and
and
Virginia
and
Truman
and
Anaïs
aaaaaaaaaaand . . . . .

Hedda Sterne (along with Peter Beard and Warhol) made "unconventional" diaries.
"She sometimes referred to herself as a diarist, a role that became explicit when, in the mid-1970s, she began putting diary entries directly onto canvases sectioned into checkerboard-like grids." New York Times



Penzu
::: you :::

It's good for
::: you :::

Exclamation.

Oh! It also has military grade security. Wabam! No need to get scared that you will be an accidental escribitionist.

The Ginger Blues

Baby Bonnie

(Harvard?!)

Plus Junior Wells

(Sound blows on this one, sorry 'bout that. Figure out a way to squint your ears.)

You're so square, and I like it!

Click click click to click click so you can Bop Bop.

MC Eiht Which Way Iz West.

MC Eiht has been holding it down for years. In the past,
some of his lyrics have slipped from a low perch, but he
rightfully holds his own on "Where You Goin 2,"as he has been in the game for a good while now and it is about time for him to come correct with consistency. As Dj Premier is producing the upcoming album Which Way Iz West, I am keeping it on
the radar. So until the release, summer 2011,
here is a download of the following video with
Premo on the tables:
Yes

MC Eiht - Where U Goin 2 Video

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Lil Buck + Yo-Yo Ma

If you can multitask while also watching this video, then props to you. A skill in and of itself.

Surprise, surprise. Bop Bop has a vag.

Aaaaaahhhh yes, performance art. Probably more comfortable than randomly howling like a wolf while running around two rooms while velcro-ing and un-velcro-ing body parts to another's body parts while eating carrots and drinking chardonnay.

Places I'd try to squeeze my way into for a stint as a serial sleepover performance artist :

Floating Ukranian Castle
Up-Up-Up-Inspired Floating House

Fluffed As All Hell Tiny Cottage

Boomer throwback treehouse

Stairway to Heaven Minus Robert Plant('s Aphrodisia Audio Awesomeness)
(Don't care that there's no walls or ceiling or bed . . . I'll still sleep here.)

Green Thumbed of a Utopia
(Still don't care, still sleep.)

More after my dreamy elation subsides. Ten years old, public library, Architectural Digest.

Pow Pow (Pew Pew!) He Dada

I don't think teenagers will think this is adult but okay.

Come One, Come All, Pap Smears Now Offered At Walgreens!

That will be the day.
We will now let Mr. Colbert break it down for us good folk:

Check Post Break:

Bad Who

ERYKAH BADU IN STUDIO from Creative Control on Vimeo.

cosas favoritas

end nye

culture vacuums are funnier with a german accent

Blueprint is Alive

Blueprint dropped his second solo release Adventures In Counter-Culture on Rhymesaysers Entertainment recently and it sounds like it is going to be a must add to the catalog. Check out the single So Alive:

If Anyone Khan, Genghis Khan

Hey Cousin! Check out the Smithsonian Institute's new ad campaign, must say, someone over there has a relevant sense of humor:

National Geographic:

"Genghis Khan, the fearsome Mongolian warrior of the 13th century, may have done more than rule the largest empire in the world; according to a recently published genetic study, he may have helped populate it too.

An international group of geneticists studying Y-chromosome data have found that nearly 8 percent of the men living in the region of the former Mongol empire carry y-chromosomes that are nearly identical. That translates to 0.5 percent of the male population in the world, or roughly 16 million descendants living today.

Legacy of Genghis Khan

To have such a startling impact on a population required a special set of circumstances, all of which are met by Genghis Khan and his male relatives, the authors note in the study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

Khan's empire at the time of his death extended across Asia, from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. His military conquests were frequently characterized by the wholesale slaughter of the vanquished. His descendants extended the empire and maintained power in the region for several hundred years, in civilizations in which harems and concubines were the norm. And the males were markedly prolific.

Khan's eldest son, Tushi, is reported to have had 40 sons. Documents written during or just after Khan's reign say that after a conquest, looting, pillaging, and rape were the spoils of war for all soldiers, but that Khan got first pick of the beautiful women. His grandson, Kubilai Khan, who established the Yuan Dynasty in China, had 22 legitimate sons, and was reported to have added 30 virgins to his harem each year.

"The historically documented events accompanying the establishment of the Mongol empire would have contributed directly to the spread of this lineage," the authors conclude.

Of course, the connection to Genghis Khan will never be a certainty unless his grave is found and his DNA could be extracted. Until then, geneticists will continue to seek out isolated populations in the hope of unraveling the mysteries of geographic origin and relatedness told by our genes."

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kill kill kill

2:15 is the pcp glory rape face.



the last thing you ever see.

Raphael Saadiq Is Breaking Hearts

As we get ready for his new album, Raphael Saadiq drops another killer track on us with the acoustic Good Man.





Pre-Order and more at:
http://www.raphaelsaadiq.com/


Bio: Click Through

Sean Connery Has a Hard on For 6-Hundred

source

"It is a proud day for you and your family." - Alex Trebeck

twerkday

so much to say

The Chuck Norris Birth Certificate

The Boot. 

fuck the world

Come Stay With Us

Link

A Days Worth of News From The New York Times

Tips on Safe Use of Social Media

"Security isn’t just a concern in Middle East autocracies, or for would-be revolutionaries. Mobile phone surveillance, for example, is tough to escape for cellphone users anywhere, said Ethan Zuckerman, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and a founder of Global Voices, a worldwide group of bloggers and interpreters that has produced similarly themed guides.

Mr. Zuckerman regularly advises Access, as do Chris Hughes, one of Facebook’s founders; the rock musician Peter Gabriel, and the MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser.

“In general, most users aren’t aware of the extent to which mobile phones can be monitored by telcos in cooperation with governments,” Mr. Zuckerman said, referring to telecommunications companies."

NY 9/11 Trial Blocked

"Last year, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. described a federal court trial for the self-professed mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, as “the defining event of my time as attorney general.” On Monday, Mr. Holder’s dream for demonstrating the power of the American court system crumbled when he announced that the trial would take place not in New York City or anywhere in the United States but before a military commission at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, prison camp...

...The wound inflicted on New York City from Mr. Mohammed’s plot nearly a decade ago will not heal for many lifetimes, yet the city, while still grieving, has thrived. How fitting it would have been to put the plot’s architect on trial a few blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, to force him to submit to the justice of a dozen chosen New Yorkers, to demonstrate to the world that we will not allow fear of terrorism to alter our rule of law...

...Given the circumstances, Mr. Holder is right to push for a military trial for Mr. Mohammed, rather than let him linger in indefinite limbo. His decision will test whether reforms to the military commission system will allow for both a fair prosecution and a vigorous defense. But Monday’s announcement represents a huge missed opportunity to prove the fairness of the federal court system and restore the nation’s reputation for providing justice for all."

Multitude of Species Face Climate Threat

"Over the past 540 million years, life on Earth has passed through five great mass extinctions. In each of those catastrophes, an estimated 75 percent or more of all species disappeared in a few million years or less.

For decades, scientists have warned that humans may be ushering in a sixth mass extinction, and recently a group of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, tested the hypothesis. They applied new statistical methods to a new generation of fossil databases. As they reported last month in the journal Nature, the current rate of extinctions is far above normal. If endangered species continue to disappear, we will indeed experience a sixth extinction, over just the next few centuries or millennia...

...Over the past decade, Dr. Pearson and other researchers have developed models to predict these future range shifts. They typically calculate the “climate envelope” in which species live today, and then use global warming projections to find where their climate envelopes will be in the future...

...“Biodiversity is under severe threat from climate change, but we need to be careful that we don’t give a false impression of what our confidence is,” said Dr. Pearson. “We have to give a nuanced sense of what we do know and what we can say with confidence.”

Seven years after the million-species headlines, Dr. Pearson says that extinction models still have a long way to go. “We’ve made some incremental improvements, but I don’t think they’re hugely better,” he said."

Vast Gene Study Yields Insights on Alzheimer’s

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"The two largest studies of Alzheimer’s disease have led to the discovery of no fewer than five genes that provide intriguing new clues to why the disease strikes and how it progresses.

Researchers say the studies, which analyzed the genes of more than 50,000 people in the United States and Europe, leave little doubt that the five genes make the disease more likely in the elderly and have something important to reveal about the disease’s process. They may also lead to ways to delay its onset or slow its progress...

...An estimated 5.4 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, most of whom are elderly. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, one in eight people over age 65 have the disease. Its annual cost to the nation is $183 billion.

By themselves, the genes are not nearly as important a factor as APOE, a gene discovered in 1995 that greatly increases risk for the disease: by 400 percent if a person inherits a copy from one parent, by 1,000 percent if from both parents.

In contrast, each of the new genes increases risk by no more than 10 to 15 percent; for that reason, they will not be used to decide if a person is likely to develop Alzheimer’s. APOE, which is involved in metabolizing cholesterol, “is in a class of its own,” said Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, a neurology professor at Harvard Medical School and an author of one of the papers...

...Now the European and American groups are pooling their data to do an enormous study, looking for genes in the combined samples."

A poop will do ya. 

Big K.R.I.T.

A country boy doing right:

Free Album Download as released by Big K.R.I.T.
http://returnof4eva.com/