An Eye-Douching

Be back tomorrow.

I don’t knock people who get tattoos. I won’t get one for various reasons. I like my skin cleeaaaan and cleaar. But if I ever do decide to get a tattoo, it’ll be something meaningful. NOT a company’s logo.

The logo this guy has on his neck is the logo for “streetwear” brand The Hundreds. I give The Hundreds props because they came from being a lowly, little brand putting out t-shirts, to being kind of a big deal. They have a cut & sewn line, a female line, a store and a bunch of other huge stuff. And they’re stuff is actually good. But I don’t think anyone can justify getting a brands logo on any part of their body, no matter how good the brand is. Somewhere down the line, you will regret it.

Lets take the Zune guy for example. He got not one, not two, but THREE Zune tattoos. A Zune? Seriously, a Zune? But here’s whats going on now. He hates what the Zune has become (or what it always was depending on who you ask). He even bought an IPod! How one could not see this coming though, I don’t know. He’s planning on going over the tattoos or removing them I believe.

So all in all, I think if you MUST get a tattoo, it should be something very, very dear to your heart. Not of a clothing brand you’re going to stop wearing in a couple days/months/years. The same goes for boyfriend/girlfriend tattoos. Trust me, it probably won’t last long enough to warrant a tattoo.

After the jump, pictures of two other guys with Hundreds tattoos. Read more

So Nike decided to pull their recent ad campaign for their new Nike Hyperdunk sneaker. This really pisses me off. They got a lot of flack from the gay community and the black community. Apparently, this is ad is racist and homophobic. That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. For anyone who plays basketball, gay, straight, Black, White, Hispanic, Asian or Indian, getting dunked on is one of the worst things that can happen to you. And getting dunked one with someone’s sweaty balls in your face is even worse. Even in woman’s basketball it’s horrible. Even though their have only been two women, Lisa Leslie and Candice Parker, to dunk in the WNBA, I’d like to know how many woman, straight or gay, would like a sweaty vagina in their face while playing basketball. Seriously. No one wants balls or vagina in their face. No one. And I’d like to know how in the world is this racist. I’ve seen the other ads that apart of the campaign, their plastered all over my neighborhood and in the Foot Locker, and they’re not racist to me. Deadspin is saying the same exact thing I was thinking when I first heard about the “outrage” a couple weeks ago. Seriously, whats with being politically correct about stuff that isn’t offending anyone. If you think it’s racist and/or homophobic, let me know in the comments.

UPDATE: The commercials are after the jump, thanks to Steve.
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I meant to post this the other day but I forgot. If you have the time there is an interesting article in the NY Times about kids, the internet and reading. Whether what you’re reading on the internet is really reading and is the internet the reason for the decline in standardized test scores. It’s a little lengthy (four pages) but interesting. Now I’m off to class.

Literacy Debate

My sister loves it and she ALWAYS watched Garfield & Friends. So it grew on me. This is Lasagna Cat. They take random Garfield comic strips and reenact them. They usually end with a trippy music video.

UPDATE: It’s exactly 2 AM, I have class in the morning, and I’m watching Garfield & Friends on YouTube with LOU RAWLS!! sigh, nostalgia.

And one for the geeks (including myself) after the jump. . . Read more

So the other day I’m waiting for the elevator up to get to my apartment. A fellow tenant, who I’ve seen before, comes into the building and also waits with me. So I give her a cordial smile and head nod and she gives me a blank stare. I look away because I hate awkwardness, and I try to avoid it at all costs. I look around the lobby and out of the corner of my eye I notice she’s STILL STARING AT ME!. And it’s not some “OH YOU ARE SOOOO HOT!” staring, it’s “I’m just fuckin’ starin” staring! Seriously, and it took an eternity for the elevator to get there. I was just going to take the stairs, but I was there long enough so I figured I’ll just stay. We got into the elevator and she was to the right of me. . .still staring. What in the world do you do in those kind of situations? I’m not a rude person (at least not anymore) so I wasn’t going to say anything nasty. I’m just going to start taking the stairs from now on.

I was on the subway today on my way to end a two day search for a book I should be reading now and there was a baby crying on the train. She was like one and a half or so, I can’t really tell how old kids are. But she was reaching for her mom’s mammary gland. She fell asleep from the crying but that reminded me of the video above. I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure some doctors would disapprove of that.

This is really cool. My friend Diana sent me the link. This guy has compiled videos of art he’s done in the past year. He gets rid of alot of the art he creates. I’m not an artist, but is that part of being an artist, being able to destroy what you created? I’d probably cry.

If Narnia interested me, I’d watch it. I’ve got some work to do. I don’t feel like even thinking about it. DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!