February 2012
14 posts
The Making Of "Homer At The Bat" →
Deadspin lays down an oral history of the baseball-centric Simpsons classic, one of my favorite things that ever happened.
joshishollywood:
When you consider the people in 2011 who thought that Camp was a good record and then consider the people who didn’t even listen to Im Gay (Im Happy)
You just get upset
My First Rub →
Southpaw is closing and The Rub is moving. I won’t do the eulogy here, but Puja has some nice thoughts.
senari:
I remember my first Rub at Southpaw. It was in early summer of ‘06. I was twenty and had driven up from College Park for the weekend after borrowing my parents car without their knowing that I was taking it on a road-trip. Caps and Jones had played at Savalas the night before,...
January 2012
13 posts
Energies Companies Using Military Psyops to Fight... →
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Energy company officials openly admitting they employ people with military psyops training to deal with the opposition to fracking.
Fracking (hydraulic fracturing) is the injection of a cocktail of chemicals into the earth to break up rock formations and extract natural gas. It caused an earthquake in Ohio and an entire documentary was made about how fracking...
December 2011
31 posts
IN DEFENSE OF MAC MILLER. →
I went on Will Staley and Mr. A.OK’s fantastic Champale podcast last week for their 10th episode. We got drunk and talked about new raps, longboards, probably some politics and more new raps.
I also laid of my defense of Mac Miller. A lot of people hate him. I think he gets unfairly maligned by getting lumped in with annoying frat rappers, and I think one has to understand Pittsburgh to...
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