Burn that Fat!!!!!

Remember how Tyler Durden made soap out of human fat in Fight Club? Well what if we used that same human fat and used it for energy?

This is what Barbara Ehrenreich asserts in her recent article in The Nation, "Liposucition: The Key to Energy Independence." It makes sense. Why not burn some of the fat that rich, overweight Americans have shed?

She writes:

This is the humane alternative to biofuels derived directly from erstwhile foodstuffs like corn. Biofuels, as you might have noticed, are exacerbating the global food crisis by turning edible plants into gasoline. But we could put humans back in the loop by first turning the corn into Doritos and hence into liposuctionable body fat. There would be a reason to live again, even a patriotic rationale for packing on the pounds.

WOW!
What a brilliant idea?!?

It would be the perfect solution to America's problems. We wouldn't need to worry about a lack of crops, the weight problem that Americans face will be greatly diminished, and we would still be able to drive our cars!

WONDERFUL!

I don't know about you but I'm going to run right off to the plastic surgeon this instant! I figure with the amount of fat on me I could get enough gas to last me a week? a few days?

YES!

Lets be thin, fat guzzling Americans!

Later Willie

So the Mets fired Willie Randolph in one of the most classless acts ever by a sports team.

I'm ashamed to be a Mets fan.
Seriously.

Just read Buster Olney's blog over at ESPN.....that about sums it up.

No Way! No Wave!

In the Books section of the New York Times today there is a great review of a new book chronicling the infamous No Wave punk scene in New York in the late 1970's

The book, No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980, is a visual history by Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) and Byron Coley and includes photographs and interviews of groups such as James Chance and the Contortions, DNA, and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.

Looks like it should be an interesting book covering one of the most intriguing, short-lived musical movements.

Below is a live clip of James Chance and the Contortions.

The Fallacy Is You

"if the folks known as the hiphop generation are learning their politics from "conscious" rap, there is little hope for our future."

Huh?

That was my first reaction after reading this op-ed by John McWhorter in The New York Sun. McWhorter, the well known columnist for the Sun and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, has long been know for his "interesting" views on race that usually take a Clarence Thomas approach to being African American.

Clearly McWhorter knows very little about the foundations of Hip-Hop and the political nature of it. Sure, mainstream hip-hop is shallow, sexist, and offers a poor representation of African-Americans (which McWhorter does in fact realize). However, he misses the boat in asserting that conscious rap and hip-hop are somehow undermining the new generation of African-Americans.

In citing songs by Pete Rock, Dead Prez, The Roots, and Kanye West, he takes the lyrics out of context and fails to acknowledge that the themes from these songs are common within African-American communities. The idea that public school systems (NOT charter schools McWhorter specifically talks about) in low-income communities are failing and providing a curriculum that is not properly aimed at the students is a topic that has long been talked by educators, civil rights leaders, AND hip-hop artists.

McWhorter, who in previous op-eds has gone as far to say that race is not playing a role in the current presidential campaign, clearly failed to do his homework when writing this piece.

Get Out of My Head!

I woke up this morning with the song "Pink Houses" by John Mellencamp stuck in my head.

What the hell?

I don't even like that song, yet all day long I've found myself humming this crappy, midwest-cheese rock that is John Mellencamp.


However, I do really like that in the video he gets all wild and crazy, dancing in a field. That John Cougar, he's so innovative!