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From Soulful To Mouthful: Ruben Wants To Open Restaurant
Ruben "the Velvet Teddy Bear" Studdard, whose album is not really doing as well as the media would have you believe, is looking to open his open his own resturant, P. Diddy-style, in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. How much do you wanna bet they serve fried chicken?
So yeah, I ended up taking a little bit of a break from my website for the past week or for a few reasons which I'll get into here:
My access to the Internet at home is pretty much limited
-I didn't bring my computer home because there are already 2+ computers here.
-One of them is my old man's work computer and is pretty much off limits to me.
-Because of our setup here, only one computer can be connected to the Internet at once.
-My mom has a pretty hardcore addiction to one of those dumbass solitaire games.
This basically means that if I need to use the computer to do anything, I have to wait until late at night. This wouldn't be that big of a deal since I sleep all day and usually get off of work at 1 or 2 in the am except when I get off from work I usually don't feel like doing anything other than having a Jack and Coke and looking at BET Uncut. Plus when my uncle's in town (he was here last week and he'll be back in a couple of days) he has a tendency to tie up the computer at night the same way my mom does.
What this means
Starting pretty much right now, I'm gonna be working on new shit to post here. I came up with some pretty good ideas today while flipping burgers at White Assholes. I'm going to work on shit tonight and the next couple of days and then probably end up taking off New Years Eve and New Years Day, but then I'm planning hitting it pretty hard in 2004. I doubt I'll be reviewing any albums until I get back to school because I don't like the setup here, but for right now I'm working on expanding my coverage of films and current affairs. When I get back to school, I'm thinking about expanding into full coverage of video games, tv shows (especially the Real World and MTV) and pornography (shit that I find on the Internet; I'm not going to be actually making any pornography).
ALSO: There was some shit I wrote the other day that I didn't get around to publishing because my mom needed to use the computer or some shit. It was nothing special, but I'll probably get around to finishing it later on tonight or tomorrow.
Economy turning for Bush
Is it just me or is this clown looking more and more like he's just completely above the law. Like every dumb cracka-ass cracka hard hat worker in this country could be out of a job by next fall and it wouldn't make a bit of difference? Based on what I've been hearing, yeah Howard Dean is kicking ass in the polls among Democratic candidates and could very well take New Hampshire and Iowa in a coupla months, which would basically put most of the rest of those clowns out of the race, but in polls against Bush, he gets his little phony anti-war ass handed to him. Especially now that they got Saddam. It's like Joe Lieberman said, if Howard Dean had his way, Saddam would be in one his palaces somewhere puffing a Cuban and getting a handjob from some skank in a burkah (sp?). The thinking used to be that if Democrats couldn't compete on national security or "social issues" at least they had the economy. It looks like they don't have shit.
Nader mulls US presidential bid
On the one hand, this'll give the last 8 liberals left in this country someone to vote for because, let's face it you can call yourself liberal and vote for Howard Dean, who's likely to get the nomination, but you're not gonna fool the staff here at ByronCrawford.com. Pro-gun? Pro-death penalty? Pro-NAFTA? Anti-affirmative action? Riiight. So what he's got the support of the labor unions; have you ever met anybody in a labor union? I hear he's also endorsed by one of Jesse Jackson's love children. But anyhoo, does anybody actually like this clown Ralph Nader? It looks like if he tries to run again next year, he's not going to have even as much support as he did in 2000, which means that he's not even going to get the tiny percentage of the vote that he got then let alone whatever the percentage he would need to actually participate in the debates or get any money from th gov't or anything. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't run at all.
Rings finale sets new US record
How cool is it that one of the best movies from one of the best series of all time is doing so well at the box office? Granted, given the way things work in Hollywood, it's only a matter of time before it's completely surpassed by some garbage starring a child actor or worse, a rapper or some shit. Also, you can never tell with these box office records. I read that in some years, attendance would actually go down compared to the previous year, but "revenue" would go up because the prices of tickets went up. Also, and not to go on and on about Hollywood, but watch how these dumb cracka-ass crackas who run the movie studios rally around RINGS come awards time when in reality it's not really representative at all of how things tend to work out with these big Hollywood productions. Example? Compare RINGS with anything with a similar scope or budget to come out of H'wood recently. THE HULK, anybody? THE MATRIX sequels? See, these people are all idiots.
US beefs up anti-terror measures
The national security alert level has been raised to taupe this week just in time for that last few days of Christmas shopping. Help these corporations reach their targeted sales levels before the end of the year so that the President can claim he improved the economy in next year's election. It's the patriotic thing to do.
Legal victory for file-swappers
This is actually pretty cool. A court has decided that the RIAA can't force your ISP to give up your name for downloading shit off of Kazaa. I don't mess around with Kazaa or anything, but it's cool that the courts are not allowing these thugged out record companies trample over people's rights just to save their own fucked up businesses, which hardly ever actually benefit the artist anyway.
Cold Mountain leads Golden Globes
Cold Mountain is leading this year's Golden Globe nominations with 8. Tied for second place are Lost in Translation and Mystic River with 5. Return of the King had 4. Nobody really gives a rat's ass about Golden Globes, but they're important in the sense that they are seen as strong indicators of what's likely to happen at the Oscars. Based on this list, I'd have to say it's pretty wide open.
Aids toll cuts African lifespan
These damn Africans must be getting busy. If I lived in Africa the last thing I would be trying to do would be getting some action. I heard they were all convinced by the church and the gov't (same difference?) that there was no such thing as Aids or that you couldn't get it from fucking or some shit. Somebody needs to go over there and slap some sense into these people before they all die.
Madonna backs Clark for president
Fake Jews of the world unite! But seriously, you have to wonder a)Why would anybody care who Madonna is voting for and b)How'd she end up endorsing Wesley Clark of all people? Is there going to be something on MTV about this?
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