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Fiddy's weed carrier shot!

MTV.com is reporting that 50 Cent and the rest of those crazy jigs in the G-Unit were involved in some shit this evening at the Hot 97 studios. First of all, Fiddy was pissed that Teh Ghey didn't want any part of his beef with pretty much the entire rap industry at this point, not to mention the fact that he has been rumored to blow little boys, and made the announcement that Teh Ghey had therefore been "excommunicated" from the G-Unit. Meanwhile, somebody shot one of Fiddy's weed carriers twice while he was in the lobby, presumably standing next to the bag. No word yet on what happened to the bag, but I'll be sure to keep you all posted.

The Aviator vs Million Dollar Baby

With everything else that's going on in the world, I don't write as much about movies as I'd like to. But since tonight is Oscar night, and since I've got money riding this year, I figured it might be interesting to take a look at a couple of the nominees. This year, unlike say last year, there's an actual race for Best Picture. Million Dollar Baby is the favorite to win Best Picture according to most media outlets, but some still have The Aviator taking the big prize and the odds going either way look pretty close.

Fat Joe vs 50 Cent

Did everybody get a chance to check out Fat Joe calling up Hot 97 the other day and going off on Fiddy? It was pretty amusing in the way that it's always amusing listening to ignorant people trying to pick a fight with one another. Fat Joe even goes so far as to suggest that they could set up a date to duke it out old school. According to Joe, 50 ain't real because you never see him in the streets. I can't really speak on that just because I guess I'm not from the streets, but he does bring up some good points about 50 being disrespectful and trying to start beef with people just to hype his own shit. He also suggests that he co-produced "Candy Shop" with Scott Storch, but tossed it aside because it was teh ghey. With that I'd have to agree. No homo.

The boys are back in town

I had been meaning these past couple of weeks to get this Heartscab project back off the ground, but, if you look at the archives from this week and the last, obviously I got a little bit sidetracked with some issues. But now that that's (hopefully) all over and done with, it's time to get back down to business promoting this band.

The plan at this point is "borrow" some sounds and images from one of the many shitty young punk bands in the STL and use that to get us an acutal recording contract. I'll burn some CDs and mail them to all of the top music critics and record labels in the country, along with special liner notes written by myself and a promotional package consisting of various other writings and press clippings also created by yours truly. If this works out the way I plan, we might be making an appearance on TRL by the end of the year.

The J Roget is back on ice

I see our boy Pope JPII is back in the hospital again and may be undergoing an emergency tracheotomy. While this is good news for the contest (especially to cpt. rojo, who's got today's date locked up), now I'm kinda hoping that the old codger pulls through. First of all, he's got a new book to promote. Not that at a man in his condition could ever actually write a book, but, not unlike the many people who own a copy of The College Dropout, I don't think his core audience cares too much about that sort of thing anyway. Also, think of how cool it would be if the Pope made yet another comeback but had to speak using one of those Roger Troutman voice box thingies. That shit would just be incredible. And you thought the Pope was pimpish before!

Bol's Oscar Picks 2005

My old man had me fill out one of these for an office pool. If he wins, he's going to split the proceeds with me. For the most part, I went with what I figured were the most likely winners, since - unlike in sports - there's not as likely to be any upsets.

Actor -Leading: Jamie Foxx
Actor -Supporting: Thomas Haden Church
Cinematography: The Aviator
Costume Design: The Aviator
Makeup: The Passion of Christ
Actress -Leading: Annette Bening
Actress -Supporting: Cate Blanchett
Screenplay -Adapted: Sideways
Screenplay -Original: The Aviator
Visual Effects: Spiderman 2
Film Editing: The Aviator
Art Direction: The Aviator
Directing: Martin Scorsese
Animated Feature: The Incredibles
Documentary: Super Size Me
Original Score: The Passion of Christ
Original Song: Accidentally in Love
Foreign Film: The Sea Inside
Best Picture: The Aviator

The categories I was most clueless about were the Actress ones (Leading and Supporting), which have, in the past, proven difficult to predict (e.g. Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny), and are both pretty close this year. Hilary Swank beat Annette Bening in 1999 for Best Actress, so this year I figured they might do the opposite. The odds in Best Supporting Actress are more or less split between Cate Blanchett in The Aviator and Virginia Madsen in Sideways, so I decided to go with Blanchett just based on personal preference.

ALSO: Wednesday = New The Crawford Report at The Mack

50 Cent - The Massacre: Album Review

50 Cent, The Massacre (Aftermath, 2005)
It's been a while since I've done one of these intoxicado, so my bad in advance if it comes out a little screwy. I knew this was going to be bad just because these things always are, but that Game album had my hopes up that there still might be some excellent production on here. Sadly, that's not the case here at all. Some of these songs are better than others, but none of them are really worth listening to.

The Real World: Philadelphia - Episode 23: Episode Summary

NOTICE: If this site disappears all of a sudden, it's because I got shut down by the man. The gay guys that own Six Apart (makers of the TypePad publishing platform) are onto me and they're pissed! No homo. Also, this episode wasn't very good at all. I was all set to do a really good episode summary this week, but there really just wasn't much to write about. My bad.

See, those fags are ruining everything!

Ego Trip's Race-O-Rama!

Did anybody else catch this last night on VH1? At first I was kinda worried that those idiots at VH1 would play this shit at the same time as Cribs and the Osbournes on MTV and that I'd have to make one of those important life decisions. But, fortunately, somebody there had the good sense to put it on at 8 rather than 9. I had enjoyed the first ego trip special on VH1, TV's Illest Minority Moments, so I was glad to see that VH1, probably hard up for Black History Month programming (other than fucking 8 MIle), decided to bring them back.

The most amusing part about last night's first installment (parts 2 and 3 air tonight and Wednesday) was when they revoked Cuba Gooding, Jr's ghetto pass, which was I thought was pretty cold, but definitely necessary. Probably the low point was Miss Info, whom you might remember from the Hot 97 Tsunami Song incident, talking about the benefits of having a ghetto pass. I was hoping they might get into how she would actually know, but I guess even ego trip isn't that gully. She probably had sex with all of them anyway.

Parts 2 and 3 air tonight and Wednesday.

I'm done with crazy

I have no idea what in the world happened last night, but whatever it was, it went way across the line as far as the level of bullshit that I intend to tolerate. In all of our little back and forth, I never posted anything about Clyde Smith that wasn't clearly a joke. But obviously this man is too far gone to grasp that fact. I don't know what he thought he was actually doing last night by threatening me, but I do know this: If Clyde Smith would've actually shown up at my house last night, I would've ended his life right then and there. If he calls me again, I'm calling the motherfucking cops on him. As far as I'm concerned, this silly little Internet shit we've had going on is over and done with.