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Choice in eating disorders

First of all, I just want to say that this is a very sensitive subject and I know we don't have very many problems here anyway, but today I ask that you all be even more mindful of other people's feelings.

This is an old enough story that I'm sure I wrote about it on my old blog from back in the day, but I guess it's picking up steam again due to the current obsession with all things blogging. Basically, young, presumably mostly white chicks are taking this anorexia shit to a whole 'nother level on the Internets. They've taken to calling the eating disorders anorexia (not eating your dinner) and bulimia (throwing up your dinner) "Ana" and "Mia," respectively. On blogs and other websites they share tips for making themselves look less fat and periodically report their "cw" and "gw" - current weight and goal weight.

Predictably, the mainstream media, which is always claiming to be so objective on these things, has taken a staunchly anti-Ana and Mia view. They deride Anorexia and Bulimia - oops, Ana and Mia - as being "dangerous" and "something that girls shouldn't do," even if they are really fat. Says a story that's been running in various shitty papers that get all their stories from the AP, "Ana is short for anorexia, and — to the alarm of experts — many who suffer from the potentially fatal eating disorder are part of an underground movement that promotes self-starvation and, in some cases, has an almost cult-like appeal."

Potentially fatal maybe, but the last time I checked far more ladies were dying each year from being really fat than from being really skinny. If anything, we should be throwing our support behind groups that encourage women to rid themselves of dangerous, excess body weight. The truth of the matter is that the mainstream media is controlled by the same Tall Israelis that own McDonalds and TGI Friday's. They don't these women to get healthy because they'd rather have them plunk down their hard earned money on the Big N Tasty and Friday's new Steakhouse Selects. (Have you seen the commercials for that shit? God that looks good!)

Putting the band back together

I've got a pretty wicked idea of some shit that we can do to mark the release of Big Bank Kanye's new album, Late Registration, coming later this summer. I don't want to get into the particulars until much closer to the event, just for legal reasons. But, in the mean time, I'm gonna be on the lookout for people who are interested in lending their services to a good cause. No homo. Hit me on the email if you think you might want to be involved with this. If this works out the way I think it will, it'll make old-school Kanyegate look like the joke that it was.

UPDATE: I'm getting that new Coldplay as we "speak." I won't be emailing this to any of you because I think the recording industry (especially Coldplay's label) could really use all of our support.

Malcolm X = Teh ghey?

As Rivers Cuomo would say, "Say it ain't so!" I mean, I've heard the ones about Dr. MLK, Jr. banging two white chicks at a time, and who can blame him, but I never would have guessed in a million years that Malcolm "Out the Window with the AK" X was a motherfucking pole smoker. And a DL brother at that!

You're going to want to peep this story from the British Guardian in toto (nhjic), but here's a brief excerpt for you lazy blacks and Mexicans:

Yet Perry's book documents Malcolm X's many gay experiences. A schoolmate, Bob Bebee, recalls the day they stumbled on a local boy jerking off. Malcolm, Bebee recalled, ordered the youth to masturbate him, and subsequently boasted he had given him oral sex. Later, from the age of 20, Malcolm had sex with men for money - as hinted at in Spike Lee's 1992 biopic - and he had at least one sustained sexual liaison with a man. While living in Flint, Michigan, his roommate noticed that instead of sleeping in the room they were sharing, Malcolm sneaked down the hall to spend the night with a gay transvestite named Willie Mae.

In New York, two of Malcolm's friends from Michigan remember bumping into him at the YMCA, where Malcolm bragged he earned money servicing "queers". Later, Malcolm worked as a butler to a wealthy Boston bachelor, William Paul Lennon. According to Malcolm's sidekick Malcolm Jarvis, he was paid to sprinkle Lennon with talcum powder and bring him to orgasm. Perry suggests that Malcolm's gay encounters may not have been entirely financially motivated. His masculine insecurities and ambivalence towards women fit the archetype of a repressed gay man and point to latent homosexuality.

Has anybody else heard anything about this at all? Now that I think about it, it was kind of odd that, in the movie, Malcolm bragged about how he gave that old ass white man a bath and then sprinkled some talcum powder on him, and it was rather homoerotic (extra no homo) the way he slid that ring off the old dude's finger (gee, I sure hope it was a finger!) as he slept. I mean, this is the kind of news that can ruin a brother's Memorial Day.

Malcolm X - gay black hero? [The Guardian]

M.O.P. signing with G-Unit

I read this this morning at one of those rap sites, so you can take that for what it's worth, but, apparently M.O.P. have done gone and signed with Fiddy Cent's G-Unit or, as I like to call it, teh ghey unit.

Sidenote: I'm pretty sure Uncle Cobb just called us all "simpleminded" for using terms like teh ghey and no homo. That fag.

Anyhoo, you'll recall that they had been signed to The Roc for like 3 years or so, but never actually released anything other than maybe a verse on that shitty second Blueprint album. When the R-O-C split, they opted not to roll with the DDtR Music Group, just like anybody else that had any sense, but then they didn't sign with Jay-Z's new Roc-A-Fella (which ain't doin' too well either, based on these first two releases of theirs), I guess because they didn't want to hurt DDtR's feelings.

I haven't really cared for much of the music released by Teh Ghey Unit so far, but I'm willing to hold out hope that M.O.P. will finally come through with the quality of music that we know they're capable of and be able to benefit from that Interscope level of promotion. Then again, they've already done a song with motherfucking LFO, so maybe I shouldn't be getting my hopes up about them doing anything other than what some Tall Israeli tells them to.

I hear Mobb Deep is considering signing with them also, not to mention that their frequent collaborator (no homo?) Alchemist is already signed on as Eminem's new DJ.

Congratulations, you're an idiot

Perhaps you saw this story a week or so ago about a young jiglady who decided she was going to have an incident at her high school's graduation. Barred from participating in the ceremony herself because she was pregnant, she decided to take matters into her own hands by hijacking the stage, ODB-style, and announcing her own name.

A little background, courtesy of CNN.com:

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) -- A pregnant student who was banned from graduation at her Roman Catholic high school announced her own name and walked across the stage anyway at the close of the program.

Alysha Cosby's decision prompted cheers and applause Tuesday from many of her fellow seniors at St. Jude Educational Institute.

But her mother and aunt were escorted out of the church by police after Cosby headed back to her seat.

Of course, this incident is being held up as some kind of triumph by women and other people who have no sense. Says the girls mother, "I can't believe something like this is happening in 2005. My daughter has been through a lot and I am proud of her. She deserved to walk, and she did."

I'm tempted to agree.

Teenage girls who get pregnant should be forced to withdraw from regular school and pursue some alternative option, unless they agree to have the baby aborted. Because to allow these people to stay in classes with everybody else sends out the message that it's a good idea to have children at that age, which is just wrong.

Young Gunz - Brothers from Another: Album Review

Young Gunz, Brothers from Another (Roc-A-Fella, 2005)
Wow, another week, another one of these albums by one of Jay-Z's old weed carriers. You wonder how long it is before the investors over at Def Jam start to get antsy. Next thing you know, Rell is going to be coming out with some shit.

The next Picasso (no homo?)

Last year, as I was coming to the end of my tenure in the exciting barbecue industry, I wrote a post recalling my reaction upon hearing the news of Dale Earnhardt's death, the fallout of which is still being felt to this day. While most of my Dale Earnhardt related email tends to be of the "ahm gunna kill u nigger" variety, the other day I got an email from this guy, pictured above, who created this pretty awesome picture that was inspired by the incident (link opens in a pop-up window). If I had the means, it's definitely the kind of art that I would purchase to hang in mine and DCOY's crib, no homo.

The artist's name is Patrick Creighton. You can read a little bit about him and check out a few of his other paintings at his site.

Bye bye, BGM (no homo)

I was hoping to be able to stay at the BGM long enough to get dooced, but the truth of the matter is that I've got better things that I could be doing with my time right now. I haven't actually "officially" quit yet, but I think I'm just going to pull one of those deals where I just stop showing up and let them figure it out on their own.

I'm trying to get some other business shit jumping off, and having to show up to this piece of shit job is just getting in the way of my time. This will actually be the 3rd time that I've done this and I can honestly say that this was the easiest of the 3 jobs to walk away from by far, even though I was making a little bit more than I was making in fast food. I've already written about my experiences there quite a bit and I'm sure I'll write some more, but suffice it to say working in retail fucking sucks.

Safe, legal, and rare

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was Bill Clinton that came up with this idea that while abortion should be legal (of course), it should also be both safe and rare. Now, on the one hand, I can definitely agree with him: An unsafe abortion could cause serious, irreversible damage to a woman's hoo-hah, and lord knows they already have enough problems down there to begin with. But on the other hand, I'd just like to go on record as saying that I could give a rat's ass how many times a woman actually has an abortion.

Christian supremicist types are up in arms about some fellows out in D.C. who decided to have a contest to find the woman who had had the most abortions. One Champion of a man, who went by the name K-dog, called in to report that he was responsible for 16 abortions between 2 different women, his first and second wives. Then he actually got one of them, his second wife, to call in and confirm that she has indeed had 5 different procedures done on herself so far.

The following is a brief transcript of their conversation:

K-dog: "I got all these people beat. Between my first wife and my second wife, uh, 16 [abortions]. And I got five kids."

Elliot: "Are you lying just to get on the radio?"

K-dog: "Naw. Swear to God."

Elliot: "Oh. But wait a minute. You. That's very funny. You didn't personally get 16 women pregnant."...

K-dog: "I got two women pregnant 16 times."

Now granted, it's pretty retarded, just economically, to have 16 babies aborted - you would think at some point it would occur to him to just slap a rubber on or put his woman on the pill or something. But at the same time, you have to admit, it's pretty amusing. The "culture of life" community though, like I said, is up in arms. Silly Bigots Online is actually trying to organize a Tsunami Song-style protest to Clear Channel which owns the station, though I doubt it will get anywhere just because as far as I know it's still not illegal to say you had an abortion on the radio. But who knows these days.

The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan: Album Review

The White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan (V2, 2005)
Something tells me that this new White Stripes album, Get Behind Me Satan, will eventually become known as The One that Came after Elephant that Wasn't Nearly as Good. The reason why: Well, this is The White Stripes' first album since 2003's awesome Elephant, and it's not nearly as good. Granted, hardly any albums are and this one's still kinda cool for what it is, but it's still worth noting.