Top Albums, 2007

PRODIGY FEAT. ALCHEMIST - "RETURN OF THE MAC"



Hands down, this is the best album made this year. I forgot how I even got my hands on this, but I'm glad I did. I'll find myself cracking up in the middle of a song..and let me tell you why. The whole album has this awesome 80's funk vibe to it..and then some crazy lyric will pop in that will go something like, "I'm so compulsive I'll start gunnin' right in front of Jesus, Mary and Joseph." Whoa dude, really? That's some hardcore shit. Now honestly, I sometimes wonder what the people who are driving next to me are thinking when they see a woman in her business like attire coming home from her 9-5 listening to lyrics that deal with drugs, gangs, stabbing, and dudes who refer to their fathers as "niggas." I've officially gone off the deep end.


M.I.A. - "KALA"



YESSSS, I love this album. I wasn't into her that much before and I even forgot about the little Indian chick for a minute until I saw her in this picture wearing a Chicago Bulls zubaz overall type outfit. I love this entire album..it makes me wanna do shrooms just by looking at the cover no joke, but what doesn't?


KANYE WEST - "GRADUATION"



Kanye..that's more like it, you know I'll never forget about my sexual chocolate king. This was actually somewhat of a toss up for me. Should I put Common's "Finding Forever" on my list? Should I put "Graduation?" When I first heard this album, I was so disappointed. It seemed like my habits involving the other two albums were completely different. I would go out, grab the album and listen to it on repeat for at least a few weeks..at least. I rarely had to skip through any of the tracks and with this one however, I found myself constantly doing that. I'm actually still doing it. In general, I think the album is good but for Kanye, I don't think it's that great. "Flashing Lights" though? That's my hit.




FEIST - "THE REMINDER"



The total outcast of the group because a girl like me needs a little easy listening once in a while. I really don't have much to say about it, I like it on days where it's maybe raining outside, or I'm feeling especially "emo". YEA I SAID IT.



JAY-Z "AMERICAN GANGSTER"



I don't feel like reviewing it because it's still so new in my system but I love it and I still hate Beyonce.

A bully's demise

Wedgie-proof underwear!! Invented by 8 year old twin boys...
Using rigged boxers and fabric fasteners to hold together some seams, Jared and Justin Serovich came up with the "Rip Away 1000."

"When the person tries to grab you — like the bully or the person tries to give you a wedgie — they just rip away," Justin explained

The third graders from Gables Elementary School began brainstorming one day after they were horsing around, giving each other the treatment. Their mother's partner sarcastically said someone ought to invent wedgie-proof underwear, the family said.

The project got the boys to the finals of a central Ohio invention competition earlier this year, followed by the television appearance.

Fuckin of course, nerds always ruin it.



Wait, I don't know why i found this.... a wedgie shirt:

I hate Halloween

No historical explanation for Halloween craze...
Love for the October 'holiday' will baffle future generations
Your kids are probably depressed right now, what with it being the Day After Halloween. All those days and weeks of buildup, all the talk of costumes and parties and treats -- and now it's over.
Years ago I noted that Halloween had made the transition from minor league holiday to having its own season. Now I'd say it's the second-biggest holiday in most homes, behind only Christmas (or whatever end-of-year holiday you celebrate... Gotta keep the Jews happy).
Hundreds of years from now, historians will look back at this period and try to figure out why we spent so much time, money, energy and enthusiasm on some weird, end-of-October "holiday" involving costumes and candy and haunted houses.
And they'll come to the conclusion that we were just batty.

According to a Sun-Times story, the top five Halloween costumes for 2007 were Princess, Spider-Man, Pirate, Witch and Fairy. Talk about a list that could have been pulled from about 1967.
A lot of costumes were verboten in Chicago-area schools Wednesday, as administrators engaged in politically correct overreaction. Some schools banned costumes that were too scary or even hinted at violence -- because we all know if that if a kid wants to dress up as a bank robber or a vampire, it's a short leap to a life of crime. (Or vampirism.)
Of all the restrictions, my favorite was the no-political-figure-mask rule at West Elementary School in Glencoe.
"It's just not appropriate for kids that age," the school's principal told the Tribune. "Eight- to 10-year-olds should just be having fun."
The principal added that he'd also frown on "inappropriate characters like a pimp . . ." I'm not sure how we made the transition from a Dick Cheney mask to a pimp, but there you have it.
Hard to see how an 8-year-old in a presidential mask is inappropriate. However, it would be kinda scary. Not the mask itself, but the fact that your 8-year-old would want to be somebody like Nixon or Bill Clinton for Halloween. That would be one politically obsessed kid.

For my girls.... look closely... and let me know when you realize who it is!!! Our favorite Chicagoan.


We report rumors, you decide
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says a boy playing with matches admitted he started a Southern California wildfire that raged across 38,000 acres.
On the Fox News Channel, there was immediate speculation the boy and/or the matches could be linked to al-Qaida.

That was a joke. As far as I know, no Fox anchor said anything like, "Who is this kid and why won't they give us his name? Are they protecting him? How do we know he wasn't recruited by al-Qaida when he was still a toddler!!!!"
However, last week a "Fox & Friends" co-host speculated about possible terrorism, and a Fox News correspondent said many on the Fox News blog were asking that very question.
Well. If you have anonymous civilians offering their opinions on a blog, there's your evidence right there.

My beef with Kobe
There's no way the Bulls can trade for Kobe Bryant without gutting the heart of the young, promising team they have -- so what's the point? To watch Bryant ring up 45-point games and listen to him complain about a lack of support?
Bryant is arguably the best player in the game right now. He's a scoring machine. He's also selfish, immature and prone to public whining.
The idea that he'd be the second coming of Michael Jordan in Chicago and that he'd lead a skeleton supporting crew to multiple NBA titles is laughable.

Halloween mugshots

As if it isn't embarrassing enough that your ass is getting arrested on Halloween, you're kicking yourself in the ass the next morning once you sober up and realize a photo of you is going in the records dressed as a Oompa Loompa or whatever these guys were supposed to be:

Actually, I don't think this shits a mask... but it would serve as a good one if it was....


and Vic, thanks for this one:

Not my chair, not my problem. That's what I say.