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ASPIRE vs. K-BLITZ (Aspire wins)
JO THRILLZ vs. KONFLICT (Jo Thrillz wins)
ASPIRE vs. RAKER (Aspire wins)
JO THRILLZ vs. NEKKBONE Pt. I
JO THRILLZ vs. NEKKBONE Pt. II (Jo Thrillz wins)
CHEDDA CHEESE vs. SPADE (Chedda Cheese wins)
The night was spectacularly successful. Thanks to everyone who came out and didn’t pelt the host (me) with tomatoes. Congratulations to KazMega and Chedda Cheese who won the producer and MC battles. If you were not there, I’m not about to write up a synopsis of the event. Plus, my perception is biased. Here’s a review some faceless tourist from Buffalo(?) wrote of the event.
Unlike your average rapper, Mouallem earned the money to produce his album from freelance work by writing a book about… cats. “Amazing cats,” he corrected. The kind that save people from burning houses, learn to play the piano, and finance groundbreaking hip-hop records.
Despite the high quality of the music he produces, Mouallem claims he is not musically talented. “I’m totally tone deaf,” he said. “I couldn’t produce a beat if my life depended on it. If someone walked in here with a gun and was like, ‘You! Make me a beat!’, I’d say, ‘Well, I’ve lived a good life.’” CONTINUE READING >>
Wake Up Dead Records from Valley View and High Prairie (aka The Horny Coroners) just launched their new podcast, and I got a shout out and play on the premier episode. It’s actually a song that was never released called “Waking the Mic” (produced by FADE-One). I normally didn’t plan on letting that one leak but I know how much Jay Coroner loves it, and how he rubs himself listening to it all the time, and how he does the macarena naked to it. So CHECK IT OUT.
This is from MySlaveLake.com, a blog from Slave Lake, my birthplace and second home.
However, I assure you all, unlike what this headline says, I am not, nor have I ever been a “raper”. (Okay, it’s fixed, but it’s simply too damn funny not to keep around.)
Journalism must be contagious. When a Fox News anchor is digging for lies, you know something is up in American journalism. Perhaps, realizing how popular Campbell Brown became after drilling Tucker Bounds, Ms. Kelly is looking to achieve the same. Or maybe, just maybe, she’s a damn good journalist.
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes (New York Times)
Susan Jacoby: Is America getting dumber? (Dallas News)
Stupid in America 20/20 (YouTube)
Ambigram (from Wikipedia)
An ambigram, also sometimes known as an inversion or flipscript, is a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation. The text can also consist of a few words, and the text spelled out in the other direction or orientation is often the same, but can also be a different text.
Assault Of Knowledge ambigram by Adam Reid, who should be fired for making ambigrams on work time.
There seems to be three reactions to the attacks of September 11.
1) It was a hoax conducted by the American government to gain power enough to invade Iraq for oil.
2) It was conducted by Islamic terrorists for reasons of hate and envy of a lifestyle they disagreed with.
3) It was conducted by Islamic terrorists out of hate and envy of an American lifestyle, as well as a history of what they perceived as American malice, but it was only made able by a government’s incompetence or hubris to react sufficiently and efficiently. The attacks have since been used as propaganda on both sides.
No matter which you agree with, I think it’s important to separate yourself from the politics for a day and remember real lives. Real lives like those told to StoryCorp by loved ones of the victims of September 11. Each telling is different and explorative of the diversity of life that was lost that day.
Salaam/shalom,
O.
I’m hosting Edmonton’s first ever Scribble Jam and the nations only Scribble Jam this year. If you don’t already know, it’s September 26 at the Starlite Room. Cover is $11. Doors are at 7:00 PM.
Check the website: ScribbleJam.ca
