Don Imus was officially fired late yesterday due to the fallout from his comments about the Rutgers woman’s basketball team. Internal pressures, public outcry, and the most likely factor, advertisers dropping like flies, led the network to decide that dropping the ‘I-Man’ is the best way to save face and any chance of potential ad buys in the future. Fishbowl NY has got extensive coverage if you want more of the internal memo/media side of things.
The media has got a good hold of this one and has already started giving this thing new legs by calling on black leaders and record companies to promise to go after rappers, since ya know, they’re the ones who gave Imus the word in the first place, and if it weren’t for them, we would have been in the mess, right Neil Cavuto you cabbage headed ho. The media has got people believing that if it weren’t for those dirty rappers, the world would have never been in this mess. So stay tuned, as this three-ring circus is just starting and the clowns are making their way to the center.
There’s really no good reason for a NYer to visit Rhode Island except as a pass through state or for this:
A bill that would make Rhode Island’s medical marijuana law permanent is headed for House and Senate floor votes after the House Health, Education and Welfare Committee passed it on a 10-3 vote Tuesday and the Senate Health and Human Services Committee passed it on a unanimous voice vote Wednesday. Unless HB 6005 and its companion legislation in the Senate, SB 0791, pass, the Rhode Island medical marijuana program will be ended on June 30.
Although some would argue that sick people should be entitled to the medicinal benefits of marijuana Governor Carcieri, potentially suffering from ’small state’ complex, ain’t having it and opposed making medical marijuana a permanent fixture. That doesn’t mean that all hope is lost though:
[R]hode Island legislators have overridden the governor’s veto once already on medical marijuana.
Hopefully history repeats itself.
Medical Marijuana: Bill to Make Rhode Island Law Permanent Passes House, Senate Committees |StoptheDrugWar]
Graffiti on sneakers is definitely an acquired taste. But the best thing about these kicks is that they’re done by COPE2, the notorious bomber, and arch nemesis of Peter Vallone Jr., the politician who attempted to use him as a pawn for his own twisted political posturing during the whole Time billboard incident. Whether people like these or not is yet to be seen, in the meantime COPE was able to execute another project and make some money for the work he’s put in. Plus, the added value derived from knowing this kind of shit makes Vallone’s blood boil is a bonus in and of itself.
Pro-Keds x COPE2 |whatyouwrite|
Last week CLAW headed over to the City of Love to promote her self-styled masterpiece: Bombshell. Colette offered the legendary vandal turned designer the front window display and she happily bombed it. See more of CLAW’s beautification process over here.
Before – After |Honeyee: weloveparis|
With many of the media networks spinning the Imus thing back into the face of black America and adding Hip Hop to the mix, Snoop chimed in on the difference between him using the word ‘ho’ and Imus:
“[Rappers] are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We’re talking about ho’s that’s in the ‘hood that ain’t doing shit, that’s trying to get a nigga for his money. These are two separate things.”
Plus the media and resulting public’s knee-jerk assumption that rappers should adhere to the same code of conduct and decency as a nationally syndicated and rapidly aging radio personality is not only absurd, but frightening ignorant. Amazingly the media successfully uses it as a media technique to redirect and ignore the real issues, get more ratings, and instead spin this thing even further down the drain than it already is.
Snoop Says Rappers And Imus Are ‘Two Separate Things’ |MTV news|
photo: Ãrni Torfason
Clearly controversial, comedy troupe The Shutterbugs created a trailer called “Lil’ 9/11,” featuring a retelling of the tragedy by kid actors. All the major players make cameos, including an adolescent Osama and a kid creepy Dick Cheney. Click over here and watch in horror as this mini-George Bush reads My Pet Goat better than the full size one.
The Shutterbugs in Lil’ 9/11 |Gothamist|
At this point, it’s almost expected that some eccentric actor, used to be funny asshole, or exceedingly stupid media personality will get caught in a racist over-the-top jingle on video at some point or the other. But who would have expected a furniture company to enter the fray? Well, surprise, surprise! A black family ordered a chocolate-colored sofa from Vanaik Furntire and it arrived with what looked like a standard, factory issued label except it was neatly imprinted with the words “Nigger Brown” as the color description. Adding insult to injury, the racial slurred label was discovered by the couple’s 7 year-old daughter who had to go ask her mommy what the word meant. As sad as this story is, there could be a silver lining for someone: Kramer might actually be able to find some work now.
Racial slur on sofa label stuns family |Toronto Star via Byron Crawford|
Remember ‘Sweet 16‘? She talked about popping her fashion cherry and walking her first runway show in NYC’s Fashion Week. Well, not too long after, she increasingly found herself skipping down the wrong path like so many of her colleagues, and ended up in rehab. After a big dose of sobriety, she decided that walking the straight line is much better than staggering from spot to spot. She lets it all out in this diatribe about hitting rock bottom, her pet peeves about rehab, and how being naturally high might be the best stimulation for her in the long run.
SOBER IS THE NEW BLACK |MobLiving|
Just when you thought that adidas and Foot Locker’s ‘End to End’ graffiti-inspired sneaker line totally sucked, they one-up themselves and do a promotion that is equally or even more sucky than the kicks themselves.
Update: It just got exponentially worse when we saw a close up of this disclaimer.
Sneakers, Graffiti and Controversy North of Houston |Gothamist|
The Drug Enforcement Agency continues to ruin the fun. It seemed like only yesterday that the ‘Cartoon Network’ was shut down, leaving loyal weed devotees without good quality chronic for at least 12 hours. But now the marijuana marauders are attempting to eliminate NYC’s good weed supply by nipping it in the bud, literally, and taking down an indoor “sophisticated grow operation” on the upper-Upper West Side. Over 700 plants standing a healthy 3′ to 4′ high were carried out of the mini-farm to eagerly awaiting DEA vans. The Feds claim the crop has a street-value of over 2.8 million, although they usually boost those numbers for pr and prosperity. The story makes no mention of nabbing the actual grower, so hopefully, for the greater good, this high tech weed maker will set up shop somewhere safer and that’s easier to tap additional power, ya gotta keep Con Ed from ratting you out, especially when rocking this kind of impressive set-up:
“There were six different rooms which contained varying stages of marijuana growth; a grow room, drying room, packaging room and processing room. The apartment contained various timers for lighting, heat, two large commercial grade air conditioning systems as well as several pumping systems for water and fertilizer to the plants in the various growing room. The apartment windows were covered on the inside and equipped with lighting within the window frames to give the appearance that it was a normal apartment window from the outside.’
But one word to the wise and a message for the kids: next time buy a dozen of these and some good industrial air freshers.
Marijuana Grow Operation Found in Manhattan Apartment |DEA.gov|*
*|Ed.note| Click over to the DEA’s site at your own risk, some claim they have an extensive cookie-devouring apparatus and we should therefore warn our readers. See how much we care?
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