It’s a parade.
But it may be one of the only parades in the world where you can see Brownies, Imperial Stormtroopers, Kung Fu schools, highschool bands, go-carts, and a street cleaner.
Instead of just 1 mashup this month, you instead get 7. That’s right, seven. I present to you The Shoot Back Mixtape - a collaboration with troublmedia.com.
Three police officers shot Sean Bell50 times, killing him on the eve of his wedding night, and wounding his two passengers, later determining that all 3 men were unarmed. From the night of this social atrocity to the not guilty verdict 10 days ago, emotions have been fierce. Sadness. Anger. Frustration. Disgust. Fear.
Download The Shoot Back Mixtape, a collection of voices and speeches that convey the public discontent following the not guilty verdict awarded to the police officers who killed Bell.
Here’s the first track to whet your appetite. In the words of a protester speaking for Sean Bell: “It’s not about what you do today, but what you do tomorrow.”
I’m so confused:
She’s hot in a Milla Jovovich “Fifth Element” kind of way (hot), but she’s dressed as Ronald McDonald (creepy), and it reminds me of Ron English (subversive and hip) and clown porn (creepy).
There is a great misconception that complex society breeds violence and that simpler societies live harmoniously.
Like Ewoks.
Next time you have to listen to some crunchy hippie going on about making with world a better place by living in a tee-pee, beat them over the head with this one:
Steven Pinker’s talk on “The Myth of Violence” (TED Talks, 2007):
With the new Indiana Jones movie less than a month away (24 days left), it was only a matter of time until the marketing tie-ins cropped up.
M&Ms offers Indiana Jones M&M candies - like regular M&Ms, but with skulls, pyramids, compass roses, Indy hats, and Precolombian masks printed on them.
LEGO managed to produce cool Indiana Jones sets months ago (though I still can’t find them in stores).
[LINK to their nice LEGO Indiana Jones wallpapers].
Every Christmas, childrencollege students around the world write letters to Santa ClausChristopher Walken asking him for toys and treatsswift punishment for their enemies.
Today I took this picture of a Starbucks . . . FROM INSIDE A STARBUCKS ACROSS THE STREET!!!
San Francisco. 100 block of Battery Street near California Street.
I’m too cool to patronize a Starbucks, so let’s say I was in there to use the bathroom.
The Blogadilla Starbucks Challenge:
I will send a free Blogadilla T-shirt (when we get them made in the next month or so) to the first person who can send us a photograph with three separate Starbucks coffeeshops appearing in it.
Contest rules:
• Kiosks do not count, must be a full-fledged coffeeshop.
• They must be three separate Starbucks coffeeshops.
• You cannot use Photoshop, etc. - the photo must be untouched and all three must be clearly visible.
• It must be one photo, no panoramas (but send them anyway), or fish-eye lens shots.
• The photo must be yours and taken by you (not taken from a website, etc.).
• You must provide the specific addresses of the three Starbucks locations.
Japanese Kewpie™ brand Tarako (cod roe) pasta sauce has an insane marketing campaign. For example: their product icon is a Kewpie (English: Cupie) doll wearing a cod roe egg sac.
Their commercials are entertaining and disturbing at the same time - which is the best flavor of entertaining.
It is guaranteed that you’ll have this damn song stuck in your head for hours after watching this (even if you don’t understand Japanese) - it is even worse than the Algorithm Exercise.
When your stomach rumbles, they come
They come, bringing their friends
They put on their cod egg hats with their faces showing
And effortlessly, effortlessly head out.
Before you know it, they’re outside your window
Before you know it, they’re in your house.”
Last week’s episode of NBC’s “30 Rock” featured a fictitious reality TV show called “MILF Island” (clip below).
“Holy Hot Mamas!
But who will be the final Mommy You’d Like to . . . you know . . . ?
Twenty MILFs, fifty eighth grade boys, and no rules!
And tonight . . . one winner!
Welcome to MILF Island!”
To drum up excitement for the upcoming Olympic games, and to tap into the audiences that watch Lost and still remember (enjoy?) playing Myst, a new online game called The Lost Ring emerged in late February. The New York Times recently featured an interesting article about the hidden sponsorship of the game, players around the world, and the relatively cheap cost of orchestrating worldwide phenomena. (Interestingly enough, the article was written on April Fools Day, so it’s unclear whether anyone took the review seriously).
The game apparently started with 50 bloggers who knew all those sleepless nights spent online had finally paid off, but has now gotten big enough that there are wikis, podcasts and players collaborating around the world to piece together the story and pick up hidden clues left in cities around the world. The game will culminate during the opening ceremony of the Olympics with some sort of tie-in. You can catch up and join in the fun at The Lost Ring Wiki.
As the saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
And those words are:
• Jerry Springer
• “Actually, this is our second child.”
• “Will the real Slim Shady please sit down?!”
• “We cut Sex-Ed class.”
• Future congressman of Arkansas.
• “We got a ‘3-for-the-price-of-2′ special on these photos.”
• 30-year-old grandma.
• “I look just like Demí.”
• “Let’s bring the baby to prom!”
This year, the new up-and-coming (North American) bands are coming from two places: Portland and Toronto.
Best described as a glorious lovechild of the Zombies and the Beatles, Portland’s The Lark is one of the bands to keep your eyes on this year. I recommend you have a listen to their Muxtape sampler; my personal favorites are: “Come Lately,” “Everyday,” and “Always Right.” If I had to predict the one song that will launch them into greater notoriety, it would be “Always Right.”
The Lark are still relatively fresh and are trying to gain a fair cruising altitude - if you like their sampler, you can help them out by requesting them for the upcoming Portland PDX Pop Now! 2008 music festival.
You’ll be able to say that you’re so indie cool because you knew about them way back in 2008. But we already think you’re cool because you’re reading Blogadilla.
So frozen yogurt had its golden era in the early 80’s - when jogging and aerobicising and ABBA were all the rage - but fell into mediocrity and disinterest by the end of the decade.
In 2005, L.A.’s Pinkberry resurrected frozen yogurt for a new generation by catering to health-conscious hipsters: organic frozen yogurt, made on the premises, and mixed with a range of interesting toppings such as kiwi or Cap’n Crunch. In L.A. (and later New York), Pinkberry became the place to be seen.
The rest of the nation is finally catching up . . . organic frozen yogurt joints are cropping up throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. On any given Friday night in Palo Alto, Fraîche frozen
John Linnell - Nevada: 
