June 2011
Significant value increase in 56 years
Apparently our stock has risen! Valued at less than a whistle by some European newspapers in 1955. We now appear to be worth around 50 million dollars, provided we are previously captured on video tape. The aspect of media coverage is crucial. Wanda Johnson (Oscar Grant’s mother) has just settled with BART for 1.3 million totaling to a cool 50mil in all expenditures. Although it is...
BRAVE
The mere association of the word brave with female is enough. It appears we have another female hero (heroine sounds too much like heroine and I hate gender-ed terms anyways). Pixar which is apparently still the shit is releasing a film about a Scottish warrior princess, her name is Merida. Merida is an accomplished archer. Lots of question come to mind but i guess my first is: Is this going to be...
American *shudder* Apparel
For some reason every site I get my news from has adds for american apparel. Needless to say not only does it drive me fucking crazy but makes me feel like a total pedo. We all know that adds like this a a major part of the problem. Literally.
They chop us up into parts and take pictures of us. Hey American Apparel - and the rest of the advertising industry, you know...
We hiest well(ish) & we be inked.
The much anticipated yet kind of a let down film Takers is defiantly worth a positive mention on our collective road to progress. If you didn’t notice there was a whole bunch of black people doing fancy heist shit!. Sure they stole the Italian job plot for about 1/3 of the show. The point is: We had some brothers in suits. Specializing in explosives, living it up in brilliant...
Thugressive: part 2 Sweden is a country not a verb...
Okay well I spent an inordinate amount of time looking for the name of the character in Be Kind Rewind [damn you imdb *shakes fist] but you guys remember. “Sweden is a country, not a verb”. Part two is dedicated to the stereotypical trouble maker kids. That are a little less so nowadays. Be kind rewind and Hamlet 2 give the minority trouble makers in these film a few more brain cells...
Thugressive: part 1: harry's law
Snoop-doggie howser, that’s right you heard me David E Kelly or whoever is in charge over there has manged show the hood as more than your played out scenario of: One robin hood against a bad crew of drug dealing gang bangers with helpless poor residents in between. This show depicts a genuine complex network of survival systems. A real breathing organism. I haven’t yet seen the...
thugressive
Today we open the blog on a rare and optimistic note. What joy how we found in the midst or self-righteous despair you ask- why the new and improved tv thug. Be it the small screen are the big screen i have seen a slight - yet reassuring trend in the quality of our beloved gang banger arch types; they are getting smarter. I’ll lay it out for you in the next couple of days.
