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Above: I type in google’s image search “crazy fixed gear” and this is what I get.

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20070415_FIXIES_FEATURE/index.html

So you know how after that day’s news The New York Times will require you to register w/ them in order to read the archived articles? Well that’s why I’m saving this, cause I’m not reading it now (I am a non profit one man operation) :

April 29, 2007, Unstoppable, By JOCKO WEYLAND

WHEN is a bicycle not like other bicycles? To begin with, when it has no brakes, or at least no visible brakes, or possibly just a front brake. That means you can’t ride this bike very well on your first try, and certainly not very gracefully, easily or safely.

The rear cog is bolted directly to the hub, so that whenever the vehicle is in motion, the pedals go around, making coasting impossible. This bike doesn’t have a shift lever or extra sprockets, and the chain is shorter and wider than on traditional bikes.

There are no fenders, and the rear wheels are probably bolted onto the frame to deter theft. You slow down by reversing the pedals, or skidding, or doing a skip stop. And that’s just the beginning of the differences between your run-of-the-mill 10-speed and a track bike, or fixed-gear bike — fixie for short — as it is also known.

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I don’t want to defend them but I do like their show. The fact that I like their show doesn’t mean they’re not racist. I don’t really like hearing blatantly racist bits on the radio. I know that Opie & Anthony are incredibly derogatory in the morning, who are on the same radio station, but I don’t think you hear about it much. In fact, if you listen to the whole line-up, throughout the day, you’ll find that all of them, who are all white (except for one black guy on The Radio Chick show), are rather racist but either do it because they think it’s their right to because of the freedom of speech or because they’re actually just racist. None of them will EVER admit they’re racist but they are. Believe me.

In New York City, all these talk show radio guys are consolidated into this one station, 92.3 Free FM. I also listen to Howard Stern and yes, sometimes he’ll make a joke about a race but when I listen to it, it’s never as abrasive as the way some of these 92.3 Free FM hosts come off. In a way I’m glad that the nation is responding to this but at the same time I would still like the option of listening to their show if and when I have free time.

Personally, I think they can still be funny without making fun of black people, asian people or irish people. Doghouse!?

Add: They’ll always argue that the listeners have the option to turn off their radio station if they don’t want to hear what they’re saying but the thing is if you’re a black guy and you’ve already HEARD the racist remarks because you were tuned in, then turning the radio off can’t really reverse that. The damage has been done. I mean, these radio douches can’t get mad that their show is off the air. The group they offended is just responding by complaining (just as the radio hosts are exercising their free speech rights) and by saying all this stuff on the radio, it gives these groups the opportunity to speak out.

There was this Giant Robot magazine Print Matter 2 gallery show Saturday, 4.21.07. The place is in the East Village. There are a lot of Hipspanics in the East Village. Did you know that? I didn’t.

Here’s the flyer for the show. The place is actually quite small and what happened was they had all these artists create something/or just took existing prints they were already selling and put it together for a show. You could buy these. I mean, it was a nice and pleasant thing they had going on there. You’ve got your artsy-fartsy audience for this deal. Giant Robot, for you people who don’t know is a magazine that happens to cover a lot of Asian culture-related things. You know how you see a bunch of skinny white guys dating skinny asian broads? I think the magazine is for them.

CONTINUE READING…(click, you bitch)

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First of all, what the fuck!? I have been going to all these events and parties lately. This one did not seem any different or special despite it being some sort of Spring release party for Leroy Jenkin’s line. I’ve seen their stuff by the way, it’s very pattern-oriented. It uses some bougie patterns on street wear (kinda like a social contrast thing, I guess) but some of the stuff look ridiculous when you wear it. Urb magazine was there too but there were literally just a few copies for you to look through when you get there. If you hadn’t known what this event was about, you wouldn’t have been able to guess had you just showed up cause you just liked the place and not cause of the FREE booze.

I think the party started after I left. This picture was actually taken when I got outside after I was done with it, after the free vodka open bar. Oh, funny story, this was interesting because there were two parties going on. Upstairs was a book release party and downstairs was the Urb x Leroy Jenkins deal.

It’s funny because upstairs was a themed party, the book party, for the book 21 proms, and everyone was dressed like they were at prom. It was an all white party, not that you had to dress in all white but it was all white people. Of course the downstairs crashed the upstairs party later on. You’ll see in the pictures below.

Continue reading ‘Leroy Jenkins Urb Magazine Party 4.17.07′

So I’ve been looking into getting a new bike. As you may know, probably not, I bought a bike a few months ago and I’ve been just riding around. It is a very generic, not high end but not low end, mountain bike. I love it. It’s great. But I’ve been looking into fixed-gear bikes lately because there’s such a huge fad on fixed-gear and I want to be cool and I’m a homo and blah blah blah blah blah…

Regardless of whatever reason or where this preoccupation w/ fixed-gear bikes came from, it is going nowhere. You know how when you get into something, you start looking for information on it or reading about it or whatever. Well, I haven’t done much. I thought I was just going to go buy one from the bike store, a pre-built-factory-stock-fixed-gear bike but it’s not that simple.

I started reading up on it and I learned about fitting and all the varying parts. Why the fuck does it have to be so complicated. In one sense, it’s good, you want to have something to call your own, something that’s yours, that fits you, but on the other hand, it’s like, holy shit, I just want to ride a fucking bike, not perform surgery here.

I have to do all this reading, go into forums, do research, go to the bike store, talk to those bike store guys and just get all this info. Jeez, biking was never this complicated. Thank you internet, you fucking piece of shit. By the time I get enough information and am ready to get a bike, it’ll be winter again and I’ll have to wait for next summer.

Continue reading ‘Biking is hard.’

This is actually a character created by a Korean Christian group that I came upon when I was traveling. The interesting thing about this character is that he’s trying to convey to you, specifically Christian children, that life is still not that bad even if you’re a piece of shit. I bought the DVD to this thing thinking that there might be something amusing but to my disappointment, it was the most boring piece of shit ever. Literally. Also, you know, since the topic is about comparing a baby to doo-doo, I figured it appropriate. Leave me alone please.

So this is sort of a stock post that I had in mind but never got around to writing. First of all, from the title alone please realize what you’re about to get into. This is NOT going to be educational in anyway whatsoever. Actually, this might not even be all that entertaining - read on regardless.

Yeah, well, I’ve been really busy lately and during the mornings what I’ll do is sit there among the plethora of commuters and contemplate brilliance. I was thinking about childbirth because living in NYC I’m living amongst all types of people and some of these types like to have lots of children (wink wink).

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Bam! Here you go. Another Party Event shindig-type deal that I went to. A friend let me know of it but I didn’t even know what this was about. I knew it had something to do with Mike Giant’s work so I thought that going to this thing would be interesting. Essentially he did some art on the walls of the store so lets par-tay over here, par-tay over there (ala Cora Daniels).

(On a side note: Get this, so I’ve been posting my coverage of these events and the last few (ie Tiger Translate and the Reed Space one) were okay but I made the mistake of badmouthing some of the events that I went to, such as Showroom Showdown and I know they saw it so I don’t know if I’m still on the mailing list anymore!)

Anyway, this thing was interesting. I got to meet Mike Giant but it was weird to stand around with the music amidst the hangers (because it’s a retail store that usually sell their sweatshirts and coats). The hangers were attached to the ceiling and they couldn’t do anything about it. Some people just started using it for their own coats (you’ll see, scroll down).

See, see, see what I’m talking about!? Hangers! Whatever. Oh, by the way, here’s a secret, if you’ve got an ASIAN fetish, you should probably attend these things because a lot of Asian people (girls) like to attend downtown deals. That may sound inappropriate but let it sink in for a while and once you get what I’m saying, you’ll have a huge grin on your face (you know what I’m talking about, skinny white people guys, black guys…eh? eh? okay, good, you got it.)

Continue reading ‘Triple Five Soul Mike Giant Party 4.5.07 (pictures included)’

Reed Space had their graniph pop-up shop T-shirt party yesterday (04/06/07). It’s the first time I’ve been there. Seriously, I thought it was going to be bigger. It looks bigger in pictures (on the internet). Anyway, you can get glimpses of Jeff Staple and his staff in there.

The T-shirts were 30 clams a piece. And uhmm… there’s this one girl (Jean) who works hangs out there who looks like Lisa Ling.

It’s a nice store. If you guys go, tell them you heard it from here. (or don’t, I don’t give a shit)

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VS.

So I’m looking through my ex-girlfriend’s blog (that bitch, she’s dead to me). By the way, this may be one of those low hit entries. Anyway, it looks like she has an interesting enough life. Sitting there, I’m thinking, hey, well, she still looks like she’s broke.

Huh! that’s my fall back, that, yeah, sure, she looks like she’s having a lot of fun but she doesn’t know what I know - ugh, that cunt. I mean, I’m talking about career, making money, retirement, financial independence, you know, all that jazz. I’m thinking about all this and planning all that while she’s around the world in various countries doing stuff with art (I think she does translating but seriously, I doubt it’s really that much more).

Continue reading ‘I’m having fun and I don’t have to be in Thailand!’

So what you got here is the stats that I look at everyday to see if my blog is growing. As you can see, it’s okay, it’s not so bad that nobody reads it. I try to make my blog entertaining enough to retain readers. Anyway, the reason I ACTUALLY wanted to post this is because I want to show you that you are a pervert.

That spike, my best day ever, 624 readers was from the Kim Kardashian video post. My lowest hits are probably from my postings about Jim Cramer or stuff about my life.

Anyway, keep reading and get brain stuff.

This is great. It’s actually Alanis Morissette doing a Black Eyed Peas My Humps video remake. It was for April Fool’s day.

I’m going to be as fair as I can be with regards to companies like Amway, Market America, Primerica, Landmark Education (which I just went to yesterday) and all those other sales driven companies. They’re all fucking gay - is that fair? I don’t care (oooh, that rhymed).

Listen, they’re all great companies. I am all about matching buyers with sellers - that’s textbook economics. What’s awful about these companies isn’t the products or their services. The evil comes from the people who are involved, the people who get INTO it. I’ve been an observer of these type of companies for years now and what I enjoy about them is the enthusiasm some of these people have for what they’re selling. Yeah, 10 dollars for a bar of soap (Amway & Market America). Sure, if I find an idiot who’s willing to pay that much for some fucking soap I’m selling, I’d be happy too.

This goes for selling knives and make-up for college students too (fucking kids).

The EVIL as I mentioned is when someone starts selling to his friends and family what he/she feels they need even though they may not necessarily need it. The seller feels (or has been brainwashed) to think that EVERYONE in the world needs their products (insurance, financial planning, soap) and that they would be better off after buying it. When the seller becomes so engrossed into his product or reaches that point when he’s, “holy shit, I’m not selling anything” and starts to cross into unethical territory, that’s the EVIL - because their incentive is partly, yes, to make your lives better, but mostly that COMMISSION BASED income.

My Beef w/ Landmark Education (or how I wasted 3 hours of my life)

So a friend (though now I’m not so sure) calls me up at around 6:40 yesterday and asks me to come to this meeting/presentation she’s doing. Listen, I’ll support my friends if they’re doing a presentation, thinking that it was for a college class or something. So I go down there between W33rd and 8th and I see this giant sign with the logo for Landmark Education. This creates a comfort for potential customers (victims) in that, hey, it’s an official company, look, they’ve got a giant logo inside a building, in NYC no less. I go inside, it’s very standard, you get your name tag, you sign a list, there’s a survey and you go into a room with a bunch of people. THEY GIVE THEIR SALES PITCH.

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I went to another thing last night. I enjoy going out and seeing stuff (and yes, stuff is how I’ll generalize it) and so here’s the recap.

First off, I wasn’t even sure what this was all about. For the most part of last week, I was upstate doing some work so I wasn’t able to find any time to do any research - and I usually like to do that before going to anything - but it was interesting. Most of the art looked like digital prints. I’m all for moving towards the digital direction but there’s something personal about paintings or statues that the artists have actually had their hands on as opposed to art that’s been done on illustrator and then printed from a giant HP printer.

Hey, whatever, there was free Tiger (sponsor) beer, beautiful looking broads and live music. It was dark, kind of getting cold outside and you had people who looked way too young and people who looked way too old. Of course I was the perfect age (undisclosed).

You know, I figure there were probably a ton of industry people there but I really just don’t give a crap. If you recognize anyone, leave a comment. I don’t know when this site went all cobrasnake but whatever, just look at the goddamned pictures:

Above: Actually, my site hasn’t gotten all cobrasnake. Because they probably ask people to take pictures and I just secretly take pictures and then without their consent (again, secretly) photoshop their heads onto naked bodies for another site that I have (a porno site).

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