Tuesday, August 8, 2000
Cultural Prosthetics
"Brief essays on the loss and re-creation of culture." (Posted by BoyCaught)Dick Cheney's Hypocrisy
"Under the guidance of Richard Cheney, a get-the-government-out-of-my-face conservative, Halliburton Company over the past five years has emerged as a corporate welfare hog, benefiting from at least $3.8 billion in federal contracts and taxpayer-insured loans." Yet another Tricky Dicky? (Posted by BoyCaught)Monday, August 7, 2000
Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)
(Posted by BoyCaught)QOTD: “Do you understand the impact on young white America that hip-hop is having?” (NY Times Magazine)
Jimmy Iovine, co-chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records "As entertainment entrepreneurs align the fantasy lands of rap, rock, wrestling and pornography, a generation of fans grows ever more brutish." Yo! Props to the breeding ground for future Eminems. Sheeyit! How many mooks sling 'n bang 'n da streetz? (b/w Simcoe) (Posted by BoyCaught)German neo-Nazi thugs rampage (CanOE)
"Police took more than two dozen far-right extremists into custody after a group attacked a dark-skinned man and another gang rampaged through a street festival in separate incidents in western Germany." Oktoberfest mooks. Extreme stuff. Beware. (Posted by BoyCaught)Germans Protest Intolerance (Yahoo!)
"Protesters march through the streets of Duesseldorf, Germany, shouting slogans and carrying banners against Neo Nazism. About 1,200 people turned out for the anti-Nazi demo in Duesseldorf, where an explosion July 27 at a rail station injured 10 recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union, six of them Jewish." What's that thing about forgetting history and repeating it, again? (Posted by BoyCaught)
Lieberman Seen As Serious Moral Force in Senate (Reuters)
"Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman, selected by Al Gore as his vice presidential running mate, has the reputation of being politically independent, tough on defense and morally impeccable." Interesting, very interesting. (Posted by BoyCaught)Seafood Biggest Cause of Food Poisoning (Reuters)
"Seafood is the biggest cause of food poisoning in the United States, having caused 237 outbreaks since 1990." BoyCaught say: patronize only quality sushi joints. (Posted by BoyCaught)America on fire
Wildfires are raging all across the western United States. This graphic makes it look like the country's about to burn down. Of course, BoyCaught's known this for a long time. (Posted by BoyCaught)Ed Portal's net.Headlines
This is an excellent blog. Bookmark it now! (Posted by BoyCaught)Sunday, August 6, 2000
BigBlogger
In an excellent parody of the CBS-TV Big Brother website, that crazy Wendell guy from SwoopBlog insinuated BoyCaught into the mix. As the proxy for the brutha on the show, BoyCaught is certain to get booted, so before that happens, he's got to try and push up on one of the girl bloggas, right? (Hey, it's a joke, though admitting that much kinda takes the air out of the balloon, eh?) (Posted by BoyCaught)English Big Brother
Apparently, this is the real Big Brother; everything else is a substitute. (Posted by BoyCaught)Saturday, August 5, 2000
Celebrity bigots (Metro Times Detroit)
"Sex may sell, but in today's jaded climate, it's far more profitable to combine balling and bigotry ... your boss may be a woman, your sergeant African-American, your teacher gay, but when you put the earphones on, you rule. So why not think of celebrity bigots as lubricators of social change?." Well it's probably not worth doing unless there's a profit motive, right? But lubrication has many uses. (b/w net.Headlines, excellent!) (Posted by BoyCaught)Serious Hops (Yahoo!)
Cleveland's Kenny Lofton takes away a sure extra-base hit off the bat of Anaheim's Troy Glaus. That is some serious vertical lift. Who said baseball players were not athletes? The baseball season is heating up, and BoyCaught loves it! (Posted by BoyCaught)
Boom for Whom: Economic Apartheid in America
"Many people's current fortunes are largely based on personal debt, money borrowed upon the assumption of future growth and prosperity ... [but] the rising tide lifts only the yachts." BoyCaught doesn't assume, because he knows what it does to 'u' and 'me'. (Posted by BoyCaught)Friday, August 4, 2000
Godzilla Lives? (Yahoo!)
"Godzilla stomps the ground and spread around clouds of dust, being assisted by a Toho Company film production staff during the filming of Toho's 24th Godzilla movie at its studio in Tokyo." BoyCaught thinks that Godzilla doesn't look so big now, eh? (Posted by BoyCaught)gaijin a go-go
"Welcome to the Gaijin a go-go cafe. The cafe serves up western ingredients with a Japanese flair." Well, with a description like that, how can you lose? BoyCaught would like to note that no animals were harmed during the creation of this entry. (Posted by BoyCaught)Thursday, August 3, 2000
American High is outstanding
... if you're into that kinda stuff, you know: TV. Finally, a reality-based show with just the right mix of human drama, compelling narrative, and clever editing that reels the viewer in like a big fat fish. It's realer than Real World, it will outlast Survivor, and it outsizes Big Brother in the most important facet: the characters are natural, genuine, and truly interesting, yes, really interesting.In one segment, a mother tells her talented, guitar-playing daughter, who's a junior and just a so-so student at the High, 'You shouldn't go to college ...' What?! Worth the price of admission, whatever that may be. This show's here for only six more weeks, so it will be gone fast. Almost makes BoyCaught want to go out and buy a Replay TV. This time Rupert's people done good. (Posted by BoyCaught)
C-SPAN
Both online and off, C-SPAN is doing a stellar job covering the 2000 Republican Convention. Their on-air segments, and post-event interviews have been amazing; the real convention is revealed when the delegates speak as normal, everyday people like you and BoyCaught. This is a example of TV being valuable to the non-apathetic members of the public, a real minority. (Posted by BoyCaught)Wednesday, August 2, 2000
Eminem Wannabes.COMpton
Aiiight, some of it was funny ...in a David Schwimmer kinda way ... ya know, wut da dilly o? (Posted by BoyCaught)Rock, hard Dick and, uh, Bush ...
... Cheney and, duh, Georgy Dubya. Meet the 2000 Republican ticket. Monday Night Nitro couldn't have done a better job. The Rock kicks things off, and that was appropriate: this show is scripted tighter than anything WWF has ever done, well, almost. Cheney talks the political equivalent of smack, in what was ultimately a weak acceptance speech. Then they bring out a smooth lounge singer, who belts out an overly patriotic song, an anthem almost, in this installment of RePubCon. And telegenic token minorities speckle the backdrop in almost every shot. BoyCaught just loves a good political machine; they can crank out the entertainment just as good as any Hollywood studio, but in the end, it will cost you more than the price of a matinee. And speaking of token presences, what the hell happened to JC Watts? He used to be a great option QB down at Oklahoma. (BTW, C-SPAN) is large. (Posted by BoyCaught)
QOTD: “There is a lot invested in evolution, and we put a little crack in that.”
-- former English teacherBoyCaught likes taking things out of context, but Darwinism and drugs just don't mix ... oops, never mind. (Posted by BoyCaught)
America is a nation of voyeurs.
(Posted by BoyCaught)Welcome to American High (Fox.com)
"This past year, two camera crews followed 14 students at a high school located just outside of Chicago. The students were also given cameras and kept video diaries of their lives. These are their stories." Cool, televised riothero. More cheez, pleez ... just kidding, BoyCaught will take less. (Posted by BoyCaught)
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