Friday, August 11, 2000
Kids' New Rage: Executing Marv (Wired)
"Flip the switch and a surge of electrical current slams into the figure strapped in the chair." BoyCaught would expect as much ... from the creator of Spawn. Let's train the kids how to be prison guards and wardens, it's a growth industry after all. (b/w Null Device) (Posted by BoyCaught)For rent: modest Palo Alto charmer, $12,000 a month (SJ Mercury)
"In a city where residents no longer blink when houses rent for up to $7,000 a month, the asking price for the homes on Center Drive brings double -- no, make that triple -- takes from the neighbors." BoyCaught blinks all the time; he lives right down the street from this. So maybe he's not getting ripped off for his modest little apartment as badly as he thought. Wow! (Posted by BoyCaught)Jump The Shark...
"It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak." Some signs that the show has jumped include the appearance of special guest stars, having the same character portrayed by another actor, and BoyCaught's favorite: the addition of Ted McGinley to the cast. This offers a great explanation for why The Flintstones introduced The Great Gazoo. (Posted by BoyCaught)Fantasy Football
It will be interesting to see if BoyCaught can maintain a blog, and enjoy the upcoming NFL season and his fantasy league simultaneously. Trawl for links or trawl for stats? A conundrum. No doubt, BoyCaught will take it to the house! (Posted by BoyCaught)Thursday, August 10, 2000
Capitol Ill
It's interactive, it's funny, it's da Beastie Boys of Campaign 2000, Gore and Bush. Slingin' and bangin'! (b/w MetaFilter; Flash required) (Posted by BoyCaught)She Said: Five Things That Turn Women On (Ironminds)
"That's right guys, your worst fears have been confirmed: There is no pleasing us! At least that's what I realized when I interviewed women about their top five turn-ons." BoyCaught can sleep easier now, armed with that bit of insight. (Posted by BoyCaught)Black Anti-Semitism (beliefnet)
"Most blacks aren't anti-Jew, but enough are that the Democrats should be worried." Well, BoyCaught knows well that the two communities have a rough, rocky relationship at best; both are demonized by the majority culture for different reasons. It's a distrustful, crisis-driven alliance. And there's no love lost. Gore and Lieberman have some real coalition-building to do. And now, the campaign starts to get interesting. (Posted by BoyCaught)NAACP Leader Out Over Lieberman Slur (NY Daily News Online)
"Alcorn insisted he was only questioning Lieberman's stands on issues important to blacks. 'I don't see where he has been a champion for African-American concerns,' Alcorn said." Things just keep getting messier and messier. (Posted by BoyCaught)Wednesday, August 9, 2000
Anti-Semites Use Internet to Attack Lieberman (ZDTV)
"Offensive language and anti-Semitic messages are sprouting up on message boards, discussion groups, and email lists." BoyCaught will give American racists one thing: they are so one-note and f*ckin' predictable. Of course, one note doesn't make very beautiful music, now does it? (Posted by BoyCaught)Triple Five Soul Basic Hoody (Viceland)
"Cozy and stylish, this all purpose sweatshirt with hood keeps you warm and looking great. 80% cotton, 20% polyester. Great for any occasion" ... like being pulled over and getting profiled by the cops. BoyCaught can never have enough hoodies. The site, Viceland, has some content that is off the hook. (Posted by BoyCaught)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)
