im very sad right now.
george carlin was amazing in so many ways on so many levels.
i disagreed with his jokes about religion (theyre too easy) but i loved
LOVED
everything else.
above is bro handling a heckler. the way he just reels off the attack is a thing of beauty and so damn funny and effective. a real pro.
ice-t claims that souljaboy singlehandedly killed hip hop
soulja boy responds (fun game: drink every time you hear the n-word)
special guest kanye west chimes in:
Soulja boy is fresh ass hell and is actually the true meaning of what hip hop is sposed to be. He came from the hood, made his own beats, made up a new saying, new sound and a new dance with one song. He had all of America rapping this summer. If that ain’t Hip Hop then what is? A bunch of wannabe keep it real rappers that ain’t even relevant, recycling samples trying to act like it’s 96 again and all they do is hate on new shit? Niggas always talk about the golden age but for a 13 year old kid, this is the golden age!!! That song was so dope cause everything he said had a hidden meaning… that’s Nas level shit… he just put it over some steel drums which is also some Nas shit if you had the 2nd album cassette with the bonus track “Silent Murder” on it.
what do i think? glad you asked. i think ice-t is full of shit. i think hes trying to sell some records and got dissed royally by soulja who has never sounded more gangsta than in this retort.
a year ago i was on the mtv video awards red carpet representing LAist. big stars zoomed right past me. i got to talk to a few stars, but most of the big ones blew me off big time. souljaboy just happened to have the #1 record and the #1 dance at the time and he spent as much time with me as i wanted. he was hustlin, he was workin it. and when you might wince when he says “im 17, i worked hard for this” you might not understand how a teen can work hard for something that seems like an overnight sensation, but he worked that entire red carpet, dancing, joking, flashing, stylin, hustlin. and here he is making videos and putting them on youtube.
ice t picked the wrong brotha to call out.
+ 100 degree temps + so cal = busblog photo essay
anti got a new tattoo, he shouldnta been in the sun, but he did cuz he’s a trooper
big tanky was also a trooper and a welcome addition to the sword fight
karisa getting a phone call from a wave saying it was gonna steal her sunglasses
after the wave stole her glasses, karisa was a sad panda.
so we went past the xbi secret oil reserve and filled up her SUV
and taught her how to drive with her eyes closed
theyre currently going up and down the west coast doing hootenannys
would you hate me if i told you that me and karisa are gonna see em on monday? fine, hate me.
still technically friday nigth if yyoiu ask me
friday gave me some severre ups n downs. tough day at work. nice night when igot home. three phone calls from super hot babes, none of which i returned becuase of the fourth phone call from an almost super hot babe who … just dropped me off.
which was fun. but even better than that was this comment i just got from chile.
hi Tony…
firts at all, sorry about my english…
i always remember this “How to blog” post because helps me in so many ways to create my own blog…
maybe u never know this, but in 2005 i translate ur post complete to spanish to help a little cause in Chile that year…
http://incuerdo.blogspot.com/200…rimer- blog.html
now with this new post, i remember that with a little smile and i come here to say thanks…
keep the hard work Tony, from a blogger 4 lyfe to another
inCuerdo
and if you go to his blog you will see how to blog translated into spanish… it starts off like this:
Cómo Blogear por Tony Pierce:
1. Escribe todos los días.
2. Si crees que eres un buen escritor, hazlo dos veces.
3. No tengas miedo de hacer cualquier cosa. Si sientes miedo de algo, hazlo una vez y otra vez y otra vez.
4. Putea como si fueras un marino.
5. No le cuentes a tu madre, a la gente en tu trabajo, tus amigos, tus seres queridos o la gente sobre la que quieres hablar en tu blog. Si ellos averiguan que tienes un blog, pídeles amablemente que no lo lean para mantener tu privacidad.
6. Activa los comentarios siempre, no te sientas mal si nadie te escribe durante mucho tiempo. Tarde o temprano lo harán. Si alguien se pone pesado y comenta de mala manera, pídele amablemente que no lo haga y seguramente lo dejará de hacer.
lemme tell you this one thing before i pass out. i have extremely low self esteem. you might see me carousing in hollywood or westwood or even the val on a really hot night with a pretty hot chick, but inside the demons have infested my head like the gnarliest spyware in an old computer.
but one thing that will stun those viruses, for a short period of time, are emails, webpages, and nice people like bro in chile. so gracias, senior.
el rock on.
how to blog has been embraced by nice people from around the world. i always forget that. i even forgot for a second that i won a bloggie award for it in ’05. it was toned down by this lovely young lady, it was translated into russian by this dude
so here are their answers
Phaedra: do you eat your chunky soup with a
a)spoon
b)fork
c)straw
chunky beef is one of my all time childhood faves. i remember when they first introduced that thing. the fact that you didnt need to add water and you could just pop it in a bowl and click 2 minutes in the microwave was awesome. unfortunately we didnt have a microwave yet. so it took 3 minutes on the stove.
Grace: Tomorrow is National Aboriginal Day in Canada.
Why is the Indigenous population in the United States ignored? How do you propose to change it? Why is there such ignorance on Indigenous populations and stereotypes of the First Peoples such as “they all have casinos” or “they’re drunks”. Why is it never talked about?
They are ignored here because as N.W.A so eloquently said rapped “life aint nothin but bitches and money”. until a native american gets rich, gets on the cover of the sports illustrated swimsuit issue, or has an affair with the president, i dont think anyone will care. yes we are that shallow. i know this because the only time i can be sure to see native americans on television is when its election time and they want to try to save their casinos.
flickr del.icio.us
with josh, cat, and stu all gone
will you lose your way?
flickr was one of the few startups that were able to keep their look, style, quirkiness, and dot-com sensibilities and thrive After they were gobbled up by a major company (in their case Yahoo!). i dont see that going away. del.icio.us is doomed becuase it wasnt all that to begin with, despite the small percentage of internet users who are in love with it.
Ever Farted So
Loud you woke youself up and
Had to change the sheets?
Isn’t Haiku a WWF wrester from the 80’s?
im more of a silent but deadly farter. plus i eat more greens nowadays so my stomach does very little farting at all.
Sharp (aka Azreal Darkskies):
the sun is lost
in black secret sky;
is the weather
ever bad there?
nope.
Gage: what’s been your best Halloween costume? what’s the last song you “did it” to? Oceans or mountains?
i dressed up as a woman in 7th grade. it was the best because i wore nylons and heels and i learned how ridiculous womens styles are. so now i pity you all.
kayne west, the good life.
oceans are filled with scary beasts that are hidden. so mountains.
JJ:
Where to find a woman
when a guy feels not his age
I can’t be “that” guy
youre probably already that guy in one way or another. fuck what people think. follow your heart and quit trying to not fall into certain categories. id rather be “that” guy with his dreams fulfilled than the perfect dude on paper who is alone and depressed. as for age, youre as young as your girlfriend feels.
why do you do this
every friday don’t you have
blog material?
i have more material than you can shake a judgmental finger at, mrs minx. i do this on fridays for several reasons. first because its nice to mix shit up. second because the readers are people too and its nice to hear what they are wondering about. third because i am always trying to find new ways to link to my regular readers, and this is a brilliant excuse.
in matt good’s metal airplanes
is the cubs v. socks
lyric for tony?
about a year ago matt and i were in vegas and he sang that song to me on acoustic guitar and i hadnt heard it before. sometimes he would send me demos but in this case i heard it live, just me and him. when i heard him sing that part about the cubs and the sox i smiled cuz i knew he was thinking of me. later he confirmed it. but i disagree with it. i think the cubs would be fine without their crosstown rivals. our real rivals are the cardinals. the sox are in the junior circuit and its hard to really call that baseball.
Why is it so hot ?
Global Warming ? Al Gore was right.
Beers after work at the Standard? It’s on me.
its hot cuz its summer. which doesnt mean that Gore isnt right. he is right, but not cuz of the hottness. cant do the Standard. im more of an Edison dude.
bluenun:
to break up with him
or not to break up with him
that is the question
if you have to ask, the time has probably come, ms nun.
Carlos Zambrano
Has a bad shoulder my friend
What you think ’bout dat?
i hate dat. and i will miss his bat.
lindsay: when are you gonna happy hour again with me and that hott bitch sarah? or 4100 if not happy hour?
every time i drink with you and your hott bitch, you two get sloppy and fight over me and hands are everywhere and i feel like a piece of meat. when we can do this in an orderly, friendly way, then i will drink with you. perhaps there should be a possession arrow like in college hoops.
tonio k.: What’s your favorite shot to drink with hotties at a bar?
i like to savor my drinks, foods, conversations, relationships, everythings. but sometimes shots are in order. in which case i will pound anything since im a gaucho, but if im the one to call the shot i like light rum, any vodka, makers mark, or a good old jd if it looks like i can take out a few fakers quickly.
Mike: How much wood could a wood chuck chuck… nevermind. Are the Yankees turning themselves around for good this time? Bonus question: Aren’t you pissed you didn’t trade me Pujols now?
the whoees? fuck them, fuck joba, fuck mariano, fuck giambi, fuck moose, fuck jeter and a-rod sitting in a tree. im pretty sure if you made a trade for pujols and i didnt pull the trigger you were probably offering me jose offerman or some shit. cuz fuck pujols too.
paul pierce: any thoughts on Lucha VaVOOM?
never seen it. but i did love the jack black ripoff movie of almost the same name.
which means two things
it means it’s laura’s 26th birthday – happy birthday tekky!
it also means its ask tony day, so ask away
bonus points if its in a haiku
“how to blog” was written
and the crazy thing is, most of it is still pretty accurate.
if i wasnt lazy and busy and had a house full of guests who are not letting me get into my bedroom, i would maybe re write a few of them, but im so ready to hit the hay
but if i did edit them, obviously 17 would tell you to use Flickr
20 would tell you to use Twitter
and everything else would remain exactly the same.
but you know the craaaziest of all of it, is that even with those slightly slight changes, it’s still either #1 or #2 when you put “how to blog” in google search. which is pretty amazing if you ask me. cuz when i wrote it, i wrote it to piss off my boss at E! who hated me and wanted me to get fired or wanted to fire me or wanted me to get hit by a bus.
and i knew he read my blog and he always tried to make fun of me for blogging, even though he didnt know one thing about it. so as i waited for my coworker to finish some last minute work, i sat down and wrote down the rules for blogging, as egotistically as i could, with my boss in mind.
peoples inspirations fascinate me. and if you ever wonder why the busblog isnt what it used to be, its probably because i dont have any more hate in my life, no more angst in my heart, and no more bird calls to let out. no more here i am here i am. bitches know where i be.
so basically the lesson, for me, at least, is that how to blog, the post, proves that if you decide that your rules are good ones, and no one else has written them, and if you know that most of the people who follow you are gonna be full of shit, then dont be full of shit and just write down exactly what you believe and see if it sticks.
the wikipedians can take down my page, my landlord can steal my parking space, my old boss can eventually fire me, but what remains is something that i wrote in 15 minutes, from my heart. and if you ask me, thats what blogging is all about. and why it will last forever.
photo by sass
she lives in a shoe.
said its two for one, said for yr friend too.
duane was downing diet cokes. maybe he had something to pour in them.
maybe someone stopped by a liquor store on sherman way.
maybe we had some tall boys in the parking lot.
maybe somehow my cold magically went away.
maybe it wasnt a cold anymore, maybe it was stress. maybe ive been stressed and didnt know it.
maybe back in the day i was barfing every day and didnt think it was stress
but it twas.
maybe men should realize that theyre not supermen every damn day
even if they secretly work for the xbgay. maybe if they were as in tune with their bodies
and souls they would know why the caged burd sings.
maybe it sings for thee.
maybe sweetness is for me. maybe.
which rhymes with dinosaur jr is on do you knwo them
shes all isnt this van halen
shes all isnt this silver lake
shes all isnt that a finals ticket
shes all isnt this wait are you wait tony pierce?
why have i heard that name.
i was all tell that to duane but duane has his own problems
seems his hands are full seems his dance card is being f’ed with
seems like anythings possible as kevin garnett says
seems like the world is your oyster xcept sometimes its chocolate covered
xcept sometimes its malted xcept sometimes you hafta step outta your
lepard skintight pillbox hat.
xcept sometimes you hafta ask for the sail
as in, come sail away with us. both of yous. whatelse you gonna do.
both of you combined dont equal the ages of me.
how is that even
wait what did you say.
i said blah blah she was all wait what. i was all i bet you blah blah
she was all BET i was all ok if you win you get everything thats in my trunk and wallet
if i win you hafta come back to not silver lake and party with us
its called the age game. and if both of you combined dont equal me
then duane becomes the luckiest tourist in hollywood.
which rhymes with sometimes lifes good.
dont ask me why.
meanwhile karisa was all, hi that asian hottie wasnt me. are you still drunk?
to be honest i sorta felt sick all day today. i felt like i had the flu or was coming down with the flu.
so i went to lunch with ali (left) and we sat outside and it was close to 100 degrees.
and i think it killed whatever bug was in me.
even if the bug was the hangover bug.
cuz now i feel way better and im in shorts and duane is in LA and theres a pic of karisa on the busblog and alls good in the hood.
im not sure i can tip back too many cold ones tonight with our canadian visitor but this Gaucho has to represent.
so expect a few quick shots, maybe some beers, and as the kids say up there, a visit to the rippers.
how did you guys create that nickname anyways?
meanwhile i have some good news about our Bush blog, Countdown to Crawford – for the second day in a row it was in our Top 5 of blogs, which is pretty amazing since no huge blog linked to it and since it’s only two freakin days old.
in fact while at lunch our top blogger, andy malcolm called me up and said congratulations on the new blog!
andy is a gem. dude looks like santa, works as hard as anyone ive ever met anywhere, and can adjust with change better than anyone ive ever met.
he now thinks that the bush blog is his biggest competitor, but thats not true since he secretly has no competition.
not long ago he interviewed Busblog friend, Matt Welch, in our new LA Times studios, and you can see part one of those videos here.
Expect more from the interviews this weekend at Top of the Ticket.
Matt’s a damn star hisself.
update: part two of the meetings of the minds has just been posted!