Great Moments in Spam vol 13

Those yetis are pretty annoying, huh?

Oil soul mio...

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
- John D. Rockefeller III

Lost Blogs

Slava Mogutin explodes on the web.

Fan Mail for the Digital Generation

We bet our bottom dollar you ain't seen nothing like this before. Dude said he's watched Pedal, and we quote, "34504356 times."

JC Reporting Live

Slava Mogutin: political dissent or fashion darling? Slava is on the JC Report this week... a bimonthly email magazine providing an insider's view on fashion trends emerging around the world.



Photo by Slava Mogutin, from the forthcoming Lost Boys.

Chinatown Soccer Club

Petey Sutherland's newest venture is The Chinatown Soccer Club.... It's like sports for the Todd P set or something. And there's T-shirts! Thats's as much as we know. Extra points if you can catch the hot-to-trot Sutherland running by the lens! The Chinatown Soccer Club.

sometimes you get points for longevity

Which is better than a stick in the eye. Look at my doppelganger doing the Funky Chicken, everybody pointin', even cap man can't believe it (and poor l'il mohawk, the crowd pleaser, didn't get this kinda notice): everybody had a ball at the LC Outdoors event for We B* Girlz, even though the damn book and even Martha Cooper were nowhere to be seen. Still, it was fun. Especially when these two girlz really started to "fight" with dancing. Like Capoeira, only with beats instead of annoying high-pitched string plucking. But the State of New York preventing us from getting the fiercely devoted crowd to know about what they were cheering about in the form of a literary educational tool such as a book shows how boneheaded and small minded and closed entities like this are. This will be the very last time we do anyting like this. If the message is not total, it is not one, or is being coopted by somneone else. Which is why we have been around 11 years.

More props to and from Peter Sutherland. And on a sadder note, RIP Darren Lewis. Right-side pass beating truck does not Capoeira make. Longevity. Long live the Funky Chicken. Not pretty, but still here.

Miss Rosen has it happening

The new mag post does nicely crystalize what we think we might hope to be onto...world hegemony! Not that another reason is needed to expand the psychic head space over in the far corner of the office, but the rapid firing of one-finger typing in the form of a constant tick-tick-tick-tick, tick-tick-ticking white noise background has a sort of comforting soothing effect, knowing that all is right in the world....

Hey, the Post says Bklyn is "hip"

Because some breeders couldn't hack Samuri Power Vibe style in LA. Not that we could either, but the SM farmer's market on Staurdays makes Union Square look like...an exercise in liberal eeanestness, as oopposed to....um, skeezer outlaws? With killer citrus specimans?....Hey, you can put the top down....hey, look: the homeless that used to be in NYC! How's it going? Um, sort of played out on change....Where was I...oh yea, Brooklyn. What up! Yo Windsor Terrace!...(anybody out there...) Watch for the Brooklynites next year! Present a compelling case why you should be, and you might! Esp. if you can wrangle some tangelos....

nice beautiful poster that does not look like anyone we know

pH title entreatingly sought to quell Mideast strife

In late breaking news of a just-too-crazy-to-believe sort, mild mannered lawyer Arthur Frank's riveting distillation of the Wyoming cowboy, published by yours truly last year, was seized upon in a last ditch effort to line up Western support for the U.S. administration's position on Hezbollah's entrenched efforts to destabilize Israel's sovereignty: rope 'em up and tie 'em down.

Reaction from U.S. allies were non-plussed; "Encore?", an exasperated French President Jacques Chirac is quoted to have exclaimed with his extremely large hands thrust heaven-ward. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice deployed stealth diplomacy in explaining the Administration's trademarked "hide-branding" strategies.

photographer Ron Agam presents Chriac with an inscribed copy of Cowboy Up!