Truck Balls, a Familia Sticker, and a Smucker Sticker.

Where is my nuts? Right fucking here dawg. Let's quote:

Thank You America For a Wonderful Year!!!

Did you have an awesome customer experience?
Do you have a sweet picture of your Nutz?

I don't even know what else to say. Do these rule? Yes? Can I inexpensively order a, um, uh, a pair? YES! Can I get mine in black? The only thing to say here about these eight inches of awesomeness is BOO-YA!!!. Put those dogs in a bathtub.

Let's Talk, or better yet, Let's Hate. We Could Party...

Did the Hater Party Crew breakup and I didn't get the email, or see the post, or...um, get the text message, or get the call, or get the letter? A letter being sent is very unlikely, I know for a fact that no HPC member has my address, in fact I'm pretty sure that only my Dad, Kevin Wilkins, and GEICO, and the electric company, and the bank have my actual addy. So there wasn't a letter or anything, but really, I'm down a rabbit hole that doesn't lead to my point. I continue.

What is the state of this hating community? I know that the previous post, which I will not link to because you can simply scroll down, somewhat esoterically posited whether or not, "Liking is the new hating in 09'?," but then old Typo' talked about some future shit so I have a feeling that we still might be hating. There is a point, I swear.

I might just be with the rest of ya'll; I'm fairly content with my lot in life, and at the same time, this whole winter thing is sapping all creative energy i.e. hating juice out of me. But I mean, to be frank, fuck all dat bullshit, we can still rule the hatoshphere, as we damn well should be. Take some time and peruse the Renaissance of HPC, aka April of 2008; we killed it! Smart, entertaining hating by all, a little party, a smattering of liking, etc. We still got it folks; if we don't I have to move HPC out of my bookmark bar in favor of what? (checking), oh boring, my TSM login page; cha'll know if you ever check my blog there that I don't update that shit.

So a point, shall we? Could we keep partying, hating, or liking even? Yes we can, Yes We Can. We all still hate on stuff, even if we don't immediately post it on the internet. Here we go, some possible hate content for the '09, where liking might be the new hating but we're in the future so we don't even know up from down (to paraphrase the post below). Yeah, the list of things to possibly hate this year...

-Teenagers. This will never change, and as we're a year older now, we'll probably hate them more.

-Winter. Old faithful; this one has been especially bad, so someone entertain me.

-Fedoras. I grudgingly hold my tongue when certain friends wear them, because they don't even look that bad, but, you, know, someone could get sparked.

-Long Droopy Beanies. Oh fuck yeah, we got this.

-Street Wear.

-Name Dropping Assholes. 2008 saw three posts devoted to a single dude, and one of our fine posters even felt compelled to create a new blogger name for his one-time-under-that-name-rant. We still got it in us.

-Over-hyphenization.

-Politics. It's been all touchy feely and shit since November 2nd, but we're bound to find our hate again.

-The Economy? Almost a moot point at this point, but we're creative.

-Work. Duh.

-Life's Nasty Tricks. They happen, and e-venting is a viable solution, for a bit at least.

-Nicholas Cage.

-The Timberwolves. They're playing well now, but my inner-fan says I just might have another post in me about them.

-Facebook. That shit would write itself.

-Short People. They got no reason to life yo.

-Other blogs. Since this is so still the best thing ever on the internet, I know we can find something to ridicule.

-Dick Cheney. Some info about his sketchiness is bound (or not) to come to light soon, I know someone can tackle that dude (I personally would never tackle him, because I have the creeping suspicion that he has lighting strike capabilities ala THE EMPEROR). Again, digression.

-Blog post pep talks.

I'm out!

4 and 20; Even if I loved Weed, that would not Rule

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A Step Forward?

We at the HPC have, in the past, addressed the oddity that is mannequin design. I recently came across this fellow in a sporting goods store in Chicago. Now, I'm not going to draw any conclusions, but I'd like to ask a few questions:

1. Is this mannequin meant to look like someone of African decent?

2. If so, is it a good thing or a bad thing that its being used to display athletic apparel?

3. Furthermore, assuming it is meant to look like someone of African decent, is the intention to appeal to black consumers, or is it an attempt to pump some racial equality into what is otherwise a form designed primarily in the mold of caucasians, thereby appealing to those who are more PC-minded?

4. Where else, if anywhere, are we seeing 'ethnic'-looking mannequins?

To give these questions a bit of context, I should point out that this particular sporting goods store is located in the Lakeview neighborhood. To get an idea of the racial and ethnic breakdown in the this area, look under the "Demographics - Race" column.

I could be reading too deeply into this, but I can't help but be reminded of this.

His Holy Princeness

So I am supposed to be working, but I was getting stressed so I went to one of my favorite websites, Jezebel...and was psyched to get sucked into the following article.  Just do it, click the link!  It's titled "Prince: How Prince Went From "P*ssy Control" To Puritanical Proselytizing" 

Genius.

and then...

Click HERE.  Now, I'm not a huge Perez Hilton fan, but if people are going to hate on Prince they better get their facts straight.  According to Perez the New Yorker done fucked up.  Read it.

Anyone feel like going to the Front?

I was staying up late this Friday night into Saturday morning and ended up watching This American Life on the TV, but on the internet. The first section, the opening section, was about dudes that ride horses in Philadelphia proper, and I'd found some parallel between that and skateboarding, and wanted to post it on the primary, that being Platinum. The screen shot above is what I'd thought about posting on Plat; what the real meat and potatoes of the episode is fully not Plat worthy.

Simply, plan on hammering out 30 minutes of your day to watch the episode of This American Life that I just watched; Part One, and Part Two, right there at them links. The general theme is escapes, and while skateboarding worked with the horse aspect, I found the second part was completely it's own deal, heck, we love on here too. It's hard to know what else to even type; the second things got going I was rapt and sucked in, you will be too. If you haven't clicked those links yet, just know that they will question your own sense of existence, and raise a whole load of questions beyond that. It's truly amazing, and Ira Glass really has something going. Just watch the clips man.

FAIR TRADE