Fashion announcement
 

O.K., O.K., we get the hint. We'll all chip in a get you a new kitchen, but only if you promise to wear the pink frilly apron we are also getting you whenever you use it.

Pussy.

Fashion announcement
 

My apron says "I'd Rather be Spinning".

Fashion announcement
 

My spin jersey says: "Only wispy little eunuchs post about 'new kitchens'."

If I buy an Ipod
 

Don't worry: it won't come out until the Tuesday aftr I buy an Ipod video.

Fashion announcement
 

OMG! LOL! You didn't get it, did you? Paigow is spinning in her in interweb grave.

Time is running out.
 

I am disturbed that this picture provides to you what pictures of scantily-clad women provide to TM. That is all.

Almost forgot
 

random thought
 

If I owned an ad agency, I'd make a commercial on spec using the music to "Blame Canada" for Air Canada.

I think it would work nicely.

Air Canada! Air Canada!
The security lines were long, 'til Air Canada came along.

I'd throw in a cameo by Anne Murray as an extra-special touch.

Fashion announcement
 

I just spit diet coke out of my pussy. May or may not have something to do with having redone the kitchen this spring.

It wasn't so much the money as it was the time and hassle. Not recommended with a baby who doesn't sleep through the night very well and goes through lots of bottles of formula.

Speaking of which, it's time for a temporary avatar change.

The Office
 

Somebody there reads this board!

"You don't call retarded people retards. You call your friends retards when they're acting retarded."

The Office
 

2. By the by, when I've said Flower is "faggy" I just meant he dresses nicely.

The Office
 

funny story. it also turns out to be accurate. about 5 years from now it comes out that he likes to have young men do anal sex in him.

Poll: who is surprised?

Fashion announcement
 

I'd like an IWC watch.

Fashion announcement
 

Oh no. Oh NO! Not again! Curse you, 2001 PLF!! You thought that you would always be the witty, hip, savvy poster who "got it." You thought nothing could change that, so you went to your clubs and smoked your pot and drank to excess. Now look at you. NOW LOOK AT YOU! I am ashamed for both of you.

Thurgreed
 

Thirteen year-old urban black kids listen to much of the same crap as 13 year old suburban white kids, yes. That is unavoidable simply because you cannot escape mainstream music and people in general are programmed to like it.

But what is on the radio is what 13 year old surburban white kids think is authentically urban and black. Thirteen year old urban black kids listen to a lot of local shit, underground mix tapes (unauthorized mixes of established (or not) beats* with established artists and not established artists rapping over them) and whatever their parents listen to (groups like Dead Presidents, Roots, Talib Kweli and other authentic hip hop voices that mainstream will always shun), which surburban white kids don't typically have access to. Also, 13 year old urban black kids buy mainstream hip hop in bootleg form because it's too expensive for them otherwise. So, what drives the mainstream hip hop market really is what labels can sell to a mainstream (read: surbuban, white) audience.

Jay-Z is listened to by everybody.

TM

*Jay-Z always releases his albums without the beats as well, so underground djs can show their creativity with them. And there are always like 500 versions of each of his songs that you hear on the streets in Brooklyn because people make money by creatively re-doing them and selling them for $5 a pop. But only he and a few others can do this because he knows his albums will sell even though there are sometimes better versions to be found elsewhere.