Thunderstorms in Chicago kept me at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport all day. Delta wouldn't tell us when we could leave, so I had no choice but to pound Coronas at Chilis Too until I blacked out. When I woke up, I was at the checkout counter at something called The Spirit of the Red Horse buying the painting shown above. Turns out all sales are final.
Trying to walk off the disappointment of a $2500 tab for a painting of two grizzlies in a canoe, I stopped into a store called Sport Minnesota where I saw the shirt below. Seriously, under what circumstances would buying this tee be acceptable?
This clip is getting posted up all over the Internet, but it's so great that I couldn't resist. I'm maybe 10 views in and I keep noticing new things. This video had me so amped, I did 20 pushups before posting this.
A friend of mine asked who I would be if I could be any current athlete. You might think I would say Derrick Rose or Paulie Malignaggi but the easy answer is Cristiano Renaldo. He rules the world's top sport, he lives a luxed out life, and gets European girls by the truckload. Seriously, this guy is hitting P that Americans couldn't even comprehend (Eurochick technology is so advanced). So, that's my answer. Who would you be?
I first heard about the (pre Bad Brains) black punk rock band 'Death' about 6 months ago. I'm not sure where it was (something is telling me maybe on NPR?), but just recently, while scavenging for posts on the www, I came across 2 of their songs on Party Intellectuals. After a little more digging, I found this trailer for a documentary on the band. -Check it out: Detroit's own DEATH -Where Do We Go From Here? Documentary - Tour 2009 Promo from Howlermano on Vimeo.
If liking to play women's softball was a sign that Elena Kagan was an ex-Nazi (like say; the Pope), or a pedophile (like say; the Pope), then this would definitely warrant this amount of discussion on the cable news circuit. However whether or not she may or may not be a lesbian is completely irrelevant to being a Supreme Court nominee. Why waste our collective time with this? Isn't the country teetering on the edge of financial ruin? Isn't there a massive oil well spilling into the ocean? -Or thousands of more pressing issues that qualify as 'news'? DISTRACT-DISTRACT- DISTRACT!!!
I'm no ad exec, and I know a lot has changed in the advertising world in the last 35 years... But somebody should have absolutely lost their fucking job over this one. This shit is inexcusable.
What would be the chances of passing a drivers test if you had to take it in 12 different languages? There's probably 25 people on earth capable of getting their license. My favorite parts of this are all the irratic pauses and the robotic downward glance. Everything about this ad is awkward...
There's an elite class of people who are not only good at what they do, but do it with impeccable style and swagger. Give it up for one of the true O.G. swaggerballers Diamond David Lee Roth. David Lee Roth - California Girls Full Version
I don't know what it is, but girls from this era were way sexier than today's standards. I think it's because todays wormen are all anorexic with massive fake tits and some kind of weird plastic surgery latex/ human hybrid.
Prepare to get your wigs visually peeled back by Monsters of the Midway Pose and KC Ortiz! Don't miss it! Find out more about it here .
Known Gallery presents RUMBLE by Pose 1
Born and raised in the Windy City, Pose came of age during Chicago’s hard knock golden years of graffiti—molding him into the person he is today. Having put in endless work in the streets, the lines, and the train yards, he solidly secured his name well before any outsider took notice to his unique style.A Pose graffiti piece is like a branded stamp. In this exhibition Pose investigates a traditional style of comic book illustration and painting and infuses it with his own recognizable twist. Complexly layered, his work is bursting at the seams, often stunning and confusing onlookers with an intense amount of intricate detail. Each time Pose paints a new wall it walks a fine line between being an artfully-mastered collage of illustration—with images drawn from TV, literature, film, and fine art—and a graffiti piece. In this body of work, Pose has translated his trademarks in his signature graffiti style, (classic cartoon characters, sign painting fonts, a flat graphic style, and vivid color choices) from the street to the studio, creating elaborate large- and small-scale paintings. His work as an innovator in the graffiti world has led him to focus on what were previously only accents on his letters—exploring imagery and figuration in bold ways. Inside you will find numerous traces of his personality... the struggle, humor, sarcasm, love, hate, and always a feverish push towards the new. The show title "RUMBLE" comes from the slang term meaning, a street fight between rival teenage gangs. When you look at one of Pose’s paintings you get the sense of a clash, but one which is noticeably classic, knowingly juvenile, polished, and American. Pose currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois; he is a member of the acclaimed West Coast artist collective The Seventh Letter, as well as being a founder of his own Chicago based design and art firm We Are Supervision. He has traveled internationally on his own and with The Seventh Letter specifically to showcase his skills as one of the best graffiti artists out there. This is Pose's first solo exhibition at Known Gallery.
Known Gallery presents FORCED REBELLION by KC Ortiz
Rebels, Communists, CIA agents, and the legacy of a never ending "Secret War" all played their part in KC Ortiz's photo reportage on the remaining Hmong in the jungles of Laos, which opens at Known Gallery on May 22nd.For three weeks in December 2009 and January 2010, Ortiz lived with the jungle Hmong in order to document their plight and living conditions. Over a year of planning, secret meetings, and a clandestine entry into Laos brought him to the Hmong rebels and a world unseen by outsiders.
Ortiz's photos document the remaining Hmong in the mountainous jungles of Laos. The Hmong live a life constantly on the run from the Laos Peoples Army (LPA) and Vietnamese forces, systematically targeted for having served for the CIA during the Vietnam War. During that time they went where no American or ally could be, behind enemy lines in Laos, in what is referred to as the "Secret War". Their missions varied from rescuing downed American pilots to fighting off the North Vietnamese soldiers. Recognized as some of the world's greatest guerilla fighters, they served their American bosses, the CIA, with bravery and honor.
Unfortunately for the Hmong, changing political climates caused the US to pull out of the region, leaving them behind in an extremely hostile environment. Since that day, the Hmong have continued to fight for their survival against incredible odds. Thirty five years after the fall of Saigon, the Hmong still remain fighting the remnants of that long ago war, and live a life far forgotten by most in the world. Ortiz's work also invariably explores American foreign policy and questions the role and potential outcome of current allies in America's modern war fronts. Will history repeat itself? Will the United States abandon her current allies? Will others be left to the same doom the Hmong have faced?
The Hmong's struggle, desperation, daily lives, and ongoing fight were captured by Ortiz and will be shown under the title "Forced Rebellion" at Known Gallery. Ortiz's photos from his time in the jungle of Laos have been published in numerous international publications, including The Independent and A-Magasinet.
KC Ortiz is a photojournalist based out of his hometown, Chicago. His work focuses on under-reported issues and over looked people and has taken him to all corners of the globe in pursuit of his work.
In case you somehow weren't aware of what a pile of shit Maxim magazine is, let me just reiterate. Maxim magazine is a steaming pile of fly-swarmed donkey shit glistening in the midday sun. I know this shouldn't matter to me whatsoever, but I cannot help but get a little pissed off every time I see one of these 'People Magazine 50 most beautiful' -type lists. Aside from just being conceptually a retarded thing to do, it's particularly dumb when some chud-bucket gets top honors while there's countless dimepieces pushed to the back of the list or not represented at all. Nunber one Katy Perry?? Really?? Fuck off...
*Clarification: No I don't think Katy Perry is a 'Chud Bucket'. She's actually an attractive girl. But of all the people in the world to be on this list, let alone number one, she'd be lucky to make the top 1000 hottest list. Not a diss, just some real talk.
I've gotta be honest with you guys, I haven't really been on board with this whole bitchy, materialistic, self-absorbed cougar craze that's been sweeping the nation. But real talk, This new Sex in the City movie looks pretty dope (no homo). Now, I know what you're thinking, but hear me out. This one's not the standard orgy of consumerism and schmaltzy romantic vomit. Carrie's actually talking about some real shit: censorship, freedom of speech, and government's attempt to stifle her freedom of expression. If Carrie wants to give up the glamorous namebrand designer gear for some butch-ass lezzie cut-off denim vest shit, that's her prerogative. And no bloodsucking politician is gonna tell her otherwise. That scene where she flips the script on Al Gore during that senate hearing is is off the chain! -Checkit out! :
Two cannibals drowned a teenager, hacked her body to bits and served her with potatoes to a lodger. Butcher Maxim Golovatskikh and florist Yury Mozhnov, both 20, were caged for 37 years. The pair begged forgiveness from the family of Karina Barduchian, 16. Golovatskikh said: “I don’t deserve mercy. But I’m not a monster.” Mozhnov, 20, said: “I want to have a chance to save my soul. " At one point, the trial in St Petersburg, Russia, was halted because a juror felt sick looking at pictures of the victim’s body parts. Karina’s mother Nadezhda, 45, also ran out of the court shouting: “Damn you both, scum.” The men drowned the naked student, who had a crush on Golovatskikh, when she took a bath at his flat. Andrei Lavrenko, prosecuting, said: “They cut up the body into several pieces, eating some of them and throwing the others into the bin.“Then they cooked her meat and served up the meal with potatoes. “They were interrogated and explained the murder by saying they were desperate to eat.” Lodger Ekaterina Zinovyeva, 22, said they served her a meal which she later realised included meat from Karina’s body.
Since I've been about 13 or 14, I've never really come across any compelling reasons to believe in god. It's not that I am begrudging you to do so. -I'm just saying; I'm calling bullshit on all that talking snake/ Noah's arc nonsense. HOWEVER... After watching this video; one could make a convincing case for there being a 'higher power' responsible for how hot this chick is. You'd have to be a damn-near genius to come up with some shit like that. Chuuurch... JACQUES: The Sports Issue, Trailer 2. from Jacques Magazine on Vimeo.
(Good looking out on this one J. Burnz. Praise the lord!)
More dazzling gems from the endless pipeline of Christian hypocrisy. Priceless! George Alan Rekers, a prominent anti-gay activist who co-founded the conservative Family Research Council,was caught returning from a 10-day trip to Europe with a male escort he found on Rentboy.com, which is exactly what it sounds like. The escort now says Rekers is indeed gay, and that Rekers paid him to perform daily nude body rubs during their European jaunt. "It's a situation where he's going against homosexuality when he is a homosexual," the young man told the New Times, adding that Rekers -- who repeatedly asked for a move he dubbed "The Long Stroke" -- ought to divorce himself from his many anti-gay associations. Rekers has a new explanation for the trip. "I deliberately spend time with sinners with the loving goal to try to help them," he saidin a statement posted on Facebook. The Miami New Times promises more details and a profile of the escort, whom they codenamed "Lucien" but whose identity has been revealed elsewhere. Not to worry, Rekerstold the Miami New Times, which broke the story: He claims he learned his 20-year-old companion was a prostitute only midway through their trip, they had no intimate contact, and he hired the young man only because recent surgery means "I can't lift luggage." This seems highly dubious, not least becausethe New Times reporters spotted the retired professor pushing his baggage cart through Miami International Airport.It would be extremely difficult to stumble uponthe Rentboy.com homepage, which features young well-muscled men rubbing each other's crotches on grainy video loops, and not figure out what the site means by "rent boy." The site's pages aren't indexed by Google, either, so we'll need to take the New Times' word for it that the profile page for Rekers' escort advertised his "smooth, sweet, tight ass" and "perfectly built 8 inch cock." The young man denied that he and Rekers had sex, but he did confirm that they met via his Rentboy profile. With the scandal flaring in the wake of the New Times expose, Rekers published a statement on his personal websitethat decries the story's "misleading innuendo." He confuses libel with slander, but he doesn't deny any specific element of the story, only repeating his claim that he needed help carrying luggage and averring that family and friends will back that claim. Rekers, who is also a professor emeritus of neuropsychiatry at the University of South Carolina and a Baptist minister, recently testifed against gay adoption in Florida, where he resides. Raw Story flaggeda particularly jarring article in which he claims that children adopted by gay couples are more likely to commit suicide.The retired professor has remained far less high-profile than his Family Research Council co-founder James Dobson, but he is an extremely prolific author of books like Who Am I? Lord andGrowing Up Straight: What Families Should Know About Homosexuality. He has also advised members of Congress, the White House, and the Department of Health and Human Services, according tothe New Times story, which is worth reading in its entirety..
Fortunately this time it's not referencing R. Kelly pissing on and /or boning some underage girl. Instead, it's this old-timer absolutely CRUSHING this cover of Slayer's 'Seasons in the Abyss" You GO grandpa!
If you're Kid Lover reading this right now, no, this isn't the sequel to the Travolta / Nicolas Cage face swap movie. And no, it's not coming out on blueray disc at Best Buy next wednesday. It is about a dude who had the bottom 2/3 of his face swapped out for a new one and it looks absolutely horrible. I feel really bad saying that and wish homie nothing but the best, but yeah... Dude's face is a trainwreck. Let's hope they figure out how to do this surgery better in the future; -or at least match people up with a face donor who's complexion roughly the same as their own...
I just threw this logo together. Beyond blogging it, I have no immediate plans to do anything with it so if anyone out there wants to use it for printing t-shirts or anything like that, hit me up in the comments and I'll email you the vector art for it. All I ask is that if you use it, send me a couple of them and credit Lords of Apathy (small) if possible. If anyone wants to print signs or anything send photos so I can post them on the blog. Also feel free to repost this.
Thunderstorms in Chicago kept me at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport all day. Delta wouldn't tell us when we could leave, so I had no choice but to pound Coronas at Chilis Too until I blacked out. When I woke up, I was at the checkout counter at something called The Spirit of the Red Horse buying the painting shown above. Turns out all sales are final. 
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