"What do flamboyantly dressed musicians have against the internet?"
Robert Starvation from re-generator is killin’ us with this hilarious post:

First it was Elton John with his cockamamie suggestion the Internet be shut down. Now, the likewise foppish Prince is threatening to sue YouTube, eBay and the Pirate Bay because he wants to a€oereclaim the internet.a€A
As a means of explaining away the full fruition of his Napoleon complex, Prince is offering this priceless gem: a€oeWe have to build a 21st century model for the entertainment industry.a€A Ita€™s true, the entertainment industry does, but Prince is using the same tactics that got the major labels in so much troatuble. a€oeSue everyonea€A still isna€™t a visionary business model for the 21st century.
Prince needs to go back to masturbating his custom-made guitar and leave the heavyweight thinking to a radical and pioneering artist like The Artist Formerly Known as Prince. -Robert Starvation
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Or you could just watch this:

Ok, that’s silly, I admit… but I saw a woman walking through Copley Plaza in Boston dressed like she should have been at this parade… sooo, that combined with the Prince song….
Sex!… It’s not that type of partayy - Prince (from the scene)
Posted: September 16th, 2007
at 2:35pm by black octagons
Categories: music,celebrity,not ninja-worthy,business
Comments: 2 comments
New McDonalds Beatbox Ad
No, you’re mistaken again, Stuey.AA We’re not advertising for McDonalds…. but on a side note, we’re into nuggets too.
Anyoldways, have any of you seen the ridiculous new Mickey D’s beatbox ad?AA You know damned well you have, ‘cuz you watch too much TV (yes, you).AA Well if you haven’t seen it, click here.AA You wouldn’t want to be behind on your Mickeys-game.AA Also see what the bloggers say. [Note: that first link is silly, but the ninja was so heated I had to include it]
I mean, despite that it’s sort of funny, I almost yomited (and yes, I said, ‘yomit’).AA One dude beatboxes while the other dude spits some rap about how he’s "into nuggets, yeah."AA This is one of those campaigns that these companies have started where they think that getting user generated content is going to help them sell their product.AA While I’m tempted to go on about how that won’t work and how there’s an actual reason people switched from your average snake oil ads to money-laden and consequently ostentatious campaigns, I must digress by saying that this is probably better than all the rest of the piss poor ads I see, from MD’s and others.AA Still, why does it always have to be a rap?
Whatever happened to:

On second thought, maybe I’m not nostalgic.
Posted: September 11th, 2007
at 10:16pm by black octagons
Categories: web,not ninja-worthy,business,grub
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Ted Nugent And The Wall Street Journal
Occasionally, I make tongue-in-cheek references to the "dirty hippies." I actually picked up the reference from Digby, who uses the phrase, as I do, to refer to the almost pathological obsession rightwingers have for the sixties counterculture. Despite the fact that no one has seen a "dirty hippie" in a good 30 years, the rightwing noise machine is still shocked and horrified that anyone could possibly "drop out" of the capitalist rat race. Make no mistake, whatever else wingnuts mean by "freedom," the freedom to "drop out" is not part of the definition.
So anyway, there I am, perusing the latest offerings on the Wall Street Journal editorial page — which is the best place to monitor what the corporate ruling class is thinking — and what do I see but an article about "dirty, stinky hippies." That’s a direct quote. And of course, the article includes the usual crap about how simply awful those dreadful people were.
Forty years ago hordes of stoned, dirty, stinky hippies converged on San Francisco to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," which was the calling card of LSD proponent Timothy Leary. Turned off by the work ethic and productive American Dream values of their parents, hippies instead opted for a cowardly, irresponsible lifestyle of random sex, life-destroying drugs and mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco.
But wait, guess who wrote this article? How about this guy.
Posted: September 9th, 2007
at 7:38pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: hood status,bling,life,celebrity,crime,green,not ninja-worthy,business,politricks,grub,real life news
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Protest will silence some online music
A swath of the Internet is set to go silent tomorrow [today], as online music broadcasters shut down to protest a plan that will sharply increase the royalties they pay to recording companies and musicians.
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The Internet music royalty dispute began in March, when three federal judges appointed by Congress decided on a big increase, retroactive to 2006. Broadcasters will have to pay 5 percent more in music royalties for this year and last, and further hikes of 20 percent per year for the next three years. The new rates are supposed to take effect by mid-July.
But the Digital Music Association, which represents Internet broadcasters, has asked a federal court to suspend the increase pending an appeal. Such a delay would give Congress more time to act. Members of both political parties have filed legislation in Congress that would reduce Internet music royalties below their present level. Ades denounced the bills as "a cash grab by big Net radio."
boston more info at savenetradio
Posted: June 26th, 2007
at 9:14pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: music,web,not ninja-worthy,business,politricks,fo' real?
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my NOMAD please!
$ 6,800 USD- you crazy or insane?!
Posted: May 16th, 2007
at 10:06am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: green,not ninja-worthy,home,business,design,fo' real?
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a€oeGaijin Hanzai Filea€A
Posted: April 11th, 2007
at 11:09am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: not ninja-worthy
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"Ghosting Vs. Plowing: Dare To Compare"
FOX News has recently labelled "Fence Plowing" as the "new internet trend sweeping Youtube". Apparently a trend only needs 14 videos to be classifed as a Youtube phenomenon. We here at GRTWB believe that there’s only enough room on the internet for either Ghost Riding or Fence Plowing. The choice is clear.
Posted: March 16th, 2007
at 9:23am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: not ninja-worthy,whips
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The Man Christ Jesus aka Dr. Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda
Posted: March 16th, 2007
at 9:20am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: myninjaplease,too good to be true,drogas,not ninja-worthy,robots,politricks,fo' real?,real life news
Comments: 2 comments
a€oeThe Monkey’s Pawa€A
Y2K plugs into the fears that have haunted Science Fiction since its inception, confirming anxieties that, as technological integration increases, human control lessens, and the possibility of something crashing the entire system grows. Here, SF disintegrates into cyberpunk. Where Science Fiction can be defined as the implementation of the project of Progressive Technology a€" a vision of uninhibited technological growth spreading out into a far future that has been speculatively planned a€" cyberpunk lurks in the near future, building itself out of the unanticipated consequences of technical development. It is essentially improvisational, feeding on glitches, interference and coincidences: as the runaway AI Wintermute tells Case in Gibson’s Neuromancer, a€oeplanning’s not my thing.a€A
Posted: March 14th, 2007
at 10:46am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: bling,youtube,computers,celebrity,crime,apple,green,web,drogas,not ninja-worthy,cell phones,games,clothes,business,whips,robots,mnp is for the children,weaponry,real life news
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