I /read/ the books from here to Albuquerque…
Posted on May 8, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Kids These Days, Money | Leave a Comment
… to get the Ice Cube scholarship.
Read More..>>Chef Bogusardee?
Posted on April 6, 2006 - Filed Under Crime, Food, Kids These Days, Money, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Child porn may be the $20,000,000,000 industry, but “‘Italian-sounding’ products now rake in some six billion dollars in sales while the genuine articles only make about two billion dollars”. So what is an “Italian-sounding” product? The article focuses mostly on fake sauces & cheeses with alliterative ire: The USA is now churning out 1.7 million [...]
Read More..>>I Walk A Fairly Thick Line
Posted on January 23, 2006 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Money, Music | Leave a Comment
Midlands men are buying more cufflinks and necklaces featuring crosses. Silver and gold aren’t the metals of choice, though. Guys prefer tungsten, titanium and stainless steel because they’re more affordable, durable and masculine, Brodkey said —- It emerged yesterday that buskers are being paid £40 per day to sing Johnny Cash’s hits to coincide with [...]
Read More..>>Are You A Douchebag?
Posted on January 12, 2006 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Statistics, Words (In Print) I Hate | Leave a Comment
At BMK HQ, we realize you may share our need to align yourself with a social movement or failing that, a demographic. As a public service, we offer you this quiz to easily determine… Are You A Douchebag? 1. Did you take this quiz? o No = 1 pt o Yes = 5 pts o [...]
Read More..>>All The Young Lewds
Posted on December 15, 2005 - Filed Under Crime, Kids These Days | Leave a Comment
If you feel like doing some peeping-Tommery at a tanning salon in Omaha, best wait until you’re 18: Violation of the law is a misdemeanor. The punishment is up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine when the victim is younger than 18 and up to three months in jail and a $500 [...]
Read More..>>Let this be my solemn vow
Posted on December 12, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Race, Religion | Leave a Comment
I’m not sure how google-bombing works exactly. But as I sang in elementary school Christmas programs, “let it begin with me”: douchebag
Read More..>>But Will It Play In Cleveland?
Posted on November 30, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Scatology, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
“He is considering introducing a much louder unit that can be switched on in emergencies with a panic button. It would be most useful when youths swarm into stores and begin stealing en masse, a phenomenon known in Britain as steaming“
Read More..>>Shout Out to The Wino Punx
Posted on November 29, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days, The Man Stickin It To Us | 1 Comment
Pun intended? “about 15 students have agreed to remove the straps, and “a handful” were suspended after refusing.”
Read More..>>Insert Triumph Quote Here
Posted on November 29, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Sports | Leave a Comment
a member of something called the Parsons Mounted Cavalry Unit at Texas A&M…decided it was a good idea to shovel horse manure onto members of the Texas marching band before the game Friday….the Parsons unit “was formed in 1973 to revive the legacy of A&M’s horse-drawn artillery program. It remains the only collegiate military cavalry [...]
Read More..>>Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
Posted on November 16, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Language, Music | Leave a Comment
Setting aside the term Blog-lish… The Observer on rock-snob lexical gyrations: You could never get away with this level of obtuseness on such an august title as the New Yorker, which prides itself on bringing the same sort of acts championed by Pitchfork – Dizzee Rascal, MIA and Lady Sovereign, among others – to the [...]
Read More..>>You can’t break the law if you’re above it
Posted on November 11, 2005 - Filed Under Crime, Kids These Days, The Man Stickin It To Us | Leave a Comment
The state of Nebraska’s response to lawsuits in the wake of “nearly 30 children dying from abuse and neglect”? Claim you are immune from such litigation and do nothing to address the issues at hand. If you don’t want to register for the World-Herald article, text after the break, because BMK has and always will [...]
Read More..>>Hustler of Culture*
Posted on October 19, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Movies, Music | Leave a Comment
SF Weekly brainstorms possible “Indie” schemes in the TV works: “Devendra Banhart guest stars on Lost when the cast happens upon another heretofore undiscovered part of the island inhabited by yet another crazy, muttering hermit. Asked about his performance later, Banhart responds, “Performance? What performance?” “Two words: CSI: Omaha.” Maybe not truly “indie”, but given [...]
Read More..>>‘m srry
Posted on October 11, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days | Leave a Comment
As I continue to pilfer links from Ted Leo, I can do no better than his “Viddie this, my Droogies”.
Read More..>>dios mio
Posted on October 5, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days | Leave a Comment
You want to see what goes on in the mind of dios (malos)? Maybe, maybe not. You want to see what goes on in the mind of dios (malos) when assisted by lead animator of South Park, Ryan Quincy? Yes! He is a huge fan of the band and gave their first single “I Want [...]
Read More..>>Where There’s A Will…
Posted on September 6, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days | Comments Off
"We found it absolutely incredible that the authorities had no way to get there for four or five days, that they didn’t go in and help these people, and we made it in a two-wheel-drive Hyundai," said Hans Buder, who made the trip with his roommate Byrd and another student, David Hankla.
Read More..>>Death Cab For 826 Seattle
Posted on September 5, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Kids These Days, Music | Comments Off
A video of a “surprise” performance by Death Cab For Cutie at Bumbershoot 2005, as part of a fundraiser for 826 Seattle.
Read More..>>Can I Get A Clean Up In Aisle America
Posted on August 17, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Money, Turf Wars | Comments Off
Thus wrote Mark Moford: I have little real clue as to what children growing up in this sort of bizarre megaconsumerist dystopia will face as they age, what sort of warped perspective and decimated sense of place and community and home. But if you think meth addiction and teen pregnancy and wicked religious homogeny and [...]
Read More..>>From the Department of the Obvious
Posted on June 21, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days | 1 Comment
Just remember, they’re fighting for your freedom. "Free for what?" asks Nietzsche. Why, of course, the democraticizing effects of the Internet, the public commons immune from its own tragedy. Or so we could wish. The LA Times gave the masses a free voice and it apparently only takes about a day or so to reach [...]
Read More..>>More News From Bad News Is Good News
Posted on June 3, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days | Comments Off
Once again proving himself as one of the great raconteurs of our time, Bad News Hughes strikes again.Discussed: Batman, Boobies, The Cure, Ducky, Helter Skelter, "It’s Alright To Cry", Kiss, Man-Sweat, Marlo Thomas, Molly Ringwold, Roofies, Swimming Pool Boners, Tonka Trucks.
Read More..>>Without Comment or Context
Posted on June 2, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Kids These Days, Music | Comments Off
"…like a baseball game called on account of rain, America’s culture war was called on account of obsolescence." "The crazed lady had become so fixated with former Baywatch star Hasselhoff that she jumped out of a high-storey window when she couldn’t speak to him." "But two decades of research have failed to show a significant [...]
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