“Remember when we all agreed that the American health care system was broken, and then Congress spent 18 months paralyzed by a vicious battle over how to fix it? Command-Z, motherfuckers. I personally dream of a system of checks and balances that renders the federal government incapable of doing anything but awarding itself more power to kill terrorists.”
—Your monthly reminder that Dan Brooks’ Combat! Blog should be added to your Google Reader. Also: fuck SCOTUS.
March 2012
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Get What You Need feat E-40
Mac Shawn
E-40 “Get What You Need” (2001)
Mac Shawn is perhaps Vallejo’s least-well-known Mac, behind The Mac, Mall and Dre, in that order. He put out a sort of compilation album called Worldwide Bosses and Playaz about a decade ago, which you could maybe say was the south Vallejo equivalent to the Rompalation. Aside from “Mac Sinatra”, which is fantastic, and a song with one of Turf Talk’s earliest verses back when he went by Killa Kane, it’s not that great an album.
The real gem on the album is this one from E-40, when he was at the tail end of his “Woody Woodpecker on crack” phase before he slowed his flow up — or organized it more neatly, anyway.
To listen to this song now is interesting because 40 made it in 2001, the year before Grit & Grind and Thizzelle Washington were released, both of which, I think, shook the Bay Area out of a massive slump. This track could have been made a decade earlier and it would hardly have sounded different.
New York Times: Shaking It Up With a Popular Low-Tech Toy →
nytimes.com
The New York Times “writes” a “story” about the Etch-a-Sketch.
It wasn’t long ago they refused to call what happened on the Hudson a “plane crash” because it was a “water landing,” and they lost all their clicks to other news organizations that don’t have skyscrapers just a few avenue blocks from the site of the crash. They didn’t play the SEO game. Now maybe they do?
How in the fuck is this Etch-a-Sketch thing something people can actually bring themselves to even pretend to give a shit about?
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—Search Engine Optimization. Actual description of this video, which the dude just tweeted at me. So he’s SMO and SEO. Pretty impressive.
Can you please divulge more on the idiocy of the way people from San Diego speak?
“The first lesson - learned at birth - is never to call it Frisco or San FRANcisco. Most resident tourists have settled on something that sounds like an Anglicized version of the Spanish San Francisco, but natives run the two words together and add a couple of extra sounds, and it comes out “Sampencisco.”
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A very old Chronicle column, from before I was born. So though I wasn’t even around for it, I’m still gonna take issue. I think the city’s name is pronounced, roughly, “Sanrincisco”. That’s what I tend toward anyway.
Worth a read if you’re from San Francisco. The observation that SF natives say “Yeah?” a lot instead of “Is that right?” is interesting. I used to get hell for this in college, in San Diego, where everyone talks like an idiot as a rule.
