Another Down and Distance is up. This one involves the concept of league parity, the salary cap, the current financial crisis and subsequent bailout, and a whole lot of swearing.

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Never, ever do business with AT&T if you require timely service or straight answers from the people you talk to. They’re very good at offering half-assed apologies and explaining that the person you were just talking to didn’t know what he or she was talking about, but I find that to be less useful than [...]

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Yesterday in Seattle, a man drove his pickup truck onto his friend’s roof because “he got a wild hair”.
I know some of y’all might be quick to judge the man in question because, okay, that’s really stupid, but I want to hang out with him, like, twice a month. I want to go watch cover [...]

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Apparently you can hire Jean Grae via Craigslist to spit sixteen on your track. 
That’s pretty neat, honestly. She’s one of the best MC’s working today, and $800 is a fucking steal, all things considered (Nate Dogg charges $500,000 for the same service). If I had a little bit of extra money and were actually working [...]

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I just finished reading Mudslingers: The Twenty-Five Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time by Kerwin Swint. It’s especially interesting to look at in a Presidential election year, even if it’s more of a bathroom-style read than, like, a serious book (it’s broken down into 5-6 page sections with clever subheadings and lots of pictures). [...]

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Connectivity issues are still ongoing, but my column at Troubl.org is up for another week. This time, we talk about why the New England Patriots are the most loathsome team in sports, sexism and misogyny in America culture as it relates to both Tony Romo and Sarah Palin, and why it’s still foolish to try [...]

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Stocked up on bottled water and canned food, because every storm is the one that’s going to wipe out the city now, even if the city’s two hundred miles inland. Nobody ever regretted spending twenty bucks on hurricane preparation, I figure, at least not compared to how they may have regretted not doing the [...]

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Back in America and relatively settled- still no Internet access at home just yet, but there’s a coffee shop down the block with free wi-fi. To that end, here’s what this month sounds like. In a car, instead of on headphones.
“Jockin’ Jay-Z”, Jay-ZMan, its nice to here Jay-Z on a Kayne track again. This is [...]

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