Displaying 31 To 60 Of 104 Comments Look at you. You can say “oinga boinga” and get positive ratings. Me? I toil and get NADA!!! » Posted By Moist Robot On February 10, 2011 @ 12:49 pm Will this be Egypt’s new flag? http://www.flickr.com/photos/khalidalbaih/5412952482/ » Posted By Moist Robot On February 10, 2011 @ 12:48 pm Shit! That reminds me! » Posted By Moist Robot On February 9, 2011 @ 9:02 pm I am the snack cause I’m made from Duncan Hines. » Posted By Moist Robot On February 9, 2011 @ 7:41 pm I’m the first POV sock. But, don’t you all start! 😆 » Posted By Moist Robot On February 9, 2011 @ 7:39 pm Hi, thought I’d add to the confusion 😉 » Posted By Moist Robot On February 9, 2011 @ 6:50 pm Sayonara, Olbermann-san. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/olbermann-hosts-last-countdown-on-msnbc/ Just as well. He was getting a bit one-note for my taste. » Posted By Moist Robot On January 21, 2011 @ 7:42 pm or fleas! » Posted By Moist Robot On January 21, 2011 @ 12:43 pm A very different kind of dog sledding. http://www.wimp.com/dogsledding/ » Posted By Moist Robot On January 21, 2011 @ 11:59 am I’m You; Kanye, Lebron, and the Cult of Celebrity And it seems Lebron followed suit. » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 9:30 pm When a woman is hormonal it is understandable. Reason sometimes goes out the window. Hormones alter the reality by chemically changing the brain. It is not giving pity, it is having understanding and compassion. All things taken equally, I would get angry at you and my anger would demonstrate that I respected that you were strong enough to handle it. However, if you were hormonal at the time, you would get a pass. I would have compassion. I would understand the effects of hormones. They can make one temporarily insane. Of course there would be no compassion if by hormonal, it became murderous 🙂 I think my introduction of race has been somewhat misunderstood. I understand how KW could get carried away with whatever is going on in his head and his response to whatever society is projecting upon him. I repeat, I think KW’s behavior was immature and abysmal. I would want him to change and become more “mature” and reasonable. Perhaps it’s the doctor in me to look at people with compassion as a default, yet I feel I can still get angry at them. I have! Anger and compassion are not mutually exclusive. They can coexist. That goes for anyone who is different in society. Gays, transgendered, handicapped, minorities, etc… If they act out, it may be in an unappealing way, but it could still be, on a larger scale, understandable. Who knows what sorts of trauma people have endured because of their differences? I’d give them all a pass too. If the behavior was consistently bad, or manipulative then the compassion may wane. Kanye hasn’t reached that point with me quite yet. Anger is the cornerstone of division, compassion is the cornerstone of forgiveness and healing. But if it came to Palin or Bush or their ilk. No pass. » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 9:17 pm It is awful that race still enters the picture at all! One has to wonder if JJ is really speaking from a generation where things were quite different. I would have never independently associated Lebron’s move with anything JJ concocted. In fact, it degrades Lebron! JJ needs to get off the stage… Beyonce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m1EFMoRFvY Taylor; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw Kanye was right! What if Beyonce dressed in Barbarella worthy gear? 😉 » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 7:36 pm If Kanye made it about race, then that is something that I missed. In that case he would be using race as a carte blanche for bad behavior. That would be wrong, imo. I don’t feel Kanye is blaming “every single thing” on race, though. Race is a backdrop. It just is. Especially now. America is working out some very old and painful issues, unfortunately. » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 6:37 pm You nowhere mentioned race in you post and I am not implying or asserting that you made it about race at all. I added that dimension. Maggie just cheered me on 🙂 A better, perhaps more neutral, question would be: Why do you suppose the media and much of the general public have added the issue of race? » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 6:20 pm I thoroughly agree with the gist of your post, wts. Money, power, iconic status have changed people into demi-gods and legends in their own minds. People no longer have etiquette and think they can express anything, behave in anyway, and justify it. We have gone from the neurosis of repression to the neurosis of expression. It is about ego. Ego is the jail everyone is in. We all pay attention to defending it to the death in many cases. It is really a construct that clouds a truer relationship to the world and one’s fellow humankind. What do you think feeds Kanye’s ego? What do you think he needs to be so defensive about? » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 5:35 pm Hey natto-lips! I still would ask for a buss! Imagine if a white performer took the award away from a black performer. Would racist comments not be flying back and forth? It is the same with Kanye. Therefore, we need to examine his behavior in the light of race. Given the tenor of this country, given what the media has said, given the history of blacks in this country, a crucial element of the argument would be missing if race was not discussed. As I stated below, part of a rapper’s persona is to be somewhat antisocial. I personally abhor his behavior. That’s me personally. But on the larger social stage, it’s not as simple as my personal standards of polite behavior. » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 5:28 pm It comes from the power of being a multi-talented mogul/artist/entrepreneur black man with a rapper’s pedigree. Being a rapper is about anger to a large extent. His mega-success in all those spheres plus his role as a rapper make it more likely for him to behave that way. He was rude, plain and simple. I’m not arguing that. His persona and iconic status are what fueled his hubris. His money as well. But I also think the fact that race has been publicly superimposed upon it all makes it also an important thing to consider. Kalima says that he shouldn’t think of himself as a victim because he makes money. Victimhood (and I do not think KW would see himself as a “victim”) and money are independent variables. You chose to portray two black men who have all those things you state. Since race HAS been related to both stories in the media, then it must be included in the meat of the discussion. Otherwise it’s just about rich talented men behaving badly. But it’s about rich and powerful BLACK men behaving badly. How much does that alter the observer’s perspective? Kanye West is a black man in America. His behavior is too psychologically complex to put him in the same camp as Palin or Bush. He has a different provenance. » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 5:12 pm Try having Kanye get a taxi in Manhattan at 1 AM. Since when does money and material comfort exempt one from the very primitive fear of the “other”? It’s not about being a “victim”. That is your word and I choose not to employ it, because it infers worthy of pity and weakness to a degree. I think it’s a very complicated psychology to be a successful black man so soon after civil rights. Only 145 years since slavery. People live to be 100! He is throwing a tantrum. But, in my book, he gets a pass. Lebron is a different kettle of fish however. » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 12:16 pm It’s implied. This video does not exist in a vacuum. It has a natural history. So, the conversation DOES turn to race, ultimately, whether it was stated in the video or not. Kanye has had to publicly deny he is a racist and has had to recant his accusation that Bush is one. The scenario invites the discussion of race because the issue of race is still very much alive in this country. Kanye West was a bully toward Swift. He was inappropriate. He is probably very troubled by how he set himself up and the attendant aftermath. He probably is trying to maintain a modicum of dignity while retaining a rapper’s identity. I really empathize with the plight of black people in this country. Their history and the current atmosphere in the US by very vocal groups must bring up old wounds. I’ve had people who I’d never expect, say the most racist things in my presence since Obama was elected. I give Kanye a free pass because he is NOT like Palin, or Bush. He has not had a history of being an asshole as far as I know. He stated having a relationship with the public is like having a relationship with a girlfriend. It can get ugly. I’d rather see a genuine meltdown over Palin’s or Bush’s calculatedly cool and detached idiocy any day. The fact that he wore a crown of thorns means he is probably relating to something larger than himself, albeit in a grandiose way. I can imagine Beck doing the same thing, but Beck is white. He can assimilate anywhere in any town. Kanye can’t. Dissimilarly from Beck, Kanye’s thorn episode could be interpreted as his being crucified for this country’s biggest transgression against any people. I think when he took the award away from Swift, it was an instinctual moment. It was at the very least laced with race, because he took it away from a white girl and wanted to give it to a black girl. Had he wanted to give it to another white girl there would have been no issue. The video is a postscript. » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 12:05 pm Agreed. But with the Jesus shtick, he’s obviously trying to encompass or mirror something larger than himself, don’t you think? Either consciously or unconsciously. » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 3:36 am Kanye West on Charlie Rose: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/757 Both parents are professors. » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 3:31 am I know, PATHETIC! On both counts! » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 3:26 am Crown of thorns? Oh, that’s rich. Kanye is primarily a businessman. He’s going for the PR. » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 3:17 am It’s hard to gauge what successful black men and women think unless one is black. If not out and out “victims” then certainly prejudiced against. That is definitely alive and well in the US. » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 3:14 am True. Now SING IT SISTER!! 😆 » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 2:46 am On the stage that is true thee-ater…. POV! » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 2:33 am Hi OG! I want a lullaby! Okonomiyaki » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 2:27 am It’s 5:12, where are U? » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 2:13 am I give Kanye a pass. He doth protest too much, but I am more understanding about the emotions that may course through a black man’s veins. He’s preachy and makes the unfortunate association with GW. But that only puts this all into a more mythic scale. George Bush as “Zoiks” Thunder God of Insane in the Membrane The remarks on the KW 11/23/10 vid are hot with arguments about racism. That is the natural projection with Kanye. It may also be true with Lebron: Lebron James as the “runaway slave” who is really king: King James » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 2:11 am http://www.wimp.com/kanyeobama/ » Posted By Moist Robot On November 27, 2010 @ 1:19 amComments Posted By Moist Robot
No pass for Lebron!
That Lebron agreed with it. Well, what can one say? Is he just young? Is he using it opportunistically to help justify his “arrogance”? Who knows?
On the Griddle top
When the cabage browns
Okonomiyaki will rock
When bonito flakes are dancing in thrall
Okonomiyaki will be eaten
Mayonnaise and all.
Sarah Palin as “Scylla from Wasilla”
Taylor Swift as our gentle white heroine
Beyonce as our gentle black heroine
President Obama as the Good King of the American Hordes
Kanye West as the mega successful black artist businesman in conflict.
Dan Gilbert as Duke of Cavalier and the slave master.
Reverend Jesse Jackson as the Oracle of the King James bible.
The good people of Cleveland as themselves.
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