NBC's GENIUS NEW LINEUP

I love conan, my girlfriend, Jennifer, took me to see him w the Flaming Lips & Ice-T & it was fantASStic-I could ramble about how contrived and diluted his comedy writing is, but it's all been said through message board's & TMZ comment sections. Here is a fictitious NBC programming guide, via The Q

Also, check out the Q because Aziz is filling in as a guest blogger this week.

Czech my friend Paul's new video.

Paul Rodriguez is a Photographer/Director from Echo Park/Texas, but more importantly, he's a dear friend. Sweetest dude I know. Here is his newest endeavor.

Former Ghosts Flowers from Paul Rodriguez on Vimeo.

the great discrepancy

While catching up on the tragedy in Haiti, I came across a disturbing fact buried underneath the disarray of updates, unfortunate testimonies & wretched b-roll footage of lives lost to the forbidding mother we call nature. Although any timely aid is generous in a catastrophe as devastating as the Haitian earthquake, I was confused at the unsubstantial amount sent by the Chinese government(especially when compared to the amount given by the normally self-absorbed area I live in--Orange County, CA).

Today Chinese President Hu JIntao promised to promptly send a team of rescue workers, numbered at 50, to bring along $1 million dollars in aid. While this may be a preliminary pledge, I found it odd that as a world power, their first headline making offering was less than that of Orange County, California. This usually self-serving county, pledged 80 trained workers to aid in recovery efforts, joining 5,000 american troops and $100 million in initial American aid.


A great, albeit pathetic, indicator of pettiness is when Orange County exceeds you in of all things, charity. I bet there's plenty of Chinese business men who deftly throw down a million at the Spearmint Rhino yearly.

Google Streeview Art

Like art, technology is progress, especially Google's offerings. Artist Jon Rafma melds the two together with a new series based on the oddities one finds while using google streetview-most of it being nude sunbathers. I'm not as fortunate as Jon, when using google streetview I've only discovered my girlfriend's ex's car parked in front of her house. Maybe I should search the beaches of Málaga instead. Either way, like Richard Kern, Jon is making a unique statement on our voyeurism culture as well as the state of our privacy.

Ed Begley Jr. on NYTVideo

Ed Begley Jr. talks about living green. I bought his book, Living Like Ed, last year, which included tips & suggestions that just ended up making me feel guilty as hell.

watch the video here.

Aziz and Sitek

What happens when YYY's producer and TV on the radio guitarist Dave Sitek joins forces with Parks & Recreation's Aziz Ansari? A hip-hop record that promises to nut of your pillow of course.




Along with the next Arcade Fire record, Beach House, Fleet Foxes, The Strokes and others coming out with records in what will be a productive 2010, I will also be purchasing(torrenting) this mixtape, fo sho.

You can follow Aziz on his Tumblr.

Obama E better than Obama Kush?

You choose.Rock the VOTE.

Story behind the ObamaE at VBS Blog.