Bodegas… now for white people too…

Growing up in NYC the bodega was the staple. it’s where you got your first pack of Parliament Lights, the first place you bought a 40 of OE, and probably the first place you scored dirty Dominican Coke with enough baby laxative to feel like you’ve been drinking Mexican water for a week. But now with the advent of more and more white folk moving into Bed Stuy and such areas these Bodega owners have had to step up their game. You can pretty much walk into anyone of them and grab some Fiji water, a Cliff bar, some Altoids and pop over to your next new media meeting. But I miss the good old days. The days of videogame machines with busted joysticks in the back, when you could five finger discount shit loads of Swedish fish, and make an entire meal consisting of quarter waters, Bravos, and some Now & Laters. And now these owners have to stock their shelves with gringo ass merch. Bad enough they have to learn how to speak English… now we are gonna tell them to carry organic produce… man this country is fucked up…

Pop Up Stores… ready to Pop The Fuck Off!!!

The notion of a pop up store is something that sounds like an intriguing concept. Rent a small space, have a basic concept and then POP THE FUCK OFF. But I think this new retail micro-concept is getting a little too out of control. You know when Target is getting into it it’s way too much. I am all for indie brands doing this, I think it’s a great way to bring a little excitement about a brand. But at the same time it does seem like too much of a creative push into consumerism with no smash. Let’s see if we as a design community can actually come up with a new concept for temporary retail inception. Why not a prison store… that seems like a novel idea…

Castro Brothers… a new threat?

The Vice Presidental debate was on last night and it was kinda boring. I was really hoping Biden was gonna pimp slap Palin’s inbred face half way through, but that doesn’t happen on national TV. Through all the talk of taxes, McCain being a good soldier (note: good soldiers don’t get caught and spend years in a war prison), the war in Iragistanalandia, etc the one thing that came out of Palin’s thin lipped mouth that was genius was her talking about how the Casto Brothers were the next big threat… Really? These two dudes pictured above? Man these guys can’t do shit. Like what are they gonna do? Send us more Cuban pitchers to the MLB that suck? Invade Florida with an army, which I wish they would because Florida caused this country 8 years of bullshit. I just don’t see these guys as a threat. Although I do like the concept of the Castro Brothers. It sounds like some gang from the Bronx dealing Yeyo and smacking the fuck out of HOs. Can you just picture Fidel in and Escalade rolling down Arthur Ave? I want to see these two dudes in the next GTA.

Fatwa in the hizzy!!!

I always thought the Fatwa was scary but kinda funny. Like pissing off an entire religion and then they are gonna fuck you up. But you know these dudes just love throwing the F bomb around as this article shows. I mean c’mon the dude sees this dirty milf slut from Alaska since he has been looking at covered up women his entire life… of course he is gonna hit on her. Wouldn’t you? He basicly just got out of a 25 year prison bid and this is the first piece of ass he sees. It’s not like he invited her to an all Pakistani gangbang, He just said he’d like to hug her… hug the shit out of her. So Pakistan, cut this guy some slack… you know you guys beat off to Talbot’s catalog’s when your wives aren’t looking.