Nas talks about when he fell in love with mixtapes…back when mixtapes were legit tapes, casette tapes. It’s a little over my head but I remember making mixtapes like he talks about for my 5th grade art class. The teacher would let us play whatever music we wanted but someone had to actually dub a casette to bring it in and me and this kid Mike were the only ones who would ever do it. I remember putting a bunch of Beastie Boys and stuff on those tapes. I probably put a bunch of Nas on there too.

It’s crazy to think about how music went from casettes to CDs to completely digital. Nas talks about how his mind was blown about how sound was actually embedded on a ribbon, “there’s science going on in there” he says. It’s even crazier to think that we evolved past that like three times over, and there’s no end in sight.

I have some very specific qualifications for my costumes every year. I either need to look really good, make people laugh, or make people say “holy shit, that was creative”. On top of all that I don’t pay more than 20 bucks per costume…ever. Store bought costumes are weak anyways, but sometimes people pull them off really well. For the most part my hating on costumes disregards girls because as long as you look sexy your hooters girl/playboy bunny/officer/whatever costume can be as unoriginal as possible. Just be hot. Fat and ugly girls you need to be creative and funny and maybe you can get a pass.

With that said, me and Sly went out as Elmo and Cookie Monster last night. Not the most creative, not the funniest, and I definitely didn’t look “good”, but people laughed and took their pictures with us all night. Also, they were borrowed costumes so it cost free dollars which is less than 20. There was another Elmo and he looked like a loser because he didn’t have a fellow Sesame Streeter. Once I got drunk I started asking everyone if they could show me how to get to Sesame Street and they ate it up like they ate up the cookies sly was carrying around.

Now for the real point of my rant. If guys are going to be generic like a cowboy or a ninja, do that as a group costume and rock the shit out of it. People get their rocks off from a swarm of ninjas running around a club doing cartwheels and climbing up walls and shit. But nobody wants to see one random cowboy hatted douche line dancing by himself.

If you’re going to dress up from a movie there are 2 criteria to be met: The movie must be from the last year or has to be more than 10 years old. If you’re dressing up as what’s his dick from the Hangover this year, sorry buddy, you missed the boat on that one. I don’t care if you have the baby, the glasses and the stance down pat, you should have done it last year.

Here’s a short list of guys costumes that need to cease and desist, effective immediately:

Hugh Hefner, Mario and Luigi, Willy Wonka/Captain Jack Sparrow, Jersey Shore

and the laziest costume of all time

Throwing on a baseball tshirt and using eyeblack

haha i love this line from P.Exp. (just made that abbrev up). I’m not gonna lie i thought about looking this up on youtube after i was watching a thing about Nostradamus today. It gave a bunch of evidence to how he and the Mayans predicted the world is gonna end in 2012. Hurricane Katrina was the first of a bunch of natural disasters that will lead to the end of the world.

Get your canned goods and head to the fallout shelters.

So go check that out, my pen name is CRobs and I’ll be writing about everything from sports to food to Heroes and Lost weekly reviews.

The clock strikes five and a slew of rugby players pile into Hamden, Conn.’s Andale! Bar for happy hour. A round of beers is ordered along with some shots of tequila and not one of them thinks twice about which one they will be drinking first. The boys slug their beers, clink their shot glasses, and down the hatch. The kid with a pen and paper at the end of the bar asks, “What about that liquor before beer thing?” The rugby players proceed to laugh and order another round of both shots and beers.

Almost every college student has heard the phrase and most of them even learned it in high school. That phrase of course is, “Beer before liquor, you’ve never been sicker. Liquor before beer you’re in the clear.” This means that over the course of a night if a person drinks liquor before they consume beer they will not get sick, but if they do it the other way around they will turn green or even vomit. Some say it is a myth with no validity but others live their weekends by it and believe the mantra to be fact.

One hundred college-aged men and women were asked if they believed the statement to be true. Out of those questioned forty-seven felt that beer first makes you sick. Forty-three others thought that it is completely false. The ten remaining could not decide if it was true or not.

“It is definitely true” said Name Removed a junior Public Relations major at Quinnipiac University and a member of the rugby team. “If I start off the night drinking beer I get full and then when you throw the liquor into the stomach it gets crazy.”

Many other students said that it is not about drinking liquor before beer but about what kinds of liquor are mixed with each other. If someone is alternating between tequila and whiskey shots they have a very good chance of worshipping the porcelain god by the end of the night, regardless of if it came before or after the consumption of beer.

Doctors or professors would not give the right kind of analysis for this type of experiment so who is the best resource for this question? An experienced bartender has both experienced the situation on a personal level and watched people as they serve them. Name Removed is a bartender at REMOVED’s Steakhouse in Boston, Mass and has over ten years experience as a bartender in the city.

Bartender thinks that it is a case by case scenario and everyone’s stomach has different capacities for combinations of liquor. He says that he personally, “like(s) to drink liquor in the beginning of the night, such as shots and mixed drinks.” This way he can get a nice buzz going before the night starts and as the evening drags on, “I can chill with the beer and take my time drinking it.”

That is just his personal preference of approaching the beer and liquor situation. He thinks the saying is just myth and was made up by some college student a while back as an excuse to their weak stomach.

On Saturday night a group of three students were observed. The students were separated during their “pre-game” period before heading out to a bar. The first started off with a bottle of vodka by drinking mix drinks. The second used beers for his pregame. The third alternated with the vodka mix drinks and beers before heading out to the bar.

At the bar, the first two students switched respectively to beers and vodka drinks. The third kept alternating the drinks. By the end of the night the students were all quite intoxicated with the first two feeling good about themselves. The third participant was not so fortunate. He vomited upon his arrival to campus after stepping off of the campus shuttle.

This experiment along with student interviews and a bartender’s analysis leave the myth to individual interpretation. Some students can drink beer before liquor and others can reverse the order. When the drinks are alternated throughout the night a person is more likely to become ill.

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Song: Jamie Foxx ft. T-Pain “Blame it”. I have come to really like Jamie Foxx’s music even though I still can’t take him seriously because he’s such a funny actor/comedian.

Movie: Notorious. I saw it this week and was very pleased. I’m not saying it was like the best movie of all time or anything but they did the story of Biggie Smalls justice. Lil Kim was dope, almost as hot as the real one. Jamal Woolard as Biggie was really good and I bought the performances and the mannerisms even though he didn’t look that much like Frankie White without sunglasses on. Boobie Miles as Puffy was really good, but once again without sunglasses didn’t really look like him, but he did the “puffy dance” better than anyone I’ve ever seen.

Complaint: This was like the worst Sunday ever because I was feelin kinda sundaaaaay but there was no football to be watched. I kinda forgot what its like after the bowl season ends, the nfl playoffs wind down, and theres just the big game left. I’m not gonna complain about the superbowl because it could be a pretty good game and both teams have playmakers that are fun to watch, but after that its just basketball (which I like but we don’t get celtics games here at school) and that sport they play on ice to watch until spring training starts.

Left=indoors. Right=outdoors.

Found this shirt called “secrets of the city” on threadless.com which has a cool little twist. The left part of the picture is what the shirt looks like indoors but when you go outdoors you reveal the “secrets” through using UV ink.
The shirt itself is kind of dumb but I like the idea behind it. There could definitely be some cool shirts using this ink and soon enough this shit should catch on. My first idea is a shirt that says “I HEART YOU” (3 columns, one word over the other picture an I <3 NY shirt but written out) indoors. Then you walk outside and the sun shines on it and an F comes out of the E, and the H gets covered up with a picture of a bum, ED appears after the T, and ON shows up before the YOU. So when you are outside it says “I FARTED ON YOU” hahaha, oh man that’s rich. Okay that was just the first thing that came to my head for some reason but I’ll think of a better idea eventually. I wonder where I can get my hands on this ink.