He's the Al Gore of MB.

he introduced me to it

you're foreign af

YOU'RE foreign AF to me, bitch boy

i thought people called white people crackers because crackers are white

no

I've never heard "bitch made" used in real life. I had to hear it on a Bone Thugs album.

no to what????

for real? don't you work with a bunch of black people? that's where I hear it

no to that being why crackers are called crackers, Google it.

listen to googoosh

White people are called crackers because of the sound of a whip.

Never heard it once. Must be a northern thing. Bone Thugs are from Cleveland, you're from the North Pole. Makes sense.

is she goodood?

sry that was bad

could be, i think i've only heard it within the hip-hop community and from my black friends, but that's why it surprised me you hadn't heard it earlier too.

yes that was very bad

I heard it in school when someone got caught chewing gum and had to spit it out. Then, I heard it when the GF made a bunch of sandwiches for me and a few friends some 20-30 years later. Crazy.

Regardless of what you think, this is such a great speech.

Look what the Presidency did to his hair though. I'm fascinated to imagine what it will do to Trump. "Nothing" I'd imagine.

He's definitely aged, but his speeches will be some to remember for a long long time.

so will all the dead civilians and drone strikes lol am I right!?

White people have the best slurs tbh.

Don't start.

Worst insult ever.

lmfao batman tho

Holy **** Breath of the Wild looks so good. The recent teaser has got me so hype.

I went to pre-order the summabitch and the collector's edition was already sold out. I had to pre-order just the game itself.

Also got a pre-order on the red/blue joycon controllers Switch.

lol Nea's 2Poc joke, still makes me smile when I think about it.

*****

When the tree is dank

This morning, I was outside when it was dark, waiting for the sun to rise. I didn't think it would, but then it dawned on me.

no

No it really did rise.

i want you to rise over the edge of a bridge

I was gonna make that joke. :(

***** is not a swear word lol wtf

I am so stressed and tired, and this bowl is the only good thing that's happened today.

Angry out-of-touch man rant:

One of the delightful caveats of owning a home built in the early 1920s is the complete lack of overhead lighting. Every room is exquisitely dark... just the way I like it. (Plus it's a lovely excuse to buy a ton of ornate antique brass swing arm floor lamps with marble bases and ornamental fringe shades.)

But it's a ***** to read in the dark, so I need a good bedside table reading lamp. My wife said, "let's pop into Target. Never hurts to look."

Words fail me here. The sight I beheld in Target's lighting aisle was one of indescribable despondence. Where I'd expected to see lamps I was instead stupified by a pile of garishly new, geometric, gaunt, angular, repulsive, plastic grotesque abortions of design aesthetic. (Okay, so perhaps words don't fail me entirely.)

Where was the porcelain? Where were the ornamental brass filigree bases? The hand-crafted silk scallop fringed shades? Am I to understand that these plastic horrors are what light the homes of the everyman?

I made a hasty exit and vowed never to return. Instead, I visited the owners of each of the city's antique dealers and put the word out to contact me should any quality lamps surface in the resale or estate markets in the coming months.

I also mentioned that I was in the market for an antique 1900s cast iron cooking stove and an 1830s style end table like this Jonathan Charles piece from their Buckingham Collection -

http://i.imgur.com/b8WK2M7l.png

A table like this will be perfect for the Tantalus I've commissioned.

Lesson learned: Stay the hell out of Target.

Idea: reality show where we send ISB to various icons of Western consumer culture (Walmart, McDonalds, a mall, etc) with a shopping list of completely arbitrary bull**** and see what happens.

Really? Seriously, really?

You just have a fetish for old crap. I'm sorry you can't appreciate the beauty of modern design. Idk, if your blinded by your economic morality or what, but youre awfully close minded.

You're absolutely right, DWV. Yes - I am a fetishist for "old crap", particularly Victorian, Elizabethan, and Edwardian crap. The regal aesthetic and expert quality craftsmanship appeal to me.

And as such, it's understandable that I find half-a**ed geometric plastic goods rather frightful. Don't get me wrong - I absolutely love minimalism and simplicity when they are employed thoughtfully. There is a tremendous value to minimalist design in art, decor, music, and philosophy. Wonderful stuff. But crap like this -

http://i.imgur.com/Y52Grfxl.jpg

...(these are all from Target's website), are frankly laughable. And yes - I'm closed-minded in that regard because it is silly for me to expect the general public to subscribe to my design aesthetic. I just find it perplexing that anyone would look at something like the "urchin lamp" above and say to themselves, "Yes! That is what I want in my home. That object reflects and accentuates my taste in art and general aesthetic values!"

Of course, that's where I get it wrong at the outset - the average person just wants a friggin lamp and doesn't pay the slightest attention to what it looks like. I just think that that is a terrible waste of potential beauty and expression.

But you're 100% right - I'm a bit daft.