Jason Toney

The beat is better on We're All in the Same Gang. - Jason Toney

Also, so many of the rappers in this video refuse to truly chastise gangs and gang violence in their rhymes for fear of losing their west coast cred that it's nearly shameful. Ice-T's Colors is a much more powerful protest song. - Jason Toney

But MC Lyte, D-Nice, Heavy D, and Chuck D murder their bars on Self Destruction. I still know all the words to MC Lyte's and Heavy D's section. "Therefore we must ignore fightin' and fussin', Heavy's at the door so there'll be no bum rushin'!" - Jason Toney

"In 1941, John G. Martin of Heublein, spirits and food distributor in east coast and Jack Morgan, Owner of the Cock'n Bull bar in Sunset Strip, Hollywood met in a bar in Los Angeles. Together they invented Moscow Mule by mixing Morgan's singer beer with Smirnoff Vodka and lime in order to market the proprietor's struggling Cock'n Bull's ginger-beer franchise. They ordered specially engraved copper mugs and Martin set off to market it in the bars around the country. He bought one of the first Polaroid cameras and asked barmen to pose with a Moscow Mule copper mug and a bottle of Smirnoff vodka. Then he would leave one copy of the photo at the bar and take a second copy to the bar next door to show them that their competitors were selling their concoction. Between 1947 and 1950, thanks to their invention, Smirnoff vodka case columns more than tripled and nearly doubled in 1951." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

One of my most favorite drinks. I only order in good vodka bars. - Jason Toney

Ooh, that sounds good. - Kaia is a party pooper.

Combing my beard - Rah™

I just got my hair twisted (and yes, there is a picture for you, twin). Now I'm debating on what to do next. Think I might go out for some Japanese. - awesomely au naturel

Listening to music, writing an essay, writing a blog post, drinking Mellow Yellow, talking with my brother, Tweeting, FriendFeeding, emailing, reading email, reading blogs, and playing Halo. Beat that. ;-) - genieyclo

"Pancakes, hotcakes, flapjacks, griddlecakes…whatever you’re callin’ ‘em, I’m lovin’ ‘em! Without a doubt, they are my favorite breakfast. In theory, I relish the idea of ordering pancakes in a café: letting someone else do the work for me while I rub my eyes and sip cappuccino. It’s not so much the cooking itself, but the thought of all that washing up afterwards (and in the morning!) that bores me to tears. In practice, though, I make them at home quite often, because the restaurant ones are so often heavy, dense and disappointing." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

"I don't trust Obama," [Gayle Quinnell, 75, of Shakopee] said. "I have read about him. He's an Arab." ... "No, ma'am," McCain said several times, shaking his head in disagreement.... - Anthony Citrano

Having seen footage of folks at his other rallies, I can't imagine why they would need to plant someone to say something stupid. And, to be frank, McCain's campaign hasn't shown that kind of savvy in the past 6 months. And, it sounds like McCain as his most genuine. I, too, remember the pre-2004 McCain. - Jason Toney

@Jason I was just being funny re: plant. (Looks like Cecily's serious, tho.) To McCain's "evolution" I'd place it a bit earlier, just after 9-11 and Bush/Cheney's associated consolidation of power. I was actually pretty enthusiastic about the guy in early '00. - Anthony Citrano

"It’s Kirk vs. Spock in Weirdest Presidential Race of 21st Century: McCain Looked Like He Was Battling Klingons at Des Moines Register; Says Leonard Nimoy: Obama ‘Has an Intellect That Works for Him’" - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

Mike Huckabee cares about Black people. - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

so strange, the subliminal train meme continues. 3rd mention of the D train too. - Carlos Ayala

*goes searching. keyword: d train* - Jason Toney

"It’s about time some conservative radio talk show hosts had the guts to rip on Magic Johnson for pretending to have AIDS! That dude’s been ridin’ that sweet “had to retire at 32 because of HIV” gravy train for too long! Take it away, Langdon “Oopsies” Perry and Chris “Unemployed For Life” Baker: Perry responded by asking about treatable diseases that a person can live with for a long time “if you just get some basic drugs.” Baker responded, “Like Magic Johnson?” Perry replied, “Like Magic with his faked AIDS. Magic faked AIDS.”" - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

Stay Classy, Minneapolis. - Jason Toney

Hey, that one guy is making us all look bad. That's three days in a row, I believe. Or at least three days this week. - Erica Mauter

"The incredible thing about this sexual implement made in the likeness of the Democratic nominee for president is not that it exists—it's what took so long?" - ☺ Cecily ☺ via Bookmarklet

where's the 'do not like' button when you need it? My eyes! The googles, they do nothing.... - WorldofHiglet

There's a Cindy McCain joke waiting to be played on this thread. - Jason Toney

...I am learning to turn negatives into the positives and it is changing my life on a daily basis. - Monique(boring) via fftogo

...no really my name is awesome. - adolfo foronda

... I am. :) - Grant Bierman

for Jason who is all about Joe Biden being ready to scrap today. http://friendfeed.com/e/134acf... - Michelle Jones

i am. I love that video. - Jason Toney

i use it often to search through archived email or if I can't remember the exact name of a file or where I left it. - Jason Toney

It's cumbersome and buggy for me, but i'm writing a collaborative book on it and we'd be lost without it. - Patricia

When I had a pc I used it all the time. Contrary to some people, there is a reason why I think folders are dead, and that would be good search indexing. Worked well for me. Have also used Copernicus successfully for desktop search in Windows boxes. - Deepak

Sarah Palin needs a blanket party. - Monique(boring)

Ahhh, as seen in Full Metal Jacket. - Jason Toney

Thanks for the explanation, Kyle. - ☺ Cecily ☺

"Friday's Variety is reporting that the iconic 1980's sci-fi television mini-series V will return to television on ABC courtesy of Warner Bros. TV, the producer of the original property. Written by Emmy-nominated The 4400 co-creator and executive producer Scott Peters, the new V was sold to ABC as a spec script." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

Loved that show! - JA Castillo

aw suki suki now...i loved this show. fo' sho! - Faboo Mama

Joe Biden's ready to scrap. I hear Jay-Z's "Ride or Die" in my head when he takes his jacket off. "They cat fighting with Obama kicking sneaky shit. Making little tapes but keeping it secret." - Jason Toney

via Lainie. - Jason Toney

The accompanying Genius Playlist - http://www.flickr.com/photos/m... - Jason Toney

"Here are excerpts of Letterman's remarks that we bring to you exclusively. And, FYI, when he mentions "that big-headed kid," he means MSNBC's Keith Olbermann: "So now, in an attempt to save his campaign, they’re talking about coming back. You see what I’m saying? So we said, 'Sure, we would love you to come back.' And even on the phone, he said, 'I’ll bring…Sarah.' But they’re being squirrely. Politicians can be squirrely. Because we have a date picked. We do this show every afternoon at 5:30. He wants to do the show at 5. So one –- we have no guarantee he’s going to show up, period. And we’ve kind of already rearranged our schedule on his behalf to save the economy, right? By getting that big-headed kid in here to talk about the politics. You know what I’m driving at? I just don’t know if we can trust him. And by the way, I don’t need to remind you that the road to the White House runs right through here."" - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

"I'm not ready to forgive Last.fm for what its application did to my computer (although I should probably update my Commodore 128, so that might not be their fault), but the social-music site's COO, Spencer Hyman, talked to Forbes about the company's place in the post-MySpace Music economy—and he might have established himself as one of the few sane voices in digital music in the process. Hyman disses MySpace for not having the database to back up its much-hyped initiative, scolds the music business for being slow on streams, and discusses outdated pricing models. After spending so much time reading about the doomed premise behind something like Comes With Music, this is all a breath of fresh air, especially coming from someone employed by CBS." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

Yep, only thing not to love for me about last.fm is the ownership chain :P - Michael W. May

"Made for the VP debate. I got the idea from Haphazard Gourmet Girls. I think they turned out pretty darn good, you betcha!" - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

Eating that cupcake would give me indigestion. - ☺ Cecily ☺

"Do literature and history secretly march in step? Yesterday, believers in some deep organic link between the arts and the society surrounding them could have been forgiven for thinking so. In the week that a once-almighty model of "Anglo-Saxon" financial power came crashing to the ground, the Swedish Academy gave the Nobel Prize in Literature to a cosmopolitan French-language writer with a deep "green" sensibility, Third World affiliations and a lifelong bias to the marginal and poor." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

"The twists and turns of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight” — from the battlefield to the boudoir — have kept fans begging for more and more each month, and the fact that guest writers on the Eisner Award-winning Dark Horse series have included heavy hitters like Brian K. Vaughan (“Y: The Last Man,” “Runaways”) and Drew Goddard (“Alias,” “Lost”) isn’t hurting the cause either. The big hits keep on coming, as following the current Fray-fueled arc written by Buffy creator Joss Whedon, superstar comics scribe and “Heroes” executive producer Jeph Loeb joins the slayer gang for December’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight” #20." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

I'm not sure I'm happy about this turn of events. - Jason Toney

Okay, now that I've read the story concept, I'm on-board. - Jason Toney

was there a meeting? - Jason Toney

who you telling? looking at my flickr account you'd think i never go anywhere or have any friends what with all the pictures of just me. hee. - .·*♥pea♥*·.

Ha. So a trip through all seven years available on my flickr stream will show you that my vanity is no stranger to the internet. Perhaps I should get another hobby besides loving myself. - Monique(boring) via fftogo

"It looks like the LA graffiti artist that goes by the names MakeOne/LoveGalo/Galo Make Canote wanted to bring some Dodger pride to the streets in preparation for the National League Championship Series that begins tonight. It went up Tuesday and can be found on Sunset Blvd and Sutherland in Echo Park near Dodger Stadium." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

think blue - RAPatton

For Anna. Also, For Awesome because this? Awesome. - Jason Toney

I think this applies to most Filipino mothers. :) LOL - Melissa

Hmmm, a dude like me could live like this. - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

a dude like me could find a way to clutter that all up in under a day. clean design - Cee Bee

"In recent elections, the Republican hate word has been “liberal,” or “Massachusetts,” or “Gore.” In this election, it has increasingly been “words.” Barack Obama has been denounced again and again as a privileged wordsmith, a man of mere words who has “authored” two books (to use Sarah Palin’s verb), and done little else. The leathery extremist Phyllis Schlafly had this to say, at the Republican Convention, about Palin: “I like her because she’s a woman who’s worked with her hands, which Barack Obama never did, he was just an élitist who worked with words.”" - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

And, yet, McCain claims he's on the "Straight Talk Express". - Jason Toney

Also, as a lover of words, myself, this is my favorite New Yorker piece since Sasha Frere Jones dissected Lil Wayne's A Milli. - Jason Toney

This has been out a while, but I really like it. The big deal behind it was that Selina was not supposed to be in it, but they put her in anyways and editorial agreed - RAPatton

Hubba Hubba ! - JazJaz via twhirl

thanks, melissa! I hope your weekend is great too! - RAPatton

"My sincerest intercontinental thanks go out to Geneva Girl for catching this Misidentified Black Person at Newsweek.com. That picture, of course, is not U.S. sprinter Tyson Gay. It’s Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

I'm convinced that there doesn't exist an image in which Usain Bolt (or Tyson Gay if you're Newsweek) isn't being awesome. - Jason Toney

Wow..LOL - Rah™

Pathetic...the fastest man in the world and they don't even know his name, no love for us Jamaicans - Gordon Swaby

"Despite having a “heartbreak” theme to her five songs, Sarah Silverman kept DJ Dan Wilcox laughing with her singing, stories and even a preview of a song that will appear in her show. Her artist choices range from indie to legendary, but all the songs pack an emotional wallop – the funny gal just loves sad songs!" - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

Tracklist 1.) Sentimental Heart by She & Him 2.) Long Ride Home by Patti Griffin 3.) Born Secular by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins 4.) No Children by The Mountain Goats 5.) Good Year for the Roses by Elvis Costello - Jason Toney

Damn, first The Great Schlep, now a bunch of weepy songs after my own heart. Good on Silverman. - Michelle Jones