In case you needed a reminder that Lakers fans are ungrateful bastards and fairweather fans. I mean, they’re the ones who worshiped Kobe for all the things this guy’s now complaining about. (Clever idea, though.)
Texas musician Easy Lee lays out a passionate argument for why Big Boi is a better MC than Andre 3000. (via @lesleytellez)
Happy belated Cinco de Mayo.
I haven’t heard the album, but this review really ticked me off. The idea that it was only four years ago that pop and “underground” began to mix is just laughable, and it’s the crux of the whole piece. The editors at Pitchfork know better. Not sure why they’re willing to be so intellectually lazy.
Chilangos love to make out everywhere.
Passengers file a complaint against a pesero driver for driving too fast, bumping his music too loud and chatting with his buddies while driving. Or, y’know, basically for being a pesero driver.
A short story on Margus Hunt, an SMU senior from Estonia who accidentally became the greatest kick blocker in NCAA history.
I have a friend who is very knowledgeable about science who suggested that we as humanity should be spending a lot more of our resources and computer-crunching ability to see if we can figure out the basic logic and syntax of what creatures such as dolphins are saying to each other, in the hopes that maybe someday we could communicate with what are the only other forms of reasonably intelligent life in the universe whose existence we have confirmed. Although I think if animals like the hydrax could talk to us, they’d basically just be like “WTF DUDE.”
