LL Cool J is mad at his boss. There's nothing wrong with that, other than the fact that his boss happens to be Jay-Z. Jigga-man recently came out of retirement with his new album "Kingdom Come" (which by the way is available at all retail outlets near you).
LL was quoted as saying, "How am I going to re-sign with competition? I can't depend on that man to promote my record while he's somewhere writing rhymes."
Uhm, LL, James, a couple things before you go off any further on your boss: First, Jay is an artist just like you. He can drop an album whenever he damn well feels like it. Just because your last few albums have been dogshit, don't get all bitchy when a colleague and fellow label artist decides to make another album.
Second, and most important, Jay is your boss. He's the CEO of Def Jam. This means that someone at your label thought he was more intelligent than you at running a record company. This also means that he has to keep Def Jam competitive with all the other labels out there, so it may have been a business decision by him to do another album to drive sales at the label. In other words LL, it was for the greater good of the label.
Now be a good boy and go finish your next piece of garbage.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
I'm Gonna Knock Hov Out
Monday, November 27, 2006
Can You Hear Me Now?
Has anyone bothered to take a look at Research in Motion (RIM) lately? In the last three months, this stock has gone from $80 to today's close of $135. For you math majors out there, that's an increase of more than 50%!
The next question is why has it gone up so much? Well, young grasshopper, I will tell you. Analysts seem to be pretty happy with this little thing called the Blackberry Pearl. It's the smallest, lightest and easiest to use Blackberry currently on the market. With 18 wireless companies currently pushing the Pearl, it has the potential for a wide user base. What's more, word on the street is Cingular is going to start pushing this baby any day now.
My, oh my have fortunes can change. It seemed like just yesterday that RIM was on the verge of shutting down for good. Now, the sky is the limit for this company and their addicting little devices.
Earlier: Thoughts on Blackberry's Settlement
The Street: Research In Motion Keeps Rocking
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Monday, November 20, 2006
The Juice is on the Loose
Well, the Juice is loose, again. Fox, yes, that same News Corporation decided to pull the plug on the Juice's get out of debt card and canceled his much maligned book about how he killed err, hypothetically would have killed Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman.
Kudos to Fox for realizing that this was a bad idea to begin with. Not only would it have made News Corp. look even more ridiculous than it already does, but the would be essentially aiding and abetting a person who by all conventional wisdom killed those two people.
How much lower can the Juice sink? Well, don't be surprised if sometime when he's really desperate for money, he sells the rights to the Fox Interview to a Pay-Per-View Cable/Satellite dealer.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Rambling Reading
A few articles that I've been reading on the web lately:
- Apparently it's illegal to breast feed on Delta Airlines.
- The Red Sox just spent more money than most of us will see in 50 lifetimes, just to 'talk' to a Japanese pitcher.
- You "can't hear me now" in NYC schools.
- What Billionaires really do in their spare time.
- A real life Billionaire Boys Club.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Zuning You Out
On Tuesday, Microsoft will release it's answer to the iPod (cough, cough three years later) when it launches the Zune portable music player. Although slow to market, the Zune is expected to be a big hit this Holiday season.
A couple of clear advantages that the Zune will clearly have over the iPod is its wireless connectivity will make it easier to download and play music as well as share pictures and video with friends. They viewing screen on the Zune will also be slightly bigger than the one on the iPod.
However, because the iPod dominates the portable music market, it will be difficult for anyone to put a dent in their established dominance. Apple currently maintains 75% market share of portable music players and created the market for legally downloading music.
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Monday, November 06, 2006
You Knew This Was Happening...Sooner or Later
Google decided to open up the floodgates to traditional media and will begin selling ads for newspapers.
After years of declining revenues, old media is starting to get the idea that selling ads the old fashioned way of picking up a phone and randomly dialing a number just doesn't work anymore. The Washington Post, New York Times and Boston Globe (coincidently all left-leaning newspapers) will all take part in this deal. In all the deal will encompass about 50 of the nations papers.
Interestingly enough, when asked to comment about the deal, Sergey and Larry just smiled and lit cigars with hundred dollar bills.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
An Apple a Day Keeps Global Warming Away
I recently purchased a new piece of machinery from Apple. Two days later, I received an email from them about how I can do my part to save the environment by recycling my old computers that I have lying around.
Fantastic idea. They make it really easy. All you need to do is package up your old hardware, print out the email that they send you, drop your stuff off at Fed Ex and you're done.
I sure hope other people adopt similar approaches.
BoobTubed Redux
Earlier this week it was reported YouTube received notice from Comedy Central's parent company, Viacom, ordering them to take down clips from shows like "The Colbert Report," "The Daily Show," and others.
However, today Viacom someone had a change of heart and now there is a possible deal between the two companies.
I'm guessing someone finally was surfing hitwise and said "Holy shit, look how much traffic www.youtube.com gets!"
Somethin' Wicked This Way Comes
Someone finally got sick and tired of all their negative feedback and decided to take their aggression out on eBay this morning when a bomb went off. It shattered a few windows and gave hard working employees a small case of the heebie-jeebie's, but fortunately, everyone was alright.
Word on the street is eBay's keeping a tight lid on what happened - and only SJPD is being allowed in the area.
Earlier: ValleyWag
He'll Fight, For Your Right..Well Maybe Not
In an update from yesterday's post, John Kerry apologized to any troops, families, or ignoramous's (sp?) he may have offended.
Sorry, John, maybe next election year you will earn those cajones that I told everyone you had.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
He'll Fight, For Your Right...
To gggeeettt elected. John Kerry, yes, THAT John Kerry, grew some cajones recently and told the "president's hacks" to cut it out.
Kerry, who has been busy campaigning in several states for fellow Democrats, called troops in Iraq "stuck" because they are unable to navigate the country's educational system. The Republican radio hacks fired back by demanding that Kerry apologize for his socio-economic comments, but he responded with this: "I apologize to no one for my criticism of the president and of his broken policy."
Uh, John, the presidential election (you know, the one where you were actually running for office) was a couple of years ago. You lost, remember? That was the one where there were a few people who challenged your manhood and you really didn't respond.
In any case, it's good to see that John still cares about politics and can even get down and dirty with the best of them. What's more, this should help a few more liberals get elected next week. But as always, time will tell.
Monday, October 30, 2006
BoobTubed
YouTube officially started removing television shows like "The Colbert Report," "The Daily Show," "South Park" and more. The move should have an effect on the number of videos
that are distributed throughout the web via MySpace, blogs, email and more.
This is an interesting move for Viacom, the parent company for Comedy Central, in part because many of the viewers of these video clips happen to be the exact market that they are targeting when such shows are produced. YouTube has been successful in working out advertising and revenue sharing deals with other major content distributors, such as Universal.
It should be interesting to see if, now that YouTube is part of a bigger, more financially lucrative company, content distributors are more aggressive in having their content removed from their site.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
An Open Letter to K-Fed:
Do people really take you seriously? You were recently quoted on People magazine's website as saying "If you want to hate me, cool, hate me."
Great quote, Fed, I bet you're high-fiving yourself after that one. Let's be clear on something, you now have, what, 4 or 5 kids (by two different mothers, no less), you're not wearing the pants in your current relationship (people actually refer to you as Mr. Britney Spears), you can't sing, you can't rap and you can't act. Have I missed anything? Oh, yes - you've resorted to appearing on WWE television (and getting the shit kicked out of you) all for the sake of promoting your debut album. In short, you're not exactly hovering at the top echelon of society. Hey man, I'm just telling you the facts. Don't shoot the messenger.
K-Fed, here's a hint: just stop what you're doing and lay-low. Stop making public appearances. Stop rolling with your crew to the latest LA hotspot. Stop wearing your hat backwards and for the love of God, stop making music. Just hang out. Your wife has made plenty of money to support you and 10 more kids for an entire lifetime. And once she does her cover for Playboy (you know it's coming), you nor your kids will ever have to worry about money again. You can roll out of bed at noon, say hi to the kids, check your email, and then call it a day. Hell, maybe you and the wifey can even mess around to top the night off.
Just promise the rest of the civilized world that you will stay out of the public limelight forever. And after Britney gets back into pre-baby #1 weight and does her obligatory Playboy shoot, she has to make the same promise.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Thank You, Sir - May I Have Another?
In "Hey, at least it didn't happen in Utah" news:
The principal of Park High School returned to school Tuesday after a
six-day suspension for giving a student a "wedgie." The Livingston School
District Board held a special meeting Monday and approved Superintendent
Hannibal Anderson's recommendation that Principal Eric Messerli be allowed to
return to work.
Good job, Montana. Maybe one day you'll catch up to the rest of the world and realize that this behavior is completely inappropriate and fire the next guy that does this.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Quote of the Day
Reader Lanire S. of Philadelphia wrote to ESPN's the Sports Guy with this gem:
Is it possible that George Bush is the white Art Shell? Mismanages a
defense, has no idea what the hell is going on half the time, and is in wayyy
over his head. Think about it, on 9/11, when he sat there at the school for like
5 minutes after finding out what happened, staring out into space thinking about
which Happy Meal he was going to get later, that's Art Shell every week on the
sidelines! Whether you're for or against Bush, this is funny.
Well said, Lanire. Well said.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Show Me What You Got, Little Mama
Jay-Z's new video from his new single "Show Me What You Got". Great song, better video.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Why Mark Cuban is Crazy, Part 3
Mark wrote the following in his blog today regarding the Google/YouTube deal:
Wait a minute, who is the little guy hovering in front of me ? Dang, it
looks like a Google lawyer ! Is he using a juet propulsion pack to fly ? No, its
a floating Segway. Wow ! He is saying "No problem mark. You didnt crack any DRM,
we dont use any !.
Mark, the NBA season hasn't even started yet and you're already trippin'. Either that, or he's now thinking that he sold broadcast.com wwwwaaaayyyyy to early. (Notice the URL for broadcast.com goes to wikipedia. Because the deal was done so long ago, broadcast.com nor yahoo.broadcast.com exist).
