Monday, February 16, 2009

 

The biggest beef I've seen thus far

I always enjoy a nice entertaining public dispute between two rappers, particularly if the dispute is over something as stupid as who is more real, or to borrow some of the industry lingo, who keeps it more trill.  I especially love it when the conflict over whose superior realness arises because one of the parties' feelings were hurt.  Somehow exactly such an argument arose between one Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and William Leonard "Rick Ross" Roberts II, and over the past week, it has gotten completely out of control.   My boyfriend Curtis may have finally met his match in petty public multimedia squabbling.  

Apparently, Rick Ross took a break from being the biggest boss that we've seen thus far to feeling sad about getting snubbed socially by Fitty when they crossed paths at the BET awards.  Fitty didn't say hi or something, and this hurt Rick Ross's feelings.  So instead of just getting over it because it's really not that big of a deal, Rick vented his frustrations about his wounded self-esteem via a diss track titled "Mafia Music," in which he suggested that 50 Cent burnt down his baby mama's house because he's a "jealous, stupid motherfucker."  This comment did not go over well with 50.

Not one to back down from an argument, 50 responded with a song of his own entitled "Officer Ricky," reminding everyone that Rick Ross is actually a former Florida state corrections officer rather than some kind of criminal overlord trafficking huge quantities of cocaine in and out of Miami.  Rick Ross was unimpressed by Fitty's work and gave him 24 hours to come up with something better.  So Fitty went to Florida family court records and tracked down Tia Kemp, the mother of one of Rick Ross's children, who is currently embroiled in a bitter paternity/child support suit against him.  After declaring on his website thisis50.com that he plans to "fuck up (Rick Ross's) life," took her shopping for fur coats in New York.  In the course of their shopping spree/filming a video entitled "Curtis and Tia Go to the Furrier", Tia advised my man Curtis that Rick Ross is not exactly financially as established as he boasts in his songs.  According to her, his jewelry is rented, his cars are leased, and he only makes $200,000 a year.  I'm a little suspicious of Tia's story, though, because really...where do you rent jewelry like this?  




Gigantic chains that feature either "RR" or "Carol City Cartel" spelled out in diamonds, or a yellow diamond portrait of Rick Ross seem like pretty personalized products. I can't imagine that Jacob the Jeweler just keeps a stash of those in case Rick Ross (or possibly Suge Knight) needs to rent one for a special occasion. In any event, true or not, Tia's writing a book about how poor and law-abiding Rick Ross allegedly is outside of his musical boasting, and plans to release it the same day as Rick's new album Deeper Than Rap. This inspired a rebuttal from the goddamn boss.

Rick Ross called up Miss Info to rant about how he was just glad his baby mama was making money, and adds that 50 Cent was a "parody of hip-hop."  He also added that his Floridian friends down South don't take him seriously, and refer to him as "Curly" on account of his frequent antics.  He tried to get the "Curly" sobriquet to take off by then releasing a song called "Kiss my Pinky Ring, Curly."  Then he put out a video of him pouring out Formula 50 Vitamin Water, in a presumed tribute to a dead homie/implied threat of deadly retaliation for Fitty's myriad insults. Then he went back on the radio to say that 50's talent or lack thereof is actually resulting in the depreciation of Dr. Dre's music, and repeatedly refer to 50 Cent as a monkey. "I don't get sidelined with monkey talk," Rick Ross explained.  At this point, Inga "Foxy Brown" Marchand took issue with an oblique reference Fitty made to her brief affair with Rick Ross ("the cop fucked a fox") and demanded he retract his insult lest she handle him "Brooklyn style."  Since 50 isn't going to be working on Foxy's nails anytime soon, he's probably safe for now, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a cell phone-throwing or bitch-slapping incident in the near future.

Meanwhile, 50 Cent was busy going on every radio show possible to insult Rick Ross's financial situation and general trilla status.   In addition to tracking down Rick Ross's baby mama, he managed to track down fellow Carol City Cartel member DJ Khaled's actual mother and film her at work apparently sleeping on the job.  


I was more puzzled by the fact that DJ Khaled's mom appears to work as...an inventory clerk at the Men's Wearhouse?  I can't think of any other reason why she is in a room full of men's jackets sleeping at her computer.  And why does she look like she's dressed like there's a blizzard outside.  Doesn't she live in Miami?  I wish Fitty would have explained some of this, but unfortunately he did not because he apparently had second thoughts about this approach and removed it from his website after a day.  Some people agreed this was below-the-belt since DJ Khaled's mom has nothing to do with any of this and has not committed any transgressions besides sleeping on the job and giving birth to DJ Khaled, thus cursing us all with his annoying trademark "WE THE BEST!" proclamations at the beginning and end of every song he appears on.  

Rick Ross responded with a video blog of his own implying that the members of the G-g-g-g Unit are g-g-g-gay and that 50 Cent takes steroids.  The best part of the video is when 50 is depicted showering with Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo with no penis, and a disclaimer pops up that informs the viewer, "This ain't a joke–steroids make ya junk smaller!"  He also continued his simian-themed retorts, by noting that he is not frightened of Fitty's empty threats because he's "understanding the monkey," and started a website entitled thisiscurly.com where pictures of 50's son Marquise's head were photoshopped onto a monkey's body.  Unfortunately, this coincided with the Smoking Gun releasing court transcripts in which Rick Ross's lawyer and a Miami Beach police officer who agreed that he had no gang affiliation or notable criminal reputation whatsoever.

Fitty has since put out a song entitled "Pimpin' Curly," and continues the absurd bloggery/vloggery.  Currently on thisis50.com you can go watch a cartoon entitled "Officer Ricky: Everybody Hates Chris," which features Rick Ross arresting Chris Brown, followed by a bizarre sequence in which DJ Khaled accidentally ends up in Afghanistan and is blown up by Osama Bin Laden, and that is where this beef stands as of today.  I'm sure Rick Ross is putting together another song and/or homemade cartoon criticizing 50.  Personally, if I were him, I'd dig Jeffrey "Ja Rule" Atkins out of whatever obscurity he's wallowing in and get that classic beef going again.  Either that, or he could flex his current event muscles and rip on the fact that currently 50 Cent is in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela celebrating Hugo Chavez's recent election to dictator-for-life.  I've never heard anyone involved in a rap beef imply that an adversary is a socialist who consorts with autocratic tyrants, and I think it's high time for such politically-themed hatery.

I also would like to suggest to 50 that he put his photoshop skills to good use with this magazine cover, which may be one of the most nauseating images I have ever seen.  Whatever might be going on with Fitty allegedly taking steroids to bolster his muscled physique, I think it's safe to say that nobody suspects Rick Ross is doing the same thing.  It's an honor for a rapper to appear on the cover of XXL magazine, but it seems less boastworthy when the title of the magazine also describes the size of the shirt said rapper so unfortunately discarded prior to the shoot.


Shudder. I don't see why Flo Rida couldn't have been the one to be sans shirt for this cover.  Jesus, even the normally portly DJ Khaled looks well-built in comparison.  I can only imagine the kind of fun 50 Cent could have with this.  It would go well as the latest chapter in this whole ridiculous saga.  Have at it, fellas!  For the sake of my entertainment, I hope they never squash it.

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Monday, June 16, 2008

 

Daily Dude I Want to Hit: Lil' Wayne


Name: Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr.

DOB: September 27, 1982

Occupation: the hottest rapper in the game

Hometown: Hollygrove, New Orleans, Louisiana

Current residence: When not in jail, New Orleans, Louisiana

Why I Want to Hit that Hotness:  I used to be very anti-Lil' Wayne, primarily because I was a Juvenile loyalist.  LL Cool Jew was always trying to bump some Lil' Wayne and I'd bitch that Weezy wasn't all that.  Besides, I was distracted by his latently homoerotic adventures (like makeout seshes with his adopted father Birdman, inherently gay XXL magazine covers, and leaked alternate album covers featuring his drag cosmetic skills).  Not that I have a problem with Lil' Wayne possibly being gay, but I got so caught up speculating about this that I didn't pay as much attention as I should have to facts that Lil' Wayne himself has pointed out, for example, "I'm a god, and this is what I bless em with."

Well, over the past year, Lil' Wayne has really grown on me musically.  LL Cool Jew and I were discussing this a while back, and I have to give her partial credit for bringing me around.
LL Cool Jew: "I don't do too many [drugs]. I just smoke weed and drink. But I'll never fuck with no more coke. It's not about the bad high; it's just about the acne: Cocaine makes your face break out. I'm a pretty boy."
LL Cool Jew:- Lil' Wayne tells New York magazine
Razzy: LOL
Razzy: quote of the day
LL Cool Jew: awesome
Razzy: i love lil wayne
Razzy: i'm oddly obsessed with him
Razzy: there's something really hilarious about him
LL Cool Jew: dude welcome to the club!
LL Cool Jew: member when you always used to hate on him
LL Cool Jew: i know you made the change yourself
Razzy: yes i did!
LL Cool Jew: but i have to take a tiny tiny tiny bit of credit
LL Cool Jew: i must
Razzy: of course
LL Cool Jew: i think perhaps my newly nolified lifestyle helped
Razzy: after hilarious mug shot after mug shot, i caved
LL Cool Jew: i'm pretty excited about it
Razzy: well i was always on "team juve"
LL Cool Jew: all that matters is that we are once again on the same team
LL Cool Jew: i love juve too
Razzy: in terms of my post-ca$h money allegiances
LL Cool Jew: shout out to the old cash money members
Razzy: but now i can't be bothered with their beef
Razzy: i love them both
LL Cool Jew: after all.
LL Cool Jew: it's irresistible!
Razzy: and i love how birdman makes that "cawing" sound in addition to his signature "brrrrr"!
LL Cool Jew: caw CAW
LL Cool Jew: it's sort of a rip on afroman's signature "ba-GOCK"
Razzy: totally
Razzy: but it's more the sound that a gull circling around would make
Razzy: as opposed to a cock strutting around the barnyard
When I was in New Orleans visiting LL Cool Jew last week, the "Lollipop" remix was constantly on the radio.  In a testament to how awesome this song is, I didn't even detect the presence of the detestable Kanye West singing the first verse (thank you, "rapper ternt sanga" T-Pain, for making auto-tuner effects requisite in all contemporary rap music), and once I discovered that this is who is Lil' Weezy's collaborator, I am not even put off as I typically am by anything involving Kanye West.  Even Kanye West can't ruin lines like "if that woman wanna cut, then call me Mr. Ointment" and "better wear a latex, because you don't want that late text, that 'I think I'm late' text."  I only even barely rolled my eyes when Lil' Wayne proclaimed "no homo" at the beginning of the song.  I made it my first order of business upon returning to New York to download the freshly dropped Tha Carter Vol. III and jam to it whenever possible.

Although I don't necessarily agree with Lil' Wayne that "he's so sweet" it will compel me to "lick the rapper," I have to cease and desist with any residual Lil' Wayne hating because Tha Carter Vol. III is the fucking shit and a half and I've seen the error of my ways.  Lil' Wayne is hysterically funny and I advise you all to go make an appointment with Mr. I Can't Make an Appointment and illegally download it immediately.  Just to demonstrate the awesomeness you can expect from a typical Tha Carter Vol. III jam, here is Lil' Wayne's collabo with none other than my second-favorite R&B thug in the world, the equally hilarious Faheem "T-Pain" Najm, singing something about getting money, showing it off to those hanging over the VIP line, and needing a Winn-Dixie grocery bag full of it.

I don't know why Lil' Wayne has girls' boyfriends' hating like a city cop, except for the fact that by own his admission, he "blow that shit, cause bitch, I'm the bomb like tick tick.  Yeah!"

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

 

Daily Dude I Want to Hit: Louisiana

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Name: Louisiana

DOB: 1803 (territory acquired), April 30, 1812 (state admitted to Union)

Occupation: weird awesomeness

Hometown: N/A

Current residence: check a map

Why I Want to Hit that Hotness: Unfortunately, my vacation in Louisiana went by entirely too quickly. While you all were undoubtedly on the verge of pulling a Plath and sticking your head in the oven to end the protracted suffering of Razzy withdrawal, I was not missing my daily routine of waking at the asscrack of dawn to write and then suffering for ten hours in lab one bit. It was nice to only check my e-mail every other day and spend all my time acting like a gluttonous pig. In fact, I accidentally thought my plane took off a half hour after it actually did, and this may have been a subconscious effort on my part to avoid returning to New York altogether. I’d way rather be on vacation with my BFF in the slow, sunny, sweaty south than going to stupid lab any day.

Anyway, I know all you dedicated Razzyphiles and Haters alike have been without a place to direct your respective adoration or ire, so, as unhappy as I am about my brief vacation being over, I’m pleased to make my glorious return to the internets. And I may as well start by gratuitously telling you about how awesome my trip was!

I already knew that the trip was going to be a serious departure from New York during my flight on Saturday afternoon. Everyone on the plane seemed to know each other judging by their constant chatting with each other. The people behind me were returning from a vacation to New York and were busy telling their seatmate, a stranger who just happened to know about 50 mutual friends, acquaintances, and cousins-by-marriage. They were busy exchanging stories about what they did during their trip, like which restaurants they went to and how many times they visited Ground Zero, which they referred to as “9-1-1” (not “nine-eleven” or “September 11th”, but “nine-one-one”, like the emergency hotline). After two and a half hours of listening to these chatty folks yammering about Tom Colicchio’s sandwich-making prowess and whether or not they liked Wicked or Phantom of the Opera more, I wasn’t entirely out of New York bitch mode and tolerant of the constantly jaw-flapping Southern attitude. I was ready for a damn drink.

I was delighted when LL Cool Jew picked me up and informed me that our first stop (after a quick drive-by of the ruins of the Magnolia Projects where Juvenile came up) was going to be some fancy old hotel bar for mint juleps. We subsequently met up with BigBagel for dinner at Cochon, this upscale place serving expensive versions of old Southern favorites. After a bottle of wine and big plates of pig ears, pork cheeks, salad with fried beef jerky, and frog legs, we went to change in preparation for the requisite tourist visit to the French Quarter. This also seemed like a natural first stop since, like me, this part of town is known for its exposed breasts.

First we had a few drinks and then met up with LL Cool Jew’s former colleague, who I’ll call Lil’ Darlin’, because that’s the name of the strip club she swore was the hip-hop club. After taking our seats and receiving a fistful of dollars each from BigBagel, we were ready to see some girls shaking their jelly to Lil’ Wayne songs. Much to our chagrin, as a new peeler took the stage, we heard the melancholy electronic opening notes to a RADIOHEAD song. “What the fuck?” LL Cool Jew and I both simultaneously said. Who strips to Radiohead? Strippers humping poles are supposed to be fun and sexy, not morose and whiny.

“This place is going downhill since the last time I was here,” said Lil’ Darlin’. “I guess they changed the format.”

“Where are the bitches writhing around to ‘Lollipop’?” demanded LL Cool Jew.

BigBagel was unable to answer because, in spite of the Radiohead or possibly because of it, he was in front of the stage slapping down ones and getting his nipples twisted by the stripper.

We stayed another ten minutes to see a few more bored-looking women shaking their cans to Linkin Park before we decided to venture out in search of hand grenades. Luckily upon getting back outside, some guys were standing on a balcony throwing beads.

“Go get some beads,” LL Cool Jew said.

While this is annoying and touristy, and I actually hate beads because when you’re a packrat with lousy housekeeping skills like myself they do nothing but contribute to clutter, I figured that I could not be on Bourbon Street and not participate in its most famous rite of clichéd debauchery. So I lifted my shirt for the bead-bearers’ benefit and walked away with a Mr. T-sized bundle of gaudy disposable neckwear. Unfortunately for all you guys, we forgot the camera for this part of the trip, but I brought some beads back to New York with me to recreate this scene from the comfort of my own apartment:

The next morning, LL Cool Jew and I got up early and headed to Cajun country for swamp tours and gluttony. We first went to Breaux Bridge, which is apparently a major center of crawfish acquisition and antiquing. I have no idea why, but Louisiana towns—no matter how rural—seem to have at least ten antique stores each. Despite aspersions people may cast about my age, LL Cool Jew and I have not quite reached that stage in life (ie: menopause) where we are remotely interested in things like puff painted collared town logo sweatshirts with crawfish on them or old spice jars and crap that we could decorate our houses with. We therefore opted for weight gain over antique hunting and gift shops.

I had never eaten crawfish pie before, and in fact did not know what it was. It turns out that it’s like a giant piece of baklava that is made with a shit-ton of etouffee instead of syrup. I think it was probably at least 5000 calories, and I gladly ate my way through three quarters of it before I finally had to surrender. Those Haters who love to tell me how disgustingly fat I am will surely enjoy pointing out that I probably gained at least ten pounds in four days on this trip, and that crawfish pie probably accounted for at least two.  Needless to say, it was awesome.  I think I could probably write ten pages (one for each pound) alone just rhapsodizing about all the shit I ate while I was there.

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After lunch, LL Cool Jew and I had a few hours to kill prior to our swamp tour, so we drove around through the countryside taking in the rural sites. We stopped at a Sonic for limeade and milkshakes just to make sure we really exceeded our lunchtime calorie intake by at least 300% and went for a drive. On our way to some old plantation house we were going to walk the grounds of, we found a completely improbable mural dedicated to the FDNY on a volunteer firehouse in the small town of Parks. LL Cool Jew insisted on taking my picture showing off my Sonic cup and acting the fool in front of it, right in time for a car of old ladies on their way from church drove by with a “Support our Troops” bumper sticker on the back of their giant Cadillac. I don’t think they liked me doing what probably could be construed as mocking the sacrifices of New York’s Bravest on what the people on my plane ride down indicated was locally known as “9-1-1”. They shot us looks of undeniable disapproval and hostility.  

"Dude," she said when she snapped the picture and they passed.  "Did you see that look those women gave us when they passed by?  There's nothing like the icy hate of a Southern lady.  It freezes, precious!"

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We decided that in spite of my plane ride down leading me to believe that "911" is a perennial favorite place for Louisianans to visit in New York, it's not cool to do tourist activities around their random murals dedicated to New York's Bravest in Louisiana.  We also decided that it would be a good idea to do something more officially touristy to ensure that none of the locals get pissed and give us directions to the House of Wax.

Therefore we went to Shadows-on-the-Teche, a plantation house with a big garden on a bayou.  We didn't have time to do the whole tour, but we at least got to walk around the grounds and take in the pretty flowers and the oddly juxtaposed pagan-and-Catholic sculpture collection. There were a bunch of obviously half-naked Olympian god-type figures decorating their tits in preparation for a presumptive impending bacchanal…beside some very pious-looking Catholic saints.
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“Hey Razzy,” said LL Cool Jew. “Name that saint for me.” She pointed at a particularly stern man with a long beard.

“Pretty sure that’s St. Peter. Simon Peter denied Jesus’s SOG (SOG=son of God) status three times to your messiah-killing, Barabbas-freeing mob of Druish agitators before the cock crowed but still managed to win appointment as the first pope. He’s like the OG Catholic, dude. The rock upon which Josh Christ built his church.”

“How can you tell?” asked LL Cool Jew.

“Well, he looks stern and humorless, and obviously too pious to shave. St. Peter was kind of wild before Jesus tapped him to be the original HBIC of the Cat-lickers, but once Jesus died and rose again he became a joyless old curmudgeon just like Benedixteen. He even insisted on being crucified UPSIDE DOWN once the Romans started getting their persecution on, because he didn’t think anyone should have the luxury of being crucified right-side up like JC. This guy’s demeanor looks and sounds about right.” Then I thought better of it and came clean about my ability to identify Catholic saints based on their unlabeled random statuary. “And the local parish church down the street is called St. Peter’s.”

We went down to the bayou to see if we could find any nutria, but didn't see any.  And speaking of nutria, it was time for our trip to the swamps for a tour.  I was sure we would see some.

Our guide was this guy named Walter "Butch" Guchereaux, who not only knew an insane amount about the history, flora, fauna, and current legal status of the swamp he showed us around, he had the world's greatest accent.   He was also very sweet and assured me that he would keep us a safe distance from any spiderwebs.
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I got right down to business and asked if we could go to wherever the nutria reside.

"Nutria? You're not gonna see any. If you can see da nutrias, da gators can see 'em too." Then he advised me that about ten years ago, you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a nutria. However, the nutria population started disappearing coincident with the proliferation of the local alligator population. I can see how that would be, because while we didn't see any nutria, we saw two gigantic fucking alligators.
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After about an hour of tooling around checking out birds and reptiles and listening to Butch's corny jokes ("What do you call da most lonedsome bayou? Bayou self") and his stories about how he built a self-sustaining duck blind out of toppled cypress trees ("I got my own ecosystem goin' here"), we headed to Lafayette to the hostel where we were staying. Initially when LL Cool Jew told me she booked us a room at a "hostel" for our night in Cajun country, I was extremely skeptical. "HOSTEL, dude? I don't stay in hostels." I reserve nothing but scorn and disdain for backpacker types, and the idea of sharing a communal shower with them is entirely reprehensible.

"Dude, we have a private room with a private bath. Do you think my JAP-tastic ass would stay in a backpacker-type place?" she said. I had to concede that point. If I'm adamant about my "no backpackers" policy, LL Cool Jew's unwillingness is probably greater by a logarithmic order of magnitude. However, we couldn't check in for another hour, so we went to get a cold beer at the artfaggy joint across the street, a bar appropriately called "Artmosphere."
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We were surprised to see such a hipster place in Lafayette, Louisiana (home of the UL Ragin' Cajuns), but we couldn't complain about the $3 beers, even if there were some vintage t-shirt-wearing tools smoking hookahs there.
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Then we went to dinner at Prejean's, this Cajun restaurant where we proceeded to consume our weight in fried seafood. LL Cool Jew wasn't kidding when she said their smoked duck and andouille gumbo was one of the most mind-blowing thing she'd ever eaten. We also ordered an oyster bake that was a little disappointing. When our (hot and obviously knowing it) waiter put it in front of us, the whole thing was covered with bechamel sauce and I made a crack about how I like to eat things that are splattered with hot white sauce, he just gave us our plate with a shifty look. LL Cool Jew ate one of the oysters Rockefeller, and I went for the other type of oyster.

"You have a weird look on your face," she observed.

"It's a weird oyster," I said. "The sauce is like...creamy tomato. It's odd."

LL Cool Jew tried one then. "Dude, with the tasso in it, it tastes like...I don't know...some kind of fake-me-out Italian food. It's like a piece of pizza or something."

"Pizza oysters!" I said. "It's like the Prejean's equivalent of a New York slice."

"Dude, pizza oysters made with fucking Prego," observed LL Cool Jew.
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Apart from the disappointing pizza oysters, we otherwise gorged ourselves on fried fish and shrimp, and jammed for a while to the weird Zydeco band of old men who took the stage with their accordions and fiddles.
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After we were about to burst open from overeating, we decided that instead of dessert we'd opt for some liquid to wash down our dinner. To avoid having to drive, we went back to the Artmosphere.

Within five minutes we met a bunch of dudes who invited us back to the hostel for some--ahem--herbal cigarettes. One of these guys, a good-natured recent traveler to Amsterdam, told a hilarious story about how he was in the Air Force right after the Iraq War started, he met Senator John McCain, who--according to him--wrote on his tent "Give 'em hell! Fuckin' Senator John McCain."
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"Dude, did he really write 'Fuckin' Senator John McCain?'" LL Cool Jew demanded. "Because that would be awesome." Unfortunately, the narrator had just added the "fuckin'" for emphasis.

We also met Fuckin' Senator John McCain's friends. First there was Carlos, a "documentary photographer" (translation: unemployed vagabond with a camera who gets laid more when he says he's a documentary photographer), who wouldn't stop marveling that "it's amazing to meet not one, but TWO women who have read a book."
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"We've both read more than one, too," I assured him. LL Cool Jew was rolling her eyes. We promised him a ride to New Orleans the next day but bailed two hours early so we didn't have to listen to him raving about what he considered an abnormal amount of female literacy. We did, however, reap the benefits of his photography skills:
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Rounding out our group of new friends was Brett, an aw-shucks type of fella who kept trying very, very unsuccessfully to hit on myself and LL Cool Jew by laying on the country bumpkin sweetness thick. He even went so far as to ask if I could take him inside and teach him how to use the internet because he's "not familiar with the technologies" (I declined). He looked like a cross between Tom Selleck and Matthew McConaughey, and it's fitting that he is seen here in front of a "Sugar Cane Loading Zone" sign:
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Then we went back to drink more at the Artmosphere, but were quickly lured away again by our new friends to their pal's "convenience store." John Pastore, proprietor of John's Quik Stop, welcomed us through a thick cloud of joint smoke to what is probably the world's most inconvenient convenience store. In addition to this place only being open between 3-7 pm, there appeared to be only one of each item he sold, and most of it was packaged foods and random trinkety crap manufactured by companies we'd never heard of. Check out his toy section:
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"I went to the dollar store and bought one of everything!" said John proudly of his inventory.

"Dude, maybe you should go someplace different," said Fuckin' Senator John McCain. "Would you eat this?" He held up a can of "sliced beef, gravy, and rice" that I swear was dog food packaged for human consumption.

"Hell naw!" exclaimed John. "But that don't mean somebody won't!" He was very confident in his business model.

As befits my taste, I immediately went to the most expensive item in the store: the $25 alligator heads. I didn't buy them, but I did try to French them a little bit:
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After another drink at the Artmosphere, LL Cool Jew and I passed out. She regaled me with the tale of how she got into it with this random Lebanese guy who joined our group at some point. LL Cool Jew had received a great deal of curious inquiries into her ethnicity from the locals. At one point, Brett asked her "Now what's y'all's extraction?"

"I'm Jewish," LL Cool Jew replied.

"Jewish! Well how about that? I thought y'all was a gypsy!" I'm glad she's not a gypsy, because "LL Cool Gypsy" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

LL Cool Jew had been fielding queries regarding her possible Judeo-Gypsy status all night, so it wasn't a big shock when this Lebanese guy wanted to know. Unfortunately, he reacted a little different than Brett's "I thought y'all was a gypsy" response. He was apparently telling her that halvah could be had at the Cedars Deli nearby.

"It is Jewish-style halvah, though," he said, grimacing. "You aren't Jewish, are you?"

"As a matter of fact, I am," said LL Cool Jew.

He scowled at her and said condescendingly, "My people have been enjoying halvah for two thousand years." LL Cool Jew said that it was apparent he was trying to pull out some "oh, SNAP, Jews!" moves and refused to be baited into saying something that would confirm her status as a Zionist pig to him. I thought she should have been like "Oh yeah? Well, my people have been enjoying halvah for 5,678 years!" or something like that, but she apparently just gave him a withering look and announced she was ready to retire to our quarters.

The next morning we got up, blazed out of the hostel before Carlos could meet us and tag along all day complimenting our intelligence, and got a breakfast at a place that exemplified exactly why there are so many fat people in Louisiana. Check out the guy behind LL Cool Jew:
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Then we proceeded to drive around for a bit. We were reminded that, in spite of places like the Artmosphere peddling hookahs and weird artwork, there were still plenty of people more in line with what I would expect...CLASSY:
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I totally am getting a sign like that for my dad to put on the back of his "rig," along with a pair of truck balls for his trailer hitch.

Then we got some beef jerky and went to the Tabasco factory on Avery Island. We saw more alligators there, along with more birds, and a shitload of bamboo. It was pretty but uneventful, and we proved two things I already know: that I hate Tabasco (I'm a Tapatio/Marie Sharp's kind of girl) and that LL Cool Jew can still flash a mean lesbian gang sign even though she's gone the breeder route in terms of life partner selection.
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Once we got back to New Orleans, it was again eating time. I think I nearly killed myself trying to lay waste to a soft-shelled crab po' boy. Then we went to LL Cool Jew and BigBagel's local pub for trivia night. They do this every Monday, and we were sure that between all of us, we would be able to lay waste to the competition. Unfortunately, that dream was shattered when LL Cool Jew earned the pub dunce cap by identifying the opening line of The Godfather as being from the film Yentl. The look on BigBagel's face in this picture says it all.
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We may not have won trivia night, but we did have a really fitting team name. We decided that, in keeping with 50% of the team's Smith College traditions, we'd go with Current Events in Lesbianism as inspiration, and called ourselves "the Lohan-Ronson Invitational Clambake." Even more fitting, I've realized that Lil' Darlin' and I actually look like Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson. It's unfortunate that I have to be the Samantha Ronson of the pair, but you can't win 'em all.
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And even more fitting than that is the fact that when we got back to Casa de Cool Jew-Bagel, Lil' Darlin' shared a bed with me and requested that she be permitted to "play with (my) boobs." Of course I gave my consent, and raised her an "as long as you're at it, you want to fuck?" Unfortunately, she has a boyfriend she's actually loyal to, so our imitation of LiLo and SamRo remained superficial. I did get my tits felt up, though, which ruled.

The last day of our trip was one of the most highly anticipated: our journey to Kentwood, Louisiana to see the Britney Jean Spears museum. Actually, the museum was called "The Kentwood Historical and Cultural Museum," but apart from a memorial to Kentwood's brave military people, it was all Britney.
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One of the greatest disappointments of my trip was the fact that no photos were allowed. I can't imagine why, because you would think that they could use the publicity. When I signed the guest book, I noted that we were the first visitors in 3 days. Hazel, the ancient woman whose threadbare coat identified her as the "curater" of the museum, didn't slack in attempting to give us a show. She led us into a dark room, then asked if we were "ready," and flipped a switch. There, before us, was a model of the stage from Britney's first tour that some dude in Oregon spent six months making.

"I was thinkin' his wife should get the credit for puttin' up with him fiddlin' with it for six months," said Hazel. LL Cool Jew gave me a look that plainly said, "Sha right, like the gay dude who made this has a wife."

Then we checked out the memorabilia collection. It was really impressive. They had Britney's "Best New Artist" American Music Award, her first MTV video music award (pre-Moonman), her Mickey Mouse Club jacket, and what looked like all of her platinum records. They also had a wall of Britney magazine covers, including a hilariously ironic one that said, "Britney Spears: Why I'm Waiting." Probably the weirdest, most disturbing thing was the hermetically sealed room containing all of Britney's childhood bedroom furniture and Madame Alexander dolls, with a picture in the foreground of Britney from the most Lolita-ed out Rolling Stone photo shoot of all time.

"That's like some gross old pedophile's fantasy jerk closet," LL Cool Jew whispered to me in a tone low enough not to be heard by Hazel as she tottered around.

We consented then to a tour of the military memorial, and listened to Hazel yammer on about how Taylor Horn, another local entertainer who already looks like a total whore at 15, was going to be a big star. It became apparent that the people of Kentwood are trying to divorce themselves from Britney, and even Hazel was probably hoping to replace the BJS section with a Taylor Horn section. We also noted that the "Welcome to Kentwood: Home of Britney Spears" sign that was supposed to greet us had been taken down ("that's cold" observed LL Cool Jew). It's pretty rich that the people of Kentwood think they're too good for even crazy, Frapp-slurping Brit Brit. Kentwood was probably one of the trashiest towns we went through. Half the buildings in town were abandoned and collapsing. The entire place seemed in a state of gradual decay. They didn't even have a Wal-Mart or a Winn-Dixie (although to our delight, they did have a Sonic).

After our tour, in the course of listening to Hazel ramble about Kentwood, its residents, and things we should do during our visit (in which she very amusingly told LL Cool Jew to "take your Yankee to Nyla's Burger Basket for some fried catfish"), we managed to get directions to Serenity, the Spears family "estate." LL Cool Jew and I immediately went there, and drove by several times trying to discreetly take a picture and hopefully see Jamie-Lynn's pregnant ass waddling around.
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Sadly, there were no Jamie-Lynn sightings, so we just grabbed more drinks from Sonic and headed back to New Orleans to watch some Lord of the Rings for old time's sake. LL Cool Jew and I watch LOTR movies when we have nothing better to do. It was a great way to end a vacation that was entirely too short.

I have to go back as soon as possible, because I didn't do nearly as many things as I wanted to do. Specifically, I didn't eat any nutria! I didn't even SEE any nutria. Every time we passed any type of swampy body of water, I was scanning eagerly for those little guys swimming around, but it turns out that they are pretty elusive for an invasive species. Obviously, I MUST at least see nutria at some point even if I can't eat them, so I'll have to go back.  

Oh, and PS...LL Cool Jew thanks all the readers requesting pictures of her tits, but her reply to your request is "NO WAY IN FUCKING HELL."

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Friday, June 06, 2008

 

A good omen on the nutria tip

I've refused to mitigate my determination to taste nutria, the semi-acquatic swamp rat that has invaded the bayous, on my trip to visit LL Cool Jew in New Orleans this weekend.  I've even contemplated tracking down the elderly Cajun trapper shown bludgeoning a nutria (nutrium?) to death with a stick prior to stewing it for Andrew Zimmern on "Bizarre Foods" in order to slake my nutria lust.  I even corresponded with Razzyphile who is a current Smith bitch and Jordan House resident about stalking the nutria in her Lafayette, Louisiana city park with a club and a stew pot.  Yesterday LL Cool Jew and I had a strategery session about how, short of actually going on a nutria hunt, we might get some through sheer guile.
LL Cool Jew: dude i don't think we will be able to eat any nutria
LL Cool Jew: i wonder if we'll even be able to see any?
LL Cool Jew:what we can try is this, even though it makes me somewhat embarrassed
LL Cool Jew: ask at the best stop near lafayette when we swing by for rgular jerky
Razzy: YES
Razzy: let's ask around
Razzy: we won't be offensive!
LL Cool Jew: we're going to have to work on our spiel
LL Cool Jew: maybe do some role playing on the drive over
Razzy: i'll say that i saw it on tv and it looked good
Razzy: nothing patronizing about that
LL Cool Jew: true
Razzy: i won't say i saw it on "bizarre foods"
LL Cool Jew: andrew zimmern can make lots of things look good
Razzy:: i'll just say it was "a food show"
LL Cool Jew: they will probably know which one
LL Cool Jew: it's OK, the show celebrates the foods
Razzy: well true
Razzy: i won't make it seem like i'm some city bitch looking to patronize the country folks
Razzy: by eating their swamp rats
LL Cool Jew: yes.
LL Cool Jew: we have to be shy and self-deprecating when we ask
LL Cool Jew: and precede it with a lot of hemming and hawing about "i know this is a strange question..."
LL Cool Jew: "i'm not sure whether you might be able to help me but..."
LL Cool Jew: don't want ppl to be like - "do i LOOK like someone who eats R.O.U.S.s?"
Well, it turns out we may not even have to go to the country for our Dorito-toothed rodent fix.  LL Cool Jew e-mailed me an article from today's Times-Picayune detailing a nutria problem severe enough to warrant a SWAT team that has exploded in the suburbs of New Orleans.
Nutria under the gun on the 17th Street Canal
Posted by Andrew Vanacore June 05, 2008 11:02PM
A Jefferson Parish SWAT team has been called in to defend the 17th Street Canal.

The threat? Nutria, the orange-toothed rodents that eat through marshlands and levees, among other offenses. Officials say their numbers around the canal have jumped in the last year and a half, damaging levees.
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"They've not only damaged the intake pipes but burrowed into holes along the canal," said Chief Bob Garner of the East Jefferson Levee District Police.

Inspections around the 17th Street Canal began turning up signs of nutria about a year and a half ago, said Danny Abadie, superintendent of operations for the East Jefferson Levee District Maintenance Department.

"We've seen a bunch of these critters out there," Abadie said. "They're eating at the base of the grasses," which can lead to soil erosion.

Over time, that erosion can add up. When Jefferson Parish officials first recognized the nutria epidemic in 1994, they estimated it had already caused $6 million to $8 million in damage.

Jefferson Parish SWAT teams have targeted the rodents along drainage canals for more than a decade.

Their ever-burgeoning numbers and destructive eating habits have left the nutria with few friends - even among animal rights groups.

Garner said he asked the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office to deploy the SWAT team as a favor.

SWAT members will stalk the rats with rifles in the wee hours, They plan to start as early as today. Garner said the operation could last weeks.

Still an open question is whether SWAT members will have jurisdiction to go after nutria on the Orleans Parish side of the canal.

Garner said East Jefferson officials have focused on the Jefferson side. But he couldn't say whether sharpshooters would hold their fire if they spot pests across the water.

"For the time being, we're only concerned with those that are on our side," Garner said. "If that problem arises, we'll deal with it."
I think this bodes well for our nutria-acquiring mission.  If there's an excess of freshly shot nutria laying around New Orleans, there's a chance that the fancy "country chic" restaurant LL Cool Jew is taking me to tomorrow night might have a nutria special on the menu!  As early as tomorrow we might be dining on nutria etouffee.  Score!

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

 

Daily Dude I Want to Hit: Sterling Fryou

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RAZZY Note: this is not actually Sterling Fryou, but some other random nutria trapper I found a picture of on the internets.  Despite his status as a local parish board member and world-famous bayou critter trapper, Sterling Fryou's handsome grizzled visage is nowhere on the internets I could find.  A shame!

Name:
Sterling Fryou

DOB: ???-the late 1930s?  He's old.

Occupation: nutria trapper

Hometown: Morgan City, Louisiana

Current residence: Morgan City, Louisiana

Why I Want to Hit that Hotness:  LL Cool Jew and I have taken our nutria obsession to a whole new level: specifically, stalking elderly Cajun nutria trappers on the internets.  I swear that when I get down to Louisiana, we are going to eat nutria if we have to trap one ourselves. I even took out an ad on Lafayette, Louisiana's Craigslist searching for nutria jerky, and thus far have gotten no responses. I am getting very frustrated by this.
Razzy: btw, still no hits on craigslist re: the nutria query :(
LL Cool Jew: GUH
Razzy: who knew this shit was so hard to get?
Razzy: i thought there were nutria everywhere!
LL Cool Jew: well here's the thing
LL Cool Jew: i guess people trap and eat
LL Cool Jew: there's not like, a nutria processing plant or anything.
Razzy: the idea of us trapping one is hilarious
Razzy: i'm imagining us traipsing around the bayou
Razzy: you trying to walk in a pair of five-inch heels
Razzy: me freaking out about spiders
LL Cool Jew: no no
LL Cool Jew: i'll be in flip flops for shizzle
Razzy: i don't even know how to "trap" anything
Razzy: the only thing i know about it
Razzy: is that in wa state
Razzy: there are always voter initiatives to "ban cruel traps"
Razzy: i'm all for cruel traps if they lead to nutria consumption!
LL Cool Jew: well if you watch andrew zimmern tonight
LL Cool Jew: you will see that trapping nutria involves a pirogue and a baseball bat
Razzy: right
Razzy: we'd have no problem picking up a louisville slugger
Razzy: but i'm betting you don't have a pirogue at your disposal
LL Cool Jew: you'd be right about that
LL Cool Jew: they are fast and tricksy though
LL Cool Jew: maybe if we played them the bongo bong song...
LL Cool Jew was determined that I should watch the part of "Bizarre Foods" where Andrew Zimmern, big New York queen that he is, goes nutria trapping.  That night, she texted "nutria time!" to remind me that it was on right after "Deadliest Catch."  I flipped over to the Travel Channel to see Andrew Zimmern getting into a boat with an old Cajun named Sterling Fryou and heading off the nutria trapping grounds.  Sterling explains how you need to set nutria traps on the nutria game trails (identifiable because the nutria destroy all vegetation in their path), then hit them on the head with a large stick called "the eliminator."  Then Sterling gutted the nutria, brought it back to his trapping shack, and cooked it with some squirrel for Andrew Zimmern, who pronounced it "lean, and not swampy at all."
Razzy: Sterling fryou
Razzy: 2 bad u dont have a pirogue
LL Cool Jew: or an eliminator
LL Cool Jew: we need 2 contact sterling fryou
Razzy: Want nutria!
Razzy: Nutriatritious.  Bongo bong
LL Cool Jew: lean. not swampy
LL Cool Jew: hit im in th head
Razzy: Must contact fryou
LL Cool Jew: sterling is awsm. turduckens up next.
Razzy: Im goin 2 bed so i can b fresh 4 the sterling fryou hunt tomorrow
I didn't even need to conduct the Sterling Fryou hunt, since LL Cool Jew got on the internets and discovered that he is a eucharistic minister at St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Amelia, Louisiana.  She e-mailed me excitedly:
To: Razzy (razzy@razzy.org)
From: LL Cool Jew (llcooljew@dirrtydirrtyhumanitiesgrantgivers.org)

http://standrewcentral.org/ministers_schedule.html

The website of St. Andrews Parish Church in Amelia, Louisiana lists the following in its Eucharistic Ministers rotation:

Ministers
Lenwood & Lula Gaduet 631-2315
Joy Gaudet 631-2419
Sterling Fryou 631-2792
Pooch Clements 631-2598
Carol Leger 631-2602
Gilday Gaudet 631-2419
Jeffery & Celeste Pennison 631-9325
Tracy Duval 631-2589
Trevor Benoit 631-0882
Kathy Acosta 631-0887
Teresa Theriot 631-9440
Dianne McAllister 631-2309
Peggy Clements 631-2271

Maybe if Sterling can't help us, Pooch Clements might be able to hook it up.
So now that we've tracked down Sterling Fryou's math, I think it's only a matter of time before I can persuade him to eliminate some nutria on our behalf and stew it for us Cajun-style in his outdoor cooking shack.  Or if he's too busy to do that, maybe he can just hook us up with some jerky.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

 

New Orleans is awesome

I'm excited for my upcoming trip to New Orleans for many reasons.  LL Cool Jew and I are going to nerd out on history, visit the Britney Spears museum, drive by the ruins of the Magnolia Projects where Terius "Juvenile" Grey came up, eat like pigs, and enjoy a few days being BFFs in person as opposed to over the phone and Gchat.  Now I have yet another reason to be excited.  Over the weekend, LL Cool Jew went to some mall to see the new Indiana Jones movie, and thought I would like the mall's policies:  
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THE MALL HAS A NO KIDS POLICY!   And a policy so serious that they have a huge sign announcing its rigorous enforcement.  That's fucking brilliant. I am in a state of deep swoon imagining the possibility of watching movies without annoying children making noise and generally bothering me.  I'm going to write to every movie theater in New York and encourage them to enact similar policies here.  It would make movies worth every penny of the $12 it costs to see them.

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Friday, May 23, 2008

 

Daily Dude I Want to Hit: nutria

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Name: Myocaster coypus

Aliases: nutria, coypus

DOB: entered fossil record during the Pliocene; introduced to Louisiana in 1930

Hometown: temperate South America

Current residence: various places in Europe, South America, Asia, Maryland, Louisiana, and the Columbia River basin

Why I Want to Hit that Hotness:  When I made plans to go visit my friend LL Cool Jew in New Orleans next month, she was regaling me with tales of the turtle soup we're going to eat, and the swamp tours we're taking, and the plantations we're going to, and somehow the topic of nutria came up.

"What's nutria, precious, eh?"  I asked her.

She advised me that nutria is a type of beaver-sized swamp rat with big orange teeth that was imported to Louisiana from South America as an inexpensive food source for the cajuns of the bayou.  Unfortunately, nutria never really caught on as a dinner meat except for a few places in Louisiana where some rural folks hunt it.  It's greatest success at being incorporated into the mainstream Louisiana diet is probably its use as a beef substitute on sloppy joe day in the Louisiana public school system.  I'm not sure if that's on the statewide elementary school lunch menu, but (LA native) Motherbucker told me it was a favorite in Alexandria where she came up.  I guess the nutria population in southwest Washington state isn't as prolific, because I never heard of nutria being served to anyone.  In fact, I hadn't even heard of nutria at all.  Even more unfortunately, nutria have proven to be a wetland-destroying menace thanks to their burrowing and ravenous appetites for vegetation.

To battle the nutria problem, the people of Louisiana have tried all sorts of things.  Currently the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries offers a bounty on nutria, and is also strongly pushing nutria as the meat of the future.  Their website shares recipes for dishes like "heart healthy crock pot nutria," smoked nutria and andouille sausage gumbo, Enola's smothered nutria, and stuffed nutria hindquarters.  After hearing about all this, I became extremely curious about trying nutria.

The last time I was home in the P-N-Dub, I was hanging out with my buddy HotLawyer and switching back and forth between the Mariners game and various food and travel shows.  After I told HotLawyer what kind of dick vibes all the Mariners and the entire Oakland bullpen were sporting and speculated on which food show hosts were big sluts (Giada de Laurentiis being Queen Skank of Slag Mountain), we settled on watching the Gulf Coast episode of "Bizarre Foods."  Unfortunately we switched back to baseball during the nutria-eating part, but just seeing the fat homo who hosts that show eating bear, possum, and chitlins, I became even more dead-set on popping my nutria-eating cherry.

Upon realizing my strong interest in nutria, LL Cool Jew has taken it upon herself to fill me in on any and all nutria information she comes across.  She just finished taking a class about Louisiana history (since she works for some Louisiana historical society or something), and there was some discussion of nutria.  However, it became apparent that, in terms of nutria being an accepted part of Louisiana culture, it's got a way to go.  You can't just walk into any restaurant and order some nutria jambalaya; if you want nutria, you have to get out and trap it yourself.  Since the idea of LL Cool Jew and myself traipsing around the bayou trying to set nutria-catching snares is nothing short of hilarious, we have been trying in vain trying to get a nutria hook-up.  It seems our best bet will be to find someone who makes nutria jerky and beg them for some.  I'm already having fantasies of eating nutria jerky on our way to tour the Britney Spears museum, and I was hoping that LL Cool Jew's Louisiana class would prove a boon to our nutria-acquiring efforts.
Razzy: oh congrats on getting an A in your herstory klass
LL Cool Jew: :D :D :D
Razzy: like you would have gotten anything less
LL Cool Jew: WOOHOO
Razzy: i'm sure it was your presentation about the jewish rice tycoon that secured your top grade
LL Cool Jew: :D
LL Cool Jew: you better believe it
Razzy: the only thing that concerns me
Razzy: is that maybe you didn't work the louisiana history community hard enough for nutria jerky connections
LL Cool Jew: all those people were from the Greatner NO area
LL Cool Jew: they aint got no nutria connex
Razzy: we gots to find some of those
Razzy: i've become almost pathologically obsessed with the idea of consuming nutria
So if any of you know somewhere we can get some pre-trapped and killed (and preferably jerkified) nutria, holler at your girl.  In the meantime, here is the greatest nutria video on YouTube.  I think the music of Manu Chao was made to be the soundtrack for videos of nutria being nutria, or as LL Cool Jew put it, "it's an awesome nutria jam."      

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

 

BS and Lil' Wayne better than Mardi Gras

I was going to visit my friend LL Cool Jew in New Orleans this year for Mardi Gras, but I had a thesis committee meeting that week and couldn't afford the inflated price of the ticket around the Crescent City's most famous holiday.  Therefore, I decided to visit in early June instead.  LL Cool Jew and I have been busily planning all the things we're going to do (nerd out on historical tours and, in the words of Too $hort, eating food like a motherfucking fat bitch), and yesterday she came up with yet another must-do for our agenda:
LL Cool Jew: ange?
Razzy: hey hon
Razzy: what up?
LL Cool Jew: i have to tell you something amazing
me: please do!
LL Cool Jew: there is a britney spears museum in kentwood
LL Cool Jew: we are going when you come.
Razzy: YES
Razzy: YES
Razzy: YES
Razzy: yES
Razzy: YES!
LL Cool Jew: actually, it is the kentwood historical and cultrual museum
LL Cool Jew: but it only has two exhibits
LL Cool Jew: 1) world war 2 veterans
LL Cool Jew: 2) britney spears
Razzy: and the legendary ms. britney spears
Razzy: YESSSSSSS!
LL Cool Jew: apparently they have a diorama of her childhood bedroom
Razzy: oh i can't wait!
Razzy: YES!
Razzy: i bet it's all pink
Razzy: blush and bashful
LL Cool Jew: the spearses actually gave items from britney's bedroom
LL Cool Jew: how freakshow and sick is that
Razzy: so fucking awesome
LL Cool Jew:oh yes dude
Razzy: i can't wait!
i mean, i couldn't wait already
LL Cool Jew: also there is a scale replica of the stage from her first tour
LL Cool Jew: complete with light show
Razzy: YES!
Razzy: can we dance on it?
LL Cool Jew: dude how are we going to do everything?
LL Cool Jew: we have to see teh britney spears museum
Razzy: i might have to bring some barbie hair to clip on for the occasion
Razzy: we MUST
Razzy: MUST
Razzy: MUST
LL Cool Jew: yes
LL Cool Jew: you are going to die when you see kentwood
LL Cool Jew: it is the trashiest nastiest town
Razzy: have you been?
Razzy: oh i can imagine
LL Cool Jew: just driven through
Razzy: i'll probably feel right at home
Indeed, I am sure I will feel right at home in Kentwood.  My hometown, after all, was featured on an episode of "My Big Redneck Wedding."  Terms like "trashy" and "nasty" sound to me like "cozy" and "comfortable."  Unlike Kentwood, however, Puyallup does have its own Wal-Mart.  It has two of them, in fact.
LL Cool Jew: after making a wrong turn
LL Cool Jew: it doesn't even have a walmart dude
LL Cool Jew: that's why jamie lynn is going to mccomb mississippi all the time to buy her cases of dr. pepper
Razzy: jamie-lynn has to drive to the next town over to hit wal-mart with her baby daddy?
LL Cool Jew: shudder
Razzy: LOL
Razzy: and go to applebee's or TGIFridays for her b-day dinner
Razzy: too bad they don't do tours at "serenity"
Razzy: aka the Spears' "estate"
LL Cool Jew: well
LL Cool Jew: apparently at the BS museum they have Britney driving tours
Razzy: drive to serenity, then to the mccombs wal-mart, then to the sonic, then back to the BS museum?
LL Cool Jew: well we are DEFINITELY going to Sonic
LL Cool Jew: i always do
LL Cool Jew: they ain't got no Sonic in N.O.
LL Cool Jew: sadly
I know for a fact that Kentwood has a Sonic, because I have seen vintage paparazzi shots of Brit-Brit loading up on cheese dogs and peach-raspberry tea and chicken fingers or whatever the hell they have there.  I have seen many Sonic commercials but I have yet to experience the culinary delights this fine establishment has to offer.  

In addition to getting our Britney on, LL Cool Jew and I have another order of business to attend to during my visit: stalking my favorite Southern ass rappers.  I've already demanded on several occasions to at least cruise by the Magnolia Projects in hopes of spying what Terius "Juvenile" Grey describes as "a player from the 'Nolia."  The actual buildings Juvenile lived in are now abandoned, but LL Cool Jew is a good sport and has at least agreed to drive me by there.   I've been getting stoked listening to New Orleans-based rappers.  In this case, I was jamming to Birdman's 5-Star Stunna album.
Razzy: i'm listening to lil wayne right now!
Razzy: getting excited!
Razzy: ooooooooo can we stalk lil wayne?
LL Cool Jew: have you heard the new lollipop song?
Razzy: oh yes
Razzy: of course
LL Cool Jew: i don't know dude
LL Cool Jew: he scares me now
Razzy: why?
LL Cool Jew: i read this totally disturbing interview with him in XXL
Razzy: uh oh
LL Cool Jew: he is literally addicted to purple drank
LL Cool Jew: also
Razzy: well not shocked about that
LL Cool Jew: there was a story in the times-picayune recently
LL Cool Jew: about how he went back to his old middle school
LL Cool Jew: couldnt have gone back to his old high school because he did not go to high school
LL Cool Jew: and he was 30 minutes late
LL Cool Jew: and came to the school reeking of weed
LL Cool Jew: i mean, that is the school's bad for inviting him
Razzy: not shocked about that
LL Cool Jew: sure
LL Cool Jew: but at the same time
LL Cool Jew: he is like a feral animal
Razzy: well yes
Razzy: we can stalk at a safe distance
LL Cool Jew: i'll drive you by the magnolia projects
Razzy: i mean, i don't want to give him a reason to tattoo any more tears on himself
LL Cool Jew: as we've discussed
LL Cool Jew: in broad daylight
Razzy: of course
LL Cool Jew: where was lil wayne born?
Razzy: according to him, "Charity Hospital, AKA the City Zoo"
LL Cool Jew: yeah, i can drive you by there too
LL Cool Jew: it hasnt reopend since the storm
Razzy: is that where that doctor supposedly killed all those people?
LL Cool Jew:: exactly
Razzy: nice
Razzy: that makes sense that's where lil wayne came into the world
Razzy: per his wikipedia: "He was born Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. and grew up in the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. Dwayne was in the gifted program at Lafayette Elementary School, and was in the drama club in middle school."
LL Cool Jew: hollygrove
LL Cool Jew: of course
Razzy: maybe he and i can bond about being in the "gifted program"...i was too!
LL Cool Jew: i've heard him namedrop hollygrove like 100 times in his jamz
Razzy: i wonder if he did mock city council in his gifted program like we did
Razzy: i'll leave out the part about how when we had to make large dioramas based on the book "The 21 Balloons"
The 21 Balloons was this book about this 19th-century fop inventor who winds up crash-landing his hot-air balloon on Krakatoa, only to discover that it's populated by a bunch of British expats running a bunch of creative ethnic restaurants.  Ultimately this utopia is destroyed when Krakatoa catastrophically erupts.  My gifted program spent an entire semester dissecting The 21 Balloons in the third grade.
LL Cool Jew: the perks of lil' wayne's gifted program probably included pencils
Razzy: some dumb ho (NOT ME) made an amusement park called "Krakatoa Kids Klub"
Razzy: AKA...KKK
Razzy: not joking
LL Cool Jew: head
LL Cool Jew: desk
LL Cool Jew: dude
Razzy: i questioned her inclusion into the gifted program after that
Razzy: what a dumb slag
Razzy: well, if i run info weezy f baby
Razzy: i'll ask him about his gifted program experiences
LL Cool Jew: (please say the baby)
Razzy: lol
Razzy: lol
Razzy: i'm totz listening to lil' wayne right now
Needless to say, when we're not touring the plantation on which Twelve Oaks from Gone With the Wind was based, eating various cajun-spiced invertebrates, and ogling swamp rats and gators while some guy named Butch Guchereaux (not kidding) shows us around the bayous, we're going to be enjoying the finest pop culture offerings Louisiana has to offer, bumping "Gimme More" and making that brrrrrr! sound that Birdman makes.  

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