Gloving? ....Championships

Saturday, June 11th at the FAIRPLEX in Pomona, CA invites all ravers, hippies, and "electro-junkies" from around the world to the 1st Official International Gloving Championships. Apparently the seizures caused by excessive drug use at raves and other techno parties has turned into sport. The uncontrolled movement in your hands due to high meth-amphetamine levels has been masked (or gloved in this case) with pretty lights and deemed "gloving." I've seen a few people get "gloved" and honestly it's scary shit; eyes rolling in the back of their heads,  and baby dribble running down their usually teenage chins. I've never been a big fan of raves, and was completely turned off when I heard your come down of drugs often finds many other fellow ravers suffering from overdoses and other effects of drugs, not weed, that leave people alone on the cold hard floors at the Coliseum. Plus I haven't had fun exchanging colorful beaded bracelets since the arts & crafts time at the recreation center. Au contraire, this event is in my city, so don't be suprised if you see ya boy down there shuffling like it's 1999.
P.S. Ravers don't come to my town fuckin' shit up... Increasing crime rates and what not.

Johnny Cum Wrongfully

Yesterday morning, breaking news reported former Senator John Edwards and Presidential nominee was indicted on charges that stem from reports saying Edwards wrongfully used campaign dollars.... AND GAVE THEM TO HIS MISTRESS!!! His SIDEPIECE!!! The one he impregnated, initially denying any wrongdoing. If reports are true, Edwards is in major violation of the "game". At no time are you to give any funds to one your bench players.

Charges brought against the former North Carolina Senator include conspiracy and violations in campaign policy. This situation is an Eminem song line that has come to reality "Lord please send me a brand new car, with a prostitute, while my wife's sick in the hospital" Eminem prophecized on The Marshall Mathers LP, mocking a fictional politician. I am now convinced rap influences people to do bad things. 

You've got to be a ruthless individual to cheat on you wife who would die of cancer shortly after initial reports broke of Edwards' infidelity. According to CNN.com "[t]he most widely reported theory -- which the Edwards team has publicly neither confirmed nor denied -- is that the money was given to keep Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, from finding out about his mistress and child." Edwards has pleaded not guilty to all charges, as a politician would. Watch Edwards deny any wrongdoing here

The Day the Music Died

     First and foremost, I would like to thank Bionic for inviting me up to his blog here.  Unfortunately my first post here on Bionichles isn't a celebration.  I am here today to tell you about a giant mistake Mt. San Antonio College is making.  Administration at Mt SAC has decided that KSAK's radio signal will better suit students needs by airing the new Mt. Rock Radio through it.  This simply is not true.  This decision has been made by administrators, not broadcasters, under what i believe to be the advice of Tammy Trujillo.  I also believe that this move is not collegial and is self serving.  I have volunteered at audio8ball.com under the same group that runs Mtrockradio.com and the training just does not compare to the training at KSAK.
      From my perspective it seemed that Tammy was so sure she had closed down KSAK after the fall semester she was practically gloating about it.  So when she found out that we had been moved to Technical Services and were still broadcasting she immediately wanted us back on her budget and she drew out a plan for for our operations to cease with out actually having to shut down the station.  Her plan is to "simulcast" their new station over our signal.
    We quickly went and spoke to the Board of Trustees.  we asked for them to talk to us, to take a look at the facts, and to also determine the actual value of Cason Smith's training at KSAK.  We were ignored.  So we wrote letters, and e-mails to the Board members, we attempted to make appointments with them through President Nixon's office.  President Nixon sent Vice President of Instruction Virginia Burley to help us.  She first told us that she didn't know anything about our situation and that she would like to hear, but with some prodding from award winning student broadcaster Nelson Aguilar she quickly changed her story and knew quite a bit about what was going on.  She then asked for our questions in an email, which we sent, and she never returned.  She also never helped us with making an appointment which is the only reason we called Nixon's office. We met with student chair Patrick Martinez, he was of no help although not necessarily because he didn't care.  Same story with A.S. president Xavier Padilla.  We were then rail roaded again by Virginia Burley at the Student Senate.  Every possible option that we have explored has failed to even listen.  Hell, they won't even tell us to fuck off.
    I am disappointed by the system at Mt. SAC, it is my firm believe that they lie, they cheat and the way the act is un-colleagial and again self serving, and the only people they are hurting are the future broadcasting student of Mt. San Antonio College and the college's image in it of its self.
    Thanks for reading, again, these are my beliefs based on the events that have unfolded in the past year.  I will not bring up the propaganda and defamatory language and attitude towards KSAK as a station and as individuals that volunteer there.

     I would like to also mention that the year I have spent at KSAK has been more rewarding than any other experience i have had in my whole life and it is a shame that no one else will ever have this experience again.  Thank you Cason Smith and all of the volunteers at KSAK. Bye Bye Miss American Pie.

S&M (Social & Media)

Around 2004, my freshman year in high school, this new craze called Myspace swept through what seemed like all of existence. Previously, social networking platforms like AIM and BlackPlanet existed but none could compare to the pull of Myspace and a guy who unconditionally befriended you named Tom (I always thought people who deleted him as a friend were ungrateful and trifling.) It was nucking futs, people becoming famous who didn't even have talent. Only thousands of liberated pictres for men of all creeds to gaze upon (i.e. Tila Tequila). Remember steadily refreshing your page hoping you had a new comment? I remember people used to treat their pages like wardrobes, steadily trying to get the latest layout and keep it fresh with new music. Myspace had people in the 'hood and 3rd world countries unknowingly doing HTML. And everything was going well until club promoters FUKKED IT UP! Then Facebook emerged and it was all formal. You know, minimal bathroom pics and what not, only adding people you know (defeating a upside in social media), gangbangers using their "government names" (breaking one of the 'hood rules fasho).... no layouts. Humanity's trendy nature made Facebook the most visited site for like 2  years or something crazy. Literally everybody and their mommas were on Facebook like crack in the 80's. And in not so rare cases grandmommas and great-grandmommas. I had my momma as a friend on Facebook until she got the boot for criticizing some of my choice words in my status updates. I also added my little sister (the one whose birthday I missed in Lock Me Up. Throw Away the Weekend, also on my blog) for a while until she started showing my momma my wall. Facebook is grown-up friendly and i'm NOT down for that. And how the hell did Facebook get their own movie? I bet a movie about the Craigslist killer would be way doper... somebody get me Quentin. But as of late Facebook's been losing momentum. How? Hella irritating automatic horoscope updates (it seems everyone's a Pisces these days), breaches of accounts (some serious, some just the result of you not logging out), and guess what? The g'damn club promoters and making a comeback! I'm already over it, I've decided to give my undivided social media attention to Twitter. The same thing 30 million people will be doing in 4-6 months when they find out Twitter is the new hotness. And how does Tumblr work? I wonder what's after that, will club promoters do what no man has done before and realize how to expand their network through LinkedIn? I'm outta here.... @bionic_tbh