Entries by shep

The Crawl

So, the Crawl for Cancer was a great success. I drank a lot of beer, got a t-shirt, had fun, and helped support a great cause. I hope to participate in the next one. Here’s a brief recap of what happened. At the first bar we went to, the royal blue team was done with […]

Drink Beer and Cure Cancer

Tomorrow I’m participating in the Crawl for Cancer. For those of you who don’t know what this is, you pay an amount of money ($45) to drink in different bars (5). All the proceeds are donated to find a cure for cancer. This is something I can really get behind. You won’t see me running […]

Common- The People

Common has been a constant force in conscious hip hop music for many years. He’s dropped classic albums for a decade now. Whether it’s his early work as Common Sense, his experimental work such as Electric Circus, his mainstream crossover with Like Water for Chocolate, he’s been able to bring conscious hip hop to the […]

Who Has My Big Toe?

And the mummy went searching through the museum groaning “Who has my big toe?” Ok, ok, I’m done with the bad campfire story now. Just thought I’d share some historical news, since I do love history. An artificial big toe attached to the foot of an Egyptian mummy could be the world’s oldest prosthetic body […]

A Truly Democratic Culture

This quote was on my iGoogle today: Television is the first truly democratic culture – the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. – Clive Barnes Oh so very true. Especially with all the crap on TV these days; Dancing […]