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January 03, 2007
2007
Back at it. Happy New Year, etc. etc. I'm just happy it's January. And yo: when did we stop worrying about mega-terror attacks rocking our world on New Year's Eve? In New York this past weekend, I heard absolutely no mention of any possibility of terror. No paranoid ravings, no grandiose fatalism, no nothing. Question of course is whether or not that means the terrorists have won, or are about to win, or the game is in overtime, or they've fouled out, or something. Anyways, all the quiet was a far cry from the incredibly voracious, all-consuming nature of the city's collective anxieties a couple years back. Just sayin.
Let's start off The Stencil's 2007 edition with a quick admission: El Stencimilla is now just me. Yes, if you haven't noticed by now: P, Jonesy, Nash and Dusk have all abandoned me.
I sit alone in my four-colored blog starin at HTML.
But I'm still here, still standing like that weird old Elton John video I used to watch on Sky TV way back when my family lived in Helsinki...
1. I can't believe it's 2007. That means it was TWELVE YEARS AGO when Busta Rhymes was insisting that THERE'S ONLY FIVE YEARS LEFT on every mixtape appearance. Or, as Catch put it, now THERE'S NEGATIVE SEVEN YEARS LEFT. Speaking of Nick, thanks to him and everyone else who came to The Rub on New Year's.
2. And equal thanks to everyone who came out to Savalas last Friday. (If you came to both - Dan, I see you! - that means double special thanks.) Goodness gracious, Friday was fun: I won't soon forget singin "Forever Young" with the whole damn club at 3:57 AM. Just for Mr. and Mrs. Paz, here's the video for Joe Public's "Live and Learn." Proud Buffalonians.
3. Thomas Jefferson's Koran gets a workout. Best political prop since Terry Schiavo.
4. New Year's Resolution for The Stencil: More music. I'll start it off tonight, before the Sabres get it in against Ottawa. Hold tight.
5. Soda Popinski! And more bosses from hell. The comments are terrific:
argon says:
01/03/2007 06:15
I never defeated the last fucking boss for Ninja Gaiden on the NES. I remember my cousin and I stayed up all night playing through that infernal game, and when we finally got to him (it), we got our asses handed to us.
I remember my eyes beginning to tear up because I was giving everything my little heart could muster... eventually I was broken and i threw the controller at the NES causing it to reset and flashing pretty colors on my screen.
6. Hero!
"A hero construction worker left his two young daughters on a Harlem subway platform and leaped into the path of an oncoming train yesterday to rescue a stranger who had fallen on the tracks.
"Tell my little girls that Daddy is OK!" Wesley Autrey shouted from under the No. 1 train after it screeched to a halt. It was just inches above him and the film student he pushed into the trough between the tracks.
Amazingly, neither Autrey nor the man he saved, 20-year-old Cameron Hollopeter, was seriously injured, even though the train grazed the construction worker's wool cap."
Posted by caps at January 3, 2007 11:22 AM