Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Douchebags of the week: Viacom
P.S. Thanks for all the love this year. Hope everyone has a great 2009!!! 1 luv.
Krizz
'Colbert,' 'SpongeBob' may go dark on Time Warner
By RYAN NAKASHIMA, AP Business Writer Ryan Nakashima, Ap Business Writer – 2 hrs 40 mins ago
LOS ANGELES – "SpongeBob SquarePants" might get squeezed off Time Warner Cable.
Media giant Viacom Inc. said its Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and 16 other channels will go dark for 13 million subscribers at 12:01 a.m. Thursday if a new carriage fee deal with Time Warner Cable Inc. is not agreed upon by then.
The impasse would mean "SpongeBob" and other popular shows like Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" and Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report" will be cut off on the nation's second-largest cable operator. Time Warner Cable primarily serves people in New York state, the Carolinas, Ohio, Southern California and Texas.
Viacom has asked for fee increases of between 22 percent and 36 percent per channel, or a total of $39 million more, an amount that could increase customers' cable bills, said Time Warner Cable spokesman Alex Dudley.
"The issue is that they have asked for an exorbitant increase in their carriage fees and their network ratings are sagging," Dudley said. "Basically we're trying to hold the line for our customer."
Viacom spokeswoman Kelly McAndrew disputed the figure, saying Viacom requested an increase in the very low double-digit percentage range.
Viacom said the increases would cost an extra 23 cents a month per subscriber. It said that Americans spend a fifth of their TV time watching Viacom shows but its fees make up less than 2.5 percent of the Time Warner cable bill.
"We make this request because Time Warner Cable has so greatly undervalued our channels for so long," Viacom said.
"Ultimately, however, if Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV and the rest of our programming is discontinued — over less than a penny per day — we believe viewers will see this behavior by their cable company as outrageous," Viacom said.
Time Warner Cable's Dudley said Viacom rejected his company's proposal to extend the contract while the sides continue to negotiate.
Instead, Viacom appealed directly to Time Warner Cable's customers, with TV ads in major markets. In Wednesday's New York Times, the company ran a full-page, color advertisement with Nickelodeon's animated bilingual heroine "Dora the Explorer" crying and clinging to her monkey pal, Boots.
"Why is Dora crying?" the ad asks. "Time Warner Cable is taking Dora off the air tonight!" The ad urges viewers to call Time Warner Cable and demand that their favorite shows remain on the air.
If the shows go dark after midnight, Time Warner Cable will send people to the Internet to catch episodes. Dudley said the cable operator also will make available a video teaching people how to hook their computers up to the TV to watch online shows — a tactic it used during a contract dispute with broadcaster LIN TV in October.
Part of the disagreement is that most of Viacom's popular shows are rerun on Web sites where Viacom collects advertising revenue that it does not share with Time Warner, Dudley said. "We don't think that's fair," he said.
Viacom has staked much of its revenue-growth prospects on its ability to extract higher carriage rates out of its cable and satellite affiliates despite an ad slowdown and weak ratings.
In the third quarter, media network revenue, which accounts for about two-thirds of Viacom's total, grew 6 percent to $2.1 billion, despite global ad revenue falling 2 percent, largely because of double-digit percentage growth in affiliate fees and the success of its "Rock Band" video game.
Viacom shares rose 45 cents, 2.3 percent, to $19.71 in late morning trading Wednesday. Time Warner Cable shares lost 39 cents, 1.8 percent, to $21.37.
The channels that would be affected are: Comedy Central, CMT: Pure Country, Logo, Palladia, MTV, MTV 2, MTV Hits, MTV Jams, MTV Tr3s, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Nick 2, Nicktoons, Spike, The N, TV Land, VH1, VH1 Classic, and VH1 Soul.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Blak America! You've been Punk'd yet again Jena 6 Style!
I'm glad I didn't give them little bastards my money...To keep it real, had I rode my black ass down there on a hot ass stank cheese bus, I'd be going back down there today to put my foot up that little fuck-tard's ass. First those little dickheads get all that donation money and buy bling to show off on the red carpet of the BET Awards and on you tube, and now one of the little motherfuckers runs off and shoots himself while cleaning a gun.
Why do you have a gun little fuck-tard?
To make matters worst, the little asshole just went to jail for shoplifting.
Check this bullshit out.
TAZ
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The adage goes: Some people never learn...
Some people take an event and use it as a turning point in their lives. There are thousands of examples of addicts, gang-bangers, murderers, and thieves turning from a cyclical life of detrimental behavior and incarceration to more fulfilling lives of public service, wealth, and/or personal and professional success of varying degrees. But some people use an event to further their slide into lives of social maladjustment and individual hardship.
Such would seem to be the case of Mychal Bell.
One of the six teenagers that comprised the Jena 6, Mychal Bell, now 18, spent a few hours in the hospital Tuesday morning following surgery from a non-life-threatening wound after a gun he was cleaning discharged Monday (December 29) night, wounding him in the shoulder. As CNN (and other media outlets) centers their attention on Bell once more, other recent events involving Bell have surfaced.
According to the News Star, Mychal Bell was arrested for shoplifting Christmas Eve. Bell and an unidentified male, according to Monroe authorities (Bell recently moved to Monroe from Jena), placed $370 worth of merchandise in a Dillard's shopping bag and exited the store. A security guard followed them and a chase ensued. Bell was later found hiding under a vehicle. Reports that Bell began swinging wildly after rising, striking the security officer. He was charged with shoplifting, resisting arrest, and simple battery.
Mychal Bell had been out of jail for less than one month from serving time for his involvement in the Jena 6 incident.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1347958/jena_6_figure_mychal_bell_shoots_self.html?cat=8
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Random thoughts...
Whatever happened to the commercials with "The Most Interesting Man in the World". I thought that guy was awesome and mildly hilarious.
Krizz
Monday, December 15, 2008
The shoe seen 'round the world
Krizz
Friday, December 12, 2008
T-Boz, Wyclef, and Fantansia's homes have all gone up for forclosure!...WTF????
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Uncle Clarence Ruckus...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Glad we didn't make this list...
I just read an article on MSN detailing the top 11 most lame blogs in the universe. Among them were Rosie O'Donnell's, Kim Kardashian's and that creepy ping-pong-head thing from the Jack in the Box commercials. Enjoy.
Krizz
http://tech.msn.com/products/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=13523062
Happy Feet 2: The Coming Out Party
Krizz
Gay penguins steal eggs from straight couples
(Agencies)Updated: 2008-11-28 13:07
A couple of gay penguins are attempting to steal eggs from straight birds in an effort to become "fathers", it has been reported.
The two penguins have started placing stones at the feet of parents before waddling away with their eggs, in a bid to hide their theft.
But the deception has been noticed by other penguins at the zoo, who have ostracised the gay couple from their group. Now keepers have decided to segregate the pair of three-year-old male birds to avoid disrupting the rest of the community during the hatching season.
A keeper at Polar Land in Harbin, northeast China explained that the gay couple had the natural urge to become fathers, despite their sexuality.
"One of the responsibilities of being a male adult is looking after the eggs. Despite this being a biological impossibility for this couple, the natural desire is still there," a keeper told the Austrian Times newspaper.
"It's not discrimination. We have to fence them separately, otherwise the whole group will be disturbed during hatching time," he added.
There are numerous examples of homosexuality in the animal kingdom, but gay penguins have captured the public's attention more than any other species.
A German zoo provoked outrage from gay lobby groups after attempting to mate a group of gay male penguins with Swedish female birds who were flown in especially to seduce them. But the project was abandoned after the males refused to be "turned", showing no interest in their would-be mates.
In 2002 a couple of penguins at a New York zoo who had been together for eight years were "outed" when keepers noticed that they were both males.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
GUEST POSTERS Presents Rogue in "Rabbit from Real Chance at Love (VH1) selling her dress on Ebay....Messy Messy Messy!"
Mess of the Week!!!! 12/1/2008 thru 12/6/2008 Beyonce the ASS!!!
Ya’ll motherfuckers didn’t see that. I got the deluxe version. LMAO
Yeah he got off, but we all know exactly what time it is. Weren’t you and Aaliyah friends? Didn’t you see the “Boondocks” episode when R. Kelly is on trial? We all want a number 1 single, but at some point we get so desperate in our search that we become down right messy.
And if this is a lie, or you didn’t approve of his remix, or if it is just someone who sounds like R.kelly, than you are still the mess of the week for that Lil Wayne bite you did with that song, “Diva”. I can’t wait for your new film though.
TAZ
A 2008 Messy Year in Review: Which Pop Princess Released the Best 2008 Album?
My World's Aids Day Experince 2008
Check out our song "Pass It On" on our myspace page, www.myspace.com/theunstoppablenuklehidz ,
and throw one back for my homeboy Blackass!!
Monday, December 1, 2008
Asshole of the Minute: Plaxico Burress
Can we offically stop pretending Tina Turner is sexy for her age yet?
Sexy is sexy, and there are plenty of of older sexy people. Tina Turner has maintained sexy legs for decades and I'll give her that but she is no longer sexy.
In fact, was she ever really sexy?
I gotta be honest folks, she always looked like Mad Max in the face to me!
I say in 2009, we stop with the lies. Tina Turner is a troll, and I may be the one to say it first, but you bitches know you was thinking it!!
The only thing worst than Tina Turner is her arch nemesis, Aretha Frighten!!
LMAO
TAZ
Douchebag of the week: Jim Jones
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
"Whats Sexy Again" presents...Vomiting and The holiday season...
Everybody has been wanting to know whats sexy again for the holiday season, and I am here to tell you. Vomiting your food after a huge holiday dinner is indeed back in style no matter what Pink says in her "Stupid Girls" video. Statistics show that the average American gains between 8 and 10 pounds during the holiday season. This situation makes it indeed important to vomit your food up during this season so that you won't become plus sized.
The kicker is only do it for that three week window between turkey day and the Lawd's birthday because over time vomit eats away at your teeth and gives you bad breath and that my friends is never sexy.
Happy Turkey day.
Be safe.
TAZ
Monday, November 24, 2008
Messy Lindsay Lohan calls Obama "colored"
Wow. I mean I'm not going to make that big a deal about it but c'mon. It is 2008. The term "colored" went out with the Temptations. Even certified racist don't use colored anymore. They say it's dated. They prefer darkie or tar baby or just plain nigger. But for someone who I don't believe to be racist, cause I think she was bangin that Spanish dude from that 70's show before she became a muff diver, she should just stick to acceptable terms. Black, African American, mulatto, these terms are cool. I mean she gets a small break because she's clueless but it's still messy no matter which way you look at it.
Krizz
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Oh hell no. Al Qaeda is callin Obama a house negro?!!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Associated Press
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahiri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
In Al Qaeda's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahiri also called the president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — "house Negroes."
All Things Gay Present...Terrance Howard's Murse.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT!!!
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Isn't it ironic..don't cha think?
-Krizz
Husband's coffin kills woman on way to cemetery
Associated Press
Nov. 11, 2008, 10:14AM
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Police say a woman has died on the way to a cemetery when a traffic accident hurled her husband's coffin against the back of her neck.
Police say 67-year old Marciana Silva Barcelos was in the front passenger seat of the hearse when the accident occurred Monday in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Barcelos died instantly.
Her 76-year-old husband Josi Silveira Coimbra died Sunday of a heart attack while
dancing at a party.
The driver of hearse and Barcelos' son suffered minor injuries.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
YES WE DID!!!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
If you ain't votin' then shut the fuck up...
Monday, October 27, 2008
Diddy luv the Kids!!
Krizz
Friday, October 24, 2008
Hey world
YeahI know. I look dapper then a muhfucka right? However, I am drunk as a bitch right now while I'm typing this blog up. So I went out last night in hopes of...I dunno...anything. I wound up drinking with Taz yet again. Which, by all means, is not a bad thing cause Taz is a fun guy. It did get me to thinking tho. What happened to the Baltimore hip hop scene? I ran into Midas in the parking lot, who is a local emcee here in bmore, standing in front of the 5 seasons debating on whther to go into a battle they were hosting last night. 500 bucks were up for grabs. I was going there just to spectate. he saw me coming in and we talked for a bit then we went up to were Taz was and began gettin tanked. You know 2 years ago the scene here was on and poppin. A packed house, local support was on the rise, and just a overall great place to promote and be heard musically. Now tho not so much. I believe there were a total of three to five people who showed up by the time Midas and myself left the parking lot. You know the stigma about Baltimore is that the locals dont support the musical movement and that was plainly evident last night. In all reality Baltimore is a bandwagon city. Once it's on the radio its hot. Now keep in mind we only have one hip hop/r&b station here so it's a monoploy, but "it is what it is". It's time for our local artists to get a clue and realize that Baltimore is not the be all end all to "get on". Shit, for the Nuklehidz it's not even the start it just happens to be where we live for the time being. And I dont want to come across as a hater because I love Baltimore. It's my home. But I am a realist and realistically fame and fortune just aint gonna happen here. You can argue with me all day on that but I'm just gonna look at you like you're batshit crazy. I've been to New york, L.A., ATL, shit even north carolina has got more goin on as far as local support. To all my loacal artist who may happen to read this do yourself a huge favor...branch out. See what the scenes are like in other states and cities. Feel what its like to be accepted by people who have never heard or seen you before and stop worrying about home. Apparently home aint worried about you cause they aint comin to your shows. Once again, this is not a diss because I love my city to death but my city will be the death of me...at least musically. You have to realize where you are and what you want. If you want to be a local celebrity be my guest, it's your life, but I hear far too much complaining about the local scene. It's not going to change and your're not going to fix it so do the next best thing and take your show on the road. If you do get popular you're going to have to do that anyway so just start now. Never forget where you come from but be able to have the vision to see past what's in front of you. That was my gem of the day. Now take that and fuck off.
Krizz
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Mighty Morphin Murder!!!
Former Power Rangers actor Skylar Deleon guilty of murdering couple
A former child actor has been found guilty of murdering a retired couple who were tied to the anchor of their yacht and thrown overboard while still alive.
Telegraph.co.uk
Deleon was accused of killing Tom and Jackie Hawks in 2004 in order to steal their £292,000 ($500,000) boat and life savings.
Deleon was also found guilty of murdering Jon Jarvi, of Anaheim, in 2003. Prosecutors had said Deleon met Jarvi in a work programme while serving jail time for burglary, and killed him in Mexico after Jarvi gave him £29,000 ($50,000).
The verdicts had been viewed as a foregone conclusion after defense lawyers acknowledged Deleon was guilty in opening statements, an unusual tactic designed to save him from the death penalty.
Gary Pohlson told reporters that he plans to convince the jury to spare his client's life by having Deleon's relatives and doctors testify during the punishment phase about his troubled past.
"He's had a horrible, horrible life," Mr Pohlson said, noting that Deleon's father abused him and later died of AIDS.
The jury will begin deliberations on Deleon's sentence on Wednesday October 22.
During the trial, the court heard how Deleon and two other men, John F. Kennedy and Alonso Machain, had sailed out with the Hawks' from Newport Harbor in November 2004 for what the unsuspecting couple believed was a test run. Deleon and his cohorts had been posing as prospective buyers of the yacht.
However once out at sea, the three men overpowered the couple, handcuffing them and covering their eyes and mouths with duct tape before forcing them to sign and fingerprint title transfer documents for the yacht.
Machain, who testified for the prosecution, told how the terrified couple were then tied to the boat's anchor and lowered into the sea. Their bodies were never found. Machain and Kennedy face trials at a later date.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Douchebag of the week: This guy named...Mystery
Thursday, October 16, 2008
DISCOVERED: The real reason McCain was so angry and snappy at last nights debates!!!
Either way, "war heroes" are so played in new millennium.
With a few short weeks before the elections, good ole' boys down south is getting nervous...LMAO
Friday, October 10, 2008
Douchebags of the week: The AIG CEO's
WASHINGTON - Days after it got a federal bailout, American International Group Inc. spent $440,000 on a posh California retreat for its executives, complete with spa treatments, banquets and golf outings, according to lawmakers investigating the company's meltdown.
AIG sent its executives to the coastal St. Regis resort south of Los Angeles even as the company tapped into an $85 billion loan from the government it needed to stave off bankruptcy. The resort tab included $23,380 worth of spa treatments for AIG employees, according to invoices the resort turned over to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The retreat didn't include anyone from the financial products division that nearly drove AIG under, but lawmakers still were enraged over thousands of dollars spent on outing for executives of AIG's main U.S. life insurance subsidiary.
"Average Americans are suffering economically. They're losing their jobs, their homes and their health insurance," the committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., scolded the company during a lengthy opening statement at a hearing Tuesday. "Yet less than one week after the taxpayers rescued AIG, company executives could be found wining and dining at one of the most exclusive resorts in the nation."
Former AIG CEO Robert Willumstad, who lost his job a day after the Federal Reserve put up the $85 billion on Sept. 16, said he was not familiar with the conference and would not have gone along with it.
"It seems very inappropriate," Willumstad said in response to questioning from Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
"Those executives should be fired," Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama said at a debate with Sen. John McCain on Tuesday, referring to the retreat participants. Obama also said AIG should give the Treasury $440,000 to cover the costs of the retreat.
But Eric Dinallo, superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department, said he could see the value of such a retreat under the circumstances.
"Having been at large global companies and knowing what condition AIG was in ... the absolute worst thing that could have happened" would have been for employees and underwriters in its life insurance subsidiary to flee the company.
"I do agree there is some profligate spending there, but the concept of bringing all the major employees together ... to ensure that the $85 billion could be as greatly as possible paid back would have been not a crazy corporate decision," Dinallo told the House committee.
The hearing disclosed that AIG executives hid the full range of its risky financial products from auditors as losses mounted, according to documents released by the committee, which is examining the chain of events that forced the government to bail out the conglomerate.
The panel sharply criticized AIG's former top executives, who cast blame on each other for the company's financial woes.
"You have cost my constituents and the taxpayers of this country $85 billion and run into the ground one of the most respected insurance companies in the history of our country," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. "You were just gambling billions, possibly trillions of dollars."
AIG, crippled by huge losses linked to mortgage defaults, was forced last month to accept the $85 billion government loan that gives the U.S. the right to an 80 percent stake in the company.
Waxman unveiled documents showing AIG executives hid the full extent of the firm's risky financial products from auditors, both outside and inside the firm, as losses mounted.
For instance, federal regulators at the Office of Thrift Supervision warned in March that "corporate oversight of AIG Financial Products ... lack critical elements of independence." At the same time, PricewaterhouseCoopers confidentially warned the company that the "root cause" of its mounting problems was denying internal overseers in charge of limiting AIG's exposure access to what was going on in its highly leveraged financial products branch.
Waxman also released testimony from former AIG auditor Joseph St. Denis, who resigned after being blocked from giving his input on how the firm estimated its liabilities.
Three former AIG executives were summoned to appear before the hearing. One of them, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg — who ran AIG for 38 years until 2005 — canceled his appearance citing illness but submitted prepared testimony. In it, he blamed the company's financial woes on his successors, former CEOs Martin Sullivan and Willumstad.
"When I left AIG, the company operated in 130 countries and employed approximately 92,000 people," Greenberg said. "Today, the company we built up over almost four decades has been virtually destroyed."
Sullivan and Willumstad, in turn, cast much of the blame on accounting rules that forced AIG to take tens of billions of dollars in losses stemming from exposure to toxic mortgage-related securities.
Lawmakers also upbraided Sullivan, who ran the firm from 2005 until June of this year, for urging AIG's board of directors to waive pay guidelines to win a $5 million bonus for 2007 — even as the company lost $5 billion in the 4th quarter of that year. Sullivan countered that he was mainly concerned with helping other senior executives.
Monday, October 6, 2008
The Divine Hustler
We've heard of priests doing stuff to get young people pumped up about the church -- adding an acoustic guitar to the service, getting a rad crucifix tattoo -- but a Catholic priest in Illinois blows them all out of the holy water. Emphasis on blow.Reverend Christopher Layden, 33, was recently arrested and charged with possession and distribution of cocaine at his home, the University of Illinois campus church rectory. He pleaded not guilty in court and is currently under suspension by the Catholic Diocese of Peoria.
BREAKING NEWS: Finally the real story on what happened at Janet's sound check in Canada that ended with Miss Jackson being rushed to the hospital
CALAMITY AT THE WORKPLACE: featuring the Unbelievable Taz Jonez
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Coming to a town near you: The broke down and busted tour 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
What do you mean Clay Aiken is gay??!!
All right, all right...so this isn't the biggest news scoop in tabloid history. This is sort of akin to reporting that Chris Daughtry is bald, or that David Cook uses hair gel, or that Ruben Studdard shops at Big & Tall For Men. It's always been that obvious. But this is the first time that Clay has actually acknowledged it, so I for one am thrilled that he has set the record straight (no pun intended).
For years, practically from the minute he reared his bespectacled head on season 2 of American Idol, Clay has skirted (again, no pun intended) around this issue--even telling Diane Sawyer herself that she was "really rude" to grill him about his sexuality in a 2006 Good Morning America interview. He always made a big point of keeping his private life just that--private--but it seemed the quieter he remained, the louder all the gossip (and snarky jokes) became.
Of course, promo photos of Clay's new look (frosty blonde highlights, inch-thick pancake makeup), or news than his son was conceived via medical intervention with his 50-year-old "best friend," didn't help matters. But Clay still kept mum, perhaps out of fear of alienating his adoring, mostly female fanbase.
But now Clay has finally come out, in a People article accompanied by the first published photos of his new bouncing baby boy, Parker Foster (who apparently was his inspiration for telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth here, as he told the mag, "I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things"). Kudos to Clay for being an honest role model for his child, and I'm certain that any worries Clay--or, probably more specifically, his handlers--had about him losing fans after such a confession will prove totally unfounded.