Yes, that’s not a typo. Alaska’s most famous airhead Sarah Palin will have some competition when her memoir Going Rogue: An American Life is aborted into bookstores November 17th.

The Nation’s editors Richard Kim and Betsy Reed have rounded up an army of writers who have contributed essays on the mavericky ex-governor’s brush with greatness. The collection is called Going Rouge: Sarah Palin – An American Nightmare and will conveniently also launch on November 17th.  The book is already making waves with its obviously similar book cover. In both covers, the plucky moose-mama sports the color red and gazes toward a brighter tomorrow. But there are also a few key differences.

First, the use of the word “Rouge” which alludes to Palin’s sex-appeal and sideshow antics during the 2008 election. In what may be a reminder of the how close Palin came to power, the ex-governor is shown with hair tied back and wearing more formal attire, unlike going Rogue’s more innocuous, homey look .

There is also the font size of Palin’s name on Going Rouge which at first glance (more…)

There’s nothing like blazing up some sticky icky, jumping into your lowrider, and driving through the doors of perception to, where else? That’s right! THE MUTHAFUCKIN’ CPT!

The year was 1992, and the one and only Dr. Dre had just unleashed his debut studio album, The Chronic, upon a trembling nation. It announced the arrival of a producer extraordinaire and established the G-Funk rap subgenre in one masterstroke. The Chronic is considered essential

listening for hip hop aficionados and was even named #137 on Rolling Stone’s list of of the 500 all time greatest albums!

Now, like most rap records, it contains a healthy dose of salty language, and you might be inclined to turn down the volume when grandma walks in…. (more…)

We may roll our eyes at Muse’s latest bombast or Coldplay’s pussyrock du jour, but Radiohead has largely escaped the pungent smell of artifice that clings to most melodramatic musical acts.

The band survives this scrutiny with music that can be frightening in its sincerity.

But out of all of the ‘Head’s gloomy tunes, could one actually stand out as the gloomiest? Yes! and frontman Thom Yorke singles out Street Spirit (Fade Out) from the album The Bends for this honor.

Yorke is quoted as saying:

“Street Spirit is our purest song, but I didn’t write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers; its biological catalysts. Its core is a complete mystery to me, and, you know, I wouldn’t ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have (more…)

Twitter has become a phenomenal  way for people to stay in touch.

Famous personalities, from d-list losers all the way up to the president himself take advantage of this medium to gab, jaw and shoot the shit about anything and everything…in 140 characters or less of course.

Inevitably, Twitter has also become a haven for narcissistic nobodies who tweet the joys of their last bowel movement or facebrag in quantities that their facebook status message just could not handle.

Could anything of value come from these one-liners, the chum of cyberspace?

Yes! And believe it or not, it’s poetry! (more…)

Long live Michael Jackson! Oh wait…..sadly, the King of Pop is with us no more and fans everywhere are devastated. (I even read 12+ fans have already committed suicide!) But from every corner of the world, tributes are pouring in in the form of impersonations, bad poetry and even kicks to the taint! But no tribute is better than the continuous and ever changing Eternal Moonwalk, a site which took a simple idea and made it into an astonishing tribute:

http://www.eternalmoonwalk.com