If They IM’d: Paris Hilton and John McCain (from 23/6 - also the fine home of Get Your War On)

(thx to Fresh)

Mike Huckabee is downright hilarious.

I don’t know how I missed this commercial, but it is about as funny as it gets in politics.

Enjoy this parody of the Will.i.am video for Barack.

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Waiting on a corner to cross the street in Times Square, the radio of one of New York’s Finest begins to squawk just behind me.

All West 5-0. Suspect is a black male. Approximately 6 feet tall.

My ears perk up…

Wearing a winter hat and a black coat.

I look down at my overcoat and lightly touch my hand to my winter hat. As I turn to look the police officer in the eye, the dispatcher adds:

… and Timberlands.

I smile at the cop and say, “glad I didn’t wear Tims today…”

Turns out, Prince is, in fact, a baller. Apparently he and The Revolution actually aired it out on Charlie Murphy and them.

From an interview with Prince on MTV:

Sway: I wanted to tell you this story first: I was watching the Dave Chappelle show, and Eddie Murphy’s brother Charlie Murphy does this thing on it called “True Life Hollywood Stories,” and he told this story that he was hanging out with you at your house, and you guys were listening to music, and then you came up with the idea to all go play basketball. He said they didn’t have any clothes, so you got them shorts and T-shirts, but he said that your crew showed up to the basketball court with the same wardrobe [as you wear onstage]. High heels, suited and booted. Is that true?

Prince: That part’s not true. But the whupping’s true.

Sway: The whupping’s true. So you’ve got basketball skills?

Prince: A little bit.

Sway: Yeah? What you got? A crossover dribble? Or a jump shot?

Prince: We didn’t call it crossover back then.

Sway: What’d you call it?

Prince: Just speed.

Thanks to Damon for the investigative reporting.

Speaking of Thriller, this video of 1,500 inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, in the Philippines doing a rendition of the zombie dance in Michael Jackson’s Thriller is awesome. Can you imagine what one has to do to get 1500 convicts to walk around like zombies, much less dance like Michael Jackson?

(via Watch, While Seated)

My friends’ baby (her father is a lawyer).

Rob Harvilla has a hilarious article entitled Hot Hot Heat -
A graphical dissertation on the number one song in America in the village voice about the breakout hit “This is Why I’m Hot” by Mims.

An excerpt:

The most amazing line in “This Is Why I’m Hot”—and, even at this early a juncture, quite possibly the most amazing line of any song to see release in 2007—is “I’m hot ’cause I’m fly/You ain’t ’cause you not.” Brutal and unassailable in its simplicity. Consider the reasoning, first, of just “I’m hot ’cause I’m fly”:

Mims is hot because he’s fly. But it raises the question: Does being hot guarantee one’s being fly? “You ain’t ’cause you not” would seem to clear that up:

It would appear that fly and hot are interchangable. If you are one, you are both; if you aren’t at least one, you are neither.

(thanks to jono for the heads up)

If you’re not familiar, FT is the international business newspaper that looks like someone forgot to separate their whites on laundry day.