“Sexy Game Boy“, or sex for geeks 
A funny packaging in a 8-bit and retro gaming way : the pack is a Game Boy, and all condoms are different parodies of classic Game Boy video games : “The Long End of Zelda”, “Dong”, “Bone Zone 2″, “Super Mario Land of Love” or “Sextris” and “Donkey Shlong” Take you joypads ! Created by ilikedoodles designers.
Christabel and the team visited the award-winning ‘Godfather’ of the independent film genre, Melvin Van Peebles at his New York City home recently. Van Peebles, is most famous for creating the acclaimed film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, which heralded a new era of African American focused films. Melvin is also the father of actor and director Mario Van Peebles.
During the interview, he spent the majority of the time talking to her about how he broke into film, some of his latest projects, including his latest book, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus Itchy Footed Mutha. He also surprised her by revealing his deep love of science.
Click Here to Listen to Christabel’s dynamic conversation with Melvin Van Peebles online, via the show website, www.hfhshow.com.
This morning I wake up to see on my Facebook homepage, a friend of mine grieving the loss of what may be someone I know. You never know because Milwaukee is sooo small. And true indeed, this fallen comrade is Mario Brown. It’s sad to me, knowing that the tragic death I read about the day before, was of a person i knew. I lost touch with so many people because of life circumstances that just don’t allow people to always remain connected.
He just recently added me as a friend on Facebook and I wasn’t able to respond in time to check in with him. From the looks of things, he was doing great. I personally, want to express how much you are going to be missed by the people you touched from Wisconsin to Alabama. But crazy ass John can sum it up a lil better below!
“I never thought I would lose one of my brothers in my real circle but I did 2 the hands of a h** a** n****. My friend was more than a friend he was a bother, father, son, uncle and a Damn good mechanic. R.I.P Mario Brown I tatted you on my arm today 2 make sure u make it 2 vegas with us Friday love u my n****” – Jarvis Rogers
If this man’s death was attributed to health complications, I would be somewhat at ease knowing that that’s apart a life. But unfortunately he and a woman in her late twenties were found murdered at a home on the northside of Milwaukee and that I can’t get used to. Why is it so easy to kill but so hard to love? It takes a heart to do both.
Below is a clip from spoken word artist Mario Willis. It’s a freewrite inspired by Chris Matthews’ “I forgot Obama was Black” comment. Willis is a poet out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and often juxtaposes humor and sorrow in his poetry to talk about the struggles of inner city America. Check out his “challenge”, it’s pretty funny, yet extremely poignant. The rest of the freewrite is after the jump, and it is pretty damn entertaining as well.
photo by Isaiah Merriweather
** a challenge**
for the next week every time someone says something smart or important, remark that you forgot their race. Like “Wow, you did a good job today Tom, I forgot you were German”, “nice report Patty, i forgot you were Polish”, “Thanks for the help with my homework, Chananya, I forgot you were a jew”…
more of Mario’s freewrite after the jump.
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