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The Gentlemen’s Forum Top 15 Songs of 2011 #14- Nicolas...

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:35:00 -0500

The Gentlemen’s Forum Top 15 Songs of 2011

#14- Nicolas Jaar - I Got a Woman

Missing Nicolas Jaar’s set at the Electric Zoo was probably the biggest mistake I made in the last few months. During the hyperactive frenzy which was the Zoo this past September, Jaar was vibing out with a live band and from what I’ve heard, put on the best show all weekend. His 2011 album, Space Is Only Noise has received accolades throughout the blogosphere including a raving review in Pitchfork. “I Got A Woman” takes the ol’ Ray Charles classic and flips it so damn soulfully that I think Kanye West might even be a bit jealous. Enjoy.

-Ellsworth Toohey

Rest In Peace Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:55:00 -0500

(CNN) — Christopher Hitchens, the prosaic essayist whose pungent social commentary delighted his fans, enraged his detractors and engaged the legion of readers who devoured his work, has died from complications of esophageal cancer. He was 62.

“There will never be another like Christopher,” said Vanity Fair magazine editor Graydon Carter, who called him “a man of ferocious intellect.”

“Those who read him felt they knew him, and those who knew him were profoundly fortunate souls.”

Regarded as one of the English-speaking world’s great public intellectuals, Hitchens, who died Thursday, churned out literary criticism and tackled societal and political topics in magazines and books.

He wrote wry monthly columns for Vanity Fair. He penned articles for the New Statesman, the London Evening Standard, London’s Daily Express, The Nation, Harper’s, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, New York Newsday, The Atlantic and Slate.

Known for his hard drinking and smoking, Hitchens “was as vibrant on the page as he was at the bar,” Carter said.

Hitchens became a strong voice for atheism and a strident critic of religion, writing a book called “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.”

As Hitchens went through his public battle with cancer, he went on talk shows and participated in lectures and debates where he defended atheism and vigorously took on religion.

“Humanity has lost a powerful stalwart for atheism,” said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association. “Christopher Hitchens changed the discussion about religion and nonbelief by championing public criticism of theology.”

Over the years, Hitchens had been solidly on the political left, but his beliefs couldn’t be neatly categorized. He became supportive of the war in Iraq because of what he saw as the dangers of radical Islam. As his condition worsened, he kept on producing lucid material.

Born in Portsmouth, England, in 1949 and graduated from Oxford University in 1970, Hitchens eventually settled in the United States and became an American citizen.

He landed a job with Vanity Fair as a contributing editor in November 1992.

“Christopher was a master of the stunning line and the biting quip, and he had few equals in the sphere of commentary, let alone social life,” a Vanity Fair statement said.

Christopher Hitchens was an all around guy. Who else would you want to talk to about how overrated Ronald Reagan with? Who else would you rather talk to about free speech with? Who else would you rather speak to about the decline of Western society through the lens of reality television with? And who else would you want to talk about these topics with all while downing a bottle of Jack Daniels and chain smoking cigarettes? I once heard him defend his lifestyle in an interview from last year saying that he indulged in the “Bohemian Lifestyle” all just to prolong the night, to enhance the moment, and to get the most out of people and himself. For Hitchens it was all about the conversation.

Whether you found Hitchens arrogant, offensive, or charming, you had no choice but to listen to the man speak. The following conversation was about comedy, and why in his opinion, women have no part in it. Rest in Peace.

-Ellsworth Toohey

The Gentlemen’s Forum Top 15 Songs of 2011 #15- Kendrick...

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:23:07 -0500

The Gentlemen’s Forum Top 15 Songs of 2011

#15- Kendrick Lamar - Blow My High (Members Only)

Today is December 15th so from now until 2012 arrives we will post the top songs of the year. Kendrick Lamar dropped his debut full length album in July and proved he was a name to remember. The album was smooth as Lamar Odom’s skull and spawned a couple of hits, including “hiiiPower” and “A.D.H.D.” But when it comes to straight chill out music, which was the flavor of the year, you can’t deny this track. Here is “Blow My High.”

-Ellsworth Toohey

Purp Drank Shawne Williams Signs With Nets

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:02:00 -0500

Shawne Williams is headed to the Nets after rejecting an opportunity to re-sign with the Knicks, The Daily News has learned.

Williams reportedly signed a two-year deal worth $5 million after reviving his career last season under Mike D’Antoni and Donnie Walsh. Williams was also popular in the locker room and became close friends with Amar’e Stoudemire.

Missing out on Williams is the Knicks’ second airball this week. On Wednesday, Jamal Crawford turned down a one-year $2.5 million offer from the Knicks.

Williams, 25, will see plenty of playing time with the Nets, whose roster is in need of Band-Aids after they missed out on top free agents while pursuing Dwight Howard.

The Knicks screwed this one up. Shawne Williams, besides bringing tremendous swag to the court, also hits open threes and defends very well off the bench. These are traits hard to come by in the NBA and kudos to the Nets for realizing this. Shawne’s two year deal means he’ll most likely be a part of the team when Jigga and Russian Presidential candidate Prokhorov move the team to Brooklyn in the fall of 2012. At least Purp Drank is staying in the NYC area. In honor of Williams’ time with the Knicks, here is a syrupy ballad.

-Ellsworth Toohey

via NY Daily News

Action Bronson- Barry Horowitz

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:24:03 -0500

Action Bronson is a beast. As the year comes to a close I will be posting some of the years best music. This is round one. His debut Dr. Lecter was released in March of 2011 and the single “Barry Horowitz” shows us that Queens and the golden age of Hip Hop may not be a thing of the past.

-Ellsworth Toohey

WTF: The Dictator

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:40:25 -0500

Aside from toeing the line of racism and appearing to be a grotesque version of Borat, the trailer to The Dictator has truly confused me. While I haven’t done the research to back this up, (mainly because I’m scared to find the answer) but is that really John C Reilly and Ben Kingsley? I never thought Sir Kingsley would stoop this low. And why would Sacha Baron Cohen do this? Shouldn’t he be too busy handling Isla Fisher? The best part about the entire trailer is Megan Fox, who probably didn’t have to stray too far from her own reality in accepting diamonds for sex. Hollywood is at an all time low.

-Ellsworth Toohey

Hipster Baron Davis Now Free Agent

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:47:52 -0500

As expected, Baron Davis has become the next victim in the NBA’s new amnesty circus according to the NBA’s official twitter feed. If I may say so, he’s looking like he can fit in perfectly into Mike Bloomberg’s hipsterific NYC. I predict the Knicks will make the call- very soon.

-Ellsworth Toohey

Finally: Chris Paul To Clippers

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:28:49 -0500

The Los Angeles Clippers have agreed to a deal in principle with the league-owned New Orleans Hornets to acquire guard Chris Paul, according to sources close to the process.

The Clippers, sources said, will send guard Eric Gordon, center Chris Kaman, forward Al-Farouq Aminu and Minnesota’s unprotected 2012 first-round pick to the Hornets for Paul.

The Clippers will also receive two future second-round picks, according to sources.

The deal is expected to be approved by the league Wednesday night, sources said.

There you have it folks, the Chris Paul saga has concluded. He is now a member of the Los Angeles Clippers, a team which could possibly usurp the Lakers as the City of Angels’ best team this season. With the Lakers having dealt Odom to the Champs for nothing and with the Orlando Magic taking Dwight Howard off the table, the Clippers are looking pretty good by comparison. Including Eric Gordon in this deal makes me cringe a bit since he was a third year undersized shooting guard who averaged 22.3 points a game last season, and that isn’t something you ever want to give up. In addition, they now have 3 pure point guards in Chauncey Billups, Eric Bledsoe, and Mr. Paul. We’ll see what they manage to do from now till Christmas.

-Ellsworth Toohey

via ESPN

Inside The Mind of Metta World Peace

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:28:03 -0500

Metta World Peace and his Los Angeles Lakers are hard at work every day in preparation for the new NBA season. Times are tough for the Lakers. Their front office inexplicably dealt Lamar Odom, last season’s sixth man of the year, to the defending champion Dallas Mavericks for a draft pick and some cash and it seems like most of the players aren’t taking it too well. Well, besides Mr. World Peace. He’s got other things on his mind.

-Ellsworth Toohey

Busy P & Murs - To Protect And Entertain (DJ Mehdi 99Rap...

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:35:15 -0400

Busy P & Murs - To Protect And Entertain (DJ Mehdi 99Rap Mix)

This past week, internationally respected DJ Mehdi Favéris-Essadi (DJ Mehdi) died tragically at his home when his roof collapsed during a party. Let us remember the good times. Here is Mehdi’s remix of Busy P and Murs’ collaboration “To Protect and Entertain.” Rest in Peace.

-Ellsworth Toohey

Old Spice War Begins Today

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:49:00 -0400

So Fabio, the new Old Spice representative, challenged Isaiah Mustafa, the old Old Spice spokesman, to a duel. No one exactly knows what will occur during their “duel,” but that something is going to happen today at noon. Despite the fact that Mustafa changed Old Spice marketing forever and that this duel is being funded by Old Spice on both sides, it will still be hilarious.

- MiracleWhi’p

New Music: N.O.R.E. (feat. Pharrell)

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:41:00 -0400

New Music: N.O.R.E. (feat. Pharrell) - Like The Way

Here’s the latest video release from N.O.R.E. featuring Pharrell.

- MiracleWhi’p

Mark Herzlich Is A Giant

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:14:00 -0400

One player many considered the jewel of the undrafted free-agent rookies says he will sign with the New York Giants.

Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich tweeted Tuesday that he has decided to sign with coach Tom Coughlin’s team.

“Decision is made I will be a #GIANT can’t wait to get to #NYC,” Herzlich tweeted. “Thank you for everything.”

Herzlich later tweeted to ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter: “I have chosen the #Giants great team, great fit, great opportunity.”

The Giants need to upgrade at linebacker, and Herzlich once was considered one of the top linebackers in college football. However, Herzlich missed the entire 2009 season due to Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.

He recovered in time to return for Boston College’s 2010 season, when he recorded 65 tackles and four interceptions.

Well this is the steal of the century, Mark Herzlich is now apart of the Big Blue. The beast was projected to be a first round pick entering his junior year at Boston College, but then he was like, Hey NFL I’ll be right back I just have to go and beat cancer. Its players like Herzlich that the Giants need, all day tough. All-Americans who can beat cancer and your team’s offensiveline.

- MiracleWhi’p

via ESPN

Glenn Beck Being Glenn Beck

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:53:00 -0400

The conservative commentator has compared the Norwegian summer camp, where many of the 76 victims tragically died, to the Hitler Youth organization of Nazi Germany.

Beck said on his radio show that the Labour Party youth camp on the island of Utoya, where 68 people were believed killed by the suspect Anders Behring Breivik, had “disturbing” similarities to the Nazi’s youth movement. “There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler Youth, or, whatever,” Beck said Monday on his syndicated program heard across 400-plus stations. “I mean, who does a camp for kids that’s all about politics. Disturbing.”

Understandably, his comments were quickly condemned. Torbjørn Eriksen, a former press secretary to Norway’s prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, said, “Young political activists have gathered at Utoya for over 60 years to learn about and be part of democracy, the very opposite of what the Hitler Youth was about. Glenn Beck’s comments are ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful.”

Admittedly, Beck did label the killings “the work of a madman” and called Breivik “as bad as Osama bin Laden,” but not until after his inflammatory remarks had been made. And what appears most puzzling is why Beck is perturbed by the purpose of the camp: politically-oriented camps are organized in several U.S. states by chapters of the “9/12 Project,” which is an organization founded by Beck back in 2009.

When will they finally shut down, Glenn Beck? Seventy-six people were tragically gunned down, and instead of letting people mourn he has to go straight into dick mode. He has gotten to the point where he does not even represent the conservative view but just the view of your common lunatic.

- MiracleWhi’p

via TIME

New Video - Pusha T (Featuring Tyler the Creator) -Trouble On My Mind

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:49:57 -0400

Fear of God did the job. Here is a video that I’m sure many of us were waiting for. Hip Hop sounding a little bit more soulful lately, huh?

-Ellsworth Toohey

New Music: Otis (feat. Kanye West) - Jay-Z Latest single from...

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:32:23 -0400

New Music: Otis (feat. Kanye West) - Jay-Z

Latest single from Jay-Z featuring Kanye West off of the soon to be released album “Watch the Throne.”

- MiracleWhi’p

Sicko Actor Marries Sicko 16 Year Old

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:32:00 -0400

Young at heart?

Lost’s Doug Hutchison and his wife Courtney Stodden faced a great deal of criticism for their marriage in May. Hutchison, 51, is 35 years older than his 16-year-old wife.

The Green Mile star met Stodden, an aspiring actress and pop singer, when she signed up for his acting workshop online. After a 4-month courtship over the internet, Hutchison learned that the attractive blonde he’d been flirting with was still just a teenager.

“My world turned upside down,” he admitted in an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America. “[Online communication] is a really unique and beautiful way to get to know someone,” he gushed. “We didn’t have the distraction of the physical.”

Stoddard’s mother monitored her daughter’s exchanges with the actor, and was “fully aware” of their staggering age difference.

“I said [that] if you and [Courtney’s father] have any misgivings whatsoever about this, if you are uncomfortable with it, I will respect you, and Courtney will respect you, and we will step back,” Hutchison said.

This was my train of thought after analyzing this situation thoroughly. First I thought: “Wow, this is strangest story of the year.” Then I saw the footage. Now I’m speechless. Enjoy.

-Ellsworth Toohey

via Usmagazine

New Music: Jose Reyes Rapping

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:20:19 -0400

Seriously, is there anything this guy cannot do? Jose Reyes and his newly formed record label rapping in the streets of the Dominican Republic being real stereotypical and playing baseball. Instead of being useless on the DL like A-Rod, he’s on the streets probably rapping about his soon to be formed $145 million contract.

- MiracleWhi’p

Op-Ed: An Emory Perspective: Your Inner R. Kelly

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:38:00 -0400

As most of you who have read my article well know, my life mostly revolves around trying to pick up chicks and getting hammered. Along the way some bad things have happened, coupled with some fucking phenomenal accomplishments. I have stabbed out an SEC cheerleader, a famous man’s daughter, and virtually every race under the sun. However last weekend might have been the most embarrassing sexual encounter of my entire life and to me it only makes sense to share with you all.

Things are going swimmingly at the bar I was at in Buckhead. I ended up talking to this wonderful Jewess who was flaunting off her grade A knockies. As we should all know by this point, Jew broads love to give blowjobs, because they age worse than other women and need to lock up a husband as soon as possible. Well I took the young vixen back to my townhouse, the whole time hooking up in the cab. When we got home I was insanely drunk, but the moves were still working. Before I knew it my wang was being mouthasized and my joy could only be described as elation. Suddenly I had the sensation to come, but it had only just started, what was happening? I can tell you that it was not come, but rather the sensation of warm urine pouring out of my penis into the young ladies mouth. She spit it up and stormed off into the night.

Now I do find this funny, but there is an important lesson to be learned from this. Before you bring a girl home, use the restroom and clean the system just incase release is imminent. That being said if you have to let it go, don’t be ashamed just laugh it off and carry on with your business.

- Robocop

Shaquille O'Neal As A Commentator?

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:35:00 -0400

ESPN — The calls came as soon as Shaquille O’Neal decided to retire, all wanting to hire one of the NBA’s greatest entertainers.

TNT’s “Inside the NBA” studio show had been O’Neal’s favorite as a player, so the choice was easy.

Get ready for the Big Analyzer, Big Commentator, or whatever other nickname he takes in the next phase of his career.

O’Neal agreed Thursday to a multiyear deal with Turner Sports to become an analyst on its NBA coverage, where he will fold his 7-foot-1 frame into the fourth chair on the TNT set alongsideCharles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson.

“I’m just going to try to make it more fun than it already is,” O’Neal said during a conference call.

O’Neal also will contribute to NBA TV and NBA.com, and his agreement includes a development deal with Turner’s entertainment and animation networks.

Listen, I grew up idolizing Shaquille and being amazed by how one man could be so large and dominant. I even watched “Kazaam” every time it was on the Disney channel, when I was young. Shaq is arguably the greatest big man to ever play the game. However, when the games were over no one ever knew what he was talking about. The man whispers and stutters like a nine year old visiting their psychiatrist for the first time, and now he’s going to be on national television talking every week?

- MiracleWhi’p