Kanye West’s Late Registration has been my pick for album of the year for the past few weeks (although The Minstrel Show is currently challenging that assertion). Kanye’s on fire right now, and his over-the-top expressiveness in interviews, magazines, t.v. shows (hell name a form of media he isn’t in) ensure that he’s always being talked about.

During Talib’s set at Bumbershoot this year, a backpacker approached and handed us stickers pimping “Kanye West for President”! “Ahh, that’s cool, let me have one!” we all said. After all, it had the droupout bear and we were all there to see Common’s show (whose latest album was produced by Kanye). Great right? Actually, […]

As the above illustration shows, we had a near-catastrophic mishap almost occur during the course of our camping trip to Orcas Island this summer.

I consider myself a pretty mild-mannered, even-tempered individual, but there have been a few times when playing Halo 2 where I have been almost pushed to the edge of sanity.