I know this is slowly and steadily already making the rounds on the blogosphere but being a big fan of both Depeche Mode and losers, I felt it was worth posting for anyone who hadn’t read about it yet.  Plus it gave me the opportunity to waste 1o minutes of my life from doing what I should be doing to make that above image and chuckle to myself the whole while.

Blizzard Entertainment, makers of World of Warcraft are being sued for $1 million by Erik Estravillo of California over pricing, muli-player gameplay and most importantly his own mental health issues he’s developed stemming from playing the game.

Estavillo’s complaint essentially breaks down like this: Blizzard charges too much money for World of Warcraft, a problem exacerbated by the fact that the game doesn’t let people move around fast enough until they’ve sunk enough time and money into it to buy a mount or a “teleportation stone.” But mentally ill people who rely on MMOGs as their primary form of entertainment and contact with the outside world have a tendency to die when they’re deprived of them and since Estavillo himself is mentally ill and doesn’t want to end up like all the other dead MMOGers out there, he wants the game “fixed.”- The Escapist

Estravillo has a history with going up against the videogame industry also includes unsuccessful lawsuits against Sony Playstation and Everquest. However this time around Estravillo may finally have his trump card in Depeche Mode’s Martin L. Gore. Estravillo has subpoenaed Gore to testify in his defense to “be a witness on alienation and the ties it has to World of Warcraft”. I can’t argue with that logic! Winonna Ryder is also on his subpoena list because of her professed fondness for Catcher in the Rye.

[Ryder] and I share a common interest in the book Catcher in the Rye, which is all about alienation,” he continued. “She will be a witness that can explain the significance of alienation in Catcher in the Rye (since she bought one of the original printed copies at an auction) and will also testify to how alienation in the book can tie to alienation in real life/video games such as World of Warcraft.

Catcher in the Rye!? Uh, How about playing a Ms. Lydia Deetz? Now that girl understood loneliness and alienation… actually maybe that’s what Estravillo needs in his life, a little “ghost with the most”. Sure turned things around for Lydia.

Check out Gamespot and Slicing Up Eyeballs for more details and a copy of the subpoena. Or better yet The Escapist for Estravillo’s entire complaint .

I kept having to swab the steam off my camera lens due to Soulclap turning Glasslands into a real sweat lodge. The non-assholes of Brooklyn tuned in, turned out and dropped in and then fucked up my camera lens with their precipitations.

I’d been sitting in my work dungeon, which is adjacent to my sleep dungeon, writing record reviews or some other stupid thing when Vidiot asked me to come to Soulclap with him. Our friend Ana Lola Roman was one of the judges at this particular one. That’s her above. She’s a fun lady in a band that reminds me of Lene Lovich and I usually have no idea what the fuck she is talking about. I interviewed her one time and she kept giving oblique answers that made little sense to me. She has good goth taste and makes people talk to her hands, as evidenced above.

This is Jonathan Toubin, the DJ of the Soulclap parties. He DJs almost every day. It may surprise some people to know that “Toubin” is not the name he was born with but rather a name he picked up in his fraternity days. He was constantly missing class so he could go tubin’.

Who is this handsome man? Why, it is OJ from Golden Triangle. Take all the breathers you need to take, you have earned them. Golden Triangle’s new record is coming soon and it is great and I wrote the press release one sheet for it.

Charly, Patrick and Chris Teenrager barged in, adding to the fun goofiness. Shit really got swinging once Jesse and Karen from Fostercare arrived. It was swinging so hard it was swangin’.

Soulclap is a dance party and it is also a dance contest and also you win money. Ex Mishka intern, Reid Maidhof’s cousin is the reigning champion of the event. Someone’ll safety pin a number to you and when the contest begins you have to dance as best you can with ten other people. Then they have a second round in which the winners of the first round face off. I used to be healthy and able to dance in a state of super aerobic frenzy for half hour stretches. Now it’s hard to get through one song. That could be due to poor ventilation in either the building or in me. I took the photo of the judges after losing my round. How could I lose? I always win at stuff! Next time I will win.

The winners came back into the circle of dance for one final prance.

This happened.

This happened too. Lying on the floor of Glasslands is a bad idea if you want your white clothes to maintain their integrity.

Look at all that boppin’ n’ floppin’.

This guy told me about the advantages of shaving the sides of your head. You can more easily tuck your hair under your hat when you have to look professional, he claimed.

Alaina was there wearing this shirt. What a great shirt! We danced around and then she invited me and some others to an after-after party at Market Hotel called Mister Saturday Night. When we got there I spent a half hour talking about Achewood and orphanges with a guy who was pretty nerdy and had a piece of cord for a belt.

Alaina ordered us to vacate the nerd hutch and go dance. These ladies were there.

And so was this guy. You can’t take a bad photo of this guy. His smile lights up my life.

The party kept moving into smaller and smaller spaces. I like that. There’s no privacy to be had in New York. I need more forts in my life. Jonathan was there looking a lot like Kramer. He called us all n-words and Wale made a rap about it.

This has been posted around a bit but it deserves some more attention for sure.  Dude took the game Crysis, that FPS from a couple years back, and modded a Back To The Future Delorean into it.  Before you fill the cup just know that it is not a full game, just one car, but with awesome detail.  I honestly don’t know how he did the timetraveling without having a map load, crazy shit.  Anyway, enjoy.

Oh and click HERE for the the actual mod.

It’s not the same as being conscious in a coma for 23 years, sure, but Bills rookie Eric Wood’s leg getting snapped like a pretzel stick on Sunday was still pretty gnarly. Career-endingly so, maybe. This was so rough that CBS wouldn’t show the replay. File it under “Violence & Pain.”

Sucks. The rookie played hard and looks like Thurman Merman from Bad Santa.

Ryan Leslie – Transition (2009) [Universal Motown] // Grade: B+

Futuristic R&B crooner, rapper and producer Ryan Leslie stays true to his ambitious persona with the release of his sophomore effort, Transition, the same year as his self-titled debut. There’s not much Leslie doesn’t have going for him. The star-in-the-making almost exclusively dates models, graduated from Harvard at 19 after scoring a perfect on his SATs at age 15 and was nominated this year for both BET and Soul Train awards. Leslie is clearly setting his own bar sky high for future success and while neither of his 2009 releases are perfect, they show an incredible amount of promise.

I’m normally turned off by artists who release multiple full albums in the same year. It takes a lot of work to make a record and inevitably one or all of the products generally suffer under the gun of a rushed timeline. But Leslie puts forth a genuine effort at circumventing this rule, producing two albums this year that are largely comparable in quality. Transition, Leslie’s newest effort, extends the sound of his debut, turning up the funk and production values. Culling vocal reference from Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake and Cody Chesnutt, Leslie’s retro R&B boudoir vocals are dead sexy and syrupy sweet.

Electronic future funk in the vein of The Neptunes characterizes Leslie’s production style throughout both his debut and Transition. Transition leans even further towards Chad Hugo’s tendencies with “You’re Not My Girl”, “Sunday Night” and two of the three bonus tracks on the deluxe version of the album sounding closer to imitations of Neptunes beats than unique material. But Transition at large is not a Neptunes’ ripoff. Opener “Never Gonna Break Up”, soul jam “Zodiac” and standout “To The Top” are all highly original compositions. Leslie walks the fine line between emulation and mimicry, but considering that the quality of the Neptunes’ product has withered the past couple years, it doesn’t really bother me that someone else is stepping up to the plate to pick up where Chad and Pharrell trailed off.

Both of Ryan Leslie’s 2009 efforts are exciting, soulful listens, full of personality and potential. But Leslie’s tendency to hide in the shadow of his predecessors begs the question, just how innovative could his material have been if he had focused his effort on a single release?

Climategate

Another Critical Blow to Exposing the Shadowy Tyranny of the New World Order!

The Greatest Scandal in Modern Science!

We say NO to Carbon taxes! We say NO to one world government! And audit the FED while you’re at it! I don’t know about all you sheeple, but I’ve been loving Alex Jones this week! Don’t you know how dark it is? How far down the line we are?

Мишка Holiday 09 Lookbook by Marley Kate

Inspired by one part classic American hunter and one part juvenile delinquent, our holiday lineup finds yet another way to stay relevant with current trends and leave their indelible mark on it.

Rounding out this season are reinvented flannel pieces such as the Cody Plaid Hawkeye Shirt, the Entwistle Flannel Shirt and the Gossard Flannel Shirt that have become a stalwart item of our lineup for all seasons.

Complimenting these shirts are trousers and outwear pieces constructed of heavy, durable and wearable material married with streamlined and well tailored lines.  The Dmitri Wool Slacks crafted out 12 ounce, blended wool and Paddington Duffle Coat add wearable options to the already dynamic line.

The Holiday Collection was photographed by Marley Kate and will begin selling Friday November 27 at both 350 Broadway and our online store. Also be sure to check out some of our Holiday item previews here:

• Мишка Holiday ’09: Jackets

• Мишка Holiday ’09: Hats

• Мишка Holiday ’09: Denim & Pants

This past weekend the Sucklord was chilling in the beer store of the Whole Foods on E. Houston in the LES, peddling one of his bootleg figures. A special edition Suckadelic x Beerlao Mary Paper$ figure.

I picked one up, and even grabbed a six pack of the Beerlao Dark, which was actually pretty damn good. The beer is infused with jasmine rice. Super crisp!

There was also this creep calling himself the “Beer Gremlin.” I am hoping I see a bootleg toy of him soon! Check out more photos of the event on the Suckadelic Flickr photostream.

My real life fear of being framed for murder and being locked up in general population has just been usurped by the tragic story of Rom Houben. In 1983 he was paralyzed in a car accident and declared to be in a vegatative coma state by physicians…however he’s been in a completely conscious “locked in” state for 23 years and unable to communicate with anyone — not even able to bat an eyelash. As science advanced, Dr. Steven Laureys, head the Coma Science Group and Department of Neurology at Liege University Hospital was able to detect Houben’s consciousness. Through a miraculous 3 year regimen of therapy, Mr. Houben, is now able to communicate via a touch screen computer.

Here are Houben’s words to describe his struggle:

All that time I just literally dreamed of a better life. Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt.

I’m horrified, touched and grateful all at once by this story.

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I’m behind on this season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, but I know that a major element was the reunion of the Seinfeld gang 10 years from where we last saw them – only, not in jail. The last Curb contained the moment I think we’ve all been waiting for and I could not help but have a dumb grin on my face the whole time. What did you guys think?

And I said “GOD DAMN” Elaine looks good!