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no, this isnt the gay pride parade coming early. it’s a pic of my good friend, and drinking buddy, Kampy getting into the ’swing’ of things for this years Critical Ass ride in Toronto earlier this month.

Nice work!

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bringing it back to sideburns and fly shades.

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Desmond Dekker, the Kingston singer whose haunting, strident “Israelites” was the first Jamaican reggae hit to cross over to international success, died May 25 of a heart attack in his Surrey, England, home. He was 64, and was to begin a European tour the following week. “He had a nice spirit — very soulful and a very good songwriter,” says Toots Hibbert of the Maytals, who befriended Dekker while recording in Kingston in the ’60s. “Of course, he should have gotten a lot more credit, but that’s the way it goes sometimes.”

courtesy of Rollong Stone 

“In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of
triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy,
the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly
after birth.
The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to
decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt
that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a
depression. The doctors decided that if the
tigress could surrogate another mother’s cubs, perhaps she would improve.

After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news
was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the
mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never
been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take
on the care of a different species. The only “orphans” that could be found
quickly, were a litter of weaner pigs.
The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the
babies around the mother tiger.

sofa king cool
Thanks to Jodi for this

(praise allah it’s friday)

some tunes for the sneakerbike massive! If these don’t brighten your day then your heart is made of coal.
Hot Chip – Boys From School

Prototypes – Danse Sur La Merde

Robyn – Konichiwa Bitches

Lily Allen – Alfie

The Pipettes – Pull Shapes

ps. buy the albums and that.

Adidas just released these Tron branded stan smiths. Available on adidas UK only, so if you want to own a pair you’re going to have to import them. You’re also going to have to be a total nerd. Unless you live in the UK in which case the only requirement is that you have to be a total nerd.

Love it.

Daft punk and Bathing ape are getting together to produce sneaker limited to an ultra sclusive 100 pairs.

What’s the significance of this… I’m not sure really, except that I find it slightly odd that makers of some of the flashiest sneakers ever and  the dudes who rock some absolutely freaky costumes on stage  managed to  come together to create  something this  uninspired. Oh well.