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Synthesis Band You’ve Never Heard Of…OF THE DAY!!111 - Ashley Alexandra Dupré AKA Kristen, Eliot Spitzer’s Prostitute Friend!

Author: Daniel Taylor

12 Mar

In an interview in today’s New York Times, the call girl behind the Eliot Spitzer scandal, known previously only as “Kristen” was revealed to be Ashley Alexandra Dupre, an aspiring R&B singer, as can be heard on her Myspace profile:

I am all about my music, and my music is all about me… It flows from what I’ve been through, what I’ve seen and how I feel. I live in New York and am on top of the world. Been here since 2004 and I love this city, I love my life here. But, my path has not been easy. When I was 17, I left home. It was my decision and I’ve never looked back. Left my hometown. Left a broken family. Left abuse. Left an older brother who had already split. Left and learned what it was like to have everything, and lose it, again and again. Learned what it was like to wake up one day and have the people you care about most gone. I have been alone. I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own. I am here, in NY because of my music. It started when I moved in with a musician during my odyssey to New York. One day, I was in the shower singing “respect.” He and his lead guitarist burst in, had me repeat it and it started. We wrote, rehearsed and toured. After recording a bit with them, I decided to move to Manhattan to pursue my music career. I spent the first two years getting to know the music scene, networking in clubs and connecting with the industry. Now, it’s all about my music. It’s all about expressing me. I can sit here now, and knowingly tell you that life’s hard sometimes. But, I made it. I’m still here and I love who I am. If I never went through the hard times, I would not be able to appreciate the good ones. Cliché, yes, but I know it’s true. I have experienced just how hard it can be. I can honestly tell you to never dwell on the past, but build from it and keep moving forward. Don’t let anyone hold you back or tell you that you can’t…because you can. I didn’t and here I am, just listen to it….

I mean she’s hot, but $1,000 an hour hot? You can bang girls like that in Chico for a couple Grey Goose and Soda Waters and a nice dinner. But whatever, guess its harder for an old ass bald dude. But seriously. PROTIP: Pussy ain’t never worth it!

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John McCain Gets Mad

Author: Bill

8 Mar

John McCain gets super PISSED at this reporter from the New York Times

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Rethinking Meat

Author: Daniel Taylor

12 Feb

For about the last 10 years, essentially since leaving my parents’ meatloving kitchen and striking out on my own, I’ve been a somewhat reluctant, on-again off-again vegetarian, mainly because neither of the traditional two reasons for going vegetarian, the moral reason - food animals suffer unjust treatment, animals have feelings, etc - nor the health reason - a meat-free diet will presumably be lower in fat, and will include more fruits and vegetables - really ever had me convinced. However, there is quickly emerging a third reason for going veg that should, and will, make anyone with an eco-conscious outlook reconsider eating meat: the environmental impact that the meat industry has on our country and the world. From a recent New York Times article (via Reality Sandwich) titled “Rethinking the Meat Guzzler”:

Growing meat (it’s hard to use the word “raising” when applied to animals in factory farms) uses so many resources that it’s a challenge to enumerate them all. But consider: an estimated 30 percent of the earth’s ice-free land is directly or indirectly involved in livestock production, according to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, which also estimates that livestock production generates nearly a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases — more than transportation.

To put the energy-using demand of meat production into easy-to-understand terms, Gidon Eshel, a geophysicist at the Bard Center, and Pamela A. Martin, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago, calculated that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from a standard sedan — a Camry, say — to the ultra-efficient Prius. Similarly, a study last year by the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Japan estimated that 2.2 pounds of beef is responsible for the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the average European car every 155 miles, and burns enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days.

So essentially, you can bike to work all you want, but if you eat a burger for lunch, you might as well be driving a Hummer. Food for thought…

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