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Coolio: The Ghetto Gourmet

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Cookin’ with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price might make a great Father’s Day Gift. Order now!

Amazon’s description:
Start your Ghetto Gourmet adventure with some “Soul Rolls,” follow-up with “Finger-Lickin’, Rib-Stickin’, Fall-Off-the-Bone-and-into-Your-Mouth Chicken,” and finish off with “Banana Ba-ba-ba-bread” sweetened with golden honey. Chapters such as “How to Become a Kitchen Pimp,” “Chillin’ and Grillin’,” and “Pasta Like a Rasta” will guide you through creating 5 star meals at a 1 star price. You can’t find fusions like Blasian (black Asian) or Ghettalian (ghetto Italian) in restaurants, but you can have them cooking away in your kitchen faster and easier than ordering takeout.

I wonder if he has any recipes for cooking crack?

“Safety Not Guaranteed”

Safety Not Guaranteed
“Safety Not Guaranteed” is a film about newspaper reporters trying to find out what’s going on with a guy who places a classified ad like the one above. Release Date: June 8, 2012
Starring: Kristen Bell, Jake M. Johnson, Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Mary Lynn Rajskub.

The movie’s plot traces its origins to an actual classified ad placed in Backwoods Home Magazine back in 1997. It is now known as the The time-travel ad.

The time-travel ad

Detective Mills

One of the best Brad Pitt scenes ever comes from the movie Seven.

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Monday Music Rewind: Soul Asylum – Summer of Drugs

Soul Asylum performing “Summer of Drugs” live in Minneapolis on 12/23/05 at First Avenue. Soul Asylum released this song in 1994. It was one of my favorites in high school. You can buy it here.

Michael Bland best known for playing with Prince, is on the drums. Bland now drums for Nick Jonas. Yes, that Nick Jonas.

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‘Gangster Squad’ exclusive movie trailer

The first trailer for the movie, which will be released sometime this fall, just hit the Web. In the clip, we meet a team of ’30s era Los Angeles police officers, played by Nick Nolte, Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling among others, who go “off the books” to take out real-life crime boss Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn.) Emma Stone is along for the ride too, portraying a pretty lady in a dangerous love triangle with Gosling’s cop character and Cohen. Check it out the trailer below.

Related:
Mickey Cohen: The Life and Crimes of L.A.’s Notorious Mobster
Hollywood’s Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen
Mickey Cohen, In My Own Words: As Told to John Peer Nugent

My biggest gripe about movies

So true. I don’t typically have this issue at a theater, but trying to watch a DVD at home usually involves constant volume control with the remote. Apparently, a receiver with Audyssey Dynamic Volume and Dynamic EQ will eliminate this issue.

My biggest gripe about movies
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Airport tribute to MCA

Airport tribute to MCA
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Here is another cool tribute to the Beastie Boys and MCA. Click here.

Reverse Couple

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez at a Lakers-Spurs game.

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Source: Getty Images

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Source: Getty Images

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Two girls get punked by Bieber on Chatroulette
Justin Bieber fans crying

Tom Cruise Wins

The cast of Top Gun then and now.

The cast of Top Gun then and now.
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Game of Thrones Facts

Fans of Game of Thrones will enjoy these nuggets of info.

Game of Thrones Facts
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