Dear Martin Luther King, Jr.,

Even though we still have your pictures, your words, and your speeches, it would still be awfully nice if we still had your voice of reason in this crazy ol' world today.

Rest in peace.


Regards,
Everyone

Photos from the aftermath of Dr. King's murder were just released by LIFE Magazine:

ATLANTA – Almost 41 years to the day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, newly published photographs of the aftermath of his shooting at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., are on a magazine's [LIFE Magazine] Web site.
[AP]

Knowledge:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

Dear Belaire,

You make a late-Friday afternoon that much more tolerable with your bright, upbeat tunes and dreamy vocals. But to call you "just another synthpop band from Austin, TX" would be an injustice! There is certainly quality here.



Are you too hipster for us? Probably. Is your music a little too twee our tastes? Most likely.

But we cannot deny that (a) it's Friday and (b) your music has been on repeat.


Regards,
Everyone

Knowledge:
http://www.myspace.com/belaire
http://www.last.fm/music/Belaire

Dear Amazing Freestyle Rapper,

A few days we wrote a letter to Bag Raiders about their amazing song, "Shooting Stars."

Today we discovered you.

We discovered that you, Mr. Amazing Freestyle Rapper, decided to freestyle your own lyrics over the instrumental version of "Shooting Stars." Needless to say, your version is absolutely awesome:



Let us point out a few things we love about you and your video:

1. You put your video in the "Sciene & Technology" category.
2. The only tags in your video are SPEED, RACER and SEX.
3. You have another video called "MY SPACESHIPS" (see below for 40 seconds of incredible-ness) featuring your Mercedes-Benz.
4. You are a UFO: a Unique Fly Object.
5. And so much more.

You've certainly got our "sex drive on coke Go Speed."


Regards,
Everyone

What is your favorite line? I know, I know. There are so many to choose from...

Please subscribe to his videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/ABU777ALI

"MY SPACESHIPS"

Dear Nut Processors,

Hey, assholes. Get with the program!

FRESNO, Calif. - Federal food officials are warning Americans not to eat any food containing pistachios because of possible contamination by salmonella, in another food scare sure to rattle consumers already upset by the contamination of peanuts with the same bacteria.
[MSNBC]

What does this mean for everyones childhood favorite: pistachio ice cream? What about the amazing pistachio cake? Or the always-popular pistachio pie? Nut Processors, you've ruined all these delicious delicacies.

But think about this, Nut Processors, maybe the United States government is trying to fight terrorism at the expense of American pistachio farmers. After all, Iran does produce a lot of pistachios.

The biggest fear, of course, is if sunflower seeds have salmonella. That would certainly be disastrous especially with the baseball season coming up.


Regards,
Everyone


Knowledge Awesome Knowledge:

Bulk container shipments of pistachio nuts are prone to self heating and spontaneous combustion because of their high fat and low water content.
[Wiki]

Dear Original Nintendo,

There's Super Nintendo, N64, XBOX, PlayStation, the Sega Genesis, and the Atari but my heart always comes back to you, Original Nintendo.

Today, your games are frustrating and tedious, it takes 20 minutes to even get a cartridge working right, and your controllers are way too small for my hands but they evoke a feeling of nostalgia and joy that carbon-based humans cannot recreate.



My Top 3 Super-Childhood-Nostalgia-Memory NES Games:

3. Nintendo Ice Hockey
2. Tecmo Baseball (I know, I know. Everyone romanticizes Tecmo Bowl and Bo Jackson but it was baseball for me)
1. Super Mario Bros. 2

All incredible games. All better than all those other silly games out there.


Regards,
Everyone

What were your favorite original Nintendo games?

Super Mario Bros. 2 had the best theme song too and it's re-created beautifully here:


N.B. Photo taken with my Canon PowerShot SD1100IS.