Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign has been a roller coaster of absurdity, but the recent revelation that JebBush.com redirects to Donald Trump’s website may have pushed the Florida governor and sad-sack presidential candidate past the tipping point. There was speculation for quite some time that Jeb would run for the 2016 Republican nomination, and the campaign was formally announced in June of 2015. The playful logo and simple catchphrase – “Jeb!” – was rife for Internet mockery from the beginning, in large part due to the Internet mockery that hounded his brother, President George W. Bush. Things took a turn for the…
Author: Kevin Nye
Kevin Nye
Kevin Nye grew up near Cleveland, was educated at Ohio University and was re-educated by living in Chicago and doing improv and sketch comedy. He is a triple threat of mediocrity.
As West Coast hip-hop took hold of the music scene, there were a few seminal names that kept popping up: Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg (although he was known as Snoop Doggy Dogg back then – it was a simpler time, after all), Tupac Shakur and more. Today, we’ll focus on a selection that featured a man whose career has spanned decades, bridged cultures and enveloped the media landscape. The group is Westside Connection, and the man I’m referring to is Ice Cube. Ice Cube started as a member of NWA, the forefathers of gangster rap. He was aggressive, and has…
If you were alive in the early to mid-2000’s, you had no choice but to hear hip-hop music from a few places. Lil Jon and Usher were all over the place, Ludacris was making albums every year, and Kanye West was just starting to hit his stride. But there was another man who burned as bright as any of them. His music was in commercials, on the radio and in movies. His face was in magazines, on TV and in a movie about his own life (although the movie was technically made about the major-label debut album about his own…
In an exclusive meeting, my 13-year-old self – from late fall, 1999 – sat down to chat with my 29-year-old self earlier this week. Here’s an edited excerpt from that conversation: 29-Year-Old Me: You probably have some questions for me about what we’ve been up to… 13-Year-Old Me: You probably have some advice for me about what to do and what not to do… 29: Fair. Okay. Know how it’s sorta weird and cool that you’re getting a happy trail of hair? Leads right down the belly button to your junk? It’s gonna spread. A lot. 13: Oh. Um…is that…
In fifty years when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are reborn in their tenth iteration and someone decides to rename them after different artists, there is one name you can count on as being used. Not Warhol, not Rembrandt, not Banksy. The clear-cut answer is Howard Bailey, Jr., better known to the world as Chingy. In 2003, Chingy came out of relative obscurity to deliver a chart-topping single called “Right Thurr.” If you don’t remember where you were upon its release, your only excuse is that it never reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 because Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love”…
Now that you’re back to school – or maybe it’s your first time – you’re probably getting to know your new roommate. You’ll probably go through the honeymoon phase over the first two weeks as you’re excited to be getting into the swing of college, or maybe you’re excited to be living with one of your buddies from last year. But what if that person is a card-carrying lunatic? How would you know? Here are some surefire signs: No consideration for lofting beds. If you’re in a dorm and your roommate doesn’t even think about doing this, he or she…
Northwest Europe is often forgotten as a destination for international travelers, unless they’re last-minute busy-season idiots who don’t book hotels in advance and suddenly have to spend their Eurotrip in Hasselt, Belgium. Of course, for others, it’s an entire Eurotrip on its own. The Benelux region (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) is a destination for its World War II heritage, its mishmosh of Dutch/French/Flemish/other-stuff culture, its flowers and even its lovely cities. The capital of Belgium is Brussels, and it’s a big city that turns out to be pretty manageable. Here are nine things you should know about it: 1) They take…
When someone says Amsterdam, you probably think of two things: Cheese and street-side urinals. Or if you’re a disgusting heathen who is doomed to rot in the fiery depths of hell for all of eternity, you might think of marijuana and prostitution. Whichever the case may be, I aim here to explain a little bit about what goes on in the city of a thousand legal-ish vices. Here are nine things you should know about Amsterdam: 1) This is the most crowded city imaginable outside of southeast Asia, and it’s all tourism’s fault. European tourist season generally starts in late…
In 2007, a rap group burst onto the scene under the name Shop Boyz. Their song “Party Like a Rockstar” took over colleges and bars nationwide, finding its way onto the soundtrack for NBA Live ’08 and peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (behind Rihanna and Jay-Z’s “Umbrella”). The Shop Boyz were poised to take over rap for the remainder of the decade, but their reign unfortunately fizzled out before it could grow any larger. However, in their short period of dominance, the Shop Boyz had not only provided a newish twist on rap – utilizing guitar…
Host of the 2006 Winter Olympics. Home to Italy’s most successful football (soccer) team, as well as the European Capital of Sport for the year 2015. The city that Italians say has the best chocolate in the country. Birthplace of a shockingly small number of names that non-Italians would recognize. Of course, I’m talking about Torino, Italy – Americanized to be Turin. A forgotten city when compared to its countrymates of Venice, Florence and Rome, Torino has less of an ancient past and more of a mid-millennial history. Covered in hallmarks of its days as the headquarters of the Kingdom…