Culture Buzz What's wrong with this person? Someone find the versus where Jesus says violence is the way to go, please.
Culture Buzz Tragic yet hypnotic images of Brazil's “cracklands.” The growing epidemic of crack cocaine in Brazil has led to entire neighborhoods being ceded to the crack trade, where dealers and addicts walk out in the open with no fear of repercussions.
Culture Buzz For the junkie nearest and dearest to your heart. Artist Ben Kling designed this series, called “Love Is The Most Powerful Drug Of All.”
Celebrity Buzz The intellectual benefits of crack are apparently boundless. Here's Courtney Love, from the upcoming book Courtney Comes Clean, on the unexpected upside of smoking rock.
Politics Buzz This showed up two days ago on the Twitter feed of the president of the University of Texas College Republicans. She has neither confirmed nor denied she wrote it, but her account was switched to protected shortly after this was posted. The kicker is that the previous president of the University of Texas College Republicans was forced out due to a similarly offensive tweet. History retweets itself, y'all.
Celebrity Buzz The Pointer Sister was arrested Saturday morning after a traffic stop in Los Angeles. Police charged the 61-year-old Grammy winner with possession of a controlled substance (crack) and later released her on a $10,000 bond.
SNL alum Darrell Hammond is coming out with a memoir next month that chronicles his alcohol, cocaine, and crack use during his time on Saturday Night Live (1995-2011). “I kept a pint of Remy in my desk at work,” Hammond writes in God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked. ”I’d started adding an obscene amount of cocaine to my binges … I had to be creative about how I did it without other people catching on or letting it interfere with the work. At least too much.” Would you have ever thought this man wasn't straight when he was on the SNL stage? (via nypost.com)
I guess the people at Nabisco are doing what they can in this uncertain economy.
Culture Buzz This Cincinnati woman was pulled over for overly tinted windows. While searching the car, police found crack, a crack pipe and… Well, we'll just let the police report inform you in that hilariously dry, matter-of-fact fashion that make police reports the deadpan comedy geniuses of the official document world. She was, uh, “driving a stick.”
A man at a San Francisco porno shop bursts into flames, runs through the store and out onto the street as his clothes disintegrate. He sustained life-threatening, third degree burns over 90% his body and is still in critical condition. The cause is officially unknown, but the video poster seems to think crack was involved.
Youtuber carneyart investigates the mysterious crack that formed in Michigan's upper peninsula last October and reports that heat is rising from the crevice.
Culture Buzz This happened in New York City during the Storm of the Century of the Decade of the Year of the 2010 Holiday Season. He must have been pretty upset about travel delays. He's like the Hulk, except powered by crack instead of gamma radiation.
You don't hear too many PSA's about crack these days. Today's PSA's are about boring drugs like weed and alcohol. So let's take a minute to remember the harder stuff.
It's true! On his Sunday radio show, he wished Miley would get a gum transplant, make a sex tape with her dad, do heroin like Britney, smoke crack like Lindsay Lohan and finally, “catch chlamydia from a bicycle seat.” Woah. Miley start using grocery bags on your bike seats! We can't say for sure that Jamie hasn't sabotaged your ass.
They are numbingly beautiful. Cool idea and all, but srsly, talk about a slippery slope. Pretty soon you'll be selling crack rock pearl necklaces and getting away with it.
This is like an after-school special for cats. It's awful to see an animal throwing her life away like this for something as trivial as string. She could have amounted to so much. (Via.)