A Male Necessity - Because Wallets Suck - My New Clip

Michael's Hot Track of the Week

  Morgan Page, Sultan + Ned Shepard, & BT            In the Air feat. Angela McCluskey

Rihanna - Smoking Hawt

Rihanna Smokes A Blunt In Hawaii; Singer Tweets About Marijuana (PHOTOS)

First Posted: 1/16/12 12:09 AM ET Updated: 1/16/12 05:42 PM ET

Rihanna's living a rough life these days.

The singer was photographed rolling what appears to be a blunt and smoking outside while relaxing in Hawaii Sunday. For those questioning just what exactly she's inhaling, we'll let her own tweet speak for itself:
"Kush rolled, glass full...I prefer the better things!" she wrote, quoting lyrics from Drake's "Up All Night."
Hey, maybe she's smoking some hand-rolled tobacco. Or maybe it's Blue Ivy. We guess we'll never really know for sure.
PHOTOS:


Check out some other shots of Rihanna.

No Passport, No Problem: Man Uses iPad to Cross Border into U.S. [UPDATE]

By Keith Wagstaff | @kwagstaff | January 4, 2012 | 11

inShare18

Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images

Ever approach the border with a sinking feeling that your passport is sitting at home next to the phone charger you also forgot to bring? Fear not, tech-savvy travelers, because apparently you can now just present your iPad to get into the United States of America.
Martin Reisch was driving from Quebec into Vermont when he realized he left his passport at home. When he got to the U.S. border officer, he decided to display his driver’s license and a scanned copy of his passport on his iPad instead.
While the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency technically doesn’t accept scanned images of passports, apparently the iPad’s resolution impressed the officer enough to pass Reisch through.
The 33-year-old Canadian told the Montreal Gazette:

“I guess he looked me up in the computer and saw I’m not a criminal or a terrorist or anything … He didn’t say much besides ‘Merry Christmas.’ “

The Canada Border Services Agency was, in typical Canadian fashion, way more cool aboot it:

“(The Canadian guard) was a really young guy. We had a cool chat about iPhones and technology. He was really interested and didn’t make a big deal that he was letting me through.”

The lesson here is that everyone loves Apple so much its products can help you bypass normally stringent national security standards.
UPDATE: Apparently reports of the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol’s lax entry standards were greatly exaggerated.
A spokesperson for the agency told Wired.com, ”The assertion that a traveler was admitted into the U.S. using solely a scanned image of his passport on an iPad is categorically false. In this case, the individual had both a driver’s license and birth certificate, which the CBP officer used to determine identity and citizenship in order to admit the traveler into the country.”
UPDATE: New development in U.S.-Canada iPadGate! Martin Reisch is refuting the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol’s claims that he entered the United States with a driver’s license and birth certificate and not a scanned image of his passport on an iPad via his Twitter account @safesolvent:

Read more: http://techland.time.com/2012/01/04/no-passport-no-problem-man-uses-ipad-to-cross-border-into-u-s/#ixzz1icOBxIRK

My Travels 2011

My journeys in 2011 - just remember, "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." One life.
Miami,Orlando, Florida; Cancun,Playa del Carmen, Mexico; Juneau, Alaska; San Francisco, California; Los Angeles,Venice, California; Barcelona, Spain; Prague, Czech Republic; Berlin, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Bay Area - Santa Cruz,Sacramento,San Jose,Pacifica, California; Vancouver,Whistler, British Columbia; Seattle, Washington; Mount Rainer, Washington; Portland, Oregon; London, England

Midnight in Paris

So, I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, perhaps it's a generational thing, I dunno.  Regardless, he managed to score big time with this flick.  We all know he is a gifted screenwriter, and I'm not sure if it's directly attributed to him or his crew, but this film truly captures the essence of Paris.  Spot on.  C'est Magnifique. 

                                                                                 

The Siick EDM Collaboration

“Breakn’ A Sweat” is a collaboration by Skrillex and three of the members of The Doors (Ray, Robby and John) for the Re:Generation Music Project.  Skrillex was recently nominated for 5 Grammy Awards and it was the 1st time ever for an EDM musician in the Best New Artist category.  LIGHT MY FIRE, please.

 

For the Winter

                                Cracks - Freestylers feat. Belle Humble - Flux Pavillion Remix

NBA 2011-12 - Oh What A Beginning

So, TNT and the NBA opened up the 2011-12 NBA season quite unlike any other - what with the shortened season and it being Christmas Day.  But even more so, this "mesmerizing video mashup of past and present NBA greats dubbed 'NBA Forever' - M. Klopman Huff Post" left us awestruck and reminded us of the power of nostalgia.
Have a watch.  If you grew up idolizing some of these men, you will most certainly admire this creation.  The basketball world is buzzing about it.  Stellar way to begin a season.