Friday, April 3, 2020

Pheaturing Shepard Fairey


Hey, kids, welcome to the Phile for a Friday. How are you? I was thinking yesterday Kenny Rogers dipping out in the middle of an apocalypse is the most "know when to fold them" shit I've ever seen. So, does anyone know if we can take showers yet or should we just keep washing our hands? A college student from Versailles decided to take matters into her own hands and committed to a project to help the deaf and hard of hearing community. What did she do? She decided to make masks not only help them from COVID-19, but that will also help them communicate with others without having to take them off. According to 21-year-old Ashley Lawrence, she saw people making masks on Facebook for their friends and family instead of using throwaway masks. That’s when she realized that the deaf and hard of hearing community didn’t have any that adapted to their needs. Lawrence is a senior studying education for the deaf and hard of hearing at Eastern Kentucky University. Due to the coronavirus pandemic occurring around the world, she is now living back at home and is doing her student teaching from there. In regards to why she wanted to create the masks, she noted, “I felt like there was a huge population that was being looked over. We’re all panicking right now and so a lot of people are just not being thought of. So, I felt like it was very important that, even at a time like this, people need to have that communication.” That’s when she teamed up with her mother, who supported her all the way through and put their amazing craft skills to work. The Kentucky student stated they began to make the masks with bed sheets they had, which allowed them to do two or three sets. Luckily, the family had plastic fabric from another project they were doing the month before. Although her mission focuses on helping the hard of hearing and the deaf community, she did note the family is going the extra mile. The student stated, “We’re trying different things for people with cochlear implants and hearing aids if they can’t wrap around the ears. We’re making some that have around the head and around the neck.” So, why is it necessary for there to be a plastic window on the mask? Well, it is crucial for those who use speech reading and lip-reading. Usually, people who are profoundly deaf and use ASL as their primary mode of communication rely on big facial expression, since it is part of their grammar. Basically, a typical mask would cover their expressive features, and half of the sentence would be gone since what one is saying might be missed. Which is why the plastic window would be helpful for them to communicate easier. In less than two days, Lawrence already had dozens of orders from six states. So, If you would like to order or donate to her cause, you can contact her at dhhmaskproject@gmail.com. If you would like to help Lawrence with the cost of shipping or materials, you can donate via her GoFundMe page here: gofundme.com/f/reuasble-masks-for-the-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1.
A Maryland woman may have been stabbed by a man with a syringe filled with semen, according to Anne Arundel County police, though they are unsure at this time. The victim, Katie Peters, was definitely stabbed with a syringe by 51-year-old Thomas Bryon Stemen, and police did find syringes filled with semen in Stemen’s car, though they aren’t sure at this time if a semen filled syringe is what was used to stab Peters. Police say it was an anonymous tip that led them to arrest Stemen. During his arrest police found a syringe full of some sort of liquid in the driver’s side door of his car. Peters said that while she was in a grocery cart return area she felt what she thought was a cigarette being put out on her. When she turned and saw Stemen he allegedly said to her, “It felt like a bee sting didn’t it?” Stemen is being held without bail on charges of first and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment. Authorities also believe Stemen may be responsible for other similar assaults. Not setting bail for this guy feels like a great call. I think I have a habit of focusing on the wrong things too often with stories like these. Really, injecting strangers with (presumably your own but really any) semen is insane and unfathomably creepy. Creepier than living in someone’s closet unbeknownst to them. Creepier than making a hair doll out of their hair. Still, the part of this story that makes me shudder the most is Stemen saying to Peters, “It felt like a bee sting didn’t it?” after he stabbed her with (probably) semen. Imagining him during that exchange might haunt my nightmares forever, let alone the victim’s.
With all this coronavirus stuff happening and people being laid off work some people are paying almost $6,000 for this sparkly hamburger purse...


What is going on? Why does something that looks like it came from a Limited Too wall for sale at Nordstrom for nearly $6,000? I don’t get it. It’s cute, but not $5,695.00 cute. That’s right. This hamburger purse costs as much as a semester at your local state college. I’m not sure who allowed this, but it’s happening. There is a bedazzled cheeseburger purse on the Internet for over $5,000. This is ridiculous! Judith Leiber is behind the hamburger bag, and I have to say, Judith Leiber must have an audience for this bag because why else would it be at Nordstrom? I get it. I’m not the target audience for this bag. You know who I think is? Wealthy 13 year-old-girls. Surely they are the only people using this bag. Although, if I were to see a grown woman using this as an evening bag, I’m going to ask her what she does for a living. You know why? Because there are plenty of hamburger crossbody bags and shoulder bags on Amazon for under 20 dollars. She could’ve paid 10 dollars for a coin purse, but she went the extra mile for the $5,695.00 bag. It must be nice. Check out this review...


So yes, you can have the same look for under 20 dollars. There is no need to max out a credit card for a hamburger bag. I know tax returns just came in, and it could be tempting, but don’t do it. I found plenty of affordable bags that look like a Wendy’s cheeseburger, and they’re just as cute. No, they’re not covered in crystals or whatever...
A convicted sex offender posing as an undercover police officer escorted a King’s college student home and sexually assaulted him. According to authorities, 26-year-old Zackery J. Kaiser was picked up by police on the streets while carrying a BB gun, a portable police scanner, a gold-colored plastic toy badge, and two cans of pepper spray. Authorities had initially responded to a call at King’s College after a student reported being sexually assaulted. The student stated a man wearing a bridge yellow reflective jacket had waived for him to come over. The man then claimed to be an undercover cop, saying he was investigating someone who was looking into cars with a flashlight. After Kizer asked the student for some identification, the man said he would “keep this so you won’t run away.” That’s when the student quickly grew suspicious and asked for the man’s identification, Kizer then showed him an ID card and a gold badge. Keizer allegedly gave the students tips to stay safe an agreed to walk him home. Inside the student’s apartment, the man began to touch his genitals over his clothes and then left. Later in the day, the student grew further concerned when he saw his attacker in the building, which has restricted access. After investigation, detectives learned another student had also been approached by a man matching Kizer’s description. Based on the second report, police were able to obtain surveillance footage and recognized the registered sex offender. When found by law enforcement officers, Kizer was wearing the bright yellow jacket, boots, black military-style pants, and a cap reading “S.W.A.T.” Despite being found in possession of a badge, weapons, and a scanner, he told officers he had not been impersonating a police officer. During question, he then admitted to entering the student home and then engaging in sexual activity, claiming it was consensual. He denied posing as an undercover cop with the student, but told police he had told other students near the college he was a cop because he “wanted to make friends.” He was quickly arrested and charged with indecent assault without consent, indecent assault with forcible compulsion and impersonating a public servant. He was arrested and sent to Luzerne County Corrections Facility with a bail set at $50,000. According to court records, Kizer previously pleaded guilty in February 2013 to child pornography charges. While living in a West Hazleton children’s boarding home, Kizer allegedly posed as his sister when he wrote several letters for a 17-year-old boy asking for nude pictures. He was originally sentenced to nine to 18 months in jail.
A North Carolina woman stands accused of tying her husband to the bed and cutting his penis off. An irreconcilable differences divorce seems inevitable at this point. Victoria Frabutt has been charged with malicious castration which is, hands down, the most upsetting criminal act I’ve ever heard of. Deputies from the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office were called to the home of James and Victoria Frabutt around 4 a.m. after Victoria allegedly cut off her husband’s penis and tossed it aside. This according to the unfortunately named for both life in general and this crime in particular, Carteret County Maj. Jason Wank. According to Wank...ha, deputies were able to locate James Frabutt’s severed penis and put it on ice but it’s unclear if doctors were able to reattach his member. Authorities currently have zero idea why Victoria Frabutt tied her husband to the bed and then cut off his penis but whatever the excuse is, it’s probably not sufficient. Victoria Frabutt was also charged with kidnapping (for restraining her husband against his will) and is currently being held on $100,000 bond.
The COVID-19 is so bad that even some famous paintings are changing to be in quarantine...


It's good to wear masks and gloves when you go out but some people are taking it a little bit too far...


One of the things I like doing in my spare time, and there's been a lot of that recently, is to go on Twitter and look up "Foghat" to see what people are saying. This is one I found recently...


I need to look up Joe Talk Show. People are using the coronavirus as pickup lines on dating apps like this...


Haha. I think President Trump has the coronavirus and here's why...


Here's something that should make you smile... a dog on a cupcake...


Pugs! I love those dogs. So this was March...


Versus April...


Hahaha. Now from the home office in Port Jefferson, New York here is...


Top Phive Things Said By People Who Have No Idea What Day It Is
5. There is no longer a.m. and p.m., there's just "coffee time" and "wine time."
4. I don't know what day or date it is anymore, all I know is 2020 and lockdown.
3. Gwenyth Paltrow sad in an interview we should take this time to learn a new language or write a book. I just shook chip crumbs out of my bra and I don't know what day it is. I'm fairly certain I'm not going to attempt either of these things.
2. Is there any point in the clocks going forward now that time doesn't exist anymore?
And the number one thing said by someone who has no idea what day it is is...
1. You know that time between Christmas and New Year where times doesn't make sense and no one knows what day it is? Every day is that now. Should I be working? No idea. Is it too early to drink? Who cares? That weird thing in the foil in the freezer? Fuck it, let's eat that.



The spring breakers who refused to cancel their parties...


Okay, I was just thinking... every time I mention Pot Jefferson here on the Phile or in my normal every day life I fucking miss it. So, I wanna see a live shot of Port Jefferson for a second...


Hmmm... I wish it showed the other view but this is cool. Okay, where was I? Oh, you know I live in Florida, right? There's things that happen in this state that happen no where else in the universe.



A Florida family who’d been falling victim to porch pirates stealing holiday packages from their front door while they were away decided to fight back using the most powerful ammunition they had in their home: baby poop. Sharly Saleep of Tampa, Florida noticed that several of their family’s packages had gone missing and decided to do something about it. First, he got some surveillance equipment for his front door. Next, he boxed up some three-day-old poopy diapers his daughter Nora was gracious enough to contribute to the family’s anti-theft effort. He then disguised the box of dirty diapers as a package and left it on the porch to cook in the hot Florida sun. As fate would have it, the package thieves came back and took off with the poo box. Hopefully, the thieves greedily opened the package in their car as soon as they rounded the corner and absolutely ruined the inside of their 2005 Toyota Corolla. Saleep proceeded to call the Tampa Police Department and report the theft of his baby’s feces (still technically his property, if you think about it). As far as I’m concerned, sabotaging porch pirates should become a holiday sport. Every family should set up elaborate booby traps and ambushes for the lowlives who steal Christmas presents from other people. Maybe some classic ice on the porch, a la Home Alone? Or wait with a paintball gun in a hole in your front yard and pop out like a VietCong when they come to steal your stuff. If your property is big enough maybe adopt some dogs and release the hounds on the bastards? Or if you have the funds hire a local MMA fighter to pop out of your bushes and just absolutely wreck the bastards.



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Hahahaha, okay, wanna laugh?


A tourist wanders into a back-alley antique shop in San Francisco's Chinatown. Picking through the objects on display he discovers a detailed, life-sized bronze sculpture of a rat. The sculpture is so interesting and unique that he picks it up and asks the shop owner what it costs. "Twelve dollars for the rat, sir," says the shop owner, "and a thousand dollars more for the story behind it." "You can keep the story, old man," he replies, "but I'll take the rat." The transaction complete, the tourist leaves the store with the bronze rat under his arm. As he crosses the street in front of the store, two live rats emerge from a sewer drain and fall into step behind him. Nervously looking over his shoulder, he begins to walk faster, but every time he passes another sewer drain, more rats come out and follow him. By the time he's walked two blocks, at least a hundred rats are at his heels, and people begin to point and shout. He walks even faster, and soon breaks into a trot as multitudes of rats swarm from sewers, basements, vacant lots, and abandoned cars. Rats by the thousands are at his heels, and as he sees the waterfront at the bottom of the hill, he panics and starts to run full tilt. No matter how fast he runs, the rats keep up, squealing hideously, now not just thousands but millions, so that by the time he comes rushing up to the water's edge a trail of rats twelve city blocks long is behind him. Making a mighty leap, he jumps up onto a light post, grasping it with one arm while he hurls the bronze rat into San Francisco Bay with the other, as far as he can heave it. Pulling his legs up and clinging to the light post, he watches in amazement as the seething tide of rats surges over the breakwater into the sea, where they drown. Shaken and mumbling, he makes his way back to the antique shop. "Ah, so you've come back for the rest of the story," says the owner. "No," says the tourist, "I was wondering if you have a bronze lawyer."


Phact 1. Russia is suspected to have at least fifteen secret cities. These “closed cities” are officially classified by the Russian government with their names and location currently unknown. They appear on no maps, no road signs will direct you to them, and visits from foreigners are strictly prohibited.

Phact 2. Pig-Pen from the "Peanuts" cartoon was a parody of Piggy from Lord of the Flies. In his premiere, he said, “I haven’t got a name… people call me things… real insulting things.”

Phact 3. New Zealand had one of the highest casualty per capita (wounded and dead) rates in WWI, at 58%.

Phact 4. Jackie Chan began his film career as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films, Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon.

Phact 5. Apple suggests 32° Fahrenheit as the lowest operating ambient temperature for the iPhone because a cold smartphone battery can drain faster than normal or it might say it has ample power remaining and then suddenly go dead.




Hahaha. You thought I forgot about Mindphuck, right? I did actually. Haha. Anyway, if you spot the Mindphuck let me know.


The 119th book to be pheatured in the Phile's Book Club is...


George Takei will be on the Phile next week, kids.


Today's guest is an American contemporary street artist, graphic designer, activist, illustrator, and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He became widely known during the 2008 U.S. presidential election for his Barack Obama "Hope" poster. Please welcome to the Phile... Shepard Fairey.


Me: Hey, Shepard, welcome to the Phile. How are you, man?

Shepard: Hi, it's my pleasure.

Me: So, your biggest mural yet called "Earth Justice" is on the side of a building in Vancouver. How big is this thing? I have to show a pic of it here...


Shepard: It's about 10,000 square feet.

Me: That's like three tennis courts, right?

Shepard: It's pretty big. I thinking it's actually the third biggest I ever made and it's the second tallest. It is definitely the tallest in Canada and definitely the biggest on that building in Vancouver. 

Me: You're braver than I am. What was it like painting 20 bloody story's in the air? How do you get up there?

Shepard: I work with three assistants and we are on swing stages, what most people would recognize as window washing rigs. So a platform with motors on either side allowing it to go up and down on cables.

Me: Do you like making these bigger pieces opposed to an album cover for a Tom Petty album, Shepard?

Shepard: I built my way up to do these bigger pieces and now it's something I'm used to but if you have a fear of heights it's not for you.

Me: So, I take it that the world in the hands on the mural is saying "the world is in our hands." You have kids, I believe, so is this a personal message for you?

Shepard: Well, it's personal in a sense. Yes, I do have kids. They're 12 and 15. I think about the world they're going to inherit. Even prior to that I did some stuff for the Sierra Club and the Sierra Student Coalition. Even though I've never been a major outdoorsy person. I'm urban. I do appreciate natural beauty, I understand the Earth's eco-systems are quite fragile. That's something to keep in mind but the more I've studied and seen things in The Inconvenient Truth or reading any number of articles and believing in science I worry about not only my kids but everyone's kids. I think that anyone who is a parent whose not a jerk, if they feel and see something for their own kids then by extension they could have empathy for other people's kids and just think about all of humanity by further extension. That's what I hope.

Me: So, where are you from and what were you into back then?

Shepard: I grew up in South Carolina and I was a skateboard kid.

Me: Okay, so, were you into art back then?

Shepard: Well, since I grew up in South Carolina there was really no graffiti in the traditional... it's funny when I say "traditional" now because it was so non-traditional when it was invented. But the New York style wild style graffiti that has come and sort of dominated the aesthetic there only graffiti that was around was sports rivals dissing each other on the other teams gymnasium. I skateboarded so the "do it yourself" culture of skateboarding making homemade t-shirts and stencils and stickers, that was something I tapped into.

Me: Were you into music back then, Shepard?

Shepard: Punk rock. From the Sex Pistols to the Dead Kennedy's. They were all about creating our own irreverence is terms of graphics.

Me: So, do you think's a connection between you skateboarding and doing art?

Shepard: Yeah, there was that side of the culture. Then skateboarding itself is about looking at the cityscape in a very different way than most people would. So for me curbs, benches, handrails, embankments, all these things that were skateable in the cityscape that translated really well when I started doing street art because I was already looking at the architecture for opportunities.

Me: What was the impulse about?

Shepard: I guess growing up in a really conservative place feeling very oppressed and constricted. I was just looking for things that said "you're trying to define me life in this world one way and I'm going to find it a different way and you can't stop me." I was very individualistic as a younger person. Now I take those impulses and apply to not only myself but breaking with the status quo can help a wide swath of people. Maybe even everyone. But initially it was very much I'm going to have my personal liberty and I'm going to create what I want.

Me: Are your kids individualistic?

Shepard: They are. Even in our older daughter who's 15 is already even snarky and contrarian, it's just her natural setting at this point. Our youngest daughter is more quietly independent and will draw. They're both creative and they both reject anything that my wife Amanda or I tell them they should embrace based on us being older and wiser. They think they know everything. That's okay, I was the same way at 15. I thought my parents were total idiots. I realized they were only partial idiots.

Me: Hahahaha, Have you told them that?

Shepard: I have, we have a pretty good relationship.

Me: Okay, so you are best known for designing the iconic "Hope" poster that came to represent Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Here it is in case no one has seen it...


Me: You know I have to ask you about that poster. Is there a moment that hot you that this poster defined the 2008 presidential campaign? 

Shepard: Well, it was the right image at the right moment.

Me: How did you come up with it?

Shepard: It happened pretty quickly. I downloaded a free download scaleable vector pdf of the image that anybody could take and print out. I also started out printing many mini posters and stickers and dissimulating them but it happened because it went viral on the Internet almost instantly.

Me: So, obviously you were a fan of Obama. Looking back what did you think of his presidency? 

Shepard: Well, I thought he was more compelling as a campaigner than as President. But he was also sabotaged at every turn. I look at some good things that happened around environmental standards and marriage equality I think was really great and then I'm also incredibly disappointed that he defended domestic spying and drone attacks. I want to be proud of everything that my countries doing, I consider that patriotism, not falling in one with someone I even supported says is the correct thing to do if I don't believe in it ethically. So I had a lot of conflicts but compared to what we're doing with now with Trump... Obama was amazing. Obama is amazing, he's a very high quality human being.

Me: When that poster came out in 2008 how did it affect you personally?

Shepard: I got the attention of gallery owners, a clothing company Obey Giant with actual employees, people were happy to commission my work.

Me: So, do you know what I'm thinking?

Shepard: No, I don't. Ha ha ha.

Me: Shepard, take a guess.

Shepard: Well, the evolution of things. A lot of people have a very romantic idea about Van Gogh cutting iff his ear and various other starving artists and the idea there's a degree of purity and suffering when there's nothing material ever gained than obviously the impulse was pure. I consider my impulses pretty sure even though I have built a pretty successful business around my art. But that was something I had to do.

Me: Why is that?

Shepard: Because no one else was going to subsidized the things that cost me a lot of money that allowed me to put what I wanted into the world in an uncompromised way. I had to do that myself. 

Me: You did commercial work for Pepsi, Saks 5th Avenue, this large scaled sanctioned mural. I'm sure you're proud of yourself but what do you think of people saying you "sold out." Does it matter to you that term, does it hurt you?

Shepard: Of course it hurts me. I'm sensitive. I make art. Artists are sensitive. Ones that act egotistical are just trying to mask their sensitivity. They're just liars. I would challenge any of those people to get off the couch and try to figure out how to do it and see if they can come up with a superior route. I think very carefully about all the things I do. You brought up Saks 5th Avenue and Pepsi, those are projects that are actually pretty far in the rear view. For years could not make enough money as an artist to finance all the ambitious street and public art projects I was doing so I really had to do those projects I looked at it like I call it the "Inside Out Strategiam," I work outside the system some and inside the system some. You can call it a little bit of Robin Hood, but it wasn't about me just buying luxury items for myself. It was really just about me furthering my vision and money was the tool of freedom.

Me: You still do commercial projects, right?

Shepard: Only when it's really aligned with my philosophy. Things like the An Inconvenient Sequel, movie poster. The poster for the sequel to The Inconvenient Truth is something my studio worked on recently. The things I take on personally if they're commercial have to be like working with a corporation other than my own corporation which I guess what I have now is a corporation. I have the clothing line, I have the art practice creating and selling prints and stickers. I really have to feel there's a real philosophical connection. 

Me: So, do you think art and commerce need each other?

Shepard: Art and commerce do need each other. They just don't always line symbiotically. I'm looking where synchronicity and symbiosis could happen and then I'm just not doing the things that were they're going to be in conflict. Creative people find a way to do it.

Me: So, what do you think of people like Keith Haring?

Shepard: I respect Keith Haring for having the Pop Shop and doing things for album covers.

Me: Okay, what about Andy Warhol?

Shepard: Well, I'm actually far less commercial than Andy Warhol. But I love Warhol because he was saying that "commerce is the language that most people speak and I want to speak a universal language." So I can respect that.

Me: So, you have employees and paint big unsanctioned murals. How do you do that without being caught?

Shepard: I did a lot of fairly ambitious things with a modular poster system, wallpaper patterns that were on individual poster sheets that could be tiled together to make a continuous pattern. I came out with this modular system so I could go out with a messenger bag and a bottle of glue and bring a fold up ladder in the trunk of a car and take over a pretty sufficient size space with a well resolved piece. My aesthetic really evolved out of having the limitations not compromised by vision but even in someway's yield a style that was very recognizable. I have assistants, I have people that help me with things but the risks that I've taken as an artist to put my stuff up are things that I did because I was the only one that had to deal with the consequences. I have been arrested 18 times.

Me: If I was an artist that did that and I was caught once I would be too scared. Do you find it easy or hard every time?

Shepard: It's not that easy to do something larger but I do something's in the day when it seems impossible anybody would be that brazen and it must be legal. The psychology of putting on a jump suit, bringing out a ladder and putting down a drop cloth it's got to be legal, right.

Me: We've seen that in movies too where's there's someone in a big white van. It's got to be a painting company but maybe they're killing people inside. I don't know why I'm going there. Haha. 

Shepard: I kill the streets but not people.

Me: You should be a rapper. But going on...

Shepard: You dropped that in my lap.

Me: I know.You had to go somewhere with it. So, what's the thrill in doing this?

Shepard: The thrill of doing something on an abandoned of building and seeing how the next morning how people are responding to it is a thrill. But I also get thrill from just creating in my studio or working on these really big murals. The big murals are very hard blue collar work. It's up there, cutting stencils on the wall, painting, removing paper, it's a lot of elbow grease, long hours. But then getting down from the lift and stepping back seeing the piece as it progresses it's changing the landscape. How many times can I say I went to a city and it looked different when I left because of what I did? Maybe the Internet has never been the same since I entered it. I can claim that.

Me: So, do you think it's an ego thing?

Shepard: It isn't about my ego, it's about feeling. I think a lot of people feel powerless. All the existential questions that make people aspire sometimes in good ways and sometimes feel powerless and frustrated and angry. I'm looking on how to channel all that stuff and I think is in most of us as constructively as possible. Also seeing a moral progression, even though it's a slower process than all the illegal night hits I used to do is a different feeling but it's also so incredibly awarding.

Me: So, you're a DJ as well known as DJ Diabetic or MC Insulin. Is this true?

Shepard: The MC Insulin thing is just made up. Because I would always rap along to Ice Cube in my office somebody was like "you've got to be come MC Insulin or DJ Diabetic" because I am a type 1 diabetic. I never really use that name. Usually people want me to DJ under my name, under Shepard Fairey because everyone knows that name comparatively. Well, not everyone knows that name but it's more likely someone would know that name. I have fun with it, skipping the jelly, bringing the jams. 

Me: Okay, what's your favorite song?

Shepard: Public Enemy's "Fight the Power." 

Me: I like the Barenaked Ladies version better. Haha.

Shepard: And I like "Get Up Stand Up" by Bob Marley. I have to just mention that music is just the template for my work in many ways philosophically tan visual art because music gives me something pleasurable and vissual then it could also have that layer of saying something profound. From the Dead Kennedy's to the Clash, to Public Enemy, to Rage Against the Machine, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, musicals have said something with their lyrics whole entertaining people in such beautiful marriage of things that I'm always looking for that. The emotional and intellectual combined superbly and Public Enemy is one of the greatest examples of that for me.

Me: Shepard, thanks for being on the Phile. Please come back again soon.

Shepard: Thanks, Jason, now I want to hear "Fight the Power."





That about does it for this entry of the Phile and another five days worth of entries. Thanks to my guest Shepard Fairey. The Phile will be back on Monday with Yeardley Smith who plays Lisa Simpson on "The Simpsons." You know I'm a big Simpsons fan, right? Spread the word, not the turd. Don't let snakes and alligators bite you. Bye, love you, bye. Lather up.






























I don't want you, cook my bread, I don't want you, make my bed, I don't want your money too, I just want to make love to you. - Willie Dixon


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