{"id":11882,"date":"2011-08-01T23:40:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T03:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=11882"},"modified":"2011-08-01T23:40:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T03:40:07","slug":"were-raising-money-for-mike-ds-yeti-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/were-raising-money-for-mike-ds-yeti-right\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Raising Money for Mike D&#8217;s Yeti, Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted that gorgeous reader Marian commented on my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/the-beastie-boys-bug-vacuum-and-bigfoot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beastie Boys post<\/a> to say that she&#8217;s ready and willing to help buy Beastie Boy Mike D a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skymall.com\/shopping\/detail.htm?pid=203688525&amp;c=\" target=\"_blank\">SkyMall Bigfoot<\/a>. Which one of you is going to get us Mike D&#8217;s address so we can deliver his gift?<\/p>\n<p>Writing about the Beastie Boys reminded me of another New York-bred rap group that gives good interview and has a weird relationship with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cookie_Puss\" target=\"_blank\">fast-food franchises<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/dasracist.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Das Racist<\/a>. Their song &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2009-06-17\/music\/a-chat-with-das-racist-the-geniuses-behind-combination-pizza-hut-and-taco-bell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell<\/a>&#8221; is a classic. Or maybe I just think so because I&#8217;ve always been really bothered by combination Pizza Huts and Taco Bells.\u00a0 What? They&#8217;re weird!<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EQ8ViYIeH04?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"349\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EQ8ViYIeH04?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nYou can download Das Racist&#8217;s two mixtapes from <a href=\"http:\/\/dasracist.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">their website<\/a> for free. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted that gorgeous reader Marian commented on my Beastie Boys post to say that she&#8217;s ready and willing to help buy Beastie Boy Mike D a SkyMall Bigfoot. Which one of you is going to get us Mike D&#8217;s address so we can deliver his gift? Writing about the Beastie Boys reminded me of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/were-raising-money-for-mike-ds-yeti-right\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11884,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882\/revisions\/11884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}