THE JO-TEL …believes some of what Nathaniel and John say, but believes England is still our sovreign

-Hip E.

Don’t worry Shark, not those stories.  This morning I turned off the water in the shower and then checked both armpits and, ahem, other hard-to-reach areas to see if I had remembered to rinse thoroughly.  I hate it when you are getting out of the shower and you reach to grab the towel and your […]

I found this song while taking a bath one day when I was home sick from work. It was in the huge collection of Daytrotter live sessions that PETE had sent out. Well, it got stuck in my head and I’ve probably listened to it about 30 times since then. That’s staying […]

To keep with the album cover theme, this is the cover to Hip E.’s big comeback rap album.

photo courtesy of Thaa Cannon.
West Coast!

HIP E.:
rapping to himself while drinking a Red Bull upon returning to the car after a pit stop
First off, fuck your bitch and the clique you claim
West Side when we ride, come equipped with game
You claim to be a player but I fucked your wife
We bust on Bad Boys, niggas fucked for life
Plus, Puffy wanna […]

It’s always embarrassing when someone says “you have a blog?” and then
you give them the address and you haven’t written anything on your
blog in like six months.  So you say, “it used to be much funnier when
we were on editme and PETE and I used to do posts.”  Then you try to
send them a link […]

Today I stayed home from work and watched The Darjeeling Limited on my brand new iPod Nano. The screen is about 1.25 inches by 1.75 inches. About 20 minutes in, I figured out how to put it on widescreen mode, because it’s a Wes Anderson movie for Christ’s sake. You need to […]

Werner Herzog (real name: Werner H. Stipetic) was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and never saw any films, television, or telephones as a child.  He started traveling on foot from the age of fourteen. He made his first phone call at the age […]

“I am a salmon; PoTW is a stream.” -Hip E.
If any one photograph perfectly captures what it means to be Hip E., it might be this one.

(photo credit: The Cannon)

Hip E. has game. It’s a very unique and ineffective form of game, but it is game nonetheless. As I was daydreaming at work, I thought: what if there were an Olympic games, held in San Francisco, where courageous competitors from all nations would participate in events involving various facets of Hip E.’s […]