Author: Shimbo

Shimbo Challenges You to Take a Chill Pill: The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is Good For Social Media

by Shimbo I love people. Except when people are busy being “people”. One of the natural by-products of the Internet Age is an increasingly solipsistic point of view; how could it be any different? So often we sit behind our computer monitors or our smartphones, and digest everything the internet has to offer, while filtering it through our own ideals. Sometimes… Read more →

Peer Pressure For a Good Cause? Ed Button Has an Ice to Pick With the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

by Ed Button For those of you who haven’t somehow been on the internet in the past two weeks or so, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a campaign that seeks to raise funding to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. It’s a condition that affects voluntary muscle movement, and eventually leads to death. The “Challenge”, as it were, is… Read more →

Another Year Older? Check. Another Year Wiser? Well…Shimbo Turns 37

by Shimbo 37 years. I’m trying to sit here and convince myself that’s still young, and I suppose it is, I mean someone 20 years old would look at me and laugh, probably as much as I laugh at someone 27 who thinks the end is near. Maybe the end is always near, and it’s important that we remember that… Read more →

“I’m On Some Dumb Shit”: Nicki Minaj Destroys Hip Hop and Ass Appreciation Forever With ‘Anaconda’

by Shimbo I never thought I’d hate looking at big fat asses so much. Midnight Wednesday brought the video debut of Hip-Hop harpy Nicki Minaj’s latest single “Anaconda” from the album of the same name. Now normally, this isn’t necessarily something I’d cover, but after two weeks of hype, I was intrigued enough to see what that hype was all… Read more →

“This Is a Test. The World Is Watching.” Ed Button Examines Ferguson One Week Later

by Ed Button In last week’s article concerning Ferguson, I said it would be a long week. I severely underestimated things. So what have we learned in the week since the initial shooting? Not much more than we knew originally. We know that Michael Brown was shot and killed by the now-identified Darren Wilson and he was roughly 35 feet… Read more →