June 26, 2007 You know, I sat around all evening trying to come up with a clever update for the ONE YEAR anniversary of this blog. I wanted to write a lil something about the past year, But, you know what? Its all been covered. I searched my hard drives looking for some "remember when" pics, but that shit seemed too corny. Then I took a nap, woke up and with a fresh head, came straight to my computer and pulled up the photo you're looking at above. I shot it on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, right next to the white castle hamburger joint a little over ONE YEAR ago. In case you don't get the symbolism, "STRAIGHT AHEAD!" June 25, 2007 See my first cell phone contract. Yeah in case yall didn't know, I don't think I've ever thrown anything away. Back in 1995, a nigga bought a Nokia phone for $69 from Radio Shack and only had a 20 minute per month Cellular One plan. lol hahahaha, but I was baaaallin'. I used to pull that mothafucka out in front of bitches and I was the man. hahahaha, I was so broke though that I had to use it like a pager. Bitch would call me, I'd pick up and be like, "Baby, I'ma call you right back I'm in the middle of something right now". Then I'd run my ass to a payphone and call her back, frontin' like I was on the celly. Most mothafuckaz ain't have caller ID back then. So the hoes never knew I was frontin'. Why am I showing you this? Because I've been torn all weekend. Trying to decide if I wanna get swept up in that iPhone hype. It's in full swing right now and I'm so close to running to Cingular, oops I mean AT&T on Friday and grabbing me one. Then I start thinking back to 1995. Me frontin' with that Nokia. I've been fuckin' with a T-mob Dash and a RazR for about 6 months now. click here and the only fuckin' thing that the iPhone has that those two phones don't is a got damn touch screen. The iPhone runs on an old slow network, not 3G. It only has a 2 megapixel camera(like most cellys), and it doesn't allow any external memory cards. The data plan sucks. I'm hearing it'll add an additional $34.99 to you monthly bill. Plus you can only get that shit with AT&T service. I got this from an AP article today: "The software is going to sell this phone — it's going to be so easy and obvious and will correct a lot of problems in other phones," said Stillman, who was waiting for Apple's flagship retail store in San Francisco to open Friday morning to do some shopping. "Other phones — even BlackBerrys — can do a million things but you can't figure out how to do anything on them." kinda reminds you of what I said about smart phones here on 12/31/06 It's the software and the mods you have, then knowing how to use them that truely measures the value of your phone! So, do I spend $499 on another celly, just so I can be one of the "cool people" or do I wait until it flops and grab an "unlocked" one around christmas time for about $250 that I can run on my T-mobile service? or do I go back to my cellular phone roots and grab the Nokia N95? June 24, 2007 Okay, so I'm a soda fanatic, But I swear this will be the last time you 37 viewers will have to read about it. I promise. I was at the corner store today, saw this new flavor, and my dick got hard. Yes, it does taste as good as it looks. kinda like cotton candy and ice-cream. I'm gonna have to stock up on this shit, because it's a limited time thing to celebrate Faygo's 100th year making soda. June 18, 2007 Alright yall, it's been a loooong time since I updated this blog...You know how it is though, the weather has been nice, and I've been staying as far away from the net as possible. Been doing beverage research though. You know, learning about the different brands. Figured I'd big up the brand here in my own backyard and give yall mothafuckas outside of Michigan and some other midwestern spots a brief introduction to Faygo Cola. You've heard me talk about it before, but here's what that Faygo shit is all about. I shot the photo up above yesterday. It's the plant where Faygo is made. Right in the middle of the mothafuckin' hood. Ben and Perry Feigenson, formerly bakers in Russia, began Feigenson Brothers Bottling Works on November 4, 1907. Their original flavors, Fruit Punch, Strawberry and Grape, were based upon their own frosting recipes. That is why these, and the flavors they developed later, were (and still are) so unique. They produced the soda one day, closed the factory the next day, loaded the product on a horse drawn wagon, and sold it for three cents or two for a nickel. They and their families lived above the plant. In the winter, when little soda was sold, they supplemented their incomes by selling bread and fish. Later, when the Feigenson families moved into individual homes, they hired their first employees, bought their second horse and added Lithiated Lemon and Sassafras Soda (Root Beer) to their product line. They began calling the product "pop," because of the sound made when opening the bottle. The brothers bought their first delivery truck, a 1922 Ford. New products were Rock & Rye (which immediately became a must with a corned beef sandwich), Vanilla, and Seltzer from a siphon bottle. They initiated home deliveries in 1923. The brand name changed to "Faygo" in the 30s, and after that, in 1935, moved to the current Detroit location. A unique Fruit Punch flavor was created, based on angel food cake, with real grape juice. The Orange flavor also saw the addition of aged orange juice. In the 40s, the family hired W. B. Doner's advertising agency and created a new Root Beer and introduced "Up Town", a lemon-lime soda. After that, "The Faygo Kid" appeared on television, with the famous Detroit line, "Which way did he go? Which way did he go? He went for Faaaaaaygo!". Also appearing on TV was "Herkimer the bottle blower", who was "too pooped to participate" until he drank Faygo Uptown. Also during this time, there was a significant upgrading of the production facility, including a state of the art water treatment. In the 60s, Strawberry Soda changed to "Redpop." and a full line of Diet items was introduced, which soon accounted for more than 50% of Faygo's overall business. Also introduced was Frosh, Faygo Brau and Chateaux Faygeaux, but only Frosh remains today. In the 70s, Faygo became pioneers of one way bottles, twist off caps and warehouse distribution. "Gildersleeve" led Faygo's hit television commercial, "Faygo Boat Song." The song rose to #3 in the popular music charts and 75,000 45rpm records were sold for $0.25 each. Alex Karras, Detroit Lions star, becomes the spokesman for Faygo diets. Faygo marketed specially treated water, launching a line of flavored sparkling waters and in 1987, Faygo was purchased by National Beverage Corp. of Ft. Lauderdale, FL. New in the 90s, Faygo introduced Cherry Festival, made with real Michigan cherries, and named for the annual Traverse City, Michigan event. In 1996, Faygo launched its first effort with non-carbonated products. Named "Ohana," (Hawaiian for "family"), there are Punch, Orange Punch, Lemon Iced Tea, Lemonade and Kiwi-Strawberry. Faygo also introduced Arctic Sun, a non-alcoholic wine cooler in a unique blue 2 - liter bottle. June 3, 2007 Almost a year ago now, I was talking about creating a website to sell soda(check the previous entries)...www.IloveSoda.com is the site name I came up with. The logo is "I heart soda" with a bottle inside the heart. Buuuut, unfortunately, like most everything else I start online and off, I rarely finish. I'm not lying when I say I got all kinds of incomplete projects laying around everywhere. Hell, I was suppose to have www.chic-chick.com launched by june 1st but I haven't been able to find any decent models yet. Well. it's mid year 2007, time to get my shit together. Fuck, I see how Coca Cola just purchased Vitamin Water from Glaceu for 4 Billion dollars....Niggaz was laughing last year when I was explaining how the beverage industry has many untapped angles. The Ilovesoda.com site is just one of those angles I've decided to take. It's the only one I'm telling you mothafuckaz about. I got another idea I'm working on too(but I'm gonna keep that one quiet for now)..and Got Dammit I swear this summer I'm gonna have one of them up and rolling. Oh yeah, I could be late on this(I found it in a hole in the wall cornerstore). But have yall tasted that Jolly Rancher Soda up above. Man, I'm hooked on it. Theres about 5 flavors and I can't believe they got that shit tasting just like the candy. 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