Friday, August 31, 2007

One Bea to Rule Them All- Yes Greansboro Reelly Can Speall!


HypePipe's Third Ever Citywide Spelling Bea Arthur was a SMASHING success. By our own standards. Which are fuzzy and changeable. (like a pair of chaps!)

Nonetheless, last night's Bea was special because 1) Patrick had returned from France and 2) the spellers and spectators were so into the spelling of words, we think we witnessed a rebirth of both SMARTNESS and PAGEANTRY that will sustain us until the 2008 Summer Games.

The hosts, foolish as ever, dressed monochromatically. We were Patrick the Grey, Erica the White, and Cedric the Black. We're not sure how it went over, we just love a THEME.

Cedric set the tone with an EPIC opening verse...















Spellers strategized...
Patrick drank

Hillary had a birthday!

Everyone put on a Happy Face for the Spelling Bea (Arthur!).




















When all was said and done, we EVEN HAD PRIZES!

Burt's Bees for the tired lips of our spellers...


Honey for Theresa, our SWEET two-time runner up...


And BOOZE for Anna, the current reigning Word Champion!
Patrick awarded the grand prize, a gift certificate to the Flat Iron.


And let's not forget Mikey, owner of the Flat and our reason
for going out, drinkin' and spellin' and a hero to the citizens of Greensboro!


GREENSBORO SPELLERS WERE BURNING UP!


(Seriously, it was that smokey.)

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Courtney Love Might Make Sense


Courtney Love, darling of the incomprehensible jet setting party crowd, is actually making some sense. She's weighing in on, of ALL things, Owen Wilson's recent (and extremely sad!) suicide attempt and hospitalization. According to this, Courtney is blaming everything on some dude (Steve Coogan) she used to sleep and do drugs with. Seriously, if Courtney LOVE is calling you a druggie, then you are probably capable of turning Hello Kitty to drink and drug. (I personally blame the Pussycat Dolls. They are ruining EVERYTHING.)

I really hope Owen is able to bask in the sunshine of being alive once again- for The Royal Tenenbaums alone I am deeply indebted!

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Thank You Greensboro!


For making last night's Spelling Bea Arthur so very EPIC!


Last night's spellers, spelling spectators, and even the people who just thought they were going to go to the Flat to drink, did Greensboro proud and broke a HypePipe Citywide Spelling Bea Arthur participation record. The Flat Iron was packed to the gills with old school and new school SPELLING FOOLS. Prizes were awarded after several intense rounds of head to head spelling and even Al Gore smiled upon the evening from his mansion in Tennessee. In a word, it was EPIC.

Thank you Greensboro!!!!

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Breaking News: Female Basketball Coming to ABC


No wait! That's not a female basketball, that's Wayne Newton! Who along with a pastiche of schwag celebrities (say that five times fast) including Scary Spice, a Cheeta girl, and Doctor Fucking Quinn, will be "starring" in this season's DANCING WITH THE STARS! God Bless America.

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Katrina's Heroes

The state of the world and country have improved very little since Katrina, despite Brad Pitt's best efforts, so we find ourselves with heavy hearts and few words for the anniversary. But if we say anything at all, we must thank Spike Lee for "When the Levees Broke" and we must, at the very LEAST, tip our hats to the woman who may save us all (since it doesn't look like Lindsay Lohan will...). Her name is Phyllis Montana LeBlanc!


If you haven't seen "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" waste no more time and visit amazon.com. The product tags kind of say it all.

(6) (2) (2) (2) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1)
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HEALTH Rock Cafe

Oh happy day! We can eat at the most wonderful restaurant in all of Guilford County once again! As it happens, Bear Rock Cafe at Friendly Center crammed for its mid-term and pulled an "A" in a re-test last week. Oh what a sparkling oasis of health it must be! I hope they will let us eat off the floor, cause that's what a quick turnaround "A" makes us want to do. Like they say, the safest time to fly is right after a plane explodes.

Taylor Hicks best expresses our feelings about restaurants that pull out the bleach and clean up after receiving a public health downgrade:


From last week's Restaurant Report Card:

An inspector re-checked Bear Rock Cafe on Friendly Center Road in Greensboro. It has its "A" back with a score of 95.5

Well Done Bear Rock:
WE GIVE YOU A SOUL PATROL SALUTE!

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Barf Rock Cafe


While we are not officially a "food and cultcha" blog, we feel compelled to alert our readers when we hear about, consume, or get sick from nasty food in the Triad. In addition to Fishbones, Bonefish or whatever it is, we now gotta steer clear of the darling of the Greensboro corporate catering world, Bear Rock Cafe.


Here's the scoop on just how nasty it is:

Greensboro, NC -- An inspector checked Bear Rock Cafe at Friendly Center in Greensboro. He saw flies inside and rodents around its dumpster. Also, the meat and vegetable slicers were dirty.

The score for Bear Rock Cafe was 86.5, a "B".

posted August 16, 2007 on the Restaurant Report Card.


A "B" in Calculus is cause for rejoice. In a restaurant, it is cause for grabbing our keys and getting the HELL out. Summer still has a ways to go and there are plenty of mayonnaise-based salads yet to be eaten and food-borne illness yet to be caught. We'll keep you richly informed. If we don't die first!

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Stars: They're Just Like Us!



THEY CELEBRATE BIRTHDAYS!



THEY EAT AMBROSIA SALAD!


THEY CROSS THE STREET!





THEY SMOKE!



STARS: THEY'RE JUST LIKE US!

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Breaking News: Greensboro Illiterate???




I
GUESS
WE'LL
SE(A)!!!!




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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

But Did He Ever Get Busy in a Burger King Bathroom?


Ok, so it's only Tuesday and this week is already bananas. Owen Wilson tried to put the "death spell" on himself, Senator Larry Craig likes doing it in the, um, airport, and Brit Brit is under investigation by the L.A. County Department of "Please Don't Fuck Up Your Kids or We Will Take Them From You."

How many more stars on the edge are gonna go over it in a barrel, when is Kevin gonna get custody of those kids, and really, how many more anti-gay, but also GAY, Republican senators are still in the closet?


JUST KIDDING! (Ricky Martin isn't a Senator, duh.)

To cheer yourself up, you can follow this link to some photos of Britnay's mothering in action. (Is there inappropriate clothing? Cigs and booze? You have to click the link to know for sure!) Forget saving Greensboro, WHO WILL SAVE THOSE BOO BOOS?

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My Latest Excuse

Yeah, it's been a while between posts. I joined a Medieval Mercenary Crusade group for a week:



They tried to make me eat pudding that tasted funny and ordered me to smuggle cheese in my checked luggage on international flights. I didn't really mind the pudding or the white stuff they stirred into it, but I had to get out for the THIRD EVER HypePipe City-Wide Spelling Bea Arthur! It's this Thursday at Greensboro's own Flat Iron at Summit and North Church. Registration begins at 8:30. Spelling will probably start a bit before 9:00. Drinking will begin whenever the HELL YOU WANT cause you're grown now. The prizes are fabulous, it's fun even if you can't spell, and it's FREE.

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Anna Nicole Lives!


Y'all have probably seen this already, but it's still funny.

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Google News is Homophobic

What, dear reader, might one expect if one were to type "gay" into Google News' search engine? Stories about Larry Craig? Anderson Cooper? Zac Ephron? Us too. But the sad truth is that Google News doesn't want you to learn about gay things. It doesn't care about GLAAD protesting Buju Banton or AIDS victims being buried alive in Papua New Guinea or the latest episode of Unicorn Planet. Google News seems to think sprinting is more important than all of that stuff combined. Commence with the hatemail.

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Monday, August 27, 2007

Fishbones Restaurant Tried to Kill Me!



For reals, do not eat their shrimp and grits. Food poisoning is a terrible, terrible price to pay for a little cajun flavah.

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Saturday, August 25, 2007

Kickin It On The Island!


SO........

As the title read, I'm kickin it on TACO ISLAND (Patrick's House)! And 97% of my birfthsday prophacies have been FUFFILLED! We have pics that will come later, but in the meantime, please enjoy this sideways clip of some drag queen called "Ambrosia Salad!"

-enjoy

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Friday, August 24, 2007

Breaking News: Patrick Feels the Burn

As if Guarana, Siberian Ginseng, Maltodextrin, and an office on MLK Drive weren't enough, Burn, Greensboro's very own energy drink, knows how to keep its customers happy...

Case in point: Yesterday was Thursday AND Cedric's birthday so, of course, we went to El Carreton,


Greensboro's finest Mexican restaurant overlooking Tate St.

But when we got there, the GD parking lot was full!


That is until, like a golden parking angel, we saw it...


...the Burn Truck was saving us a spot!

I don't know what business Burn Inc. had at El Carreton (though I'm guessing it had something to do with reasonably priced mason jars full of Yeungling) but Cedric, Carlton and I thank them profusely. For, if it weren't for Burn, we would most surely have been towed from the Kinko's parking lot...

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North Carolina Do-Gooders: First City Council, Now The World

Not content with merely saving Greenfield, local humanists (possibly Quakers) are attempting to use their powers of brotherly love to save Republicans in Florida! Check it:

"WESH 2 News has confirmed Republican political strategist Ralph Gonzalez was one of three people found dead inside a home in East Orange County on Thursday.The bodies were found at 2420 Hickory Oak Blvd. in the Hickory Cove subdivision, Orange County Sheriff's Office spokesman Jim Solomons said.

According to Solomons, police received a call from a woman from North Carolina saying to check on the well-being of a friend in the home."

Did this "North Carolinian" have a Scottish accent?

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Waiting For My Weekend

I, most likely, will be away from the computer for the next couple days as I bathe myself in homegrown gays and my own birthday. But in case I don't make it back on here until Monday, Here's a you tube clip that should give you a good idea of how the weekend’s events will probably go down!

enjoy!

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HypePipe Interview with Madison Cooley, Age 8



HP: So Madison, how excited are you about school starting?

MC: Not so much. I like playground.

HP: I'll bet you do! So what are you studying this year?

MC: I got, gotta new one of theeeese! It's a Dora the Explor...

HP: Okay well that doesn't really answer our question now does it Madison?

MC: ...

HP: Madison!

MC: No... (crying a little) sorry...

HP: I don't know if you are, Madison. I really don't. I mean, You weren't even listen to us. You never listen to us...

MC: (whimpering)

HP: (a stern look)

MC: (more whimpering)

HP: Well you're forgiven.

MC: O...okay.

HP: Just don't let it happen again.

MC: (sniffle)

HP: How many days till Christmas break?

MC: One hundred nine. I think. I'm not sure though. I'm not so good at math.

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Budd Lake Can You Hear ME????

Here at the pipe, we love the fans almost as much as Foxy Brown loves being stoopid. In honor of this special love we would like to salute our fan base in beautiful BUDD LAKE, NJ!

We’ve noticed through tracking that NJ is our 3rd largest sate for hits and that 99.9% are coming from Budd Lake on a regular basis, so Budd Lake…….HERE’S TO YOU!

We hope that the next time we are in Northwestern NJ on a Friday, we can rent a carbon neutral hot rod and meet you all at the Stardust Diner for Bike and Car Cruise Night!

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

BREAKING NEWS- Local Citizens Save Springfield, We Mean, Greensboro


This is not so much Breaking News as it is Recent News, but it is news nonetheless that LOCAL CITIZENS ARE SAVING THE WORLD. And by the world, we of course mean Greensboro.

Something must be distracting the News and Record from reporting on actual world-shaking news like this, so you have to read, of all things, some guy's blog to find out what the Council voted on last night.

So, what happened at Melvin Municipal that could get us so excited? Over 70 Springfieldians showed up to support the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. And Mayor Holliday signed! Cool cities, cool mayors, cool kids, and cool people saving the world!

Hooray! We are saved from THE DOME!

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Monday, August 20, 2007

Time Travel Ya'll


In honor of me and Erica's weekend full of wearing down I-40, I'd like to personally invite all of you a trip.
Let's go back to a time called 1999,
A place called the MTV Video Music Awards,
A Group Called TLC,
enjoy!

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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Flavor Flav Before All This Recent Bullshit

We were watching the Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav and were wondering, what would Chuck D do? Or think? Or say about all this recent bullshit? The pageantry and spectacle of the roast (plus the hilarious and unscheduled side roast of Carrot Top by Patton Oswalt) got us thinking about how VH1's Celebreality might be bringing the public consciousness down a little. Just a tad. We didn't come up with much, other than a desire to share this dope Public Enemy video for "Night of the Living Baseheads." In other words, conscious political rap in a rare, RAW form. A highlight: MC Lyte reporting LIVE from Wall Street.

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Friday, August 17, 2007

Breaking News: Andrew Keen Doesn't Get It

So Andrew Keen, the guy who writes this blog, officially sucks. His new book, The Cult of the Amateur, attempts to explain how the internet is destroying culture. Apparently, the professional class (and thus culture) is being squeezed out of public discourse as more and more ignorant plebians decide to set up webpages, clogging up all the internet tubes with non-professional drivel.

When Stephen Colbert suggests that this theory might perhaps be just a little bit elitist, Mr. Keen replies, "What's wrong with that?"



Lame!

P.S.: In other Stephen Colbert news, The Richard Branson Affair airs Wednesday!

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G-D BLESS BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO!

They may be few and far beTWEEN, but the family friendly forces at Blockbuster Video manage to hide just enough gay low budget DVDs amongst the copies of Wild Hogs and Matt Damon movies that dominate the store.

I rented THIS ONE!

Tell me that I didn't strike GOLD! I'm guessing that it will be a mix of Brokeback Mountain (the book) and Melrose Place with porn-like sensibility!


I'M SOOOOO EXCITED!

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Kids (not the 8th Street ones) to Appear on Radiohead's Album


Don't call it a comeback- youth has been scoring points all along even as OLD PEOPLE continue to trounce them in public. (Well, except for Sir Richard Branson- he dumb.) Back in March of this year Radiohead's Colin Greenwood and wunderkind producer Nigel Godrich went to some school to record some kids singing for what I HOPE is not another Kidzbop release. I'm pretty sure its for their new album.

WHICH I CAN'T WAIT TO BUY/STEAL (kidding!) /BORROW/DOWNLOAD

From The Music Slut: Radiohead Records Track with 8 Year Olds

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Breaking News: Spencer Wells Is One Steely Eyed Mother Fucker



And he's so smart! And funny. In fact, he's just about perf...

Oh my God.

Spencer Wells is a robot.

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We Have'nt Foregottan How To SPEALL!

And we hoap u hav'ent eyethur!

Becauz.........................

Its not over until we beat up the fat lady and say so!

The 3rd (And Possibly Final((Of the Season)) SPELLING BEA (ARTHUR)

Thurday, August 30

8:30pm

The Flatiron

In the menaime here are our good friends The Wu Tang Clan paying homage to the hard work that all of you G-Spot Word Heads have put forth so far.......

Stay Tuned, and as always
Enjoy.........




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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Sir Richard Branson and Stephen Colbert Get Wet



Sir Richard Branson started a water fight with Stephen Colbert. For real. We're not making this one up. We would, but we didn't. It happened on the set of the Colbert Report- details are still trickling in!

Lindsay Lohan was no where near the scene (at least we don't THINK she was). And Brit Brit's crazy ass was home with her boo boos. We would have expected this kind of shit from the likes of Hollywood's young tragic messes, but no. It was just barmy old Sir Richard, some water, and an ego that's probably unfit for saving the world.

YouTube is providing NOTHING on this story yet. But the audience accounts of the scene give a decent glimpse of the horror.

READ THE DEETS!

Not Barry Gibb

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Tom Being Tom



The function that you are currently trying to use is disabled and will be back shortly. We are making some minor changes to this section so please bear with us until we can get it back online. Please do NOT email me about this. Just wait it out. Aug 15, 2007 -Tom

The man (or is it woman?) cracks me up. Really. I'm going to start telling people, as a matter of policy, "do NOT email me about this." "Just wait it out." Because that's the kind of no-shit-from-nobody kind of lady I have always aspired to be. I think I'll start with Verizon Wireless.

It could probably work for all those child support cases I've got pending, too...

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Whither John Mayer?


The world nearly stopped spinning today when millions of people on the Internet got really confused. Workplace productivity plummeted as office-dwellers everywhere scoured the Internet, trying to get to the bottom of one of this century's most enduring mysteries: Who is John Mayer dating?

TMZ says Mandy Moore. But the Internet's Gayest Little Piggy says Cameron Diaz.

WHAT ARE WE TO THINK????!!!!!

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The Secret Files of Josh Romney



This primary season, because we have a soft spot for sexy robo-Mormons, HypePipe has embedded several spies within the Mitt Romney campaign. Their main priority is to install a camera in the Five Brothers Bus shower, but they also have orders to report back on anything scandalous or sexxxy that we might be able to exploit for personal gain. Today we hit the motherload. Our operatives have managed to get a hold of the secret diary of none other than middle child, Josh Romney. What secrets will Josh unwittingly reveal when he thinks no one is reading? There's only one way to find out:




April 18, 2007

"Dear Max [editors' note: Why "Max"? We don't know.],

That chick with the armpits from BYU called again. Autumn. She tried calling me earlier last week too, totally creepy. She keeps leaving messages and talking about John Jackson, Jeremy, Jonathan, all these fucking "J" names, like I should remember them or something. Dude, college was soooo long ago. Grow up! Anyway.

I had that dream again last night, except this time we were in a barracks in some military base somewhere. I woke up and I was chewing on my pillow and sweating a lot. I thought about waking up Jen but I knew she would just want to pray with me again, so I didn't. OMG, this is so random, I have the biggest craving for pickles right now. No joke. I don't know why, but OMG! I am so random.

Dad is making me drive the "Mitt Mobile" tomorrow all day which is totally lame. Almost as lame as the name "Mitt Mobile". I suggested "Cobra Sword II", but Tagg shot me down. Asshole. I guess "Mitt Mobile" is better that "Mormongasaurus" though. That was stupid Michael's suggestion. I don't know why he's even allowed at these meetings. BB always wants him around. [editor's note: "BB" is short for "Benny Bear", a nick name for second youngest brother, Ben.] Metrosexual my ass... Okay I'm gonna go do some push-ups.

Stay cool!"


April 24, 2007

"Dear Max,

Mom's birthday is today. I got her a butter dish. BB made her a God's eye from his own hair. I said she was gonna think that was gross and then he started crying so I hit him in the arm. Michael was all like, "You better cut that out Josh, or I'm telling your dad!" And I was like "Whatever Michael, shouldn't you be zhooshing yourself or something?" Then I hit him too. He did tell Dad though, and now I have to drive the bus all day again. It's so stupid. Michael is so dumb. If i have to watch Kate and Leopold one more time I'm gonna hurl."


May 7, 2007

"Dear Max,

Me and Craig went biking with SC Governor Sanford today and it was SO HARD! Sweet geeze, my ass is sore! My thighs too. And my groin. Michael said he would give me a massage but I don't know...I think he may just be trying to play a trick on me to get back for when i punched him. I suggested we call the bus the "Five Brother's Bus" today but Tagg said that was gay. He's a loser though. mom said it was a good name and that that's what we're probably gonna call it anyway. So there, Tagg, suck on that! Jen called today, for serious she talks SO MUCH. The kids need braces this, i don't have any alone time that. i can't wait to get to Iowa. i don't think my cell phone works out there. Ooo, we're at a gas station now, I'm gonna go get some beef jerky. TTYL."


TO BE CONTINUED...

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