The illustrated Hello: Fred Flinstone

Flintstones *cough* meet the Flintstones *cough cough* you'll have a yabba... look, would it be okay if we open the window?



Ah, yes, Fred Flinstone. Between you and me, he was only a drawing that moved. Not a real person at all. After all, who would be as foolish as to try and take Fred Flintstone and turn him into a real person?



Wuuuuuuuuuuuu-Taaaaaang!!!!!!

[Buy: Flintstones: Season One]

[Part of the Illustrated Hello]

Method fails for filing taxes

If you've got a name like Method Man, you'd hope you'd back it up with a decent filing system at the very least. But it looks like Mr. Man's filing is all awry, as it turns out he's forgotten to pay taxes for four years. He now has to find thirty thousand dollars and faces up to four years inside.

I've got parking tickets coming out of my ass

In the comments on the Echobelly weekend, Raffles suggested that what the people wanted was the Wu Tang Clan.

Your wish, and so on:

The unfriendly Ghostface

Ghostface Killah, out of the Wu-Tang Clan is annoyed, angered like you wouldn't believe: his solo album is now schedule-conflictedly, coming out the same day as the Wu Tang album. He wails that it's not fair, Mum, he had that day booked first:

"I had December 4 for the longest but the Wu album, brothers was kinda late on doing whatever they were doing and pushed it back.

"They trying to fuck around and make me push my album back and doing all this. But niggas ain't fucking around or give us money when we did them Wu-Tang tours.

"The first one, they paid us after a while, but this last one, niggas is holding onto a lot of money. And [they're] upset based on that. It's a battle right now."

He was keen, however, that MTV should note that his problem did not lie with his fellow clansmen.

"You can put this in there, I'm not [mad at] all the members. It's not based on the members, but the hierarchy at Wu-Tang Clan is on some bullshit."

Mr. Killah could, of course, blame this on the popular management handbook 'My hierarchy is On Bullshit', the follow-up to the best selling 'Who Moved My Bullshit'.

If we understand his complaint correctly, the double-date is because some mysterious bosses are trying to punish him for, erm, not being paid for some sort of album?

To be frank, given how ropey Killah's solo stuff is, he should be thankful that there might be something to tempt his fanbase into whatever record stores remain open.

Method Man offers to help out

Method Man has taken a deal to do community service after his legal-run in when he was stopped with dope both in his car and his bloodstream at a Brooklyn tollbooth.

His people are trying to spin it, though:

Defending his client's reputation, his lawyer Peter Frankel, tells the New York Daily News, "He's never been in trouble with the law before. This is a guy who flies in the face of all stereotypes about rappers."

Nice try, but only someone who'd smoked as much dope as Method man would buy that. Fly in the face of the stereotypes? He was so high, he could have flown over the Tollbooths.

Method Man Maryjane Manhattan mischief

Well, whoever would have thought that if you - the you in this case being New York police - stopped Method Man, you might find a little bit of blow on him. It's impossible to believe, isn't it?

Even the cops can't take it seriously: the police spokesperson commented on Mr. Man's quiet agreement to go downtown by suggesting "he probably felt pretty mellow."

Apparently, we're still fighting the war on soft targets ("war on drugs").