What came first? The chicken or the egg? This one question symbolizes a quandary that’s been boggling the greatest philosophical minds for thousands of years. It’s also questions how life and the universe began. Most common answers can be refuted, thus creating a perpetual and endless debate. I believe it was ARISTOTLE who said it best when he concluded both have always existed. “If there has been a first man he must been born without father or mother – which is repugnant to nature. For there could not have been a first egg to give a beginning to birds, or there should have been a first bird which gave a beginning to eggs; for a bird comes from an egg..”
Did you find that confusing? Well so did many people up until another great mind, Charles Darwin developed his theory on evolution rendering the chicken/egg debate pretty much useless. Things evolve all the time. We wouldn’t have today’s STREEWEAR without hip-hop. There would be no CRISS ANGEL if not for SIEGFRIED & ROY. And without a doubt, there would be no WEBSTER if we were never introduced to ARNOLD JACKSON. As long as we live, we will continue to see things evolve.
As much as we may not enjoy watching ourselves from four years ago, I think that doing so can teach us an important lesson. For me, I learned that wearing daisy dukes and Speedos is really part of who I am. Anyways, we continue to go backwards and this What Mike Saw was made back in 2006. Although unflattering at times, these videos from the past are pretty SWEET.
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Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago at 10:42 PM. 6 comments
Before a single follicle on your upper lip can be considered a MUSTACHE, before the cracks in your rough and scratchy voice can be sealed, and before those hairs on your nipple are considered legit, you must become a man. There comes a time in every boy’s life when he must make a major decision. This decision makes up whether or not this boy will stay a boy, or move on to the next level. But the task at hand varies from culture to culture, which legitimizes ones entry into manhood. The Jews celebrate a boy’s bar mitzvah for his transition. In Ethiopia, boys walk on top of cows’ backs naked for their transition. And here in America, every boy must know how to rewire their cable boxes to get free SPICE before they make the jump into manhood.
In the Philippines, I’m not exactly sure what path one must take in order to be free from boyhood. But I may have created a great method of creating men out of boys. I wouldn’t necessarily call the BALUT a delicacy. It’s practically street food since you can get it at any random street corner in the Philippines. And if you’re like me who prefers the street version of anything (tacos, ghetto dogs, cotton candy) then you are sure to love the balut. You may even consider it tastier than sunny side up. And more fun to eat as well.
Most people are unfamiliar with the balut. It’s basically a duck egg only a couple of weeks old. Give that thing a few more days and the bird would crack out of its shell. But the incubation process is shorted by which the balut is created. So when the shell is opened, you essentially see a bird that was almost ready to burst open to hatch.
Last year, I thought it would be fun to bring a couple of baluts to my friend’s house who was hosting the PACQUIAO/DE LA HOYA fight. In honor of Pac-Man, three people were up for the feast. Little did I know that when I bought the eggs from my neighborhood Filipino store Seafood City, they had to be boiled first. I literally thought you could pick up the eggs off the shelf and eat it right then and there. In the video below, you will literally see the evolution into manhood right before your very eyes. Not to mention the defeat of salmonella or any other egg infested disease that could have been acquired. If you ever see a balut as shown in the video below, know that it is NOT supposed to look like that. These guys really could have gotten sick.
This one’s dedicated to Manny. I wish him luck because he’ll need it. Anyone who has been following 24/7 on HBO knows this may be his toughest battle yet. And he needs to stop messing around with corrupt politicians so that he can focus on fighting.
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Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago at 8:37 PM. 9 comments
I’m proud to claim that a few years ago, I invented the term “shiny shirt club”. A shiny shirt club is any club with a one-word name (Mood, Pulse, MAMI, etc.) frequented by bros with SHIRTS that shine. But the shine doesn’t just stop at the shirts. The luster gets carried on in everything from the hair, to the MUSCLES, to the bling. The GIRLS are pretty fantastic too. It’s pretty simple really and we’ve all seen them because we’re constantly bombarded with their exclusive appeal and sweet looking FLYERS. However I never really get invited to these clubs because of the way I LOOK but that’s fine by me. I’m comfortable with who I am.
I must admit though that I am jealous of my brother who took the label one step further, for our people (ORIENTAL), and called the Asian clubs, “SHINESE Shirt Clubs.” Damn that’s good. And that is something I am fond of and wish I were completely apart of.
This is the 10th episode of What Mike Saw. It’s been three years since I put one together. This video is dedicated to all the “Shinese” shirt bros. And it’s also dedicated to the NBA, which I miss very very much.
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Posted 11 months, 1 week ago at 12:29 PM. 14 comments
A lot can happen in three years. Back in 2006, anyone who’s anyone was listening to a prepubescent Jonas Brothers. Everyone I knew had an ANGULAR haircut. Not me. I opted for the BOWL. And the biggest television show of that time was American Idol. The only thing that’s really changed about that show is the SEXUAL ORIENTATION.
It’s been three years since I did a What Mike Saw. Even though I haven’t put anything together since then, it doesn’t mean that I’ve stopped recording. I’ve been capturing EVERYTHING. So don’t worry if you can’t remember what happened that one night you drank so much you woke up in the SANTA’S VILLAGE parking lot with your underwear on backwards. I can probably help you out.
The video below was the very last thing I put together back in 2006.
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Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago at 4:34 AM. 2 comments
