New York Comic Con! Baby Boba Fett with a tiny red lightsaber! Unabashed anime love! Sexy Asian Mario with big boobs! Hispanic Captain America! Comic Con, where we nerds come to roost! I wandered the floor on Thursday and Friday drinking in the sights and sounds and playing video games.

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We’re back at it! Sorry we missed you guys last week, we had to skip last week to handle some lavish travel. 8PM EST like always (we hope you adjusted your clocks, flava flav.). You can also join by using #mlamazingrace, but this week will also be picking up things with #tar & #amazingrace

Note: We might skip next week, too. Stay tuned (ML is going to SXSW, check for more info on that this week.).

We’re back like cooked crack, as Fat Joe Juelz likes to say, for live blogging action of The Amazing Race 18, Episode 2 at 8PM EST. Clear out your Sunday evening social calendar and join us. Don’t even bother DVRing the Oscars. Don’t forget that you can use the twitters with the tag #mlamazingrace, and your brilliant thoughts will be added to our feed.

So, this is kind of a random/last minute thing, but ML is teaming up with Phil Dzikiy (who our hardcore readers may recall from his chilling thoughts on our ‘Trapped in the Closet’ reviews) to live blog The Amazing Race 18 ALL SEASON LONG (unless we get our TVs stolen repossessed). You might find yourself asking, “what the hell is this about?”. Well, let me explain, as I descend into old man age demographics, I have become fond of CBS’ programming including the globe trotting The Amazing Race. This past fall, The Amazing Race 17 was my first season, and I was hooked… like Biggie’s first album hooked.

If you join us tonight, at 8pm EST (All Star? Heritage Classic? That’s why you have DVR). You can also use the twitter hashtag #mlamazingrace to get your comments added to our coverage. Note: this is the first season in HD.. word on the street is it’s pretty hard to film people running around all over the country with HD cameras (I’m not talking your flip cams), so you don’t have to suffer with Standard Def footage, like I did last year. Lastly, don’t be intimidated if you haven’t seen any prior seasons, The Amazing Race is a show you can pick up with any season, without knowing anything at all.

So join the conversation..or just read the gems that we drop on y’all, below.

I might be trying to wife MNDR. She and Q-Tip get down like long lost siblings on the Late Show stage. Neither acknowledges the awkwardness of their pairing, but the song is so dope that it almost never occurred to me that the guy who produced “One Love” is on David Letterman with an electro-dance-pop Brooklynite who looks like she could be a Charlie’s Angel. Like I said, I might be trying to wife MNDR.

Yeah, yeah, this sounds like a paid post (what is the blogger term for payola, anyway?). Well, it’s not, it’s more like a plea. I came across Lone Star (a new drama on FOX) this past week.. I DVRed it, and got around to finally watching it a few days ago and was really compelled to stick it out for the long haul. Being the exciting person that I am, I decided to google to see what the internets were saying about the show. The reviews seemed positive but it put up abysmal TV ratings (going up against such intellectually stimulating shows such as DWTS (Dancing With The Stars, duh– Situation got this!). So here is my plea, watch Lone Star on Mondays at 9pm to save it from the brink of cancellation. There is nothing worse that investing time in a *good* show to only have it cancelled like the ’94 World Series (I see you, Expos fans). Being the kind that I am, I’ve included the embed for the pilot episode below. When you are done watching, check out some press about the show’s uncertainty.

On Friday evening (I know, I know) I was aimlessly flipping through the ol’ cable box, ready to turn the TV set off, when I saw RZA’s face on NBC.  Apparently, RZA was guest starring on a new NBC show starring Jimmy Smits (of NYPD Blue fame). I only saw the tail-end of the episode but RZA was playing.. a wait for it..a person jailed for a crime he didn’t commit. Anyway if you care to see RZA’s acting the embed is below.

Now, these days, a rapper appearing on a TV series are more common than bedbugs in Manhattan, but then I stumbeled across this on youtube.

Late pass please.

RZA co-starring with Joe Jonas (Jo Bros!!), Jake Gyllenhaal, & Lil’ Jon in a video for indie darlings Vampire Weekend’s Giving Up The Gun?

Yeah.. all of that combined let me to ask the question that you see in the title of the post. I’m not in the least bit upset or worried about RZA doing all this stuff, I’m just saying, hopefully there is enough beats to do a 2nd Beat Drop this decade.

Apparently there was some white kids in Utah that got in deep trouble for rapping at McDonalds drive-thru (late pass please?). The Colbert Report chronicles their dramatic/violent/epic story, with Fabolous making a cameo as an expert on all this gangsta rap stuff. Note to self: bring a vest if I ever visit a fast food spot in Utah.

“Do Not **** With The Drive-Thru”

Watch it here. (The 2nd segment)

As you can guess as soon as you saw the title, I can’t get enough of this stuff. ABC News was able to dig up Merton for an interview. If you are too lazy to watch the two key facts you need to know is the next video is coming out in a few days, and video #1 is the highest rated youtube of all time. Now, stop being lazy and get edumacated about this meme.

To continue our recent spree of hip-hop related commercials (every time we post one of these, someone sends us a suitcase full of cash), here’s Black Milk’s surprising placement in a state-sponsored ad for Michigan products. At 0:22, he says “Fresh Milk!”

The ad does a much better job of promoting Michigan as a travel destination than say, Hex Murda.

via The Smoking Section