Monthly Archives: November 2006

spoiler alert Last night’s Lost was sufficiently dramatic, and I was glad to see Sawyer and Kate finally taking it to the boneyard.

In NYC, held by Pan American Musical Art Research. Lotsa bourgie-bourge stuff going on for this — Symphonic Mexico at Lincoln Center para example — but some related events sound really interesting, such as the Limon Dance Company reprising classic … Continue reading →

I forgot to link to Ryan Dombal’s Lil Wayne track review on La Horca, which slayed.

p.s. This seems like as good a time as any to let you know that nigh every Saturday for the past four or five months, I have gone to the gym at 9 am for two hours of dancaerobics and … Continue reading →

I can honestly say that watching George Bush get shit-sonned on CNN by a gleeful press corps, with regards to the Democratic revolution and the shamed resignation of a disowned Rummy, was the happiest and most deeply satisfying hour I … Continue reading →

My pops is a lifelong Wyomingite and the best sociological gauge I have of the Republican party, Western division: he is a dyed-in-the-wool fiscal conservative. He is not socially conservative (though anyone who tries to tell you the fiscal and … Continue reading →

Hits, misses, lost classics from the archive STATS TOPIC: Vocabulon: Slangtionary/Slangxicon, summer 2005. This is not a JSHEP exclusive; rather, it was written by a posse of slang-slangers (including self; see below) and I edited/compiled. (You can tell which ones … Continue reading →

West Coasting braintrust Jeff Chang sends an important and useful missive RE: Election Day: “Just a quick reminder to head out to the polls or turn in your absentee ballots today. This has all the markings of a historic election. … Continue reading →

This is the first in a series of lost classics and comedic “triumphs” from my back catalogue, w/extra special thanks to Stunna B! STATS TOPIC: El-P’s Style Transformation, April 2006 — when El-P was breaking out in like, super-premium acid … Continue reading →

it’s nice to know even Lily Allen thought “Take What You Take,” off her own album, was shite, cause it was. I otherwise liked Alright, Still very much, but “Take What You Take” sounded like my soon-to-be-ex-roommate’s Anglo-boner for Virgin … Continue reading →