Author Archives: Julianne

Pete Macia, on my sense of interior decor: “I like your room because it looks like a 14-year-old lives here. A really smart 14-year-old.” “Is it the Omarion paraphernalia or the stacks of teen magazines?” “It’s mostly just the T.I. … Continue reading →

Halfway through our phone conversation, mapping the day, that the bus would deliver Pete from our nation’s capital to East Broadway, and that I would take the train and meet him, he appealed to me, “I must find a shop … Continue reading →

The awesomely hologramic Diplomats belt buckle i received from chris nelson as a christmas gift not only represents “diplomatic immunity vol. 1,” but also “diplomatic immunity vol. 2.” Christmas. The most complicated time of the year. Enraged and Engaged: The … Continue reading →

my last year’s ballot the year before Dear Julianne Shepherd: Thank you for your submission – your votes have been recorded. Your Pazz & Jop albums ballot was submitted as follows: 1. Mary J. Blige – The Breakthrough – Matriarch/Geffen … Continue reading →

i lost the best-of lists i’d been compiling for 10 mos. in the great computer explosion of october 2005, RIP “bebe del cerebro.” In true OCD form, I recently tried to approximate them. I know I’m forgetting songs, and I … Continue reading →

i am looking for a Dominican ragga song, it is called “At chuhhh… (ya estoy cansàa)” and I think it is by Demprha, Elian and Burrell, and it is on here and I do not want to spend 19 euros … Continue reading →

lunchtime thought: smart ppl point out that 2005 was the yr of the trap-anthem, but i think the look for ’06 is less snow, more sugar. (assuming ghostface’s fishscale keeps getting the release-date nudge). POURQUOI, you ask? PARCE QUE 2005 … Continue reading →

Samberg related: Presumably you have also seen Episode One of “The ‘Bu,” aka the funniest video on the entire interweb.

First things first: the Voice of Bahrain weighs in on my husband and his boys. Heroes, all. Second. Happy birthday today to your favorite scientist’s favorite example of Punctuated Equilibria, Nick Sylvester. Also happy birthday to Pete L’Official, who shares … Continue reading →

* if you know where to get a good-sized molcajete for cheapish in brooklyn heights/surrounding/anywhere closer to boerum hill than sunset park (not trying to lug 90 lbs of volcanic rock on the bus), please holler a moi. * “I … Continue reading →