Urban Honking

WHEREIN an accidental editing faux pas at a major alt-weekly has resulted in a description of Anthony Hamilton, under my byline, as “MMM… complete man.” I didn’t write it, but I was thinking it. WHEREIN I have shed that unclean Jim Jones feeling (retarded, aggro, can’t get signed to the Roc) and have taken up […]

I’ve something else to bitcherate: is it truly necessary for the 2004-2005 NBA season to begin on Election Day?! With a Rockets-Pistons game?! If my paranoia were more acute, I’d formulate a The Last Thing He Wanted-style conspiracy theory on this particular clusterfx of poor planning, beginning with Florida voting booths, hanky-panky in the fiber-optics […]

Great interview with Immortal Technique at Latinrapper.com. A little sample: “Certain rap artists have stated that they wouldn’t vote in the presidential election because they feel neither political party has the interests of minorities in mind. What’s your take?? IT: The greediest most money grubbing people I ever met in my life were corporate conservative […]

From the Miami bass list: “Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:02:49 -0000 From: “Kenny G” Subject: TRINA NEEDS A HIT HELLO MY PEOPLE, THIS IS YA BOY KENNY G, FROM THE ONE AND ONLY “GET SOME CREW”, I ALWAYS WANTED TO START A LETTER OFF LIKE THAT, LOL. ANY WAY I TALKED TO TRINA’S PEOPLE […]

1. Ezra and I, chilly, sitting in Roosevelt Park among leaves, drinking coffee and reminiscing about the past. Watching some teenagers shoot hoops, when a bus pulled up to the light and some other kids, whose faces we could only see half from the bus windows, leaned out and shouted meanly to the boys on […]

Teedra Moses is a sweet potato: a blithe, slight, pretty New Orleans tweeter, so the one song we saw lacked the brass punch it needed to be a real Southern raw diva woofer-banger. It was the Lil’ Jon produced track from her album, “You Better Tell Her,” which wags to a wayward lover, “Daddy, I’m […]

Tonight is the humble kick-off of College Music Journal business-cardxtravaganza, but where you’ll see me is BB Kings, with Hua‘s and my sweet New Orleans roundtheway girl who believes-in-love and too-cute-to-fight, Ms. Teedra Moses. Full report in the AM. On how she gets me like I’m 16. In the ’90s. Totally listened to Mint Condition […]

America’s opinions will be hijacked by Bush supporters. Sign a petition, join a boycott. Viacom, too.

And since Jessica floated down on the sparkly unicorn like Glinda the good witch, crafting is what we’ve done. We are making surprises with our hands; the living room is a wastepile of glue guns, dirt, newspapers, fabric paint, mod podge; bolts of copper ribbon unfurl and snake daintily around cut strips of paper and […]

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