Urban Honking

Only one lady could get Snoop rhyming reverently about “making love”: the forthcoming Angie Stone long-player is fucking phenomenal, even WITH Floetry. I must hoard elaboration for my official review, but holy crap… you know how Mahogany Soul had the cheesy lyrical moments you forgave because she’s so Angie Stone (i.e. “Bottles & Cans”)? Here, […]

Yeah, why won’t the US Military pony up for a soldier’s handicapped child?

My employer-daddy, The Stranger, lost their hip-hop columnist (last time I saw him, he was totally selling Vast Aire’s merch). Until they find another, Dan Savage—lover of showtunes, tooth fetishist, moderately sadistic advice columnist—has taken over, and it’s a hopeless trainwreck. A hilarious one, for the time being. But someone should apply for the job, […]

S-NNAAAP! Sasha whips up Dave Grohl cauldron-style. The comments section of the “hippie” entry, below, has reached boiling point. As with the irony trend, I will posit the “new hippie” thing is territory largely relegated to white males with class leverage. I will now quote E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and remind all to “be excellent to […]

What’s Up Portland: Tonight, Dennis Kucinich and SEAN “most depressing movie ever” PENN will appear on the corner of 37th and HAwthorne, campaigning and JUST HANGING OUT, from 7:30 to 8:30 pm. The last time I was on 37th and Hawthorne, I was accosted by a dreadlocked crusty punk wearing a nightmare b4 xmas patch […]

You know how irony as trendy M.O. is cooked-er than turnovers-for-change at Popeye’s? How it went the way of the MIA Fannypack gal—who knows where, who knows when, but we prolly won’t be seeing it ’til the 2032 reunion tour? Okay well. I think hippie is the new ironic, unironically. The hippie supplanting irony thing […]

It was dawn. The fog was thick and rolling amongst the dark, beautiful evergreens of the area surrounding the freeway just past Seattle, Washington. It was a Saturday morning, and Steve and I were beginning the final leg of our 24-hour journey–a journey which had begun the previous day in Portland, Oregon: Earlier that day: […]

In the context of Spanish and Anglo-American conquest of Mexico, a passage from Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith and Empowerment among Mexican American Women (Jeanette Rodriguez, 1994): “It is true that within Mexican-American culture the Mexican-American woman is burdened by machismo. Men who show machismo are alleged to boast a great deal about their male […]

I’m co-teaching a class with my indomitable housemate Ms. Connie Wohn, at the Rock & Roll Camp for Girls this summer. [On media / PR, and how to handle/ become us.] The Rock Camp always needs donations, so if you have extra money or cool crap lying around you could send it and write it […]

I have now seen New York Minute, one of many psychic blows I’ve collected for Team Mercury in my four years of servitude; I haven’t felt this traumatized since that rave documentary in ’00, the one with DJ Keoki blathering on about The Oneness to a proscenium of sparkly, slobbery dosed masses. I was not […]