Urban Honking

So. Bush and Cheney cancel their RNC speeches because of Hurricane Gustav. McCain talks post-partisanship in relation to the imminent disaster. It’s only respectful that they cancel / postpone / tone down the RNC, but I hate these hell-harbingers’ guts so bad for finally deciding to care about New Orleans (ha!) right when their presence […]

I feel really bad for blaspheming la Whitney like that. That is why we now have to watch this [retardedly unembeddable, f you record label] amazing video. I remember wanting to look like her SO BAD. She had the best one-piece bodysuit dresses, and pristine multicolored eyeshadow. That leopard hairbow headband thingy with the bomber […]

I really hate to disrespect Whitney like this–her first album, and the “Wanna Dance With Somebody” video, shaped me irrevocably-but her lyrics scroll through my mind every time I see a photo of Sarah Palin. I want one moment in time when I’m more than I thought I could be when all of my dreams […]

Young Jeezy’s new album is brilliant. People attack him for rapping about crack? “OK, I will write an album about crack that tells you WHY I HAVE TO SELL IT. Hood economics. AND I WILL NAME IT “THE RECESSION.” Don’t tell me he’s not a genius. My favorite part of “My President is Black”: the […]

First things first: Wasn’t the DNC stupendous? Michelle, Hills, Bills, Biden and of course Obama, who gave the speech I never in my lifetime thought I would witness. It felt like watching the hallowed moments of the Kennedys, of Martin Luther King, and how perfect it came on the anniversary of MLK’s dream speech. Election-wise, […]

BONUS POINTS if you know what classic musical the above headline is semi-cribbed/paraphrased from. Hint: if you went to my high school, I played a member of “the chorus” in 11th grade. Yes, I was a semi half-assed drama nerd. Sometime I’ll tell you about starring in my best friend Steven’s postmodernist student play “A […]

Vanity Fair reprints a piece by Dorothy Parker printed in the May 1919 issue of the magazine, and it’s prophetic, witty (duh) and maybe a slight bit painful in how little things have changed in nigh a hundred years. Anyone who works in magazines and/or has ever been familiar with the day-to-day of Conde Nast […]

Here is Jon’s review of the Marc Anthony / Alejandro Fernandez show we went to the other night: An utterly mature and comfortable performer, he was expressive not only with his voice, holding muscular notes for improbably long spells, but also with every inch of his body; time and again overhead screens flashed images of […]

Reluctantly, I must direct you to a David Brooks column. Wherein he elucidated (before the decision) the reason Biden was the right choice. It helped assuage the pain of Obama’s decision not to choose Michael Phelps as his running mate. However, as Maureen informed me today, Phelps is presently mired in scandal anyway, having been […]