Urban Honking

Young MC “Slowest Rhyme (Bobby Birdman Remix)” from wyldfile on Vimeo. Check out the new video that me and Rob made.

Okay. I used to think he was mad grody. And wondered why J.Lo chose him. I assumed it was because he offered stability and support and probably gave her the princess treatment she reportedly requires. But that was before I saw him live. As I did tonight at Madison Square Garden. (El Cantante notwithstanding.) Marc […]

SUDDENLY: WHERE WE LIVE NOWAUGUST 26 – OCTOBER 5, 2008 PUBLIC RECEPTION: SEPTEMBER 21, 6:30 p.m. at the Cooley Galleryfollowed by PSYCHEDELIC SPRAWL in the Reed College Student Union (note: the date of Psychedelic Sprawl has been changed to September 21.) Labels: suddenly

Here’s a recent interview posted on Pingmag: audio-dregs-ambient-noise-from-portland

Thursday and Friday, Pete and I kicked it with our friends who either presently attend college or have recently graduated. Us being slightly (slightly) older than college-age grad and have either not-attended (myself) or dropped out (Pete) it afforded us the vibe of collegiate extracurricular experience, without the soul-stiultifying loans and/or intellectual edicts. To wit: […]

This I have actually seen, a work beyond words. For if anyone put together the buildings of the Greeks and display of their labours, they would seem lesser in both effort and expense to this labyrinth – even though both the temple in Ephesus and the one in Samos are remarkable. Even the pyramids are […]

Summertime. I really want to love the summer. I like to think of it as carefree and fun, but in reality the summer is usual a lot more stressful than throughout the year. Summer kind of sucks in general. School’s out, routine is shot, it’s hot–or as is the case in Portland, it’s often not […]

Is it good or does it suck to be known as “the world’s foremost male breast-stroker”? I’m caught in the semantics. Tonight I dined with ye olde friende Josh Kun, professor of many courses, man of many columns, author of one of my favorite pieces of political reportage (which you really must read) and co-proprietor […]

It’s been a hard couple of weeks, and I expect it will stay pretty hard for the next four. Ah, that is the beautiful Life I have chosen to live, and it is a blessing and an honor. I have not even had time to watch our glorious nation compete against other almost-as-glorious nations in […]

As you may know, I am a proponent of anything remotely related to the Mayan apocalypse, having come from a lineage of curanderas and having grown up in the ’80s, when I knew that nuclear detonation was the surefire way I was going to croak from the time I was four. But the news that […]