Urban Honking

My piece on indie female rappers is now out in the New York Times. SUNDAY ARTS & LEISURE IT’S ME AND LENNY KRAVITZ JUST CHILLIN IN THE CUT LET’S GET IT

My mom is doing great, and thanks to all for the crossed fingers and nice emails. Little known fact: tumors on the heart are incredibly rare and almost always benign. They found one on my mom’s ventricle or some shit and took it off, but the surgeon hadn’t seen one in ten years. But yes, […]

Mama Escobedo is going in for a quadruple heart bypass in the morning. Obviously I am terrified, with the bad kind of butterflies in my stomach and dread, not just because a quadruple heart bypass is fucking major cardiac surgery but also because my fear is amplified by watching too much Grey’s Anatomy. “The surgeon […]

To quote Why Black Women Are Angry: “Don’t push Mr. Nice Guy because still waters run deep.” MODED! IN YA FACE!

Mo sends these amazingly fucked up and/or hilarious commercials – from 2007 advertising a play house for little girls. She sez:: “I hate it when I do my laundry and it doesn’t get clean!” The Rose Petal Cottage: A place where she can contain her imagination. Let’s do lauuundry!!!

Martin Luther King, III has announced he and his wife are expecting a child with his wife, Arndrea Waters. Now if that isn’t beautiful, I don’t know what is. Happy MLK Day, part two.

BEYONCE IS READY TO SCAB HER’DELF, which is incredibly messed up, though unsurprising. Every scab means NBC’s that much more liable to shut off the Friday Night Lights! Don’t do it, Beyaki!

From the comments section of Nicholas Kristof’s blog, regarding his column “Hillary, Barack, Experience”: Someone should raise an issue of whether the manner in which Bill Clinton is campaigning for Hillary Clinton is ethically, if not legally, appropriate of a former President. For what Bill Clinton has recently been doing on the campaign trail, especially […]

Found this on YouTube and thought it was dope. Happy MLK Day.