Urban Honking

Just want to say – I am really into Tokyo Mango right now – the writer is a contributor to the new gawker sci fi blog, io9, which I am not super intrigued by – but her blog about Japanese pop culture is the shit. AND Too Sense has been on point and laser-focused about […]

I am still super pissed at Gloria Steinem – and the more rebuttals I read, the more angry I become. Word to all you are, 2nd wave… but there’s still so much you’re not. An Open Letter to Gloria Steinem (sent by Humanity Critic – whose funny Obama endorsement is a must-read) Professor Mark Anthony […]

Jack & Jill Politics on Hillary Clinton’s crediting the Civil Rights Movement to LBJ.

Still bothered by Gloria Steinem’s apparent dismissal of feminists not voting Hillary Clinton, I was thinking harder today about Hillary. I mean, this is a woman whose reign in the ’90s I was going to write a book about, back in ’05. And one reason why I really cannot ride by her, particularly on the […]

Rather than talking about my disappointment, I am going to ponder my fascination with the Republican candidates for a moment, while I still can, during the grace period before I have to start being afraid of whatever religious freakfest those mofos start proffering for prez. 1. JOHN MCCAIN: The least offensive of all the potentials, […]

As much as I love and admire Ms. Steinem, and think for the most part she is on point in this piece in the despicable way lots of media dealt with the Clinton crying moment (which I really liked – a rare show of emotion on what can previously be defined as an emotional brick […]

Please read this hilarious conversation between my friends and ex-coworkers Angela Bruno & Chris Ryan on “hipster rap” aka Amanda Blank, Kid Sister, Spank Rock, Kanye West (the hipsterest of all hipster rappers) and Cool Kids: CR: People who ironically go to clubs usually make ironic club music which I usually react to with irony-free […]

So it came a bit late, but here’s the first entry in my weekly WIRE review column. This shit’s a rundown but it’ll get better as it goes along, PROMISE like remixed kellz. Also check out Toshi’s playlist interview on Rhapsody with Jamie Hector, aka Marlo fineass Stansfield.

Speaking at Dartmouth College Monday afternoon, Bill Clinton said, “It is wrong that Senator Obama got to go through 15 debates trumpeting his superior judgment and how he had been against the war in every year, enumerating the years, and never got asked one time — not once, ‘Well, how could you say that when […]