Urban Honking

KELSIOGRAPHY: In which I make my brilliant 14-year-old fellow writer sister-cousin Kelsi Rivera review albums of her choice for this blog. I pay her $0, in an attempt to give her a real-world experience and acclimate her to the music-reviewing lifestyle. Edition 1: The Devil Knows My Name, third album from former Marilyn Manson guitarist […]

My sister-cousin Kelsi, 14, texts me with her Xmas take: “A cool Lumberjack coat and new shoes and a poster of Kat Von D!” I text her back: “Me and my mans are eating cake and watching bloody Japanese horror movies” She texts: “Gory ones I hope! I wish I was with you!” I love […]

One of my favorite blogs this year was What About Our Daughters, well known for being the blog that started the effective boycott against BET’s “Hot Ghetto Mess,” (and winner of “best blog – judge’s choice” in the black weblog awards). It is an unfalteringly inquisitive critique of how modern media portrays black women and […]

Here’s some shit i loved in 2007 that didn’t make my top tenners T2 f. Jodie Aysha, “Heartbroken” Too Crunk Missez “Shake Dem Dreadz” (shout to nick catchdubs for realizing this song is basically my entire life steez-sthetic and putting me on) the album Lil Mama made and played for me in her uncle/manager’s Astrovan […]

But you can see where I was last night if you tried calling and I didn’t answer. Or got a text from me that said “STRINGER BELL IS HERE SHOULD I HOLLA”

I was just totally reading one of those extra-self-referential, high-horsey cooleyhighharmony l’academe d’forever “end of year round-up” thingies, and a stream of drool literally began trickling out the side of my mouth from boredom. I apologize if posting my own top 10s was too narcissitic (though to be fair it was requested; additionally, it was […]

Shout to Maltese Rubble, here are my top tens/tenners, also available and coming soon in a poll near you: ALBUMS 1. The-Dream, Love/Hate 2. Keke Palmer, So Uncool [p.s. YES, AKEELAH FROM AKEELAH & THE BEE RELEASED THE BEST CHICAGO JUKE-POP SONG OF THE YEAR, SORRY KID SIS] 3. Lil Wayne, Da Drought 3 4. […]

It would seem in fact that I am doomed. DOOMED! To live in a home where other people’s disgusting sink/laundry/shower/(toilet??) water comes up through the pipes in my bathroom and fills up the sink, eventually pouring out onto the floor. While the pouring out on the floor never happened in my old house, I did […]