Urban Honking

It’s 3 am, and I woke up in a half-lucid terror-dream, with the idea that by web 2.1, every music website will have transformed to some ugly variation of InTouch Weekly plus Myspace, and I will be working the pole for bucks over at Scandal’s, after changing my name to Sparkleshine. I guess, having long […]

briefly. we are banning the word / concept of “melisma,” now. that shit hasn’t been relevant since before mary met kendu. seriously. let’s retire it. Better yet: Day after Tomorrow fan fiction. It exists. Speaking of nerds, you can now train how to be Spiderman in the privacy of your own home. Speaking of nerds, […]

DJ Paz aka Matt Paz read my crazy old post linking Sarah Jessica Parker and the fall of Jane magazine and put some sense into it, via email: The root of the problem is this, I think: In the “trad media” world, there was what economists call a barrier to entry – i.e. you had […]

This is the most excited I’ve been about something in a very hot minute. Jeff Chang wrote the piece. Plus I got to interview our old friend Gaius Charles. Love what you do, boo-boo. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS!

4:59 pm: There is currently a 10-foot-tall speakerbox at the end of my block. The DJ is playing Apache right now, but it’s a mix of contemporary snap music, dancehall, mid-90s R&B and classic hip hop – and just now, sam cooke! a change is gonna come! if you are not wack and enjoy fun, […]

…so pre-Tanya Harding rich-titch “Natalie” spat at baby-faced and thoroughly crimped dancefloor sirens Shannen Doherty, Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt in Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. The trio, mischievous and contrarian, shat on Natalie’s super-sweet-16, in the form of fake invites sent to previously uninvited Twisted Sister fans, and also a blueberry pie in […]

Saturday is my block’s annual block party. According to Mister Frazier, my super / the mayor of said block, there will be an inflatable castle, a water slide, a BBQ, a DJ and a baby shower for the kid that just got born three doors down. This is why I live in Brooklyn. There are […]

The reports, the rhetoric, even the reviews linking Lil Wayne / Ja Rule’s alleged gun possession arrests and their music are conjectural and off base, and when you think about it – generally play on the same premise that fuel the hip hop cops – that “lyrics” in fact equal “reality.” Obviously I’m not denying […]