Urban Honking

A couple Qs and some As.

Two of my favorite writers have new books out this summer: Ana Castillo’s the Guardians is fiction, about a Mexican immigrant who goes missing between the borders. Julia Alvarez’s Once Upon a Quinceanera is non-fiction, about the transformation of a Mexican ceremony into a huge American mega culture. I have not yet read either but […]

Just when you thought my shit was all gossip juice and fashion commentary, BOOM! I DROP MY KEYSHIA COLE/MISSY ELLIOTT INTERVIEW / video shoot shit on you. That’s the real, what I was saving for the Vibe. Speaking of which, here’s your man.

Gustavo Arellano, you are my hero. Plus the photo heading this article is hilarious: EMBRACE THAT GIANT “MEXICAN” PINATA AND HIS BLUE-ASS EYES – FEEL HIS PAPIER-MACHE MESTIZO POWER! HAHAH.

Loose off the Goose. Got him on the chase like cranberry juice. Spent seven hours on the set of a video shoot for my favorite under-30 R&B singer today. There was some notion to get in the shot, to dance or put my hands up at the time when Misdemeanor said it was time to, […]

Will (code name: stencil) on flagrantly bougie Canadian siestafest Celine Dion as Hillary Clinton’s campaign song: “If she fails to win the nomination or loses the general election, this will undoubtedly be why.” DON’T BLAME ME I VOTED FOR “GEORGIA… BUSH.” (I really did, in the write-in ballot for “choose Hillary’s campaign song.” Even linked […]

This piece on video-game gold farmers in China is blowing my mind. Maybe it’s an old question, but if anyone can, please recommend books about the social/philosophical implications of this advanced level of super surreal life/videogame bleed. ALSO WONDERING ABOUT: the sweatshop implications / economics (disparity, profit) in a really particular leisure industry. From the […]

Somehow it is appropriate that known stoner Lil Wayne half-copped the “Tenderoni” melody for his lenient-boyfriend declamation “Prostitute Flange” – a track recently remixed with his recently reunited girlfriend, Trina, for whom the song was allegedly orignally written semi-based on her alleged dalliance with Lil Wayne’s alleged gay-lover-slash-father figure, Baby. I still remember the day […]