Urban Honking

My friend Kate Glicksberg is a great photographer. Her new work documenting a protest of the NYPD murder of Sean Bell is featured in the new issue of Current, which is the online magazine of the New York Foundation of the Arts, and it is excellent.

My brain feels like the friction from two flintstones, even though I got to get somebody over to defrag real quick. Memo to Papito: Don’t you know I’m loco? Like: but i’m “dale” like “pant! pant!” NOT “dale” like “ooh, what-ayyver” — or maybe a little of both. the translation tends to bleed a little.

Roll Call Elliot acts as my post-it comic editor. He also makes his own post-it art. We not only work in the same office, but we actually sit a few feet apart from one another. Due to the close proximity of our computers, Elliot is often looking over my shoulder to snoop. Consequently, I hardly […]

I forgot to tell you that Urge dot com, the MTV digital music service, and my place of employment for just a little longer, is putting on a show tomorrow to celebrate that fact that we/they are selling exclusive Carl Craig and Justice / Ed Banger mixes. The show is Carl Craig, Gamall and Tim […]

The vegetarians get a history of our own. Says the New Yorker: “Evidently on the side of history’s herbivores, [the writer] “outs” vegetarians as canonical thinkers who occasionally reduced their meat intake or advised others to do so; he judges the number of Enlightenment vegetarians to have been “incalculably large”; and he celebrates vegetarianism as […]

K Sanneh fleshes out the mixtape game beautifully, as usual, and Noz blogs on the topic for those already in the know. Meanwhile Shaheem Reid interviews Wayne, Duke da God, and an “anonymous DJ” for an excellent piece o’er here at eMpTyV. Commence downloading. [Unrelated: David Foster Wallace may have invented the footnote back in […]

The RIAA’s recent targeting of DJs Drama and Don Cannon, two of the most respected mixtape DJs in American hip-hop, once again proves the organization is woefully out of touch with its market. It is apparent that the RIAA is unable to creatively reimagine a coexistent marketplace in the age of the internet. Its constant, […]

It should be self-explanatory….let’s just say I knew a lot of people who believed that sharing meant you had to give them stuff for free all the time.