Urban Honking

Just got this in the inbox from color of change: “Last week, the Democrats launched their “100 hours” agenda–a plan to begin a “new direction for our country.” Sadly, it says nothing about Congress’s continued abandonment of those left behind after Katrina. A plan to bring survivors home exists. The Gulf Coast Civic Works Project […]

Feeling like a eulogy. Above video: Soulja Slim’s funeral procession, December 2003: The Lady Buck Jumpers Second Line.

Listening to PR on the train en route to work and realized the rap&R&B-spoofing SNL staffer should probably get with our dudes from the MIA stat. “Grind with Me“: Step one: You kissing on me Step two: Girl you killin me softly Step three: Now you see why you chose me Step four: And ooh […]

In Slate’s Year-End Cultural Round-up, David Simon, with his unequalled sense of the epic, writes a eulogy for the crumbling American newspaper: “David Simon, executive producer, The Wire; former metro desk reporter, The Baltimore Sun: In the year past, we’ve been given the clearest indications yet as to the future of the daily newspaper in […]

The untold morbidity of Color Me Badd: “We can do it ’til we won’t wake up.” Do they wanna sex u up or put ur lights out?

From my R&B blog on urge.com, which is wholly unknowable to you unless you are pushing a PC (I see you, dad): A conversation I had with Brandon T. Jackson, star of Roll Bounce and host of the N’s Brandon T. Jackson show. We discussed Prince, exclusively. JSHEP: What were your impressions of Prince? Brandon […]

Last week, I drove from IL to OH in one day with this wildman and it’s exactly as he says: “i listened to the last barr record in a car in ohio this week it is great it is catharsis” You know when people are like, “My shit is so uncategorizable,” and you kinda have […]

Last night B and I held a tenuous conversation regarding the Theory of Relativity and Black Holes. I was attempting to assert that if you were inside a black hole, you would age slower than someone NOT in a black hole. I have no idea if that is true (if you do, please leave a […]

Something I haven’t mentioned: the Brits have been killing the past year: dubstep expanded and stayed blowing my fing mind with evil sub-bass and cold melodies. Lots of people were jacked on that Burial record, which was good enough and yet at the same time, totally overrated. Producers like Pinch, Caspa (“Cockney Violin” is my […]

According to The Fader: Top Six Ghetto Pass Applicants of 2006 6. Gwen Stefani* 5. Nelly Furtado 4. Wilmer Valderamma 3. Fergie 2. Bow Wow* 1. JR Rotem *Continuation of a multi-year process, a la Justin Timberlake Um, how is wasted grinding and Jaeger shots at corny bridge-and-tunnel clubs in Midtown an application for a […]