Urban Honking

So the DJs /or DJ sound system/ at my gym is all blenders-and-mash, all the time: i.e. Mary J Blige vs. Stevie Nicks soundclash into, like, ACDC and/or Smitty. Everytime I am at my gym, Kris Kross “Jump” is played at least once, sometimes twice. It is a good song to work out to. Drives […]

The Wire’s Tristan Wilds (Michael) on what he imagines he’ll be doing in 10 years: “I am gonna own a Prada in New York.” For a young dude, our manses has fine taste.

Quick: Which longtime American film director recently told me in an interview, “The Low Christmas album is so the opposite of arousing!” HINT: This man also described the Chipmunks christmas album as “erotic.” Take a guess!

because I owe him money and I get all his nerd-jokes, but “Gabe Said ‘Were into Movements’” is killing me right now. I.E., More thoughts on Jay-Z’s grown and sexiness and Kingdom Come: “LET’S ALL SHARE THE UNDERSTANDING THAT 12 YEARS AGO THE STUFF YOU KICK WOULD BE CONSIDERED SO OUTLANDISH IT WAS CALLED “SPACE […]

You would think this guy is totally my long-lost nephew, but in fact his song is clearly going to be the Wyoming prom-theme-fave-turned-decade-long-torture a la “Achy Breaky Heart.” I fear for my family.

World AIDS Day. Kofi Annan says: “Accountability not only applies to those who hold positions of power. It applies to all of us.”

Just a suggestion: if you are going to be cooking large quantities of an explosive drug, it’s probably a good idea not to do it across the street from one of the most important and heavily secured buildings in the entire United States. But then, the guy was a citicorp executive, and perhaps felt entitled.

The NYDN publishes a profile in memoriam of Sean Bell, the unarmed 23-year-old in Queens who was murdered by undercover police the day before his wedding. Meanwhile, Amnesty International puts a word in, and Angela just forwarded this email about a petition for an independent review by Color of Change. Please sign it.

Chicana poet Lorna Dee Cervantes has a blog. (Via Ana Castillo.) She’s an amazing writer just on the day-to-day. Her voice is familiar, in the root of the word — familial. She writes, “If you know me you know that I’m a lifetime non-driver. I decided that it was something I could do in my […]