Urban Honking

Considering I always listen to “Survivor” as inspiration during my long hours of playing Neverwinter Nights 2, the creation of this Destiny’s Child game is so no doy. And yet the description — “‘Destiny’s Child Groove’ will take the form of a back-and-forth dance battle in which users compete against A.I. characters” — sounds both […]

Friendly reminder to pick up the best rap album of the year, which dropped approximately 12 hours ago. The art is off the charts, id est: “Sell Bolivian. Feds in oblivion. Bitch Brazilian. Purse reptilian. Took it from far-off island like Gilligan.” (from “Trill”)

What is it with these particular Swedish / French dudes’ impulses to remix american R&B artists into schmaltzy disco or retro ’80s pop? I realize treble might make more sense than bass in the EU’s chillier and hillier topographies (Dave Tompkins might attribute that to the lack of paleozoic detritus deep in the ice floes). […]

Mayor Bloomberg on Sean Bell, the unarmed 23-year-old who was murdered by undercover cops in Queens on the night before his wedding day (the police unloaded FIFTY rounds into the car Bell was driving with two friends): “Clearly they were victims, and at the moment, from what I know, there is no evidence whatsoever that […]

Pete Macia writes: “there was just a network news story on a white girl getting famous on youtube pretending to be a chola. she was busted because her mole moved and changed size. and sad girl from mi vida loca is doing a documentary on her. i’m fucking confused, shep. i really am.”

La Consuela called tonight to report on the grown-ass Cameo/Angie Stone show at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland, OR: “They had a buffet! Angie was great. She looks so good from going on Celebrity Fit Club, but she still has an ass you could mix a drink on top of. Cameo was bad, though… Larry […]

I am currently listening to DJ Cameo’s most recent UK garage show on Radio 1xtra, where the typical playlist is way more grimier (no pun) than any music I have ever heard in my life, perhaps barring modern British dubstep (which sounds like drowning in 2094). And I decided that if I were a grime […]

I was googling “Gwen Stefani” and “chola,” looking for funny shit to put in Pete’s myspace comments, when I rediscovered Gwenihana.blogspot.com. 2005… what a year. Also hit upon a beautiful and hilarious poem by Reyes Cardenas about Gwen’s infamous ripping-La-Virgen’s-image-in-half nightmare in the “Luxurious” video. He writes: “La Gwen es tan pendeja but I love […]

I’m no cheerleader for synthetic drugs (or their manufacturers) but word to Gardasil, the HPV vaccine. The commercials just hit the boob tube and I find them curiously uplifting–especially the part at the end with the girls double-dutch rhyming “one less” and laughing happily, their bleak futures of cervical cancer and genital warts now relegated […]