Urban Honking

Maybe it’s the return to a Democratic congress and our girl’s AMAZING CORRESPONDING OUTFIT, but this video is all I feel like today (word to Will C) My mom recently mailed me the gigantic peace-sign chain I rocked in the early ’90s — she found it in a drawer — I might have to break […]

spoiler alert Last night’s Lost was sufficiently dramatic, and I was glad to see Sawyer and Kate finally taking it to the boneyard.

In NYC, held by Pan American Musical Art Research. Lotsa bourgie-bourge stuff going on for this — Symphonic Mexico at Lincoln Center para example — but some related events sound really interesting, such as the Limon Dance Company reprising classic pieces from the 1946 season at the Joyce, and tomorrow a release party for BKLYN […]

I forgot to link to Ryan Dombal’s Lil Wayne track review on La Horca, which slayed.

p.s. This seems like as good a time as any to let you know that nigh every Saturday for the past four or five months, I have gone to the gym at 9 am for two hours of dancaerobics and strength classes with this excellent instructor E.G. who plays the best music, which is how […]

I can honestly say that watching George Bush get shit-sonned on CNN by a gleeful press corps, with regards to the Democratic revolution and the shamed resignation of a disowned Rummy, was the happiest and most deeply satisfying hour I have had since approximately…. the moment on election day 2000 when I thought Gore was […]

My pops is a lifelong Wyomingite and the best sociological gauge I have of the Republican party, Western division: he is a dyed-in-the-wool fiscal conservative. He is not socially conservative (though anyone who tries to tell you the fiscal and the social are seperable is perverse) but he is “cautious.” Like most Wyomingites, he rides […]

Hits, misses, lost classics from the archive STATS TOPIC: Vocabulon: Slangtionary/Slangxicon, summer 2005. This is not a JSHEP exclusive; rather, it was written by a posse of slang-slangers (including self; see below) and I edited/compiled. (You can tell which ones were contributed by Connie because they all start with “dang”) WRITTEN FOR: Hit It Or […]

West Coasting braintrust Jeff Chang sends an important and useful missive RE: Election Day: “Just a quick reminder to head out to the polls or turn in your absentee ballots today. This has all the markings of a historic election. Some important election resources for you… 1. Polling Place Information 2. Hip-Hop Voter Guides (done […]