Urban Honking

Chris has allowed me to borrow Forever Freestyle, a two-disc compilation of freestyle classics and, by his account, “the only comp I ever felt compelled to purchase off a television commercial.” Made by the same company that perhaps erroneously titled another comp Tha Down Low. The cover art of Forever Freestyle is a photorealistic depiction […]

Maybe if this asshole’s dad hadn’t set up that human-rights/economy-decimating NAFTA crap so many people wouldn’t be trying to leave their country –their home, their families — to earn a living wage? Okay, that’s only one aspect of a complex issue, but I guarantee that capital-F “Freedom” is not the reason so many Mexicans are […]

I am presently enjoying Tag Team’s “get nasty,” a song about dance-freaking with a dirty live bassline and, possibly, a beeper sample (1993 we are loving you). While Tag Team are no A-Town Players, they have been underrated since “Whoomp (There It Is)” became the flagship song for three-pointers– a group more commonly associated with […]

Need advice on effective mouse traps. Don’t say “get a cat” — we had one before and, as previously reported, it escaped our apparently oppressive regime. Would like an effective trap that does not involve touching or looking at said mouse after if it is dead. Am ok with non-killing mouse trap, as long as […]

here are some pics from VMA interview day, back in August, wherein Piotr and I interviewed 48 people in six hours — including two cast members of Fashion House, which had not yet aired, so our questions were like, “Uh, soo…. are you into music?” (Honestly I thought they were from that “Girl, Fix Your […]

I lay in bed getting into recovery mode. My body is like warm taffy, like I have been poured inside of my bed into a mold in the shape of a human. I got up in the twilight hours and listened to the first movement of Beethoven’s 5th symphony, or “Beethoven’s Fifth” or “B5” or […]

This may have some impact.

Because I remember 4th quarter 2005 better than I’d like, it’s time to bring back the “spam as random-language generator” meme with some choice cuts from the inbox. Today I received spam from “Daphne Butts,” subject line “He is clarity”; “Salvatore Baker,” subject line “You’ll Love the New, Non-Obese You”; “Wat Holland,” subject line “Yonder […]

We love you Frankie, we’ll miss you.

I discovered my winter wrap today at the flea market in the school playground in Park Slope, a black and white vintage swing coat in Shepherd’s Tartan, with three big black buttons the size of tea saucers. I also purchased a charcoal and pastel surrealist rendering of what appears to be either Mussolini, naked, or […]