Urban Honking

CARCETTI FOR MAYOR!

Four is the best season yet.

After extensive nutritional analysis Real Age sez I am physically five years younger than my actual age, and if I start popping a daily multi-V and sleeping longer than five hours a night, I COULD BE, as J-Shin says on his new album, “lookin 19 but goin on 22”!!!!!! YEAH, REGRESSIVE AGING!

Beyonce’s B’Day is, as I have noted more extensively over in my Urge blog, a John Waters/Charles Busch-worthy sexual awakening-slash-transformation of a woman into a drag queen, which other people might term “diva.” But the real (not real) question is as follows. In the rap on “Kitty Kat,” which is growing on me despite producer […]

“David Simon is a stickler for details,” Peranio says. “We don’t mess with that.”

I bought a purple raincoat lined in hearts at the thriftstore when I was in Wyoming and when I put my hand in the pocket, I found a bulletin from a Catholic Church in Torrington, Wyoming, there from 1991. The lyrics to “On Eagle’s Wings” were printed inside. I have not been inside a cathedral […]

as you know, bruce ratner is planning to gut a major part of bklyn and condo it up, forcing out many longtime area residents, bringing that manhattan bourgie shit, driving up rents, building butt-ugly condos and further transforming new york into a city for rich people. et cetera, et cetera today the times reported he’ll […]

“This season is to take argument with those who feel that if you’re born without privilege, but make the right set of choices, that you will be spared. To do away with that bit of national mythology.” Is it tragic or is it inspiring that David Simon and Ed Burns, having spent decades seeing several […]