Urban Honking

This new Jane magazine blog stuff is goin live today… I think that maybe you will see me on there, talking. Comfortable pajamas, the professional blogger’s equivalent of rocking a power suit. Comfortable pajamas, that is, or Fitted Sweats.

For all 12,000-14,000 of you following my molcajete saga, it has concluded triumphantly! In the best valentine’s day gift this year (second-best: Jaheim’s Ghetto Classics fed-exed on 2/14, with love, direct from my boyfriends the Warner Brothers), the very best v-day gift, mi madre pulled through and USPS’d a small molcajete, one my grandma bought […]

Paul Allen, RAIDER JON’S GOT YR NUMBER! (watch out, tho, Raider Jon: Paul Allen’s the Cascadian answer to a Kennedy. You don’t want yr girl to find you all laid up on the futon with an empty bottle of valium on the dresser, a week’s worth of dirty clothes in the hamper, and enough forlorn […]

Dear Blog, So much happened, so very much happened during your long absence, that it almost hurts the spirit to contemplate summing it up. Peter Benchley died, and the Vice President shot someone in the face with a shotgun. And we were apart. We weren’t able to commune, as you knew we wanted to. We […]

I got $5000 on Harry Whittington dying from his “heart attack” before any journalist gets a callback from the hospital “marketing department” (?!?) that is taking his messages. Who’s with me?

You just need to go here and listen to “Robert Christgau’s Jop’d in the Closet,” it’s something of a compendium of robertchristgau.com and the Best of 33 years of Pazz and Jop, including some rare commentary on Lester Bangs, all in podcast format. Choice material for those who’ve followed P&J through its history, and for […]

PAZZ & JOP 2005, up and motorin’ like the computer in the Hatch, HERE IS JESSICA’S POST ABOUT BOTH OF OUR ESSAY-TYPE THINGS GETTING PUBLISHED THIS YEAR! In the Voice! Pazz and JOP! Comment from my dad: “Cool! (Cool about your writing, that is. I don’t like hard rap),” italics mine. I envision mi padre […]

Home interweb was broke today so thankfully missed everything, like Alito and King and King George, I missed every goddamn thing, except for two amazing hot 97 interviews. Best-of: T-Pain, aka singer of “I’m in Luv with a Stripper,” on the Morning Show: ” I just wanna say: to all the married dudes in the […]