Urban Honking

my last year’s ballot the year before Dear Julianne Shepherd: Thank you for your submission – your votes have been recorded. Your Pazz & Jop albums ballot was submitted as follows: 1. Mary J. Blige – The Breakthrough – Matriarch/Geffen (5) 2. Sleater-Kinney – The Woods – Sub Pop (5) 3. Clinton Sparks & the […]

i lost the best-of lists i’d been compiling for 10 mos. in the great computer explosion of october 2005, RIP “bebe del cerebro.” In true OCD form, I recently tried to approximate them. I know I’m forgetting songs, and I dislike the hierarchal nature of yr-end lists, but can confidently say the first nine are […]

i am looking for a Dominican ragga song, it is called “At chuhhh… (ya estoy cansàa)” and I think it is by Demprha, Elian and Burrell, and it is on here and I do not want to spend 19 euros plus int;l shipping, but will if i have to, and i do not have soulseek […]

lunchtime thought: smart ppl point out that 2005 was the yr of the trap-anthem, but i think the look for ’06 is less snow, more sugar. (assuming ghostface’s fishscale keeps getting the release-date nudge). POURQUOI, you ask? PARCE QUE 2005 yielded beaucoup southern tracks analogizing “that candy” to actual candy: d4l’s “laffy taffy,” randy b’s […]

Samberg related: Presumably you have also seen Episode One of “The ‘Bu,” aka the funniest video on the entire interweb.

Recently, I started reading The World is Flat by acclaimed New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Friedman’s thesis is that a new phase of globalization has begun, driven by advances in communication technology and the fall of Communism (“Globalization 3.0” he calls it) in which it is becoming logistically possible, and economically mandatory, for any […]

First things first: the Voice of Bahrain weighs in on my husband and his boys. Heroes, all. Second. Happy birthday today to your favorite scientist’s favorite example of Punctuated Equilibria, Nick Sylvester. Also happy birthday to Pete L’Official, who shares a birthday with Nick. Thirdly, after some confusion with Mr. “George Clooney is my esse”, […]