Urban Honking

as of oct. 1, if you’re a mexican expatriate living in the us you are now able to pick up yr ballot to vote in the mexican elections. “Undocumented U.S. residents” who “presumably will not want to be seen anywhere near consular offices” can request a ballot here. Here’s the question of the century(/ies): “Respondent […]

karl rove! always smokin that la la la! scooter libby always smokin that la la la! “love in fear,” a patiently written heart-meditation by the constantines, totally listenable here, is today’s official jam: the “love despite the strange wind’s blowing when we love in fear.” then something about making out on heavy sheets in ontario […]

exo reminds us: the untold story of emmett louis till opens wide in american cities tomorrow. nyc: it’s playing at the magic johnson 9 lowes in harlem. you know the story: emmett till, 14-yr-old black kid from chicago, horribly beaten and shot to death by two white men for allegedly whistling at/talking to a white […]

it’s been like two years so it’s ok to reiterate the joyous time-vacuum that is the iTunes celebrity playlist. how else would we learn Stephen King’s (correct) opinion of Beach Boys’ “Don’t Worry Baby” (“The Beach Boys song to which all others must be measured”) or that jared leto does not apparently listen to music […]

This, on the other hand, makes me wanna run around the block waving a neon-rainbow windsock to the Neptunes instrumental from “La La La (Excuse Me Miss again)”. Cheney, dark father, just “chilling” at WHIG meetings. Some of which may have included Judith Miller? Hmm. Isn’t that a little strange? To paraphrase John Gregory Dunne […]

HarrietMiers.blogspot.com has been rendered obsolete by the actual documents of the actual Harriet Miers, which hit the smoking gun today: funnier than fiction. Harriet rocks with that Anne Geddes stationery like “whatever.” When I was living down in the Bible Belt, a midsize city smack dab in tent-revival territory, often the Miers type of evangelical […]

fire up the wood stove and turn on the cider dudes FAITH EVANS’ A FAITHFUL CHRISTMAS SET FOR OCTOBER 25th RELEASE Album Features Two Original Songs And Nine Classics, Including “White Christmas,” “Santa Baby,” “O Come All Ye Faithful” And Songs Penned By James Brown, Donny Hathaway And Frank Sinatra Leave it to the first […]

mi friends eric johnson of pulseprogramming and e*rock of e*rock have started a record label called frykbeat. please watch the panther video, which features charlie salas-humara assuming the panther persona, a creepy falsetto pop-star strung mighty high, residing in a home of cardboard. If I am not mistaken, this track is about a psychiatrist, but […]

Today my mom taught me to say some curse words in Spanish, the old ones from the ’50s when she grew up, and she was giggling like she was going to hell. “Hijo de la chingada,” hee hee hee, “that one’s the worst! Don’t tell anyone you’re cursing with your mother on the phone.” Such […]