Urban Honking

i’m just sketching and stringing. Crack scooped me on “hoes hoes hoes hoes hoes,” in form at least, but for punctuation’s sake: Last night, poor sloughed DJ Assault, live, absurdly talked along to his own tracks; into the mic: “broke. ass hoes. broke. ass hoes. hoes hoes hoes hoes hoes hoes hoes,” the din of […]

walkie talkie If you’re anywhere near a borough, you already know the only way to get tix to the boost mobile rockcorps show w/Fat Joe, T.I., Young Jeezy et al is by volunteering four hours of your time to a community project, preordained and relatively pain-free, such as: painting the interior of a school, contributing […]

a grand welcome to chris, just in time for the elections. his “farewell boston” post includes not just the cursed Citgo sign, the billboard on horizon which supercedes the moon–how is it that in a city filled with important american landmarks, from fenway to faneuil, the godforsaken citgo sign is the most commonly accepted city-identifier? […]

So, in addition to posting my previous entry on “the Long Tail of Linux developers” to this blog, I also emailed a version of it to Chris Anderson himself. Much to my surprise and delight, he responded within a day and indulged me by participating in a little bit of back-and-forth in which I tried […]

Along with many others, I’ve been following the development of a set of ideas about the rising importance of niche markets in a world with ever-decreasing costs of production, storage, and communication called The Long Tail by Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson (or as we call him around Music For Dozens, “the other Chris Anderson”). […]

traditional medicinals gypsy cold care VS lemon-cayenne homebrew VS tom yum soup, extra on the heat? what is the remedy for the sweaty cold? carrot juice, wheatgrass, ginger, celery? emergen-c? i’ve self-administered all of the above, please assist with your magic delivery, no pharmaceuticals. the only chemicals i dust off like that are topical, as […]

now, for a moment, breathe. NY: unitedforpeace&justice “picket at federal building”: Friday, Sept. 9, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. 90 Church Street, between Vesey and Barclay Streets (2,3,4,5,6,A,C,J,M,Z,R,W) SF: if you live in the yay areeeeaaaaa, and you love dancing, deep listening, don diva, derrida and/or mokenstef–and i know you do–you have to go tomorrrrrow to […]

per ebenezer, G.A.ME is holding a day benefit (DONATE GOODS). plus the first 100 ppl donating get free tix to the dipset / d-block black panthers commemoration on oct 7. see below for new places to donate in brooklyn, manhattan and mississippi: A Benefit for the victims of the Katrina disaster. Free. Just Donate something. […]