Opinion
je suis sur la blast!
Cowboyz 'n' Poodles
there are things bout the girl you don’t know she’s been doin, these are the things that yr girl’s been doin look. lemme kick it to you like this: feminist readings of feminist music + 7 million PEOPLE! = hola, COMO ESTAS?!! still not as cool as jazzbo, but you know, as far as taking […]
Lindsay’s Satellite Map Mural
The old broken Ideas For Dozens
One of my closest college friends Lindsay is moving away to go to a pre-med program in DC at the end of the month. Lindsay lives with Amy and Chris and so, as a kind of reverse going away present, she decided to paint them a mural. Since Amy’d just bought their house, Lindsay came […]
master chef, lord of the kitchen cupboard
Cowboyz 'n' Poodles
Amount of time Chris R. and I spent parsing and/or tearing up at the thought of the “go crazy remix” by young jeezy, jay-z and fat joe aka the summer jam we’ve all been waiting for: entire train ride home Jeezy’s line, ‘i’m so emotional i love my glock,’ epic upholding of the thug-mug man-script, […]
6fu last days thought
Cowboyz 'n' Poodles
ADDENDUM: OMG OK SPOILER ALERT BUT SERIOUSLY, DOES ANYONE READ THE PAPER OR WHAT?!! Since Nate died on six feet under, the role of the posthumous apparition has shifted. The ghosts are still speaking untrustworthy truths from beyond the grave, words the characters must mull over and choose. BUT Nate was the show’s fabric, so […]
expert neologisms
Cowboyz 'n' Poodles
What would it be like to be a Miami Dolphins halftime show, to be a beautiful loser, to be a New England Rose? These are things Barr and I discussed last night on our two-hour coast-to-coast phone power convo. He is the best! And the New England Roses track “All for the Night”, sweet chorale […]
Everything Bad Is Good For You, Except Music
The old broken Ideas For Dozens
I recently finished reading Everything Bad is Good for You. The book, which has lately been everywhere in the press that covers such things, argues for the existence of a “sleeper curve” of increasing complexity and sophistication in the popular culture of the last thirty or so years. EBIGFY’s author, Steven Johnson, makes this claim […]
how do you start something? you start it.
Cowboyz 'n' Poodles
OK: how can I not take a dance class from a man whose philosophy is DEWBEE: Do Everything With Bold Energy? You don’t have to answer that. There is so much potential there, and a guarantee: I will learn hot steps, I will sweat, and Feliciano will encourage me to bring it. We will amp […]