The Archives
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04.01.08B-Rock and roll.I suppose the initial narrative of the Democratic primary season--black folk verses white women folk--was becoming tiresome to the media, so they are now looking to the political leanings of mediocre MCs like 50 cent ("He hit me with that he-just-got-done- watching-'Malcolm X,' and I swear to God, I'm like, 'Yo, Obama!'") and DMX ("Barack Obama?...That ain't that nigga's name.") as a measure of public opinion; in an age when LOLNIGGERS is par for the YouTube comments course, and when there are legitimate and hilarious intersects between the hip-hop communities and Obama's campaign, it's a bit scary to see ...
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02.11.08Sure we can, but we probably won’t.The first, last, and only person to whom I showed the treacly Will.i.am (do not phunk with his heart) Yes. We. Can.1 video had the most bizarre reaction: he felt neither unduly inspired nor unduly dismissive, he just kept asking me who the different celebrities were and twenty seconds before it ended shrugged, turned away, and declared, "I don't recognize any of these people," a sentiment at which I felt quite aghast2; I didn't even consider that its validity as a political statement/art/campaigning tool/wev would be based on the relative percentages of A-, B- and C-listness of the people ...
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01.30.08Je suis fatigué!Election season is so very strange; granted, this is really only the second time that I've notably gone through it - my forced volunteering for the Green Party in 2000 nonwithstanding - but it already seems a tedious process, which may very well be due to projecting my own experiences on the whole affair: being relatively involved in activism last time around, and paying far too much attention in far too much depth far too early this time around...I feel myself unwillingly drawn into all of the sturm und drang - checking the NYTimes coverage, actually reading Wonkette again (though ...