paper chases

Posted on January 28, 2009 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies | Leave a Comment

Ye Olde Hagge sayeth:
The web gets a lot of credit for sharing, but that’s because the people who invented the web have to find creative ways to make it sound amazing. But when you send someone an email with an article you think they should read, you might as well have interrupted their morning meeting [...]

Was Ice-T’s Body Count For Nothing?

Posted on January 26, 2009 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment

(insert quote regarding: history, forgetting, doom, repeat) Lil Wayne Confirms Rock Album

Native Son, Revised

Posted on January 26, 2009 - Filed Under Books, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Sex, Writers | Leave a Comment

I hadn’t been aware that there were different versions of Native Son. So now, I have as good a reason as any to re-read the book. In the meantime, I’ll think a bit on the question of when “editing” ends and “expurgation” begins.
Reading through the appendix, as it turns out the book was originally published [...]

floating on

Posted on January 23, 2009 - Filed Under Crime, Deformities, Language, Movies, Music, Television | Leave a Comment

Screening at Noisepop this year: Seven Signs: Music, Myth and the American South. I think I’m passing on buying the festival badget this year, but I’ll try and check this one out.
I’m with Kristina Keyton on this one.
Move over William Safire: The Mysterious Origins of “Oh Snap!”
“Law & Order officials would neither confirm nor deny [...]

U2 Jacked My Flickr Stream For Their New Album

Posted on January 22, 2009 - Filed Under Art, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Music | Leave a Comment

my sugimoto, originally uploaded by bigoteetoe.

(More at The Telegraph)

Up Around The Bend

Posted on January 21, 2009 - Filed Under Books, Music, Writers | Leave a Comment

roundin’ up, yo:

200th birthday props for EA Poe at Amoeba blog
Also at Amoeba, a look at the Mats’ Let It Be and questions (some of) its timelessness.
At LitKicks, Levi posted another selection from his upcoming memoir. It took me back (16 years – gasp!) to fond memories of Charles Isbell’s Homeboy From Hell, still [...]