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For those of you who care about that sort of thing, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will host a little event we like to call the Oscars on Sunday. But there’s plenty of time to debate the relative merits and criticisms of “Up in The Air” or “Precious,” which not-so-coincidentally are the only [...] [h/t Val] The winners of this year’s Sprite Step-off looked a little different from the rest of the field… Life in marvelous times… [h/t AverageBro] Please excuse the tardiness. I’m pinch-hittting for my estimable ace, blackink, who is out being journalist-y and productive. Hope y’all had a grand President’s Day, and that you poured out some liquor for George Washington, Abe Lincoln, et al., ‘cuz they were gully as hell: The New York Times is reporting that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, [...] Day 4 – and probably the final day – of J Dilla Appreciation Week. Word to Slum Village, Dilla’s former group and a criminally slept-on hip-hop collective based out of Detroit: It’s hard to put into words my appreciation for the music of Slum Village, particularly Dilla. I don’t want this post or this series to come [...] This is Day 3 of J Dilla Appreciation Week: “Mama’s Gun” and “Voodoo” happened in the same year – 2000. No wonder some of us thought the world was gonna end. Day 2 of J Dilla Appreciation Week. And Posdnuos murders his third verse: Yo, it’s about love for cars, love for funds Enjoy the rest: A few years ago Kelley L. Carter, formerly of [...] For the record, I saw this before Andrew Sullivan posted it, and had it on my gchat status forever. I just forgot to blog about it. By Muffet; used under a Creative Commons license. Pat Robertson must be a fan of hyphy, because he stay gettin’ stupid. The controversial evangelist/pillar of the Religious Right said that the massive quake that rocked Haiti was the result of a deal Haiti’s slaves-turned-revolutionaries made with the devil. Yglesias elucidates the history that Robertson is muffing. [...] from John Carleton, used under a Creative Commons license. …Pictures of the aftermath of the disastrous quake in Haiti, and one way to help. …A dope breakdown of who speaks which languages in the U.S., and where they speak it. … Jon Stewart interviews John Yoo, and drops the ball. …Harold Ford basks in the attention. …Weezy cracks jokes [...] from sugarfreak; used under a Creative Commons license. …In a week in which the White House appointed a transwoman to a top post in the Commerce Department, it also added language into the federal jobs site banning discrimination based on gender identity. …Three things to care about with the coming census. (“Negro” isn’t [...] from sugarfreak; used under a Creative Commons license. …Is parenting a lifestyle choice? …Too busy teaching for America to volunteer. …New stadiums hurt cities. …The most slept-on hip-hop albums of ’09. Tanya Morgan! Exhibit A: Exhibit B: You could probably make a pretty compelling argument that traces the mainstreaming of this aesthetic to hip-hop’s cultural dominance and its obsession with all things callipygous. (A gym rat aside: squats are cheaper than those ass shapers, and those sneakers probably don’t actually work.) |
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