I don’t know if MIA or Santogold are emceesin the rigid sense of the word.However, I am warm to the idea of them gettinglove and being able to live as artists. You all know how I feel about having more than theRhianna prototype represent who women are in pop music. We are thick, petit, dark, [...]
Archive for January, 2008
80′s Soul Robotica Music: Santogold, M.I.A and Amanda Blank
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008Martini Moratorium
Monday, January 28th, 2008This weekend I had a martini moratorium. I mentioned in the Credit is the Devil post thatmy two favorite hot momma items are dirty martini’sand vintage dresses. I like the martini’s with four or five olives.I like the dresses sheer. The Saturday of MLK weekend, I had too many ‘tini’sand it was all Ghostface’s fault. [...]
Sometimes the House Game Remind Me of the Crack Game
Sunday, January 27th, 2008Once upon a time there were low interest rates.Because of this, banks decided to make loans to people.These people turned around and bought $400K houseswhen they could only afford $200K houses. The banks major justification for signing off on these loans,“everyone else was doing it.” Did I mention that they did not check pay stubs [...]
Prisons are the New Steel Mills
Sunday, January 27th, 2008I am obsessed with poverty pimps.Once Filithy told me that Prisons are the new Steel Mills, I folded prisons into my poverty pimp theory. Remember in American Gangster when Russel Crowe mentionedthat many people would be out of work if the drug warwas ended and implicitly that was a major incentive to keepit going.I had [...]
Model Minority LOVES GOOGLE READER.
Friday, January 25th, 2008Image from Stripper Polaroid Set on Flicker Thanks to Rafi, my google reader game isbananas. I have always had a knack for finding news links,but scrolling through google reader gives me thesame feeling I had in that dream where everything in the March Jacobs store was $3.99. Ok. Not quite. But similar. Peep the range [...]
Model Minority: 5 Movies, 2 Days, 3 Abortions
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008I watched 5 movies this weekend. It wasn’t on purpose. I got sick. Theywere here. So I figured I should watch them. The movies were, Palindromes, Planet BrooklynShort Cuts and Juno and The Eye 2 (Hong Kong version). Ok, so I didn’t really watch ALL of Short Cuts.Altman is interesting. But. Lets not and say [...]
President Bush and Retroactive Immunity for War Crimes
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Retroactive Immunity. I want want retroactive immunity for my mistakes. Sign.Me.Up.Too. ============ Are you going to vote in the primary? Does hearing stories like this make you mad, motivatedor both? That some Real American Gangster type ‘ish.============
Why Do Black Folks Love Bill Clinton?
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Obama Fairytale comment at 51 seconds One of he great things about being blogger is that peoplesend you stuff that they know you will really like. That was the case earlier this week when Jonzeysent me a copy of Ishmael Reed’s latest pieceon the Clinton’s.Welfare Reform, Lani Guiner, Rwanda, Mass Incarcerationof Black men. Reed lays [...]
5 Years for $90 Worth of Crack
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008I love words. Depending on how you use them youcan alienate people, draw them in, repulse them or endear them to you. I had this in mind when Filthy Dubois pointed out thatmost of the non violent offenders in jail for selling crack are usersas well. They sell just enough to support their habit and [...]
Breihan on Prodigy’s 25 Hour
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008It’s hard to think about exactly what you would do right beforeyou are set to got to jail for three years. But, that is precisely what Breihan did in his piece on Prodigy last week, It’s hard to imagine what I’d do if I only had a few weeks before I had to go upstate [...]
