Posts in: Pop culture
- I wasn’t going to say anything, but …
- Since at least two different Atlanta news outlets are spilling the beans about who won at the BET Hip-Hop Awards (to be televised Wednesday), I might as well try for some traffic, right? The BET Hip-Hop Awards as best I remember them. Winners: Hip-hop Hustler Award: Jay-Z I guess endorsement deals with EA, HP and Budweiser will do [...] [12 Nov 2006]
- Recommended: “Third Girl From the Left”
- The Free Sh*t Fairy invited me to read and review a copy of Marta Southgate’s “Third Girl From the Left.” Here is my review. (Cross-posted on BlackFeminism.org). Rarely can a book manage to be both funny and serious. Martha Southgate has managed to do just that with her novel, “Third Girl from the [...] [27 Sep 2006]
- Random pop-culture and internet bits
- Flavor Flav is a fuckin’ genius for this new Flavor of Love twist. Ba. Na. Nas. Season 2 just topped season 1 with this move. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri has been made into a movie. Mira Nair directed it. Kal Penn of “Harold and Kumar” fame stars. “Hate Me” by Blue October is one of the [...] [10 Sep 2006]
- The snap music backlash
- UPDATE: Check out this Killer Mike track from the “I Pledge Allegiance” mixtape. Ouch! Visit the site Laffy Taffy Rots Your Teeth for more. Check the video “Everything is Different Now,” which is actually a hot ode to traditional hip-hop. You can also download and pass around the 10-track album mixtape.* Think of it as freeware [...] [9 Sep 2006]
- Recommended listening: “The Left Hand of God: Responding to the Religious Right”
- From WGBH Boston, a lecture by Rabbi Michael Lerner on values, progressive politics and society. He has some powerful shit to say about the effect of our work lives and our market-driven, capitalist culture on our spiritual selves and how right-wing politicians manipulate this spiritual crisis for self-serving means. Dude is a total badass, IMO. Worth a [...] [3 Sep 2006]
- “Gay is the new hard”
- While watching T.I.’s performance at the MTV Video Music Awards during which he wore a hoodie studded with rhinestones in the shape of a crown. Me: I can’t decide if that hoodie is gay or fly. Sweetie: People are doing a whole lot of gay sh*t nowadays. Maybe gay is in. … Gay is the new hard. Me: [...] [31 Aug 2006]
