Objectify This

First of all, this post is long overdue. Listenbetter and Life on Uranus are both excellent contributions to the discussions about life, politics, thongs, and horseracing, among other things. Listenbetter, a wry yet approachable blog, is the brainchild of an proto-journalist whose cutting tongue has won her the admiration of at least one of the [...]

So Lena Chen. Here’s a refresher course. She’s a sexblogger from Harvard who tells stories about her sexploits, with strategically placed psuedonyms and (presumably) enough privacy to retain her sanity and, oh yeah, sell some advertising. Recently, some trouble was roused when her vindictive ex published naked pictures of her on the internet, thus ruining [...]

Despite requests to the contrary, I’m going chthonic. See y’all in a few days.

This summer, I attended the Randall’s Island, New York rendition of Rock The Bells. It was raining and cold, and my umbrella was confiscated as I entered the eight hour festival because it could be potentially used as a weapon – (another victory for the enemies of freedom and justice) Needless to say, the shows [...]

So I was browsing my own blogroll the other day (yeah, that’s the thing down to the left), and I stumbled across this really interesting piece on double consciousness at, you guessed it, Double Consciousness. You’ll have to read it for yourself. Most of my education about double consciousness comes from my very wise Black [...]

I just got back from NYC’s incarnation of the Rock the Bells Hip Hop Festival on Randall’s Island this weekend, where I was struck by the ways that the mainstream, commercial hip hop scene differs from the “underground” or “conscious” hip hop scene that I stood for hours in mud and pouring rain to dance [...]