Monthly Archives: April 2005

yeah but according to the production notes, for Missy’s “on and on”, Neptunes have sampled Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick “The Show,” which may be wrong. as far as i can tell it slips a transparency over the beat … Continue reading →

watched “boyz n the hood” the other night, for multiple work/research purposes, for the first time since the ’90s. saw it like 30 times when it came out, so i was surprised when i lost it like a lil bebe, … Continue reading →

My love for the Urban Honking massive is endless, nameless like Zeus–not crazy like that Linda Blair of a Pope. They are, after all, the posse that brought us Miranda July’s blog and The Ultimate Blogger, America’s first reality blog … Continue reading →

jessica SAID she was making us all anita hill t-shirts, but until then, you should definitely sign the petition against sexual discrimination at the Source, created by hip-hop feminists Elizabeth Mendez-Berry, Joan Morgan and Jeff Chang. The “whys” are all … Continue reading →

I’m cooking right now: some things involving the production of sound and the situation of words. More as it unfolds. Psyched, but my blabbermouth can’t blabber quite yet. Click here for Part 1 of my book-length notes on the Feminism … Continue reading →

kris ex has just phoned to demand a retraction to the link (at left). I take it back, he is not secretly a dork.

Our fave photographer Shayla offers a terrific pictorial log of the haps.

For the cynics among us betting which hardline anti-feminist, anti-protected-sex homophobe might be chosen to lead the New Catholic Church, a friend of C’n’P’s takes a wild guess. We noted earlier that, beneath the mugshots of the contenders in the … Continue reading →

New Republic film crit Christopher Orr gets it right again, this time about the criminally under-Oscared Hotel Rwanda. He does, however, omit the brilliant performance of Sophie Okonedo as Tatiana (he also omits her name), who absolutely should have won … Continue reading →

Because my notes are so lengthy, so thorough, and because I’ve barely had a chance to mentally unpack everything, I’ll probably just post what I wrote panel by panel or person by person, for archival purposes, and eventually try to … Continue reading →