Monthly Archives: July 2007

briefly. we are banning the word / concept of “melisma,” now. that shit hasn’t been relevant since before mary met kendu. seriously. let’s retire it. Better yet: Day after Tomorrow fan fiction. It exists. Speaking of nerds, you can now … Continue reading →

DJ Paz aka Matt Paz read my crazy old post linking Sarah Jessica Parker and the fall of Jane magazine and put some sense into it, via email: The root of the problem is this, I think: In the “trad … Continue reading →

This is the most excited I’ve been about something in a very hot minute. Jeff Chang wrote the piece. Plus I got to interview our old friend Gaius Charles. Love what you do, boo-boo. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS!

4:59 pm: There is currently a 10-foot-tall speakerbox at the end of my block. The DJ is playing Apache right now, but it’s a mix of contemporary snap music, dancehall, mid-90s R&B and classic hip hop – and just now, … Continue reading →

…so pre-Tanya Harding rich-titch “Natalie” spat at baby-faced and thoroughly crimped dancefloor sirens Shannen Doherty, Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt in Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. The trio, mischievous and contrarian, shat on Natalie’s super-sweet-16, in the form of … Continue reading →

Saturday is my block’s annual block party. According to Mister Frazier, my super / the mayor of said block, there will be an inflatable castle, a water slide, a BBQ, a DJ and a baby shower for the kid that … Continue reading →

The reports, the rhetoric, even the reviews linking Lil Wayne / Ja Rule’s alleged gun possession arrests and their music are conjectural and off base, and when you think about it – generally play on the same premise that fuel … Continue reading →

How a NYC make-up hub explains the demise of magazines: free shit. So I was in Sephora today (full disclosure: I felt stanky and was seeking a spritz) (Stella in Two: Amber – because I love a fragrance with an … Continue reading →

Ok, open-air bong hits might not be the best look when you’ve been scoped out and felt up by a cop on a steed. But seriously. Police were waiting to pounce. weez last nite at beacon. thanks to tiffany shepard … Continue reading →

holy fucking fucktown I accidentally left my alarm on this morning and hot 97 played this remix f. tallahassee pain which is how i woke up to r kelly transforming himself into “snappin jackson” claiming one more rung on the … Continue reading →