On the Shoulders of Giants & Dancing w/ Daddy
For the lifey curious: Nico @ 1 Month ! Videos will be up for a limited time. Still trying to figure out how to negotiate privacy stuff pre-consent.
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For the lifey curious: Nico @ 1 Month ! Videos will be up for a limited time. Still trying to figure out how to negotiate privacy stuff pre-consent.
Read More →Yesterday marked two weeks since Nico came into the world. Two long, tiring, challenging, and absolutely delightful weeks. I’m in love. Feel no compulsion to post (or prohibition against) a comment that begins with some variation of “Awwwww.” I just wanted to share a few more pics of our dear, dear girl.
Read More →Today / tonight, my ever entertaining, unpredictable, visionary father-in-law (and, yes, now a grandpa, thx to Nico) is going to be on the Colbert Report! He’ll be there primarily to discuss his latest passion, poker as strategic thinking and educational tool (though you never know what might come out of Charlie’s mouth, esp as prodded […]
Read More →Many attempts this weekend to remember some of the things MLK stood for; three I recommend — Juan Cole, “King: War Cannot Achieve Even a Negative Good” Jay Smooth, “Ten OTHER Things Martin Luther King Said” Barack Obama, “The Great Need of the Hour”
Read More →Sorry, but I just can’t resist sharing some more pics of our gorgeous little girl. She’s got me open, knamean.
Read More →Nico Marshall Nesson, born 17 Jan 2008, 12:37 pm, 8 lbs and 4.4 ozs Mama Becca is a straight-up champion, enduring some hard labor (i.e., “all those pain and suffering“) without the help of drugs or doctors*, and pushing that beautiful baby out in just under 9 hours. Papa Wayne is happy as a clam. […]
Read More →[this post used to have an embedded player from imeem featuring the apt aesop rock song, “labor” (posted the morning becca went into labor with nico); then myspace bought imeem, closed it down, and decided to put an advertisement here for ringtones instead, so i’ve replaced it with this exciting text and the following video. […]
Read More →I’m not really a TV watcher. Really. I mean, sure, I’ve watched something like 2000 videos on YouTube over the last couple years (and I don’t think that even counts videos embedded in blogs, etc.). But I probably watch OldTube only a couple hours a week at best — like if, say, a big Bawstin […]
Read More →Not long ago, w/r/t global gobbledecrunk, I referred to an interview I gave recently to a Brazilian journalist. The journo in question is Camilo Rocha, who doubles as a DJ (& has a fab disco mix over @ Spannered). The piece was just published in Folha de Sao Paolo, apparently Brazil’s biggest newspaper. I don’t […]
Read More →It seems natural that babies are such common symbols for the renewal and growth promised by a new year, but for Becca&me a baby is an especially appropriate symbol for the new year, since this year — indeed, this month! — will bring us an actual baby of our own. I’ve been waiting to make […]
Read More →“Drink a Rum” = a Trini Xmas favorite. Composed by his highness Lord Kitchener, but also given various chutney soca parang upgrades, among other countless variations and personalizations. Another Trini Xmas fave, with even more personal/family/local versions — plus more broadly diffused throughout the (Anglo-)Caribbean — is the rum/fruit cake often referred to as black […]
Read More →Happy solstice, happy shoveling ! It’s hard to believe that winter’s only now finally here — in the technical sense — considering that we’ve already gotten more snow dumped on us here in Boston in the last week or so than we had during the entire season last year. I mean, fa Chrissakes, I can’t […]
Read More →Tonight at the E Room :: Brandeis Beats ! As my blogger-DJ-applied side attests, I like to combine the hands-on production of music with an approach that grounds any such creative engagement in historical study and an appreciation for music’s social and cultural contexts. This semester, my first term at Brandeis University, has been no […]
Read More →seen & heard from the rafters — mostly rave anthems, crunk hits, & arena rock staples & during “the celtics dancers” big routine, something like (if) a girltalk tittybar mixtape && the celts were introduced, BIG as could be to the over-the-top epic strains of “lux aeterna” (e.g.) !! (which always reminds me of this, […]
Read More →Sorry for the relative silence here, dear reader. Extra-bloggical events have been conspiring against any sort of postage — never mind the kind of post-Rio debriefing I’ve been planning to get up here. Among other things: the aforementioned dead laptop, the intense march to the end of the semester, too much travel, including a lovely […]
Read More →I’m muito muito feliz to report that although my drive done died, I was able to retrieve my lost Rio pics with the assistance of a very handy program called Klix. & so, I’m able to offer up after all some impressionistic (i.e., blurry ;) shots of the picturesque favela of Vidigal, a warm, welcoming […]
Read More →I was hoping to have quite a post to share with you, as I just returned from a wonderful weekend in Rio. It was gonna be a downright aquarela da favela, complete with some really lovely pics of Vidigal at twilight. (I spent most of Sunday hanging with some kind favelados there.) The sad, sad […]
Read More →Boston will be bouncing tonight — & not just b/c the Sox have convincingly emerged from the 20th century “Curse of the Bambino” triumphant and dominant, but also b/c we’re gonna be gettin down at BR with two of Boston’s best DJs: virtuoso rekkid blenda, dj rndm, and Boston Bounce originator and Beat Research founder, […]
Read More →TSA dude: Yes it is! me: No, technically, it’s not. TSA dude: She deserved everything she got. me: I’d expect you to say that. … (t-shirt deets here)
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