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YouTube – RDC Mugen: Homer Simpson Vs. Predator Warrior bizarre mortal kombat-style face-off between homer and predator (tags: videogames predator thesimpsons humor youtube) WikipediaVision (beta) mashup tracking, in real time, anonymous edits to wikipedia via google maps (tags: mashup google web2.0 wikipedia visualization map webapp) Getting to roots of Mexican rock – CULTURE MIX – […]
Read More →Mark Dery: Have you ever felt, as one of the few blacks writing SF, the pressure to write science fiction deeply inscribed with the politics of black nationalism? Samuel R. Delany: The answer there depends on what your question means. If you mean: Do I feel that, deep within my work, I’ve situated material that […]
Read More →Sound Taste: Friday Omega Carolina Gonzalez on merengue de la calle, aka mambo (tags: merengue DR blogpost mambo) Merengue de Calle AKA Mambo: The Sound of the Dominican Underground « GAY SOVIET TRON Y’ALL on merengue de calle, aka street merengue, aka mambo: “The tracks are stripped-down merengue rhythms (most sound right off a Casio’s […]
Read More →A Dem primary that counts in Massachusetts? Featuring the most, yes, inspiring candidate for president I’ve ever had the hope to behold? Count me in. Count my vote. Count em up. Let’s gO! Just adding my voice to the chorus. A chorus which is increasingly musical. I’ve already pointed to some Obamaton, to that Yes […]
Read More →It’s hard to keep up with dancehall’s now ting from farin, which is why I’m both grateful to and surprised by the way some London brethren keep up on things. Of course, London’s a very Jamaican place at this point, but so’s Boston, in certain corners, and I guess I just gotta get out more. […]
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 →With carnival jumping off in T&T over the next week — & Mardi Gras a week from today — tis the season for Trini artists to roll out the big guns: tunes so massive that they run the road once the marching begins (not to mention before and after all is danced and done). The […]
Read More →I’m not so good about keeping this page updated, which is why I link to the Beat Research site over on the sidebar there>> At any rate, we’ve got some great guests lined up for the next month. Here they are, descriptions snipped&chopped from the BR website — Jan 14 :: DJ Paul Dailey and […]
Read More →If by “liberal bias,” the NYT is accused of taking pointed liberties with the language they employ, well then, count me as another critic. Take, e.g., a couple recent items demonstrating the Grey Lady’s ongoing implicit prejudice against the plight of Palestinians (via the always astute, and acerbic, angryarab and leninology), dehumanizing and trivializing as […]
Read More →Wanna have a direct hand in helping a fledgling but promising Botswana-based studio get its groove on? Help inject a little kwasa-kwasa into some Southern African crunky reggae? Well, if you’ve got a working strat or telecaster or any ol’ electric guitar really — & a bass guitar is wanted as well — I’ve got […]
Read More →A charming video about / promoting MC Gringo, Rio’s funky Alemão interloper, who represents for Kraftwerk and not just Germans but “all the gringos” (via vamanos) —
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 an unabashed bass booster. This just in from Ol’ Dirty Ghis >> All tracks/beats produced by myself except when specified. It’s a retrospective of my recent works includings tracks from the new album. MP3:> Ghislain Poirier : “Bastard Bass” http://www.zshare.net/audio/6265785991fc7e/ 1. “No More Blood” [ft. Face-T] 2. “Road Ride Riddim” 3. “East Montreal Riddim” […]
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 […]
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