linkthink #426: Textual Promiscuity and Other Forbidden Delights

/// Go go text-sharing blogs: Greg Scruggs offers up Paul Sneed’s’s doctoral thesis on funky Rio. /// Kerim argues for an Open Source Anthro, asking “Can the Subaltern Google?” /// While we’re at it, allow me to point you to an article I’ve got in a forthcoming “hip-hop issue” of Callaloo: “Giving Up Hip-hop’s Firstborn: […]

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Slim Pickins

Imagine being asked to open up for an old school hip-hop DJ. Y’know, one of the innovators, the originators, the architects. Pretty good deal, right? An opportunity not to be missed. Now imagine being given a list of tracks you can’t play. Fair enough, you think. Gotta leave some crowd pleasers and ol’ stand-bys for […]

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The Further Adventures of Blog O’Sphere, pt. 643

Given that urbody’s raving, and rightly so, about Dr.Auratheft’s DoabaGypsyQawwaliFlamenco mix (which I misnomerly bigged up back at the blogspot), I think it’s only proper to point you to Murk’s second podcast, DiasporRoma, which selects for similar socio-sonic suggestions. From a slightly different angle, or yet another node on the bellydance diaspora (no misnomo), here’s […]

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Million Poems Show

Poetry reading with Jordan Davis, Gabriel Gudding, and Jim Behrle. I’ll be “reading” over beats, knomesayin? Waxing poetic and whatnot. @ The Bookslut Series, Chicago, IL Mercury Cafe 1505 W Chicago Avenue 7:30pm — Free and open to the public.

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Seven Steps to Human Nature

Tomorrow — that’s Thursday — I’m gonna be giving my second area performance as a recently transplanted Chicagoan. While the last one might have been described as lappy, this one’ll be more rappy. Jordan Davis’s Million Poems Show is coming to town, y’see, and I’ll be joining the fray by “reading” some “poems” (over beats […]

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Second Anniversary

Did I mention that “my better half” (re)designed this site? (Infinite props, my dear [see, e.g., #2].) Well, allow me to note it again and to send more love her way, especially as today marks the second annum since we publicly delared ourselves untwistably twisted. If I may go further, I’d like to reprise once […]

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Home Again

Feels good to be “back” “home.” As some of you may know, I’ve been here @ wayneandwax.com for a long time, longer than the blog(s), and it’s served me well as a place to share my music and research with the world. But not as well as the blog. Indeed, the blog has long been […]

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