May 2012
42 posts
DEFEND NEW ORLEANS: Introducing the NOLA Hiphop... →
I am prepared to fund an endowment to the Azz Everywhere Center for Bounce Excellence.
defendneworleans:
Today is the launch of the NOLA Hiphop Archive and the beginning of a very cool project:
The NOLA Hiphop Archive is an open-source digital archive of New Orleans hiphop music and oral history that will eventually have a physical archival space for in-person community access as well….
Adam Yauch's Criterion Top 10 →
Lots of Kurosawa and Wes Anderson.
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Grape Pedialyte
It ain’t purple drank.
...and their torsos were sliced open with flints...
As psychedelic experiences go, reading all of Blood Meridian while in the throes of a 3 day stomach virus is merely average. But having Cormac McCarthy narrate your fevered bathroom dreams every night is kind of cool.
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I wish I had a video of my girlfriend when I put Bucky Sinister’s “How I Made a Mortgage Loan Officer Cry or A Brief Recap of the Last 15 Years” in front of her.
She read.
A little laugh.
A little laugh.
“Awwwww…”
A smile.
And then her face started tightening up, and she turned the page, and her eyes got wet and she read and read and read and sniffled and...
April 2012
88 posts
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“I ran naked down the streets of common sense
waving a flag that said,
FUCK IT”
– Bucky Sinister, “How I Made a Mortgage Loan Officer Cry or A Brief Recap of the Last 15 Years”
Georges June: Heart to Heart BY RITA DOVE It’s... →
georgesjune:
Heart to Heart
BY RITA DOVE
It’s neither red
nor sweet.
It doesn’t melt
or turn over,
break or harden,
so it can’t feel
pain,
yearning,
regret.
It doesn’t have
a tip to spin on,
it isn’t even
shapely—
just a thick clutch
of muscle,
lopsided,
mute. Still,
I…
“To me, the publishing world seems really lost. The assumption that worth comes...”
– Maggie Nelson, The Believer
“… and the philosophy of the poetry was just incredibly plain language, and you’d...”
– Maggie Nelson, The Believer 