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Thursday, July 8th, 2004

Barbara Ehrenreich, belatedly but sagely, on Cosby.

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Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

BACK! CAUGHT YOU LOOKIN’ FOR THE SAME THING

Anyone ready for protest season? Here’s my soundtrack of choice: Ozomatli and Antibalas in the Voice.

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Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

I also got a go-go piece coming out in this new mag/book called SWINDLE.

Backgrounder: It’s basically the extended remix of the Vibe piece I did in 2001. I can’t front. I was proud of that one, one of my favorite pieces of all time, tho I know some of the local heads at TMOTTGOGO.com were heated at me ’cause I didn’t fit in everything I was supposed to. (Hey buddies! There’s only so many words Vibe allows! Nuff respect!) Bonus: the crowd photos by the brilliant Alex Tehrani, which still deserve an exhibition all their own. (Click here and scroll right for just two of them.)

But yo, this SWINDLE version may be even better. The article is longer and tighter, tho I do wish there was more Rare Essence. Bonus: the photos by R. Teri Memolo are also incredible.

Cop it, please, and holla, please, whether you rate or hate.

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Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

Kerry picks Edwards. It bolsters the Dem ticket for swing state voters concerned about the economy but worried about voting for a Northeastern limousine liberal known to do the fish-flop.

(Re: the economy…Paul Krugman rips it up today: For the first time since 1932, employment is lower in the summer of a presidential election year than it was on the previous Inauguration Day. Got that? Bush=Hoover, yall. Herbert and J. Edgar.)

But it also means the Dem ticket is sitting solidly in “the middle” on most issues: pro-war, pro-Patriot Act, pro-No Child Left Behind, pro-welfare deform, etc.

Goodbye progressives. Hey, Ralph, make some noise.

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Thursday, July 1st, 2004

Here’s Ernest Hardy on Carl Hancock Rux and his important new novel, Asphalt. Both must-reads.

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Read this now before Hollywood f*#ks it up.
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Book of the decade, nuff said.
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