Thursday, October 7th, 2004

Who I’d Like To Be When If I Grow Up

Motherfuckin Frank “Bush Killa” Rich, cultural critic nonpareil, on potentially the turning point in the campaign–the slow death by split screen of the Bush myth-making machine. He is this great every single week.

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Thursday, October 7th, 2004

Time For An October Surprise?

Bush is down in the polls. Kerry is gaining in projected electoral votes. Could Osama’s capture be imminent?

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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

Dr. Doom Says Goodbye Black Vote

First impressions: I actually only really caught the last half hour but it seemed a surprisingly bloodless affair. Both looked tired, a bit confused, and if anything, Cheney seemed to bring down Edwards energy level. Smiley couldn’t even nail his dad’s story–which has been a stump speech since he was on the debate team in high school 5 years ago. Cheney is the kind of guy who could end a Nelly party.

At the same time, Cheney’s admission that he didn’t know the AIDS fatality numbers for African American women was just phenomenally dumb. I bet most major media outlets will be ignoring this question, but for people of color, he’s just set the Republican Party way back. Remember how we were discussing the Republican’s chances with black voters a little while ago? That was Karl Rove’s idea. Folks, Karl Rove is getting ready to hang himself.

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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

Stuff

+ Eugene Kuo’s web-photo-essay 25 Days in Turkey

+ The Prickly Paradigm catalog, including Thomas Frank on cultural studies and Michael Silverstein on the speechifying of Abe and W.

+ Write your own speech for W. And he’ll talk it for ya.

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Monday, October 4th, 2004

Back In The City

Sup yall, haven’t blogged for a minute cause I’m in NYC. (Holla if you’re around! I only have 24 hours in a day but I’m trying to fill as much of em as I can.) Thanks for the running commentary…love to hear from yall. I have nothing interesting to say right now, but yall have me feeling good about life and that’s worth noting I think.

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Thursday, September 30th, 2004

"We Looked At The Same Intelligence…"

And one was missing after about 45 minutes.

Bush really struggled tonight and I was very surprised. I was at the Wake Forest debate in 2000, and he at least battled Gore to a draw there. But tonight, he launched early into his soundbite (pundits call it ‘message’, and have so far been very charitable to him tonight) and stayed in it often.

Kerry ran the table and even got Bush to look real stupid on Iran (“I didn’t establish sanctions against Iran, a previous administration did”…OK so what have you done about Iran?)–a point none of the pundits seem to have caught either, yet.

I think Kerry missed some huge points though. No Abu Ghraib. No baiting on the draft (Bush volunteered that the military would remain “all voluntary” in his closing). Just one mention of “Mission Accomplished”. All in all, though, he wins this one, if only because Bush looked like he forgot to pop his No-Doz and Viagra.

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Thursday, September 30th, 2004

How Chic Saved Civilization

Got the DFA comp this week which is great, but prompted me to go back to my Chic records, which taught me a couple of things.

1) Topper Headon’s drum sound on London Calling and Sandinista is straight up bitten from Tony Thompson on the first three Chic records. Prove to me it isn’t.

2) Generations of bands have now made a virtue of being completely unable to play or compose anything as technically difficult or breathlessly perfect as “Everybody Dance”. You can take Queen, the Clash, Go4, let alone Pigbag, Soul II Soul. Maybe even Arthur Russell.

More soon…

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Tuesday, September 28th, 2004

Writes, Books, and Screams

Copy-editing is no joke. If you are a hyphen, an em-dash, an endnote, or the word “quickly”, I hate you now. I need sleep but the next semi-colon is screaming at me. Malcolm McLaren and Malcolm Gladwell, I’m sorry but it’s all final now. Why does hip-hop history have to be so long?

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Tuesday, September 28th, 2004

Maybe Now She’ll Quit Being Republican?

Sad news about Chaka Khan.

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Tuesday, September 28th, 2004

A Big Week Before A Big Month

Big week for hip-hop activism as folks get down for the home stretch of this campaign…not just because of the debates on Thursday, but because the grassroots hip-hop activist movement is swinging into action across the country.

First off, the championship and climax of Slam Bush goes off tomorrow, the day before the debates in Miami. The Roots are performing, and it should be bananas.

Also, three of the Local Organizing Committees from the National Hip-Hop Political Convention have coordinated a weekend of hip-hop summits to get people focused on the final month of the campaign.

Big things will be jumping off in San Jose with Tricia Rose and Adisa Banjoko, in Pittsburgh with Talib Kweli, and here in Oakland with dead Prez and Barbara Lee. If you’re in the area, definitely fall through.

And remember it’s not just about Bush and Kerry, it’s about a host of ballot initiatives that will change three strikes, put more money into schools, and much more, and about getting fresh progressive young blood into office.

At the very least, download some Kweli and Radiohead MP3s for regime change. See, I knew that would get your attention.

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