So “bars” are everything to an emcee. Musicians call them measures. 4 beats. One and two and three and four and . . . . For the rapper, it’s like a private, inescapable metronome. Ringing in your head, quantizing every activity of life. And, certainly in hip hop, bars universally come in pairs. A typical […]
The Press Junket: A Song Blog
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Electric Bill
In honor of NBC’s coverage of the London Games, I recorded this entry yesterday but am offering it on tape delay only now. So, anytime that something happens to “half” of India, it’s a pretty big deal. Same with populations of “all the ocean creatures;” “all the women who watch ‘Chelsea Lately’;” and “all the […]
“Have You Hugged Your Foot Today?”
I was watching this memorable moment in Olympic history and I noticed the old school Nike shirt. That’s what sport is about right there. Romancing your gear. I can remember fighting sleep pillow-talking my Air Revolutions in the bed next to me. I won’t repeat what I said. But, let’s just say it was pretty […]
The Rise
My deepest, deepest condolences to all of the victims, their friends and families. This is a fairly unprofitable story to attempt to cover in song. Something about the victims, themselves, turns pretty quickly into unintended sap and what Andrew Sullivan calls, hathos. Something thematic or narrative threatens to be too dark and insensitive. Still, between […]
Drawn and Quartered
On the road tonight. Pretty exhausted. Wanted to say something about Syria before I crashed. I’ve been reading Steven Pinker’s new book, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined. It makes the claim that we live in an evolutionarily less violent time than any other before it. To me, this seems a […]
No Spin
So the science community is again threatening us with finding the Higgs-Boson. Notwithstanding the admitted and sheer improbability of ever finding the “G-dd@amn Particle” in the avalanche of data compiled by the various particle accelerators around the world, every six months or so the physics community, the mainstream media, or some conspiracy of the two […]
Half-Life
Please check back. I have a weekly round up loosely based on the suspicious almost-discovery of the Higgs-Boson particle presently under construction.
Golden
Vacation continues. Rolling in the MiniV, chilling to Matishyahu’s new single, “Sunshine.”
Sporks over Knoons
So, we’re on vacation. My wife and I are finally getting around to watching Forks over Knives, the convicting documentary I’ve discussed previously concerning plant based nutrition. As in, we’re literally watching it as I type. So, I thought I’d do a running journal review. 8:58 Put in Forks over Knives. 9:00 My son calls […]
The Last White Point Guard
Since 1985, this is what I came up with: Mark Price John Stockton Scott Skiles Jason Williams Steve Nash Five white guys, roughly of North American descent, who were regular fixtures, over any meaningful span of time, as starting point guards in the NBA. Hinrich has run point. D]]><![CDATA[ragic has too (although a Euro). Steve […]
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